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Big Blue has unveiled the Nighthawk r3, an upcoming next-gen quantum processor that will feature 520 qubits, as another step towards a planned fault-tolerant quantum system it hopes to launch in 2029.
More here: theregister.com/systems/2026…
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Hackers have used a dodgy third-party ScreenConnect extension to push malware onto at least 288 machines across 48 organizations, prompting ConnectWise to disable a handful of plugins in hundreds of customer environments.
more here: theregister.com/security/202…
The FreeBSD project's status team has published FreeBSD's third status report of 2026, showing plenty of ambitious work underway and a community still undecided on how to treat code from AI coding assistants.
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Encountered some odd SQL Server connection behavior since the October update? There might be a culprit… Microsoft has admitted that a change has caused linked server queries to fail to close connections.
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European tech buyers are increasingly choosing cybersecurity vendors from their own continent in a bid to reduce their reliance on American technology.
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More than 1,600 Rockstar Games employees in the UK will begin voting on union recognition on Thursday, with the ballot kicking off just a week before the long-awaited launch of Grand Theft Auto VI.
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The sun is shining in London, oh, and a new extension brings a working global menu bar to the GNOME desktop, even for some apps that don’t have menu bars at all. theregister.com/os-platforms…
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A new extension brings a working global menu bar to the GNOME desktop, even for some apps that don’t have menu bars at all.
More here: theregister.com/os-platforms…
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This week on #PWNED, our reader-submitted infosec fails column, we welcome you to a London hotel where you could check out its admin credentials for a booking website ... just by strolling past the front desk.
more here: theregister.com/security/202…
AWS has released an emulator that kind-of-almost lets you use its cloud on a PC.
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Former certification authority eMudhra has claimed a buggy Python script is the main reason it issued laughably insecure digital certificates.
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Russian cloud operator Yandex claims a drone attack on one of its datacenters is behind its loss of some of the data of its customers.
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Datacenter power consumption in the US is growing roughly ten times faster than grid capacity, meaning facilities may soon need to find a large chunk of their own electricity from other sources.
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Boffins confirm the famous red ring around black hole M87, created by the Horizon Telescope (EHT) array, was legit. theregister.com/science/2026…
Apple's first touchscreen MacBook got a mixed reception from iFixit's teardown specialists, who praised its easily replaced lid but found fans and USB-C ports buried beneath the logic board.
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Users are having difficulty installing Microsoft's latest Windows patch. Ahem
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Voyager 1 will become the first human-made object to reach one light-day from Earth next week, and NASA wants us to mark the occasion by flashing our lights at the sky.
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A 2013 breach of Russian-language cybercrime forum YouHack exposed its members' login details – and millions of credentials they had posted about other victims, according to newly cataloged data.
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