The Register: news, timeline and key numbers

The Register reported on 17 October that the PostgreSQL Global Development Group had delayed PostgreSQL 19, the next version of the widely used open source database. The group also pulled an unusually large set of features from the release. Eisentraut said some of the reverted features had serious architectural defects that would have been hard to fix quickly during the beta period.

On 18 October, the outlet reported on attacks that reach beyond data theft into physical systems. An attacker or group that has not been identified hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery stores late on a Sunday. The report said physical disruption can be more severe than encrypted files and adds pressure on executives to pay extortion demands.

The same day, The Register covered a vote by the international body that coordinates global measurement standards to stop adding leap seconds. These are the occasional one-second adjustments that keep civil time aligned with Earth's variable rotation. The decision matters because so many connected systems now share timing data.

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