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)

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA

(2025/12/11)

Exclusive Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu



Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images

(2025/12/11)

Begun, these AI wars have



Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text

(2025/12/11)

Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back



European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger

(2025/12/11)

Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better



Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms

(2025/12/11)

So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels



Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day

(2025/12/11)

No details, no CVE, update your browser now



LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco

(2025/12/11)

UK data regulator says failures were unacceptable for a company managing the world's passwords



Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads

(2025/12/11)

Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras



Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk

(2025/12/11)

Eight-hour EVA was also first outing for new spacesuits



Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion

(2025/12/11)

DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia



Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme

(2025/12/11)

Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert



Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

(2025/12/11)

Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection



10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet

(2025/12/11)

Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets



Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030

(2025/12/11)

Exclusive Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms



Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack

(2025/12/11)

Exclusive Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issues



India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models

(2025/12/11)

Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators



Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

(2025/12/11)

VIDEO ‘Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer



NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter

(2025/12/11)

Didn’t phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why



Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties

(2025/12/11)

Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China



Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors

(2025/12/11)

But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming



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