NICER science not so nice as ISS telescope pauses operations Cosmic research on hold while engineers investigate a problematic motor NASA's NICER X-ray telescope is pausing operations just weeks after the US space agency boasted that a January repair and reconfiguration had improved its daytime measurements.… #theregister #IT
Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations Business data is fragmented and change management is hard InterviewΒ  Adoption of generative AI for enterprise customers isn't taking off in the manner many in the industry expected – and there are major obstacles in the way, according to Rania Succar, recently appointed CEO at Kaseya.… #theregister #IT
Glasgow City Council online services crippled following cyberattack Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen A cyberattack on Glasgow City Council is causing massive disruption with a slew of its digital services unavailable.… #theregister #IT
Qilin ransomware attack on NHS supplier contributed to patient fatality Pathology outage caused by Synnovis breach linked to harm across dozens of healthcare facilities The NHS says Qilin's ransomware attack on pathology services provider Synnovis last year led to the death of a patient.… #theregister #IT
OpenDylan sheds some parentheses in 2025.1 update Apple's advanced next-generation Lisp is still being maintained as FOSS OpenDylan is a Lisp without all the parentheses – just as John McCarthy originally intended for LISP-2.… #theregister #IT
UK to buy nuclear-capable F-35As that can't be refueled from RAF tankers Aircraft meant to bolster NATO deterrent will rely on allied support to stay airborne The UK government is to buy 12 F-35A fighters capable of carrying nuclear weapons as part of the NATO deterrent, but there's a snag: the new jets are incompatible with the RAF's refueling tanker aircraft.… #theregister #IT
Frozen supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime' Privacy campaigners are branding frozen food retailer Iceland's decision to trial facial recognition technology (FRT) at several stores "chilling" – the UK supermarket chain says it's deploying the cameras to cut d… #theregister #IT
Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out Five popular AI models all show signs of bias toward viewpoints promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, and censor material it finds distasteful, according to a new report.… #theregister #IT
That WhatsApp from an Israeli infosec expert could be a Iranian phish Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials The cyber-ops arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and computer science professors from leading Israeli universities.… #theregister #IT
French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL.… #theregister #IT