BOFH: If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident - Episode 23 - Mid-career ennui leads to electrifying fallout

2 hours ago

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA -- Exclusive -- Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu

10 hours ago

BOFH - : If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident - Episode 23 - Mid-career ennui leads to electrifying fallout - BOFH - 12 Dec 2025 - | 57

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User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't -- On Call -- Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up

10 hours ago

Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability - Analysts say the shift offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure vendors keep control

2 hours ago

Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit -- Exploit hasn't been picked up by any malware detection engines, CEO tells The Reg -- Patches

3 hours ago

New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks -- And the earlier React2Shell patch is vulnerable -- Patches

6 hours ago

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger -- Executive order sidesteps Congress and sets up Litigation Task Force -- AI + ML

8 hours ago

Workday project at Washington University hits $266M -- Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems -- SaaS

9 hours ago

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens -- It's getting crowded up there -- Science

11 hours ago

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns -- Bank sketches four scenarios in which monetization falters or demand swamps supply by 2030 -- The Future of the Datacenter

11 hours ago

Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program -- Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move -- Security

12 hours ago

Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims -- Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements -- Off-Prem

12 hours ago

Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing -- Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial -- SaaS

12 hours ago

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout -- Rights groups say digital-only record is leaking data and courting trouble -- Public Sector

12 hours ago

Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation -- Wiz says React2Shell attacks accelerating, ranging from cryptominers to state-linked crews -- Cyber-crime

13 hours ago

Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers - Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their elders

2 hours ago

Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability -- Analysts say the shift offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure vendors keep control -- AI + ML

15 hours ago

Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system -- Replacement rollout plagued by bad data and missing features, says watchdog -- Public Sector

15 hours ago

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - On Call - Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up - Storage - 12 Dec 2025 - | 150

46 minutes ago

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban -- Forum site says it's potentially more harmful to users who don't log in -- Legal

19 hours ago

Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust -- Judge said his fraud was on 'epic, generational scale' -- Legal

1 day ago

Silicon photonics won't matter 'anytime soon' says Broadcom CEO -- Chips 'n' code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come -- Systems

1 day ago

AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says -- The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore's Law -- AI + ML

19 hours ago

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA - Exclusive - Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu - Virtualization - 11 Dec 2025 - | 17

1 hour ago

Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images -- Begun, these AI wars have -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text -- Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger -- Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better -- Legal

1 day ago

Everybody But Nvidia And TSMC Has To Make It Up In Volume With AI

4 hours ago

Oracle Is Using OpenAI To Build A Platform For The Enterprise

1 day ago

Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant

2 days ago

IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy

4 days ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work - Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss

2 hours ago

Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms -- So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels -- Science

1 day ago

Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day -- No details, no CVE, update your browser now -- Patches

1 day ago

LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco -- UK data regulator says failures were unacceptable for a company managing the world's passwords -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads -- Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras -- OSes

1 day ago

Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk -- Eight-hour EVA was also first outing for new spacesuits -- Science

1 day ago

Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion -- DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia -- Science

1 day ago

Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme -- Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert -- Security

1 day ago

VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode

1 day ago

Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference

1 day ago

JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool

3 days ago

AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go

4 days ago

Protecting value at risk - the role of a risk operations center - Why should Keith Richards' fingers inform your approach to risk? Partner Content

2 days ago

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

1 day ago

10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet -- Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets -- Research

1 day ago

Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030 - Exclusive - Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms - Databases - 11 Dec 2025 - | 16

9 hours ago

IDC storage tracker shows Pure and Huawei growing fastest

7 hours ago

Cohesity braces for rogue AI agents with identity and recovery controls

9 hours ago

Data integration market set for slower growth, says Gartner

9 hours ago

Storage news ticker – 12 December 2025

1 day 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

1 day 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 - 11 Dec 2025 - | 7

1 day ago

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane -- VIDEO -- 'Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer -- Offbeat

1 day 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

2 days ago

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter -- Didn't phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why -- Science

1 day 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

2 days ago

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

2 days 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 - | 2

1 day ago

700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent -- More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains -- Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it's a worry -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers -- Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting -- AI + ML

2 days ago

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

2 days ago

Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition -- California chipset giant says it'll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia -- The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facility -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say - Updated - Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr - Security - 10 Dec 2025 - | 48

1 hour 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

2 days ago

Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era - When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.

21 days ago

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

1 month ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

1 month ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

1 month 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

1 day 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

2 days ago

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software -- Opinion -- They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux -- Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

Rocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space -- Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground -- Science

2 days ago

Diversion to power datacenters earns Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport -- Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll -- Off-Prem

2 days 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

3 days 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

2 days ago

Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday - Updated - Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole - Security - 09 Dec 2025 - | 19

9 hours 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

3 days ago

How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking -- Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok -- AI + ML

3 days ago

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

3 days ago

Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents -- An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car -- Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck -- Security

3 days ago

Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13 -- Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build -- OSes

3 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

3 days ago

Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight -- Brussels probes whether unpaid web and YouTube content – and rivals' lock-outs – amount to abuse of dominance -- AI + ML

3 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

3 days ago

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs - Interview - Have we learned nothing from sci-fi films and TV shows? Research - 09 Dec 2025 - | 41

1 day ago

NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage -- Billionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertainty -- Science

3 days ago