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)

Suspected Chinese snoops weaponize unpatched Windows flaw to spy on European diplomats

(2025/10/30)

Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job



Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot

(2025/10/30)

People, Files, and Calendar companion apps gain an auto-installed dose of AI



Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years

(2025/10/30)

Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand



Proton trains new service to expose corporate infosec cover-ups

(2025/10/30)

Service will tell on compromised organizations, even if they didn't plan on doing so themselves



Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation

(2025/10/30)

State cries foul over "crooked elections" claim in Alabama move



Docker Compose vulnerability opens door to host-level writes – patch pronto

(2025/10/30)

Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity



Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can't sell Blackwell in China

(2025/10/30)

US President did discuss chip exports with his counterpart, but made no breakthroughs



US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast

(2025/10/30)

Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall



KDE tidies up Plasma 6.5 with 60-odd fixes and smoother setup for OEMs

(2025/10/30)

Big release with a lot of new features – and a few inevitable glitches



Invisible npm malware pulls a disappearing act – then nicks your tokens

(2025/10/30)

PhantomRaven slipped over a hundred credential-stealing packages into npm



Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again

(2025/10/30)

Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye



Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market

(2025/10/30)

Interview 'We should be a public company,' Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not 'with our trousers around our ankles'



Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus

(2025/10/30)

Investment will fund 250 MW, three-facility campus near London as AI and cloud demand surge



Cyberpunks mess with Canada's water, energy, and farm systems

(2025/10/30)

Infosec agency warns hacktivists broke into critical infrastructure systems to tamper with controls



Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

(2025/10/30)

Time to put eggs in more than one basket?



Postcode Lottery's lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other's info

(2025/10/30)

Biz says 'technical error' caused short-lived leak affecting small number of users



France jacks into the Matrix for state messaging – and pays too

(2025/10/30)

Comment Governments eye comms alternatives as sovereignty worries mount



There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing

(2025/10/30)

Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors



DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

(2025/10/30)

Updated We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time



Samsung picks fights with Google and Qualcomm

(2025/10/30)

Brings its largely unloved browser to PCs and promises to make its Exynos SoCs more competitive



More

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one
dollar, and use it up in two weeks.