Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life -- Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection -- AI + ML

10 hours ago

Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack - Exclusive - Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issues - Cyber-crime - 11 Dec 2025 - | 3

4 hours ago

India's government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models -- Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators -- AI + ML

14 hours ago

Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties -- Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China -- Systems

22 hours ago

Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors -- But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming -- Databases

22 hours ago

Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can - updated - If you opt in to the paid service that is - Systems - 10 Dec 2025 - | 1

14 hours ago

US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy -- Meet 'ShipOS' -- Public Sector

23 hours ago

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts -- Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and Germany -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills - feature - 1,500 military digital defenders spent the past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional island - Security - 10 Dec 2025 - | 6

6 hours ago

Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds - Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types - Personal Tech - 10 Dec 2025 - | 89

3 hours ago

Intel Core Ultra Processors: Powering business-ready AI PCs -- A one-stop hub of practical resources for IT teams exploring AI-enabled laptop refresh strategies -- Sponsored Post

1 day ago

Cutting through the noise on AI PCs with Intel Core Ultra -- What changes for battery life, security, and real-world productivity when AI moves onto the laptop -- Sponsored Post

1 day ago

Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted -- US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech -- Systems

1 day ago

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work -- Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that's kind of enough -- Legal

1 day ago

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill -- A win for the contractors -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts -- Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

Reimagining HCI with StorPool and Oracle: a smarter path to modernization - Webinar Promo

2 days ago

Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US -- As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost US -- Systems

2 days ago

AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first -- Analysts say demand keeps rising despite constraints, shaky returns, and mounting investor nerves -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now -- Foreign secretary set to address senior diplomats later today -- Security

2 days ago

Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records -- UK data watchdog demands public sector improves subject access request processing -- Legal

2 days ago

UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act -- As Portugal gives researchers a pass under cybersecurity law -- Security

2 days ago

Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost -- Officials insist OBR relied on 'early estimate' and real figure won't emerge until next year -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India's first fab -- Chipzilla doesn't need 28nm product, so maybe this is about landing another outsourced packaging partner -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut -- Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered -- Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone? -- OSes

3 days ago

Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years -- Analysts reckon only a handful of manufacturers will push ahead as the rest hit the brakes -- AI + ML

3 days ago

UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up -- Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance -- Networks

3 days ago

Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute -- Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections -- The Future of the Datacenter

3 days ago

X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement -- Brussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests -- Japanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones -- Networks

3 days ago

Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes -- Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement -- Security

3 days ago

Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data -- Body confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact -- Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era -- Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops -- Software

3 days ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work - Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss - On-Prem - 08 Dec 2025 - | 42

22 hours ago

China's first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew - Asia In Brief - PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more - Networks - 08 Dec 2025 - | 18

1 day ago

Modernizing hyperconverged infrastructure: how StorPool and Oracle are changing the game - Webinar Promo

6 days ago

Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul -- Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems -- Cyber-crime

5 days ago

Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it -- Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite -- OSes

6 days ago

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash -- Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance -- Security

6 days ago

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built -- Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process -- OSes

6 days ago

Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help -- Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance - Updated - The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts - Networks - 05 Dec 2025 - | 56

2 days ago

Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours -- On Call -- Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security -- Applications

6 days ago

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch -- New 'Datacenter Manager' manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters -- Virtualization

6 days ago

HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge -- Never mind, says jolly green giant, we're a networking-centric company now -- Systems

6 days ago

Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike -- Exclusive -- Major OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite -- Systems

6 days ago

Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job -- Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions -- Networks

7 days ago

ZTE wins "Catalyst Innovator: Voyager" award at Innovate Asia 2025 - Recognition highlights ZTE's leadership in multi-agent and AI-driven ICT solutions - Partner Content

6 days ago

Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL -- Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself -- Offbeat

7 days ago

Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet -- Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power -- 3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove -- The Future of the Datacenter

7 days ago

ZTE fosters AI-driven win-win cooperation at its Global Services Ecosystem Forum 2025 in Brazil - Advancing AI-powered network innovation through global partnerships across Europe and Latin America - Partner Content

7 days ago

Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail -- It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices -- The Future of the Datacenter

7 days ago

TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets - Systems Approach - Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear - Networks - 04 Dec 2025 - | 1

7 days ago

India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform -- Minister wants to 'free drivers from dependency on private companies' -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches -- First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory? -- Storage

7 days ago

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator -- Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg -- Legal

8 days ago

HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware -- IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona -- Virtualization

8 days ago

Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push -- Statcounter shows the gap narrowing as users cling to older hardware and familiar workflows -- OSes

8 days ago

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report - Updated - Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members - Public Sector - 03 Dec 2025 - | 97

5 days ago

Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam -- Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASML -- Systems

8 days ago

Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS -- Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve -- OSes

8 days ago

China using AI as 'precision instrument' of censorship and repression, at home and abroad -- Think tank ASPI says Beijing is even using it to steal fish from the ocean -- AI + ML

8 days ago

Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports -- Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runway -- Security

8 days ago

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece -- Isaacman backs Texas relocation amid warnings that costs could top $150M -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11 -- Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Rethinking desktop real estate in the call center era - Say hello to the little machine with big savings - Sponsored Feature

8 days ago

Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode -- Buyers get a one-time discount on screen repairs, which hardly screams 'we nailed this three-screen thing' -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators -- Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance -- Networks

9 days ago

India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset -- 'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security -- Public Sector

9 days ago

UK gov blames budget leak on misconfigured WordPress plugin, server -- Predictable URLs break security through obscurity and lack of server access controls don't help -- Public Sector

10 days ago

Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers -- You could do that on a CPU, but who can say no to a 30x GPU speed boost? -- Systems

10 days ago

AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist - Re:invent - After reassuring regulators all was well, pair debut interconnect to smooth the bumps - AWS Re:invent - 01 Dec 2025 - | 3

8 days ago

Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival -- Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits -- On-Prem

10 days ago

Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof -- Budget model slips in at $45 while other boards climb amid AI-driven component crunch -- Storage

10 days ago

Dorset Council ditching customized SAP for £14M Oracle overhaul - Updated - Authority follows Birmingham and West Sussex, which both suffered disastrous transitions - Databases - 01 Dec 2025 - | 60

7 days ago

Speccy clone storms back for Christmas without a shred of Sinclair code -- Rubber-key revival leans on Linux, emulation, and third-party ROMs -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Landlord quirks leave thousands of flats stuck in the broadband slow lane -- Openreach pushes for legal overhaul as apartments fall through fiber rollout gaps -- Networks

10 days ago

Google and Apple ordered to stop fake government TXTs - Asia in Brief - PLUS: India wants to build big airliners; Half of South Koreans caught in data leak; Minimum wage for gig workers in Oz; And more! Public Sector - 01 Dec 2025 - | 13

8 days ago

Brit telco Brsk confirms breach as bidding begins for 230K+ customer records -- Crims claim to know which customers are marked 'vulnerable' -- Networks

13 days ago

KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates -- If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE – and tmux -- OSes

13 days ago

SK hynix wants you to bond with HBM, so it coated corn in banana chocolate -- Pushes semiconductor familiarity via chip-shaped edible squares -- Systems

13 days ago

GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are -- Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce -- Supercomputing Month

13 days ago

Windows keeps obsolete strings forever to avoid breaking translations -- Another reason why the OS seems to swell with every update -- OSes

13 days ago

OBR drags in cyber bigwig after Budget leak blunder -- Ex-NCSC chief Ciaran Martin asked to examine how forecast ended up online ahead of schedule -- Offbeat

13 days ago

UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B -- OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings -- Public Sector

13 days ago

UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants -- Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain -- Off-Prem

13 days ago

Digital Realty, Equinix battle for €4.5B atNorth acquisition -- Nordic datacenter operator's cool-climate facilities attract bids amid AI-driven market frenzy -- On-Prem

13 days ago

Cabling survived dungeons and fish factories, until a lazy user took the network down - On Call - A quick squeeze of the crimper saved the day ... and a career - Networks - 28 Nov 2025 - | 200

3 days ago

China Telecom and ZTE Jointly Craft a New Mobility Blueprint with 5G Intelligent Vehicle - Integrating 5G-A private networks and nationwide multi-DNN routing for end-to-end vehicle intelligence - Partner Content

13 days ago

Tenstorrent QuietBox tested: A high-performance RISC-V AI workstation trapped in a software blackhole - hands on - $12K machine promises performance that can scale to 32 chip servers and beyond but immature stack makes harnessing compute challenging - Systems - 27 Nov 2025 - | 10

9 days ago

FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover -- Agency flags hijacks of insecure studio-to-transmitter gear after attackers pipe in fake alerts and vulgar audio -- Cyber-crime

14 days ago

Canadian data order risks blowing a hole in EU sovereignty -- OVH stuck between a rock and a hard place as investigators demand access -- PaaS + IaaS

14 days ago

Scottish council still rebuilding systems two years after ransomware attack -- Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover -- Cyber-crime

14 days ago

HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show - Feature - Arm and RISC-V would like a word - Supercomputing Month - 27 Nov 2025 - | 12

13 days ago

ZTE honored with EU ePrivacyseal Global certificate for five fixed network and smart home - Validated for robust data security, encryption, and access control across the entire service chain - Partner Content

14 days ago

TSMC lawsuit claims former exec is probably leaking secrets to Intel -- Chipzilla can certainly use foundry smarts, but denies the allegation -- Legal

14 days ago

ICANN distances itself from radical proposal – which it funded – to give nations a role in internet governance -- Africa is again at the center of strife -- Networks

14 days ago