OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly

Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home

Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory

Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who – or what – users are talking to

On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally

HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details

With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all

One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities

Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action

Which way to the Land of the Free again?

Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’

Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work

Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker

PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!

Connect all the things and watch what happens

Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over

New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code

And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close