Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right -- Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it

20 hours ago

Apple's last tower topples... and the others will follow -- Farewell, Mac Pro: Increasing integration means the end of expandable computers

1 day ago

Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit -- Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence

17 hours ago

Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program -- Cross-signed code gets the cold shoulder as Redmond tightens trust

1 day ago

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession -- The maker of Claude faces headwinds as it rushes to go public

5 hours ago

Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion -- New campus to include on-site power generation

1 day ago

Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption -- Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argue

1 day ago

To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad days

1 hour ago

Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze -- Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunk

2 hours ago

The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed -- Secret CEO -- And developers should be confident it won't kill the craft

1 hour ago

Advancing smarter and more inclusive digital connectivity for Indonesia, Telkomsel and ZTE strengthen collaboration at MWC Barcelona 2026 - Partner Content - Edge compute and AI get the spotlight as operators grapple with scale and service quality - Partner Content

1 day ago

UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch -- PAC grilling reveals £239M bought a system that couldn't handle the work, the volumes, or placeholder text -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work - On Call - The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat - On-Prem - 27 Mar 2026 - | 92

40 minutes ago

India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril -- Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open -- Public Sector

2 days ago

AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores -- Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans -- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you your job back, but here's the form you fill out to collect benefits -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America -- Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club? -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China - Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers - Systems - 26 Mar 2026 - |

3 days ago

Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization -- Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' -- AI + ML

3 days ago

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful -- 300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda -- CarStation/PlayMobile won't hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic -- Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war - rsac 2026 - Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC... RSA - 25 Mar 2026 - | 15

2 days ago

Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist -- Science

3 days ago

Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants -- Effort includes permitting and planning -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life -- Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs -- I'll just clear up that up, shall I? -- OSes

4 days ago

HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away -- Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Samsung still glued to its bad habits with Galaxy S26 Ultra -- Flagship phone scores 5/10 from iFixit as the parts that break most often remain firmly out of reach -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access - Opinion - A handful thrive, most scrape by as companies make billions off their code - Software - 25 Mar 2026 - | 98

1 day ago

YouTuber lands on Moon using a ZX Spectrum. Conditions apply -- BASIC and bit-banging used to guide a simulated lander down to a virtual lunar touchdown -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Nothing screams casual career pivot like joining the UK Ministry of Defence for a cool £162K -- AI and quantum on to-do list for Chief Digital Technology Officer in charge of £140.7M budget. Fancy it? -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs -- Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Alibaba delivers RISC-V server chip optimized to run China's top AI models -- Claims its set performance records but looks to be years behind western fare -- Systems

4 days ago

HP stuffs OpenAI LLM into new laptops in bid for small biz -- HP IQ can chat, share files, and break down everything people said in the conference room. -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine -- Breaking free of its IP licensing shackles -- Systems

4 days ago

Chemists concoct nail polish that lets clawed humans use touch screens -- They still look goofy, but at least you might be able to use 'em like a stylus -- Science

4 days ago

Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field -- Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrows -- OSes

4 days ago

Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train -- Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time -- Systems

4 days ago

Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive -- Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft -- Storage

5 days ago

Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers -- Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink -- Networks

5 days ago

Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form -- Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs -- OSes

5 days ago

Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds - Opinion - Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft - OSes - 24 Mar 2026 - | 78

2 days ago

EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers -- Open letter warns tech is shaping what audiences see while slipping past regulation -- Software

5 days ago

Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term 'metaverse' -- 'People don't like wearing things on their faces and don't trust those who do' -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site -- 10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanup -- Systems

5 days ago

Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says - RSAC 2026 - Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins - RSA - 23 Mar 2026 - | 1

5 days ago

SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute -- In space, no one can hear you being petty -- Networks

5 days ago

Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove -- US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in -- Databases

6 days ago

We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and they're impressive - Review - More cores, higher clocks, lower prices - Personal Tech - 23 Mar 2026 - | 18

4 days ago

US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor – then came the data leak - Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn't 'material,' but then stolen data was published - Cyber-crime - 23 Mar 2026 - |

5 days ago

Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates -- The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch -- OSes

6 days ago

CMA dithers on cloud probe as Microsoft's meter runs on taxpayer dime -- Every month of 'careful consideration' is another month Redmond laughs all the way to the bank -- Public Sector

6 days ago

Explainer: AI-ready servers - GPUs and data management is important in an AI push, but don't ignore your legacy kit - The Register Explainer

6 days ago

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo - Who, Me? First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face - AI + ML - 23 Mar 2026 - | 135

1 day ago

Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics' -- Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add up -- Systems

6 days ago

Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Singtel's triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more! -- Systems

6 days ago

CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge -- feature -- The operating system of the universe isn't going to debug itself -- Science

7 days ago

Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst -- The market is contracting -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update -- OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky -- OSes

9 days ago

UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias -- Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks -- Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond -- Cyber-crime

9 days ago

Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China -- Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls -- Systems

9 days ago

UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts -- Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clause -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor -- Opinion -- Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around -- Public Sector

9 days ago

While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job? -- On Call -- He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB -- On-Prem

9 days ago

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites -- 'Project Sunrise' needs a network that doesn't exist, a rocket that's hardly flown, and FCC approval -- Systems

9 days ago

Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they're inferior and may always be -- Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete -- Systems

9 days ago

Decoding Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems - GTC DEEP DIVE - From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kit - Nvidia GTC - 19 Mar 2026 - | 6

6 days ago

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say -- Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to -- Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety -- Security

9 days ago

PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI -- Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering - QCon London - It's still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/O - AI + ML - 19 Mar 2026 - | 6

6 days ago

Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned -- New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want -- Software

10 days ago

GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve -- Accuracy jumps from 76% to 90% across public pilots, while users wait nearly 11 seconds for answers -- Public Sector

10 days ago

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots -- Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarter -- Systems -- 19 Mar 2026

10 days ago

Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health -- Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes -- AI + ML -- 18 Mar 2026

10 days ago

Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC -- GTC -- Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say -- Storage

10 days ago

Ransomware crims abused Cisco 0-day weeks before disclosure, says Amazon security boss - Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposed - Security - 18 Mar 2026 - |

9 days ago

Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere -- Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MW -- On-Prem

10 days ago

North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un -- Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators -- Cyber-crime

11 days ago

Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus -- No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability -- Offbeat

11 days ago

IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab -- Median employee increase? 2.1%. And shareholders urged to vote against a request for AI bias reporting -- Software

11 days ago

Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months -- Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable -- Personal Tech -- 18 Mar 2026

11 days ago

It's not a binary choice. Independent boffin builds a ternary CPU on an FPGA -- Three is the magic number as first off-the-shelf general-purpose ternary hardware since c 1965 lands -- Systems -- 18 Mar 2026

11 days ago

Japan to allow 'proactive cyber-defense' from October 1st -- In less polite places, this is called 'hacking back' or 'offensive cyber-ops' -- Security -- 18 Mar 2026

11 days ago

Nvidia's on-again off-again H200 sales in China are now on again -- GTC -- Beijing appears to have eased its policy of pushing local GPUs -- Systems

11 days ago

World - Coin - 's newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you - Sell your soul to the orb - Security - 17 Mar 2026 - | 20

10 days ago

Chips... in spaaaace – courtesy of Nvidia - gtc - The Space-1 Vera Rubin Module will solve all your in-space computing needs - Nvidia GTC - 17 Mar 2026 - | 15

10 days ago

Ofcom sees no need for overhaul in next phase of fiber rollout despite BT domination -- Regulator nudges broadband market, hopes competition will turn up in 2031 -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Iran's 'chosen users' get 'privileged access' despite internet blackout for masses -- Civilians relying on Dutch shortwave radio broadcast for outside information -- Networks

12 days ago

Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS -- Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change -- Storage

12 days ago

Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet -- Feature -- SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else -- Networks

12 days ago

BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops -- MPs say the Beeb closed broadcast services expecting audiences to migrate online, but digital reach has fallen instead -- Off-Prem

12 days ago

Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security -- gtc -- 'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEO -- Nvidia GTC

12 days ago

Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors -- GTC -- The cubicals of the agentic AI age are cores -- Nvidia GTC

12 days ago

Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time -- GTC -- GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever -- Nvidia GTC

12 days ago

Apple's MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years - iFixit opens Apple's budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable components - Personal Tech - 16 Mar 2026 - | 59

9 days ago

Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems -- Opinion -- Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California's legal lunacy -- OSes

11 days ago

Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records -- Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork -- Security

13 days ago

Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:\ -- 'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility -- Applications

12 days ago

UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power -- 'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics -- HPC

13 days ago

Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn't paid a penny -- System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for payments -- Public Sector

13 days ago

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble - Who, Me? Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the bus - On-Prem - 16 Mar 2026 - | 45

10 days ago

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes' -- Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint -- Off-Prem

13 days ago

Jury out on whether Americans love or hate datacenters -- Most don't think they are good for the environment -- On-Prem

12 days ago

AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to 'paralyse' it -- A 'web of litigation' -- Networks

15 days ago