The Register November 09, 2026 tech

Huawei says it’s made a 100 percent Chinese PC

TOP STORIES AI - Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session A mountain of CVEs, a certificate cleanup, and yet more work for Microsoft's patching teams - PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient - Meta brings Conductor on board its model train Agent orchestration startup gets its exit - Bare metal boom: On-prem server sales for HPC and AI up 20% this year Firms still want kit on-premises, but spike in revenue is as much about increased costs as higher sales - Windows pushed AI PCs, but now it's hit a wall of RAM prices Customers sweating assets amid tight budgets, as Microsoft execs get creative with sales pitches Infosec - Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! - Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more - Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included - Security EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified - Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career FOSS - Crowd fave Linux Mint update approaches, fresh from autumn release of Cinnamon desktop Mint 27 to land before Christmas, with stable Wayland display upgrades, as punters try out Cinnamon 6.8 - openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out - Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop Very nearly 30something environment gets spruced up… and there's a new Trinity, too - Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale - AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland - Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing

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