Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech - Feature - Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty

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The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked -- Opinion -- Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech

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France's post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident' -- Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix -- Public Sector

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Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried -- 25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous -- Science

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Palo Alto's new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs -- SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M -- Security

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SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year -- Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list -- AI + ML

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Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China -- Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing -- Systems

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Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture -- Anna's Archive's idealism doesn't quite survive its own blog post -- Security

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Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim -- Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK -- Cyber-crime

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What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows -- Opinion -- Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card

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EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031 -- Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics -- Public Sector

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Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming - Who, Me? One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure

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AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter -- Rising rack densities are driving changes from grid connection to chip-level delivery -- The Future of the Datacenter

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AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last? -- Total operational capacity just keeps rising -- Systems

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Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing

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HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand

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Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition

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User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - On Call - Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up

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Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul -- We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg -- Storage

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Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck - hands on - Custom-designed $10,000 scooter goes 65mph, has a 60-mile range, and runs silently - Offbeat - 19 Dec 2025 - | 74

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ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US -- Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members -- Cyber-crime

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DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission -- But not Phil Collins, sadly -- AI + ML

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WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack -- Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls -- Networks

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Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo -- Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people -- Cyber-crime

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NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits -- UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos -- Public Sector

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Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

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GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

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Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

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Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

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Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature

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pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree -- Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen -- OSes

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BOFH - : All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner - Episode 24 - Minor firmware issues coincide with workplace absence among leadership - BOFH - 19 Dec 2025 - | 41

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HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10 -- Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform -- Patches

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Optera's room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive

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Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

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The storage integration problem that breaks infrastructure automation

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UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires -- Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade -- Networks

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Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud - Exclusive - Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution - PaaS + IaaS - 19 Dec 2025 - | 69

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Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky -- Officials admit 'there certainly has been a hack,' but refuse to confirm China link or data theft -- Cyber-crime

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AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post

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Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits -- Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health -- Off-Prem

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GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens -- Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses -- Public Sector

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Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau -- Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference? -- Offbeat

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User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis - On Call - Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone - Networks - 19 Dec 2025 - | 121

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Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths -- Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn't escalate their concerns -- Networks

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China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET -- Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace' -- Networks

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Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs -- Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail -- Cyber-crime

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Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful -- Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many. -- Software

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Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide -- Customers in 10 of the company's 23 regions had "operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete." -- PaaS + IaaS

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Your car's web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin -- Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date -- Research

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Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins -- 'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational' -- Cyber-crime

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Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics -- NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use -- Networks

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Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

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How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

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Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

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Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon -- Ambitious timelines don't bend the laws of physics -- Science

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Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 -- ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy lifting -- Cyber-crime

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Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit -- Flaw in remote-access appliance lets attackers chain bugs for root-level takeover -- Cyber-crime

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FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation -- Justice Department claims unlicensed exchange funneled ransomware profits -- Cyber-crime

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NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift -- UPDATED -- Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting

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Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech -- Feature -- Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty

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There's so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM -- SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion

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Google sends Dark Web Report to its dead services graveyard -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Texas sues alleged TV spies; The Cloud is full of holes; Hospital leaked its own data; And more

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Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan -- APAC in Brief -- PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong's Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more!

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The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked -- Opinion -- Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech

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New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good -- Who, Me? -- Mousey wouldn't work, wah-wah-wah

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Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency -- On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs

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Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss -- Interview -- What if AI vendors focused on the demand side?

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Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt -- Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against China -- Science

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NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems - Updated - Around 2,000 GP practices use its products - Cyber-crime - 18 Dec 2025 - | 3

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React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines -- Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networks -- Cyber-crime

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The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post

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BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI -- Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants -- AI + ML

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DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in -- 18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500 -- On-Prem

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UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns -- Investigatory Powers Commissioner says reforms have failed to close oversight gaps -- Security

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Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions -- MPs press minister for answers – and get few -- Networks

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United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance -- World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net -- Public Sector

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Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future -- Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply -- Systems

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ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow -- Believes it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROI -- SaaS

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Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement -- GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads -- AI + ML

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Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November -- No timeline for a patch -- Security

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CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns - interview - Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead - Security - 17 Dec 2025 - | 6

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Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists -- Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google -- AI + ML

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Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause -- Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boom -- Public Sector

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