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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
French cloud business, OVHcloud, claimed yesterday that it is in discussions with the European Commission (EC) regarding a possible migration to a sovereign cloud – in an X post that has since been deleted. The post, which now leads to a message stating "that the page does not exist" from the company's chairman, Octave Klaba, stated OVHcloud was working with the EC to investigate shifting workloads from Microsoft Azure.
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
Microsoft has warned administrators that legacy authentication protocols will be blocked by default from July, meaning that anyone who hasn't made preparations already could be in for a busy summer.
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
Astronomers have found a filament of hot gas, ten times as massive as our galaxy, that they reckon could explain where at least some of the universe's "missing" matter might be lurking. 'I guess NASA doesn't need or care about my work anymore'READ MOREA third of "normal" matter in the universe is "missing." It's needed to make scientists' models of the cosmos operate as postulated, but has proven difficult to find.
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
SpaceX has made excellent progress with its Starship rocket. The stainless steel vehicle can now explode before even leaving the Earth. The latest setback happened just before a planned static fire this morning. The rocket was fueled ahead of a test firing of its Raptor engines, but abruptly exploded. The explosion occurred on a test stand, and it is unclear how much damage the facility sustained.
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs).
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
Microsoft has admitted that June's Patch Tuesday updates could break the DHCP service on Windows Server. The update, released June 10, contains an issue that can affect Windows Server 2025, 2022, 2019, and 2016. According to Microsoft, "the DHCP Server service might intermittently stop responding after installing this security update. This issue affects IP renewal for clients."Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) automatically assigns IP addresses to devices or clients connected to a network.
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
Logitech has embraced the sound of silence with its Signature Slim Wired K620 keyboard and M520 mouse combo. A wired keyboard and mouse feel like throwbacks. With wireless devices ruling the roost, a user would be forgiven for wondering who, other than gamers, would want such a thing. However, there are plenty of industries where physical security is paramount, so going wireless is a no-no, and wireless devices have a habit of running out of battery power at the most inopportune times.
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
A hardware glitch on United Launch Alliance's (ULA) workhorse Atlas V rocket delayed the launch of the second batch of Project Kuiper satellites. The problem was identified while the rocket's Centaur upper stage was fueling. ULA boss Tory Bruno posted on BlueSky that the team was "working a temperature measurement warmer than previous family," before admitting the problem needed more time for resolution. Bruno said: "Possible issue with a GN2 purge line that cannot be resolved inside the count.
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to deal with a Surface Hub problem introduced with June's Patch Tuesday fixes. The problem arrived in KB5060533 for Windows 10 21H2 and 22H2 and left several Surface Hub v1 devices stuck with a start failure. On June 11, Microsoft paused the update for Surface Hub v1 to stop the problem spreading, and a week later issued a patch to deal with it.
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1 week ago | 
theregister.com | Richard Speed
Microsoft is so keen for users to migrate to the New Outlook email client that it has broken Classic Outlook again. This time, affected users are unable to open or create a message. An email client unable to open or create emails is sub-optimal. Considering that plenty of users are likely to stick with Classic Outlook until Microsoft wrenches it from their fingers, it's a little embarrassing for Redmond.
