Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.…
Lees meerThe company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI Oracle's new AI-powered support portal is frustrating customers and support engineers who are struggling to find the basics, such as old tickets, links to database patch prog…
Lees meerMenu.exe not found Bork!Bork!Bork! The bork desk has temporarily reopened during the festive period. The tech world might be having a nap on the sofa after one mince pie too many, but bork never sleeps.…
Lees meerCab drivers protested Uber’s arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs Robot taxis are coming to The Register’s London home in 2026.…
Lees meerCab drivers protested Uber’s arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs Robot taxis are coming to The Register’s London home in 2026.…
Lees meerMight be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix La Poste, France’s postal service, is largely offline, possibly due to an unexplained incident.…
Lees meer25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has created a Special Task Force to investigate the failed launch of its H3 rocket on Monday.…
Lees meerAnd it's especially dangerous because the code works A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests credentials and contacts, and hijacks users' WhatsA…
Lees meerTime signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting UPDATED A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time Prot…
Lees meerSEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M Security vendor Palo Alto Networks is expanding its Google Cloud partnership, saying it will move "key internal workloads" onto the Chocolate Factory's infrastructure…
Lees meerMasayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list Japanese tech investment giant SoftBank needs to secure $22.5 billion before the end of the year to make good on its commitments to AI partner OpenAI.…
Lees meerAh, the good old days when 0-day development took a year Interview "In my past life, it would take us 360 days to develop an amazing zero day," Zafran Security CEO Sanaz Yashar said.…
Lees meerShipments still waiting on approval from Beijing Now that it can legally export them, Nvidia has reportedly informed its Chinese customers that it'll begin shipping H200s, one of its most potent graphics accelerators for AI training and inference, i…
Lees meerAnna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post What would happen to the world's music collections if streaming services disappeared? One hacktivist group says it has a solution: scrape around 300 terabytes of music and metadata fr…
Lees meerShipments still waiting on approval from Beijing Now that it can legally export them, Nvidia has reportedly informed its Chinese customers that it'll begin shipping H200s, one of its most potent graphics accelerators for AI training and inference, i…
Lees meerJudge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) says a fraudster who claimed to be part of MI6 must repay £125,000 ($168,000) to a former love interest that he conned.…
Lees meerWasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card Opinion I've run Linux desktops since the big interface question was whether to use Korn or Bash for your shell. Before that, I'd used Unix desktops such as Visix Looking Glass,…
Lees meerEven with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle Hands On It's been a long time coming but version 1.0 of the first ground-up Rust-based desktop is here… and it is shaping up very well.…
Lees meerRelief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics The EU has extended its adequacy decision, allowing data sharing with and from the UK under the General Data Protection Regulation for at least six more years.…
Lees meerOn-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs Romania's cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country's water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with …
Lees meerPublic bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty Feature Europe’s quest for digital sovereignty is hampered by a 90 per cent dependency on US cloud infrastructure, claims Cristina Caffarra, a competition expert and a driving forc…
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