Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred -- Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it -- Public Sector

14 hours ago

CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos -- If software writes software the risk is "systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry -- Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock -- Personal Tech

18 hours ago

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' -- Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow -- OSes

20 hours ago

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender -- Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters -- Public Sector

22 hours ago

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year -- Security

23 hours ago

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it -- Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right' -- Public Sector -- 01 May 2026

1 day ago

Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler -- Systems -- 01 May 2026

1 day ago

Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability' -- Systems -- 01 May 2026

1 day ago

Phone users know when to hold 'em, delay upgrades amid inflation -- Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average -- Personal Tech -- 30 Apr 2026

1 day ago

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet -- Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs -- Networks

1 day ago

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' -- But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? -- OSes

1 day ago

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes -- AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them -- AI + ML

1 day ago

What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia - Exclusive - Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit - Cyber-crime - 30 Apr 2026 - | 3

1 day ago

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops -- Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds -- Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming

16 hours ago

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev

9 hours ago

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser -- Updated -- Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open

56 minutes ago

Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day -- Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected

22 hours ago

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

8 hours ago

Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 -- Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'

11 hours ago

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines -- This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows

9 hours ago

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave -- On Call -- For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem

56 minutes ago

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs -- Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops

14 hours ago

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state's secure document agency -- Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online

11 minutes ago

ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine - ZTE and NCRCIM leverage "CardioMind" AI and full-stack computing to drive global healthcare equity - Partner Content

1 day ago

Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 -- Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about -- Networks

2 days ago

Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00 - Antiques code show - Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notes - OSes - 29 Apr 2026 - | 23

11 minutes ago

EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online -- 'Online platforms can rely on our app,' says Commish, 'there are no more excuses' -- Applications

2 days ago

Wind Telecom Dominican Republic and ZTE join forces to accelerate smart home innovation -- Elevating residential connectivity with AI-driven network optimization and secure cloud-based home monitoring solutions -- Partner Content

2 days ago

GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks -- 32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affected -- Networks

2 days ago

When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon -- Human and humanoid runners share the track as next-gen connectivity underpins real-time AI performance -- Sponsored Post

2 days ago

Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm -- No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Tenstorrent's Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon -- RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids -- DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini -- AI + ML

3 days ago

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team -- £125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts -- Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow -- Networks

3 days ago

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question -- Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options -- Software

3 days ago

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back - Opinion - Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating - AI + ML - 28 Apr 2026 - | 45

1 day ago

UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit -- Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don't pay publishers -- Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home -- Legal

4 days ago

China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions -- Legal

4 days ago

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown -- After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm -- They were doing it in Texas... -- Systems

2 days ago

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space -- Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand -- On-Prem

4 days ago

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months - Updated - Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team - Science - 27 Apr 2026 - | 26

10 hours ago

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle -- Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet -- Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew -- Security

4 days ago

Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt -- Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day -- Offbeat

4 days ago

ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds -- UK's data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot -- Microsoft Copilot now heading into 'Official Sensitive' work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial -- Public Sector

4 days ago

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch -- Who, Me? -- There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs -- What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever? -- Public Sector

7 days ago

US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit -- Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere -- Networks

7 days ago

Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network -- Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agency -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop -- One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers -- OSes

7 days ago

Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table -- Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips -- Security

7 days ago

Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores -- After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse -- Systems

7 days ago

Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami -- Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don't quite add up -- PaaS + IaaS

7 days ago

Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos -- Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border -- Security

7 days ago

UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room -- Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowed -- Public Sector

8 days ago

To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - On Call - Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials? Networks - 24 Apr 2026 - | 124

2 days ago

US Air Force department names firms to power its bases with mini nukes -- Three vendors matched to three sites -- Public Sector

8 days ago

YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard -- What are you doing to solve the memory crisis? -- Personal Tech

8 days ago

Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70% Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions - Storage - 23 Apr 2026 - |

8 days ago

American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir -- Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things -- Public Sector

8 days ago

AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers -- Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear -- Systems

8 days ago

Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals - Updated - World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace - Cyber-crime - 23 Apr 2026 - | 20

5 days ago

Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you're not paying enough attention to either - Black Hat Asia - Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa - Applications - 23 Apr 2026 - | 2

8 days ago

Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet -- EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon -- Systems

8 days ago

If malware via monitor cables is a matter of national security, this might be the gadget for you -- Orgs can now buy UK cyber agency engineered commercial gadget, but details are slim -- Security

8 days ago

Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it -- Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date -- NCSC passes judgment: passkeys pass muster, passwords fail -- Security

9 days ago

SK Hynix's aspirations for 'Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality -- New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 2028 -- Systems

9 days ago

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor -- Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US -- Happy Earth Day! -- Systems

9 days ago

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad - Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet - Devops - 22 Apr 2026 - |

9 days ago

Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 -- Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win - Google Cloud Next - x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores - AI + ML - 22 Apr 2026 - | 6

8 days ago

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges -- Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws -- Security

9 days ago

Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects -- Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock -- Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment -- On-Prem

10 days ago

Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI - OPINION - John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been - On-Prem - 21 Apr 2026 - | 28

2 days ago

Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months -- Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall -- Networks

10 days ago

FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume -- Science

10 days ago

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match - Review - An $899 CPU? In this economy? Personal Tech - 21 Apr 2026 - | 27

8 days ago

Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies -- Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected -- Cyber-crime

10 days ago

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters -- No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little -- Security

10 days ago

England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one -- 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork -- Personal Tech

10 days ago

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture -- Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment -- Security

11 days ago

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess -- Science

11 days ago

Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again -- The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions -- On-Prem

11 days ago

World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home -- Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple -- Systems

11 days ago

Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter -- Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit -- Public Sector

11 days ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London -- Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts -- On-Prem

11 days ago

UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite -- Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects -- AI + ML

11 days ago

HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life -- Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown -- Personal Tech

11 days ago

Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing -- Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use -- On-Prem

11 days ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild -- Who, Me? -- You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom -- Bootnotes

12 days ago

Indonesia's game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more! -- Public Sector

12 days ago

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors -- Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes -- Systems

14 days ago

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned -- Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 -- Personal Tech

14 days ago

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug -- University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast -- Personal Tech

14 days ago

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks -- Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money -- Public Sector

15 days ago