Microsoft puts last remnants of original Edge browser on life support Not yet gone and not yet forgotten, but on their way Microsoft has added a raft of web components to its list of deprecated features, including legacy Edge developer tools and hosted web apps.… #theregister #IT

Legacy Edge components added to Microsoft

: Not yet gone and not yet forgotten, but on their way

Dashboard anxiety plagues IT pros' nights, weekends, vacations Admins can't stop checking their portals, survey finds A new survey confirms what many IT pros already know: downtime doesn't exist, with dashboards and alerts intruding on their free time.… #theregister #IT

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: Admins can't stop checking their portals, survey finds

'Questing Quokka' enters UI freeze as Ubuntu 25.10 nears release Rust coreutils, TPM encryption, and GNOME 49 line up for October debut The Quokka is a small, furry, and perpetually smiling marsupial from Australia. It's very cute – and now it's freezing.… #theregister #IT

Ubuntu 25.10

: Rust coreutils, TPM encryption, and GNOME 49 line up for October debut

Just because you can render a Doom-like in SQL doesn't mean you should CedarDB pushed to the limit in improbable gaming experiment The world has moved on from making Doom run on increasingly ridiculous devices. Now it's all about porting it to the most inappropriate of languages. Cue DOOMQL, a version of the shooter written in pure SQL.… #theregister #IT

Database whiz makes SQL jump through Doom-shaped hoops

: CedarDB pushed to the limit in improbable gaming experiment

NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks, even Zoom calls You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons why NASA has barred Chinese nationals from accessing its premises and assets, even those who hold visas that permit them to reside in the USA.… #theregister #IT

NASA bars Chinese citizens from its facilities, networks

: You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons why

Beijing went to 'EggStreme' lengths to attack Philippines military, researchers say Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem ‘EggStreme’ framework looks like the sort of thing Beijing would find handy in its ongoing territorial beefs Infosec outfit Bitdefender says it’s spotted a strain of in-memory malware that looks like the work of Chinese advanced persistent t… #theregister #IT

China went to

: Ovoid-themed in-memory malware offers a menu for mayhem

VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’ Gartner says migrations remain a risky multi-year nightmare, but selective re-platforming can pay off More than a third of workloads currently running under VMware will run on another platform by 2028, with its own trusted hosting partners pushing some customers to make the move.… #theregister #IT

VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years

: Gartner says migrations remain a risky multi-year nightmare, but selective re-platforming can pay off

OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill Tick tock Sam, just fifteen months before your first bill is due OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over the course of five years to fuel Sam Altman's AI ambitions by providing five gigawatts of compute capacity.… #theregister #IT

OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill

: Tick tock Sam, just fifteen months before your first bill is due

Akira ransomware crims abusing trifecta of SonicWall security holes for extortion attacks Patch, turn on MFA, and restrict access to trusted networks…or else Affiliates of the Akira ransomware gang are again exploiting a critical SonicWall vulnerability abused last summer, after a suspected zero-day flaw actually turned out to be related to a year-old bug.… #theregister #IT

Akira ransomware crims abusing trifecta of SonicWall flaws

: Patch, turn on MFA, and restrict access to trusted networks…or else

AI can't be woke and regulators should be asleep, Senator Cruz says We went through two hours of Senate hearings so you didn't have to Video  The Trump administration is pushing to loosen federal rules on AI, with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introducing legislation to give developers a two-year waiver from certain regulations, renewable for up to a decade.… #theregister #IT

Senator Cruz pitches two-year waiver on AI rules

Video: We went through two hours of Senate hearings so you didn't have to