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Roscosmos confirms structural damage as images suggest repairs could stretch into 2027 The pad used by Russia to send Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) sustained damange during yesterday's crew launch, according to Roscosmos.…

Automation flaw in CI/CD workflow let a bad pull request unleash worm into npm PostHog says the Shai-Hulud 2.0 npm worm compromise was "the largest and most impactful security incident" it's ever experienced after attackers slipped malicious releases into its JavaScript SDKs and tried to auto-loot developer credentials.…

Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable' British telco Brsk is investigating claims that it was attacked by cybercriminals who made off with more than 230,000 files.…

Project cites fears of state access as cloud sovereignty row deepens French cloud outfit OVHcloud took another hit this week after GrapheneOS, a mobile operating system, said it was ditching the company's servers over concerns about France's approach to digital privacy.…

If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE – and tmux The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.…

Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares SK hynix has launched HBM-themed square corn snacks at 7-Eleven, because nothing explains bandwidth like carbs and chocolate.…

♫ Where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns Well, maybe next year… ♫

Training outfit scrambles to fix all-male lineup before December kickoff Cybersecurity training provider TryHackMe is scrambling to recruit women infosec pros to help with its Christmas challenge following backlash concerning a lack of gender diversity.…

Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce For as long as I have been a reporter and analyst in the IT sector, November has always been supercomputing month. Way before there was a TOP500 ranking of supercomputers in June 1993 but just as I was leaving university, the first Supercomputing Conference was held in Orlando in 1988. And that November SC show set the cadence for high-performance computing for the decades that followed.…

Another reason why the OS seems to swell with every update Changing text in Microsoft Windows requires freezing string updates well before code changes stop, often leading to strange wording that persists for years.…

Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of schedule The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has drafted in former National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief Ciaran Martin to sniff out how its Budget day forecast wandered onto the open internet before the Chancellor had even reached the dispatch box.…

OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings The UK government has finally put a £1.8 billion price tag on its digital ID plans – days after the minister responsible refused to name a figure.…

Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain The UK government collected just £800 million in Digital Services Tax (DST) from companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, eBay, and TikTok in the most recent tax year.…

The BBC seems to be dying. Unable to properly relate to the concerns of its nationwide audience, hazy on the difference between a man and a woman, seemingly keen on open border migrant overload, its increasingly ridiculous funding flow is starting to evaporate. Whether it could survive in the free market with its biased, identikit news service, along with the thin offerings of audience-lite, woke-obsessed drama, is not certain. Big savings might have to be made. AI looms large over future BBC sc

Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI-driven market frenzy Digital Realty and a consortium including Equinix are competing to acquire atNorth, a Scandinavian datacenter operator, according to reports.…

There is no fool like an old fool, I was thinking, standing on the deck in the cooling night air with a plate of cat food. I called out, and they came—the three of them—soft violet shadows emerging from the indigo dark. There were once five. Two are gone now. I accept this with a …

A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of delivering excellent tech support amid your colleagues' ambivalence, anger, and unjust admonitions.…

So, Thanksgiving revelers, remember the simple truth: Much is owed to the warmth of the sun, the invisible work of carbon dioxide and the fossil fuels that power the dinner table’s bounty transit from field to feast.

Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts VMware has come out swinging in its case against Siemens over alleged unlicensed use of its software.…

‘Our soup’s not toxic but this chap’s behavior was’ is the gist of the defense Food company Campbell’s, best known for its soups and the iconic cans they come in, has parted ways with a vice president for IT after another member of the company’s tech team recorded him criticizing the company’s products.…

According to reporter Will de Freitas, climate delegates need to suffer personal hardship to interest people in what they are saying.

Talk about buyer’s remorse South Korean web giant Naver has had an interesting week, after it acquired a cryptocurrency exchange that the next day revealed it had suffered a serious cyberattack.…

But at what cost?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@weschenbach on X, my blog at “Skating Under The Ice“) If you have a block of steel and you put it outside in the sun,…

What We Should Be Grateful For in Climate, Energy, Living Standards, and Human Prosperity.

ReliaQuest finds fresh crop of phishing domains and toxic tickets Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters may be circling Zendesk users for its latest extortion campaign, with new phishing domains and weaponized helpdesk tickets uncovered by ReliaQuest.…

ChatGPT maker places other vendors under review following breach OpenAI says API users may be affected by a recent breach at its former data analytics provider, Mixpanel.…

$12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging hands on  Tenstorrent probably isn't the first name that springs to mind when it comes to AI infrastructure. But unlike the litany of AI chip startups vying for VC funding and a slice of Nvidia's pie, Tenstorrent's chips actually exist outside the lab.…

ExoMars project may actually get to the red planet one day The European Space Agency's long-delayed Rosalind Franklin rover has received a boost with confirmation that NASA is staying in the project.…

Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio Malicious intruders have hijacked US radio gear to turn emergency broadcast tones into a profanity-laced alarm system.…

May the climate apocalypse continue to fade slowly into the rear view mirror.

Brewer finally tallies fallout from September attack as it pushes earnings into 2026 Asahi has finally done the sums on September's ransomware attack in Japan, conceding the crooks may have helped themselves to personal data tied to almost 2 million people.…

OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access A Canadian court has ordered French cloud provider OVHcloud to hand over customer data stored in Europe, potentially undermining the provider's claims about digital sovereignty protections.…

Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover Auditors remain concerned about the cyber resilience of a Scottish council as some systems are yet to be fully rebuilt following a ransomware attack in November 2023.…

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Guess who’s back, back again? Bird Flu’s back, tell a friend We have a new bird flu scare! Just in time for the Holidays, …

IT in the firing line as 'legacy' roles under the microscope AI-pocalypse  New research suggests AI deployment is creating significant workforce redundancies across major organizations.…

Debian 13.2 freshness, better HiDPI support, and 101 other things to run on your Pi Raspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.…

It is hardly surprising that tampering with the digestive processes of cows would harm their health. Some say that the purpose of a system is what it does, so maybe they see the imposition of Bovaer as an easy way to reduce the number of cows on farms.

Arm and RISC-V would like a word Feature  Remember when high-performance computing always seemed to be about x86? Exactly a decade ago, almost nine in ten supercomputers in the TOP500 (a list of the beefiest machines maintained twice yearly by academics) were Intel-based. Today, it's down to 57 percent.…

Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegation Taiwanese foundry TSMC believes a former executive has leaked company secrets to Intel and is testing the matter in court.…

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people dropped about 5% this year, landing at $55.18. After years of grocery-store sticker shock, that’s welcome relief. And it stands in sharp contrast to 2022, when the same meal hit a record high of more than $64.05, the most expensive Thanksgiving in history.

Africa is again at the center of strife ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.…

Analyst Counterpoint says second-hand phones are also helping Cupertino to the smartphone shipment summit Apple is set to displace Samsung as the world’s top smartphone manufacturer, measured by shipment volume, according to analyst firm Counterpoint.…

The law calls for a 40% reduction in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions from the 1990 levels by 2030. According to state data, the emissions have already been reduced by 10% leaving a whopping 30% to go in just four years.

60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen The cause of major internet outages is often the domain name system (DNS) and/or problems at Amazon Web Services’ US East region. The cloud giant has now made a change that will make its own role in such outages less painful.…

The end is nigh – not for the world, but for the climate industrial complex. It has been a decline brought about mainly by the sheer reality of energy economics in the developing world.

Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers... Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company's recent breach, saying he's only aware of "a handful of customers" who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity involving Gainsight's connected app.…

HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity – and eventually put fresh fish on the table.…

Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacks A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October's widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a "test run" for future attacks, according to Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.…

"... The Trump administration’s efforts to boost oil and natural gas production and suppress renewable energy ... were enough to postpone the plateau ..."

GSMA says fragmented, poorly designed laws add burdens without making networks any safer Mobile operators' core cybersecurity spending is projected to more than double by 2030 as threats evolve, while poorly designed and fragmented policy frameworks add extra compliance costs, according to industry group the GSMA.…

Engineer bends layout tool into vector renderer, then pushes frames through a MacBook's headphone jack There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an oscilloscope.…

Regions across US affected, and one tore up its contract for the product Towns and cities across the US are without access to their CodeRED emergency alert system following a cyberattack on vendor Crisis24.…

Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule The US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered faster to counter expected threats.…

“We can tweak regulations and make investigators more rigorous, but this is fundamentally an ethical issue,” said Mark Barnes, a lawyer and prominent expert on misconduct investigations. “Institutions need to be proactive and deal with this issue on the front end by training young researchers in ethics to curb misconduct before it happens.”

HR software vendor pushes cross-selling as modest workforce growth exposes vulnerability of per-seat pricing Workday is confronting a troubling reality. Customers aren't hiring much and some are actively cutting staff. The solution? Cross-selling to squeeze more revenue per user out of its installed base.…

Gap threatens Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon despite optimistic forecasts of 3 billion ChatGPT users by 2030 OpenAI needs to secure $207 billion in new financing by 2030 to fulfill its expansion plans, according to HSBC Global Investment Research – a challenge that could ripple across Big Tech.…

Time to test just how far fandom and taste will stretch If Xbox console prices are going to leave Santa short this year, fear not as an alternative is at hand - Xbox Crocs are here for $80.…

From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower Feature  A silent arms race is accelerating in the world's most advanced laboratories. While headlines focus on chatbots and consumer AI, the United States is orchestrating something far more consequential: a massive expansion of supercomputing power that may reshape the future of science, security, and technological supremacy.…

We don’t get much engagement on Twitter (X, whatever). At ~63,000 followers we’re hardly a huge account, but an engagement rate of around 0.07% is incredibly low. Our content generally gets low-double digit “likes”. For what it’s worth, checkers that claim to able to detect these things say we aren’t shadowbanned. We’ve accepted that we’re …

Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online access Two London councils are scrambling for answers after declaring a cybersecurity issue that began on Monday.…

Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.…

Sheldon "Whites-Only Beach Club" Whitehouse is very upset that the State Department didn't pay his way to a climate doomer conference in Brazil

Google Workspace switch drags on amid Excel dependencies, compliance requirements, and compatibility issues Exclusive  Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn't completed the switch.…

But something big happened along the way. The buzzword that emerged was Roadmap. In each hard case there was going to be a roadmap for getting someplace, someday, which was often unspecified. But there were no roads so no map. An issue resolution roadmap normally specifies methods and milestones. In this case the only method was ever more meetings.

Lessons from COVID and tariff shocks getting Mike D's tech shop through AI-induced memory maze Dell has predicted PC sales will be flat next year, despite the potential of the AI PC and the slow replacement of Windows 10.…

Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so Feature  In the decade since India launched its National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), the nation has commissioned 37 machines with a combined power of 39 petaFLOPS, with another 35-petaFLOPS hybrid due to come online later this year. But while plenty of those machines use locally developed technology, India is yet to deliver on its ambition to become a leader or major semiconductor pl

Warns memory price explosion means PCs may have less RAM, or use low-cost parts HP Inc will sack between 4,000 and 6,000 workers under a plan that calls for the PCs-and-printers prodigy to use AI to improve its operations.…

Democrats should stop blaming Republicans for soaring energy prices in blue states that their own green energy policies cause. If they want prices to reverse course, then they should use the electricity sources that are actually cheaper.

Chinese giant adds to ‘No AI bubble’ babble by citing oversubscribed infrastructure and surging demand China’s Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to keep up with demand for AI, so is rationing access to GPUs so that customers who use all of its services enjoy priority access.…

Following discovery of asbestos lift brake pads in Chinese manufactured Aussie turbines, turbine operators are conducting a frantic audit.

This study consists of two parts:- Part 1 – Variation of NOAA Sea Levels  globally and for the 24 sub-areas. Part 2 – Variation of NOAA Sea Level data based on individual satellites.

‘The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible’ (2025), published by The Critical Globalisation Collective (UK & India), is available on Figshare. All the author’s work is released under an open access framework and is freely available for non-commercial use. The open access book The Agrarian Imagination Development and the Art of the Impossible is a critique of the …

“It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” Michael Corleone, The Godfather Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming bands of thugs smashing car windows and terrorizing communities. Immunity for criminal behavior coupled with prosecutions of whistleblowers. This is how a crime syndicate operates—not a constitutional republic. What we are witnessing today is the steady …

From Iain’s website: I was delighted that Dr David A. Hughes asked me to join him to discuss my forthcoming book The Technocratic Dark State. You can read John Titus full review of the book HERE. The book is due to be published soon, hopefully before Christmas, and you can express an interest and preorder …

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gurgling from the froth-corrupted lungs […] My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est On the morning of November 11, I was …

When people talk about “getting off the grid,” the image that usually springs to my mind is the full-on pioneer fantasy: selling the house, buying 40 acres in the bush, installing solar panels, drilling a well, raising chickens, and growing enough potatoes to survive the next ice age. I envy those people. Honestly, I do. …

The UK’s Covid Inquiry just published their Module 2 report, and though it’s over eight hundred words long, most people only really seem interested in this short quote from Baroness Hallett: Had the lockdown been imposed one week earlier than the 23rd of March, the evidence suggests the number of deaths in England alone in …

The Technocratic Dark State is due for publication shortly and Dr David A. Hughes has described it as one of the most important books you will read. He interviews me, and we discuss the book and why it matters. The post The Technocratic Dark State: Dr David A. Hughes Interviews Author Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

Sonia Poulton and I discuss my new book The Technocratic Dark State. We look at who is behind the digital transformation and consider their aims and objectives. The post The Technocratic Dark State appeared first on Iain Davis.

Digital ID in the UK is not the BritCard. True digital ID includes the possible BritCard but to understand what true digital ID is read here. The post The BritCard Psyop: What Is True Digital ID in the UK? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The BritCard is supposedly our introduction to digital ID in the UK. But the proposal is so bizarre, as Paul Brennan and I discuss. The post BritCard UK Digital ID – Reality Check Radio appeared first on Iain Davis.

Tom Regenauer and I discuss the loopy ideas—such as the Dark Enlightenment and gov-corp Technates—put forward by the gaggle of Silicon Valley oligarchs controlling the Trump administration. The post Tom Regenauer and Iain Davis discuss Gov-corp Technates appeared first on Iain Davis.

Paul Hellier from Fair Food Forager and I discuss the fake choice environment and how people are being deceived into accepting gov-corp Technates. Check it out! The post Paul Hellier and Iain Davis Discuss The Fake Choice Environment appeared first on Iain Davis.

We explore the deep state through the lens of those who have revealed it existence and operations. What is it and what do "deep staters" want us to believe about their deep state? The post The Deep State Revelations CERCLE appeared first on Iain Davis.

MelK and I discuss the application of the Dark Enlightenment and Technocracy in the Trump administration and its implications. Of note, Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are both proponents of these ideas and influential in Trump's administration. The post MelK and Iain Davis Discuss Trump’s Gov-Corp Technate appeared first on Iain Davis.

Tony Gosling and I discuss the Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate being installed by the Trump administration. The discussion centres on my article of the same title published on Unlimited Hangout. The post Tony Gosling and Iain Davis Discuss the Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate appeared first on Iain Davis.

I chat to Alex Newman from Liberty Sentinel briefly covering a wide range of important subjects including the cliamte scam, UK paedophile scandals, the proposed multipolar world order and more. The post Alex Newman interviews Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.