ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs

(2025/09/22)

The Register looks forward to learning more about a possible Dell hyperscale sovereign social SaaS platform



Tech troubles create aviation chaos on both sides of the Atlantic

(2025/09/22)

‘Cyber-attack’ on ticketing outfit Collins and cable cuts at Dallas ground hundreds of flights



Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing

(2025/09/22)

Asia In Brief PLUS: India ponders tax breaks for datacenters; Samsung plans hiring spree; Taliban bans fiber internet; and more



Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits

(2025/09/22)

Infosec in brief PLUS: Luxury brands under fire; FBI warns crims are spoofing it again; ICE buys phone cracking software



Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls

(2025/09/22)

Optus was unaware network changes caused a problem, and ignored some customer complaints



Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks

(2025/09/21)

hands on From pain-free shutdowns to crap-free search, these tweaks will improve your experience



SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals

(2025/09/20)

And also force them to improve resilience



Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

(2025/09/20)

Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment



Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry

(2025/09/20)

It will hit outsourcing companies hardest



Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

(2025/09/19)

With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over



ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

(2025/09/19)

Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?



Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

(2025/09/19)

Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation



Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says

(2025/09/19)

Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets



Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

(2025/09/19)

Comment Latest marketing blitz for a solution seeking a problem... and a killer app



Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself

(2025/09/19)

It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier



Ding ding: Fortra rings the perfect-10 bell over latest GoAnywhere MFT bug

(2025/09/19)

Outside experts say the vulnerability has probably already been exploited



Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

(2025/09/19)

Judge rules there’s no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out



Alleged Scattered Spider teen cuffed after extortion Bitcoin used to buy games, meals

(2025/09/19)

Feds say gift card splurges tied suspect to multimillion-dollar ransomware crew



One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant

(2025/09/19)

Until Microsoft lobbed it into a virtual volcano



Nice try, sinners: Pope nixes idea of AI pontiff blessing netizens

(2025/09/19)

Leo XIV voices concerns about AI taking jobs – and not just his own



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