Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln -- Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required

8 hours ago

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever -- Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.

1 day ago

Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies -- What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see

4 hours ago

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue - On Call - How not to maintain computers

12 hours ago

Coming soon: We interrupt this ChatGPT session with a very special message from our sponsors -- Gotta pay for those datacenter buildouts somehow -- AI + ML

2 hours ago

Trump wants big tech to pay for big beautiful power plants - It just needs PJM Interconnection, one of the US's biggest grid operators, to green light the auction - Public Sector - 17 Jan 2026 - |

2 hours ago

Experiment suggests AI chatbot would save insurance agents a whopping 3 minutes a day -- Does that kind of time saving actually pay for itself? -- AI + ML

3 hours ago

Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers -- Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12 -- Storage

5 hours ago

Windows Backup adds second-chance restore at sign-in -- First sign-in restore aims to cut rebuilds when users skip setup options -- OSes

11 hours ago

Ready for a newbie-friendly Linux? Mint team officially releases v 22.3, 'Zena' -- Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons -- OSes

11 hours ago

German cops add Black Basta boss to EU most-wanted list - Ransomware kingpin who escaped Armenian custody is believed to be lying low back home - Cyber-crime - 16 Jan 2026 - |

12 hours ago

Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check -- That went well -- Personal Tech

12 hours ago

Hyperscalers, vendors funding trillion dollar AI spree, but users will have to pay up long term -- Analyst: We'll hit a spot where 'we go from that was a great idea to where's my revenue?' -- AI + ML

13 hours ago

Lawmakers urge FTC to probe Trump Mobile over 'deceptive' marketing -- Gold phone more like fool's gold as none show up six months later -- Personal Tech

14 hours ago

RondoDox botnet linked to large-scale exploit of critical HPE OneView bug -- Check Point observes 40K+ attack attempts in 4 hours, with government organizations under fire -- Cyber-crime

13 hours ago

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow - The Emperor Penguin has a go... just for fun

1 day ago

Congress throws NASA a lifeline, leaves Mars sample mission to die in the dust -- Agency dodges deep cut and mass mission shutdowns, but ambitious red planet plan gets the boot -- Science

14 hours ago

Researchers scrutinize datacenters' lifecycles, aiming to make them more sustainable -- Much of the damage done well before first power-on, in bit barns' childhood, says study -- On-Prem

14 hours ago

Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all -- Owner reverse-engineered his ride, revealing authentication was never properly individualized -- Security

14 hours ago

Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea -- Opinion -- For trivial projects, it's fine. For serious work, forget about it -- AI + ML

16 hours ago

Probably not the best security in the world: Carlsberg wristbands spill visitor pics -- Exclusive -- Researcher shows how anyone can access Copenhagen experience attendees' names, videos -- Security

16 hours ago

BOFH - : Every computer system eventually serves ads - Episode 1 - Boss's bright idea enshittifies itself in record time - BOFH - 16 Jan 2026 - | 45

40 minutes ago

An old parking meter and a Pi make beautiful music together - You can't park there, mate - Offbeat - 16 Jan 2026 - | 14

3 hours ago

Wikimedia's 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created -- Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot -- AI + ML

22 hours ago

TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years -- 2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises -- AI + ML

23 hours ago

OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman -- Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?

6 hours ago

TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers

9 hours ago

Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI

1 day ago

How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom - A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant

1 day ago

Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks -- This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins -- Patches

1 day ago

Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon - You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink - Systems - 15 Jan 2026 - |

22 hours ago

Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure -- The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies -- What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle's borrowing spree sue Big Red -- Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt. -- Systems

1 day ago

Vibe coded applications full of security blunders

1 day ago

Code signing Windows apps may be easier and more secure with new Azure Artifact service

2 days ago

Open source MySQL repository has no commits in more than three months

3 days ago

Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI

3 days ago

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver - Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage - Sponsored Post

10 days ago

OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras' AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal -- SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation -- Systems

1 day ago

Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown -- The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk's problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in -- AI + ML

1 day ago

DNA Data Storage: When the physics work but the economics don't

6 hours ago

Storage news ticker – 16 January 2026

9 hours ago

Acronis adds archive service using Seagate's Lyve Cloud

10 hours ago

HYCU, Keepit lead IDC SaaS data protection report

10 hours ago

Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise -- When margins are this tight, mergers might follow -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans -- Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implications -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Cisco XDR in 30: Turning Security Signals Into Confident Action - How network-led Cisco XDR helps teams see threats clearly and respond faster - Sponsored Post

14 days ago

Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach -- Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice -- Security

1 day ago

Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2 -- 40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this? -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS -- Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix -- Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die -- ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment -- Software

1 day ago

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware -- Hasn't revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy -- AI + ML

1 day ago

AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics -- Interview -- Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come back -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute -- Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security -- Scanning the future

13 hours ago

Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing -- How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers

13 hours ago

What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud? -- Sycomp now provides managed GPFS services on demand

13 hours ago

Building the future-ready datacentre -- Tomorrow's datacentre won't be like yesterday's. Here's why.

13 hours ago

CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage -- Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again -- Legal

2 days ago

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers -- But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google says -- AI + ML

2 days ago

New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes -- Cloud-native, 37 plugins ... an attacker's dream -- Security

2 days ago

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power -- Grid and generation capacity are not being added fast enough to support the scale of growth many forecasts assume -- Systems

2 days ago

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty -- EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands

1 day ago

Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it -- Exclusive -- Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell

9 hours ago

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever -- Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.

20 hours ago

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' -- And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg

17 hours ago

Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue -- On Call -- How not to maintain computers

9 hours ago

Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln -- Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required

11 hours ago

Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch -- Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug

2 hours ago

Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year -- January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication

12 hours ago

Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork -- Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with that

5 hours ago

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking -- Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums

1 day ago

There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications -- Had it been around in 2020, it could have flagged tens of billions before payouts, PRAC tells Congress -- Public Sector

2 days ago

France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach -- Three major GDPR violations, including a lack of basic security controls, lead to hefty dent in profits -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version -- Support expires for Windows Server 2008, and the codebase released to manufacturing in 2006 -- OSes

2 days ago

AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post

28 days ago

'Imagination the limit': DeadLock ransomware gang using smart contracts to hide their work -- New crooks on the block get crafty with blockchain to evade defenses -- Research

2 days ago

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits -- Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets please -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around -- Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks -- Software

2 days ago

Cyber-stricken Belgian hospitals refuse ambulances, transfer critical patients -- Attack enters second day with major disruption to healthcare provision -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details -- Travel biz tells customers to change passwords beyond its own services -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work -- U-turn leaves questions on costs, funding, and benefits unanswered -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told -- Committee raises concerns over delays and loopholes in proposed law -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets -- Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you -- Storage

2 days ago

Spanish power giant sparks breach probe amid claims of massive data grab -- Endesa says payment info stolen after alleged crook boasted of 1 TB-plus haul -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea - Bork!Bork!Bork! When salty coastal air meets memory errors in one of Portugal's rail ticket machines - Offbeat - 14 Jan 2026 - | 19

2 hours ago

Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security - AI upstart also upscales its Labs to find the next frontier - Security - 14 Jan 2026 - |

2 days ago

India's flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row -- One payload out of fifteen survived and sent home some useful data -- Science

2 days ago