2025

Trump’s tariff threats could bump PC prices by almost half 2025-01-02 at 16:20 By Dan Robinson Warning of planned hikes limit forecasts to just 2% shipment growth for US market in 2025 Import tariffs proposed by the incoming Trump administration could cause PC prices in the US to jump 46 percent, stifling market growth in

Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes 2025-01-02 at 16:20 By Lindsay Clark Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg Interview  Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach insists more than 90 percent of the SaaS HR and finance application vendor’s rollouts are a success, putting aside

Severe Security Flaws Patched in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API 2025-01-02 at 16:16 By Details have emerged about three now-patched security vulnerabilities in Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API that could result in data exposure. The flaws, discovered by Melbourne-based cybersecurity company Stratus Security, have been addressed as of May 2024.

AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform 2025-01-02 at 15:35 By Lindsay Clark But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines Analysis  Last week, AWS jumped into Iceberg with both feet. S3 Buckets, the near-ubiquitous storage containers for developers, got another layer. The dominant cloud platform provider introduced

RISC-V is making moves, but it has work to do if it wants to hit the mainstream 2025-01-02 at 14:01 By Gavin Bonshor Can it topple x86 and Arm, or is the gap too wide to close? Feature  RISC-V has been talked up as a challenger to Arm and x86, offering an open royalty-free architecture

Cross-Domain Attacks: A Growing Threat to Modern Security and How to Combat Them 2025-01-02 at 13:22 By In the past year, cross-domain attacks have gained prominence as an emerging tactic among adversaries. These operations exploit weak points across multiple domains – including endpoints, identity systems and cloud environments – so the adversary can infiltrate organizations,

Honored guest Bork visits Warsaw, Poland 2025-01-02 at 13:05 By Richard Speed Microsoft will stop at nothing to advertise its services BORK!BORK!BORK!  A reminder today that bork – the nickname The Register gives to IoT displays gone awry – is truly international.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

A New Year’s gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don’t work 2025-01-02 at 12:36 By Richard Speed Canon confirms multifunction devices struggling with Windows 11 24H2 Windows 11 24H2 is still causing problems with multifunction devices despite Microsoft marking an issue with the eSCL scan protocol as resolved.… This article is an excerpt from The

Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid 2025-01-02 at 11:52 By Dan Robinson Report charts four scenarios from ‘Sustainable AI’ to ‘Who Turned Out The Lights?’ Policymakers need to carefully guide the future consumption of electricity by AI datacenters, according to a report that considers four potential scenarios and suggests a number

Next-gen Wi-Fi to trade ludicrous speed for the boring art of actually working 2025-01-02 at 10:38 By Dan Robinson Eight generation of the standard is all about ultra reliability Wi-Fi 8 is coming, but it looks set to focus on greater reliability rather than on pushing the bandwidth ever higher, as the most recent updates

Malicious Obfuscated NPM Package Disguised as an Ethereum Tool Deploys Quasar RAT 2025-01-02 at 10:37 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that masquerades as a library for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but, in reality, drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar RAT onto developer systems.

Three Russian-German Nationals Charged with Espionage for Russian Secret Service 2025-01-02 at 10:37 By German prosecutors have charged three Russian-German nationals for acting as secret service agents for Russia. The individuals, named Dieter S., Alexander J., and Alex D., have been accused of working for a foreign secret service. Dieter S. is also alleged to

Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers? 2025-01-02 at 07:37 By Simon Sharwood The developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it It’s hard to get excited about feature phones with 320 x 240 resolution, but Shioupyn