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• Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul 2025-12-20
  We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg If you were hoping for some relief from stratospheric memory pricing, don't hold your breath. DRAM prices aren't expected to peak until at least 2026, TechInsights analyst James Sanders tells El Reg.…
  Tobias Mann
• Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck 2025-12-19
  Custom-designed $10,000 scooter goes 65mph, has a 60-mile range, and runs silently hands on  Infinite Machine, a New York-based electric vehicle startup, began with a stolen Vespa. …
  Thomas Claburn
• ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US 2025-12-19
  Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members A Venezuelan gang described by US officials as "a ruthless terrorist organization" faces charges over alleged deployment of malware on ATMs across the country, illegally siphoning millions of dollars.…
  Connor Jones
• DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission 2025-12-19
  But not Phil Collins, sadly The US Department of Energy (DOE) has a Christmas gift for the AI industry in the shape of agreements for collaboration in the Trump administration's Genesis Mission, which aims to use AI to drive scientific discoveries.…
  Dan Robinson
• WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack 2025-12-19
  Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls WatchGuard is in emergency patch mode after confirming that a critical remote code execution flaw in its Firebox firewalls is under active attack.…
  Carly Page
• Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo 2025-12-19
  Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people The University of Sydney is ringing around thousands of current and former staff and students after admitting attackers helped themselves to historical personal data stashed inside one of its online code repositories.…
  Carly Page
• NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits 2025-12-19
  UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos Already £1.4 billion over budget and four years late, a tech transformation project at a UK state-owned bank is outside HM Treasury spending limits and timetable under a revised plan from systems integrator Capgemini.…
  Lindsay Clark
• pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree 2025-12-19
  Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, interesting, and a showcase […]
  Liam Proven
• HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10 2025-12-19
  Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform Hewlett Packard Enterprise has told customers to drop whatever they're doing and patch OneView after admitting a maximum-severity bug could let attackers run code on the management platform without so much as a login prompt.…
  Carly Page
• UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires 2025-12-19
  Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade Britain is set to become a post-3G nation as Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) prepares to be the last of the country's mobile networks to switch off its 3G service, although it may linger for a while at a few sites.…
  Dan Robinson
• Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud 2025-12-19
  Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution Exclusive  Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider.…
  Paul Kunert
• Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky 2025-12-19
  Officials admit 'there certainly has been a hack,' but refuse to confirm China link or data theft The UK's Foreign Office is investigating a confirmed cyberattack it learned about in October, senior ministers say.…
  Connor Jones
• Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits 2025-12-19
  Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health Young Brits are souring on the internet, with increasing numbers seeing it as damaging to society and their mental health, according to latest research published by Ofcom.…
  SA Mathieson
• GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens 2025-12-19
  Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses The UK's Government Digital Service (GDS) will add an AI chatbot to its GOV.UK app in early 2026, before rolling it out across the GOV.UK website used by most government departments and services.…
  SA Mathieson
• Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau 2025-12-19
  Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference? The Reg Standards Bureau was plunged into uproar this week when a reader suggested a new unit for weight, inspired by Cornwall's revamped food recycling service.…
  Joe Fay
• User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis 2025-12-19
  Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone On Call  Welcome once more to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed Friday column in which we share your stories of tech support jobs so wrong, they're right.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths 2025-12-19
  Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns Technicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to emergency services.…
  Simon Sharwood
• China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET 2025-12-19
  Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace' Chinese authorities on Thursday certified the China Environment for Network Innovation (CENI), a vast research network that Beijing hopes will propel the country to the forefront of networking research.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs 2025-12-18
  Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail Even Amazon isn't immune to North Korean scammers who try to score remote jobs at tech companies so they can funnel their wages to Kim Jong Un's coffers.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful 2025-12-18
  Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many. Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla's plan to botify its browser has become, this could win the alternative some converts.…
  Liam Proven