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Errant code fix deleted entire servers rather than snapshots of database Microsoft Azure DevOps, a suite of application lifecycle services, stopped working in the South Brazil region for about ten hours on Wednesday due to a basic code error.…

'World's first and only' orbiting infosec playpen due to blast off Sunday…

Get Help? Yes, we highly recommend it, Redmond Microsoft on Friday disclosed it will drop support for Cortana as a standalone app in Windows 10 and 11.…

Claim: Billionaire banked big bread boosting bizarro-bucks A lawsuit filed last year against billionaire Elon Musk on behalf of individuals who lost money investing in Dogecoin has been expanded to include allegations of insider trading.…

Web giant downplays rumors of deals with carriers Updated Folks in the United States might one day have another option for cheaper cellphone service: Amazon Prime.…

Flammable tape and unreliable parachutes ground craft this time around…

And here we thought being lead moderator for Elon would be fun Twitter's second head of trust and safety to serve under Elon Musk has departed with little explanation.…

Country to have two networks as first buildout falls behind schedule…

And poor Elon gets a break from subsidies Starlink has scored an official US government contract to supply satellite services to Ukraine, according to reports.…

Irish regulators sniffing around Facebook-for-suits subsidiary have threatened fine…

'Engineers perform better in person' says Zuckerberg. Hang on, aren't you the defender of the Metaverse?…

Have you considered taking up cycling? Nothing says Happy Friday like news that Cisco is trying to help your boss pry yet more of your time and personal space from you: the Webex collaboration app will be equipped in select Audi cars from next year.…

As spinoff quietly erases claim that average age in mainframe group was 35…

You can play the field and Chocolate Factory won't throw your stuff out…

It’s not a crime if you don’t have a record Updated It is a sleepy corner of the United Kingdom, but even the southwest peninsula is likely not a place where there is no crime whatsoever for a whole quarter.…

Leaf and spine networks aren't the only way to make a connection with nature On Call Welcome once again, dear reader, to On Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed tales of tortuous tech support traumas and triumphs.…

Oh cool, something else to scan for Researchers recently uncovered the following novel attack on the Python Package Index (PyPI).…

You'll need to be fast to score one of 30 tickets for planes that don't go very far Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will today start to take bookings for its first-ever commercial flights on electricity-powered planes – scheduled for 2028.…

US, South Korea, warn 'Kimsuky' is a very sophisticated social engineer The United States and the Republic of Korea have issued a joint cyber security advisory [PDF] about North Koreas "Kimsuky" cyber crime group.…

CEO Charles Liang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the 'locals made good' thing and the crowd loved it Computex Supermicro CEO Charles Liang has revealed his business has is poised to increase its production of rackscale systems by 25 percent.…

Did ML-powered fighter actually go HAL 9000 to rack up points? Who knows…

It's the 2020s and we're still running code automatically fetched over HTTP FAQ You may have seen some headlines about a supply-chain backdoor in millions of Gigabyte motherboards. Here's the lowdown.…

Any chance of an ML model to identify labor law violations? No? Surprise Amazon is reportedly deploying artificial intelligence to inspect goods and look for signs of damage before they are packed and shipped to people.…

Time to MOVEit, MOVEit. We don't like to MOVEit, MOVEit…

Next: Alcohol in non-alcoholic booze, bacon in vegan salads. We kid, we kid The California State Assembly on Wednesday approved a law bill that will prevent autonomous trucks from operating on the US state's roads without a driver on board.…

Did we just time warp back to 2013? Russian intelligence has accused American snoops and Apple of working together to backdoor iPhones to spy on "thousands" of diplomats worldwide.…

And, ahem, other publishers…

When's the perfect time for a mandate? When everyone's already doing it…

iDevice admins now have a safe space where they can talk about M365…

Achievement took 12 years of blood, sweat and science Scientists in the US have managed to capture the first X-ray image of a single atom, and it only took 12 years of work developing a technique and a super-powered X-ray instrument to do it.…