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• NHS left with sick PCs as suppliers resist Windows 11 treatment 2025-10-31
  Hospitals told to upgrade, but some medical device makers haven't prescribed compatibility yet NHS hospitals are being blocked from fully upgrading to Windows 11 by a small number of suppliers that have yet to make their medical devices compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system.…
  Owen Hughes
• Actor couldn’t understand why computer didn’t work when the curtain came down 2025-10-31
  When tech support collides with Halloween, the results are scary On Call  Happy Halloween, dear reader! The Register wishes you a wonderfully scary day. To kick things off, we’ve twisted On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column about keeping computers alive despite the best efforts of zombie coworkers and demonic bosses, to bring tales of times […]
  Simon Sharwood
• Europe preps Digital Euro to enter circulation in 2029 2025-10-31
  Because fewer people like banknotes, and payment sovereignty is a problem The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided the bloc needs a digital version of the Euro, and ordered work that could see it enter circulation in 2029.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Japan’s new space truck is also a temporary space lab, just worked first time 2025-10-31
  HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after its new cargo carrier docked at the International Space Station.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Amazon juggernaut continues hauling in more cash despite recent bad news 2025-10-31
  The spending will continue until AI revenue improves Despite a trickle of bad news from Amazon in recent weeks, the company's business is thrumming along, with AWS leading the way.…
  Thomas Claburn
• Hacking LED Halloween masks is frighteningly easy 2025-10-30
  No costume idea? We've got you covered Hacking makes the holidays so much more enjoyable, and nothing says trick or treat quite like pwning LED Halloween masks belonging to every neighborhood kid during candy-collection hours.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Claude code will send your data to crims ... if they ask it nicely 2025-10-30
  Company tells users concerned about exfiltration to 'stop it if you see it' A researcher has found a way to trick Claude into uploading private data to an attacker's account using indirect prompt injection. Anthropic says it has already documented the risk, and its foolproof solution is: keep an eye on your screen.…
  Thomas Claburn
• Suspected Chinese snoops weaponize unpatched Windows flaw to spy on European diplomats 2025-10-30
  Expired security cert, real Brussels agenda, plus PlugX malware finish the job Cyber spies linked to the Chinese government exploited a Windows shortcut vulnerability disclosed in March – but that Microsoft hasn't fixed yet – to target European diplomats in an effort to steal defense and national security details.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Microsoft 365 business customers are running out of places to hide from Copilot 2025-10-30
  People, Files, and Calendar companion apps gain an auto-installed dose of AI Just when you thought Microsoft had run out of Windows apps to stuff with Copilot, it's cramming the AI into your taskbar companions - People, Files, and Calendar are next.…
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Google parent company spending like a drunken sailor as capex triples over 2 years 2025-10-30
  Microsoft also ramping up spending, but investors concerned about overshooting demand Alphabet, Google's parent company, expects capital expenditures to hit $93 billion in 2025, largely to meet demand from cloud customers, according to its recent financial report.…
  Lindsay Clark
• Proton trains new service to expose corporate infosec cover-ups 2025-10-30
  Service will tell on compromised organizations, even if they didn't plan on doing so themselves Some orgs would rather you not know when they've suffered a cyberattack, but a new platform from privacy-focused tech firm Proton will shine a light on the big breaches that might otherwise stay buried.…
  Connor Jones
• Colorado launches lawyers at Trump admin over space base relocation 2025-10-30
  State cries foul over "crooked elections" claim in Alabama move The State of Colorado has thrown a sueball at the Trump administration over the president's decision to relocate the headquarters of the US Space Command from Colorado Springs to Alabama.…
  Richard Speed
• Docker Compose vulnerability opens door to host-level writes – patch pronto 2025-10-30
  Windows Desktop installer also fixed after DLL hijack flaw rated 8.8 severity Docker Compose users are being strongly urged to upgrade their versions of the orchestration tool after a researcher uncovered a flaw that could allow attackers to stage path traversal attacks.…
  Joe Fay
• Trump and Xi ease trade tensions, but Nvidia still can't sell Blackwell in China 2025-10-30
  US President did discuss chip exports with his counterpart, but made no breakthroughs Talks between US President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea yielded a modest thaw, with the two agreeing to trim tariffs and pause new rare-earth export curbs. But whether Nvidia can sell its latest GPUs to China remains an […]
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• US government shutdown clouds an otherwise sunny ServiceNow forecast 2025-10-30
  Enterprise software giant lifts guidance but adds 'prudence' as federal contracts stall ServiceNow has built some "prudence" into its earnings guidance due to the ongoing US government shutdown.…
  Lindsay Clark
• KDE tidies up Plasma 6.5 with 60-odd fixes and smoother setup for OEMs 2025-10-30
  Big release with a lot of new features – and a few inevitable glitches The KDE Plasma 6.5 graphical shell arrived last week for Unix-like operating systems, and now 6.5.1 is here for the more cautious. The team's squashed over 60 bugs – and they're by no means all new.…
  Liam Proven
• Invisible npm malware pulls a disappearing act – then nicks your tokens 2025-10-30
  PhantomRaven slipped over a hundred credential-stealing packages into npm A new supply chain attack dubbed PhantomRaven has flooded the npm registry with malicious packages that steal credentials, tokens, and secrets during installation. The packages appear safe when first downloaded, making them particularly difficult for security apps to identify.…
  Carly Page
• Italian tech company promises to make America Online great again 2025-10-30
  Dial-up dinosaur finds yet another corporate home as Yahoo waves goodbye Bending Spoons, an Italian tech biz, is buying AOL from Yahoo, funded by a $2.8 billion debt financing package that will also bankroll future acquisitions.…
  Richard Speed
• Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market 2025-10-30
  'We should be a public company,' Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not 'with our trousers around our ankles' Interview  An initial public offering is a matter of when, not if, for Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth, though interested stock owners shouldn't expect a prospectus anytime soon.…
  Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
• Equinix revealed as occupant of £3.9B UK datacenter campus 2025-10-30
  Investment will fund 250 MW, three-facility campus near London as AI and cloud demand surge Equinix will occupy a massive datacenter campus near London's M25, investing £3.9 billion ($5.1 billion) in the 85-acre (0.34 square kilometers) Hertfordshire plot close to South Mimms services.…
  Dan Robinson