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Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access - Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network
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Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors -- Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system3 hours ago
Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions -- 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'15 hours ago
Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy -- Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity15 hours ago
Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion -- Experts welcome contract review after claims NHS England missed chance to grow UK health tech market16 days ago
UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse -- Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues1 hour ago
Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied -- 'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg3 hours ago
security - Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data - Company that also makes insulin pumps and other devices tells users what was exposed months after ShinyHunters attack1 hour ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error5 hours ago
legal - Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore - Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house8 hours ago
New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch -- They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support8 hours ago
ai and ml - Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI - Risk factors galore16 hours ago
AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models -- Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough19 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form -- Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait2 hours ago
AI + ML -- Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages -- Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...4 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites -- AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside5 hours ago
Virtualization -- Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills -- But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back5 hours ago
SYSTEMS -- Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years6 days ago
Channel -- Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there's more to writing software than writing software5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size15 hours ago
AI and ML -- How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS12 hours ago
SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security12 hours ago
Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' -- AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths -- Corey Quinn8 days ago
Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform -- It always has been, but Microsoft didn't realize it -- Rupert Goodwins14 days ago
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand -- Corey Quinn8 days ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't -- Rupert Goodwins20 days ago
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? -- Corey Quinn24 days ago
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies -- Mark Pesce1 month ago
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks -- Rupert Goodwins1 month ago
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols8 days ago
About AWS Industries LIVE!4 months ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price -- Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets16 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies -- Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls15 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion -- Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?17 hours ago
AI and ML -- Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care -- We've learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let's level that up with added AI, says minister17 hours ago
Legal -- Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys -- Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program18 hours ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out -- 303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door2 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out -- Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist18 hours ago
AI and ML -- Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show -- SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings20 hours ago
Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe -- Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'1 hour ago
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution -- DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg1 day ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows -- Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications1 day ago
Personal Tech -- Arm64 on the desktop? It's spendy and it's sluggish -- Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don't want it1 day ago
Applications -- UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees -- Proposals could open cheaper routes for purchases made through third parties1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size -- Rolling back the years and the bloat for veteran text editor15 hours ago
AI and ML -- Where there's a will, AI still has work to do -- Probate lawyer finds generated document looked the part but missed many of the questions that matter1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number -- Linux 6.18 arrives with a few desktop tweaks, while the neglected x86 edition remains stuck on Debian 111 day ago
Software -- No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle -- Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals -- After several delays in development, Atlas went live without functionality Home Office case manager needed, inspectors say1 day ago
How is AI changing datacenter network fabrics? EXPLAINER AI workloads are overwhelming the traditional datacenter fabrics they run on. Here's what's replacing them.1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings -- Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in2 hours ago
AI AND ML -- South Korea's hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band -- Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse1 day ago
SECURITY -- India's central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info -- Open API could reveal everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials4 hours ago
AI and ML -- Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection -- If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day7 hours ago
Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe -- Not today, Putin16 hours ago
Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo -- At least two vulnerabilities are already under attack17 hours ago
Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data -- Efforts to grab all the location data in an area get clogged by Fourth Amendment2 days ago
SCIENCE -- Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor -- The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists1 day ago
DevOps -- .NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains -- Three-year lifecycle leaves enterprises with barely a year to adopt each LTS release1 day ago
AI and ML -- How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS -- Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive -- Polished Mandriva descendant still makes room for PCs the 64-bit world has left behind1 day ago
AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity -- You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy18 hours ago
Microsoft keeps Windows Server 2022 hotpatching alive into 2027 -- In the Azure Edition, of course19 hours ago
Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad -- CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious3 days ago
Nissan says Oracle PeopleSoft break-in may have spilled payroll records, SSNs -- Carmaker points finger at an 'unknown' flaw as customer fallout continues21 hours ago
Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC -- In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads3 days ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?1 month ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well16 days ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend21 days ago
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition22 days ago
LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy22 days ago
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots27 days ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project1 month ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors1 month ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own1 month ago
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads1 month ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits1 month ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts -- KRA Consultancy Ltd fined £300K over fake bailiff threats in 'calculated' scheme that caused 'real fear and distress'2 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head -- Show not tell makes a far finer script2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids -- PLUS: Qualcomm tweaks datacenter chips for China; Japan's Air Force stretches into space; WiseTechs' woes mutiply; and more!2 days ago
SCIENCE -- Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light -- Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?2 days ago
AI AND ML -- NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor -- Please state the nature of the medical emergency2 days ago
It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns -- Time to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war1 day ago
Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones -- Personal cell phones on protective missions, no threat detection on government-issued devices among the litany of sins1 day ago
Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands -- Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal4 days ago
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM -- With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall1 day ago
IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future -- Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom7 days ago
Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years -- Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits7 days ago
OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom -- Jalapeño is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker7 days ago
British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems -- £120k ... but you must take ultimate responsibility for functionality of e-gates, passports and more8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms -- Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing3 days ago
SECURITY -- Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds -- Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations2 days ago
DATABASES -- Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees -- Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V -- A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Notion kills its Gmail client after AI agents keep humans from troubling inbox -- More than half of users now let bots handle email, so service is headed for shutdown3 days ago
Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus npm packages, hunts for developer secrets -- Microsoft says latest attack targets Leo Platform and RStreams packages, harvesting creds and going after more maintainers2 days ago
Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365 -- Regulator says subscribers may have been defaulted onto more expensive plans with Copilot features attached6 days ago
Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant -- SEC claims former Constellation employee made $1.4M trading options before the restart deal was announced6 days ago
Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit -- Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening6 days ago
Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers -- Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes6 days ago
BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry -- There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud6 days ago
ShinyHunters: How to close the Credential Rotation Gap -- We'll cover the three failure points that make this attack repeatable across organizations of any size9 days ago
From Pilots to AI Factories: How Enterprises Are Really Scaling Agentic AI and Agent Gateways -- AI is shifting from simple chatbots to autonomous "coworkers," and most enterprises are now constrained less by models than by the complexity2 days ago
Miro's Move: Detection Coverage for Claude Enterprise -- Discover how enhanced Claude visibility helps SecOps teams detect, investigate, and respond to AI activity and risks.13 days ago
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SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security -- One rule for the workers, another for execs2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable -- Tiny tweak to support page reveals consumers can purchase another year of patch protection2 days ago
Security -- Chinese cybersecurity company claims it's built a better-than-Mythos bug finder -- Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it's needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models2 days ago
AI and ML -- AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI -- Sorry we spent your wages on datacenters, but call us when you're AI-ready5 days ago
SECURITY -- Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs -- Spotted in intrusions targeting insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors3 days ago
Cyber-Crime -- Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues -- Former employee accuses company of prioritizing pending IPO over client security3 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents -- Codex, it's not just for developers, really5 days ago
offbeat - Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars1 hour ago
PERSONAL TECH -- FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM -- Not just any old BASIC, either: OS-9's BASIC095 days ago
Recovery has to keep up with AI - SPONSORED POST: Why an AI-era recovery architecture looks different, with Eon's Gonen Stein6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers -- Fondleslab and Mac prices rise by hundreds; phones safe ... for now6 days ago
History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system -- When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'24 days ago
Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it -- Project Headroom could save you big money, too14 days ago
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge -- Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak1 month ago
Of Course Meta Platforms Is Going To Be A Cloud15 hours ago
Three HPC Gurus Ask: Do We Still Need GPUs?1 day ago
Optical Scale Up Fabrics Are Limited By Manufacturing, Not Architecture1 day ago
AMD Stretches Server DRAM With Flash Extended Memory2 days ago
Veeam has a new marketing head - 4 months after the last one joined23 hours ago
The Four Tops: Forrester ranks multi-model database suppliers23 hours ago
GigaOm object radar has 26 platform players vs Seagate1 day ago
Zilliz has a Loonatic storage engine1 day ago
.NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains1 day ago
Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency6 days ago
Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update6 days ago
The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad -- Point-in-time restore offers a 72-hour escape hatch for stricken PCs6 days ago
Software -- Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency -- SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'6 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure -- Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge6 days ago
European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status -- Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act7 days ago
Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up -- Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default7 days ago
Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting -- CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions -- Minutes will not be published, and MPs still have no answer on the group's budget or how its members were chosen6 days ago
SCIENCE -- Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another -- The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone6 days ago
UK school's network left wide open for invasion, student found -- And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field3 days ago
Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there's more to writing software than writing software -- Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs7 days ago
Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to 'cripple it at a time of their choosing' -- To defuse another attack, Oz spies called foreign counterparts to tell them an op was a bust5 days ago
When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery23 hours ago
What the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling1 day ago
The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure7 days ago
The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale13 days ago
Digital sovereignty needs an operating model14 days ago
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation16 days ago
Europe's AI paralysis has a solution - and it starts with a semantic twin16 days ago
Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt20 days ago
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis1 month ago
AI inference just plays by different rules6 hours ago
DON'T MISS -- The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon -- Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components6 days ago
Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen -- 93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI7 days ago
The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities -- CVE-2026-20230 under exploitation, while an earlier SD-WAN 0-day looks even worse than we thought5 days ago
Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters -- Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop -- Prompting less and automating more comes with a price7 days ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit -- 200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down5 days ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles6 days ago
Personal Tech -- This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken20 days ago
Offbeat -- Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes8 days ago
Networks - Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner - What a wind-up!1 month ago
Software - Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working1 month ago
On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off1 month ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client1 month ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave1 month ago
AI AND ML - Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn - Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions14 days ago
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher -- According to the one person who actually read the research paper14 days ago
Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs -- How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin16 days ago
Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show1 month ago
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers1 month ago
US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive -- Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence17 days ago
Claude is ready for its corporate close-up -- IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements20 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft -- Maybe sometimes users know best6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update -- Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications7 days ago
Research -- Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors' -- Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them -- Did you read all the documents you signed last time you had a medical test?6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise -- That's public service media such as the BBC, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them -- Consumption-based pricing and scant cost controls are sending monthly bills into five figures, Gartner warns7 days ago
SECURITY -- London cops bring live facial recognition to West End -- 'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics6 days ago
SAAS -- Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them -- Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition7 days ago
DATABASES -- Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs -- Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC -- Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project7 days ago
Everything's bigger and better in Texas – even data breaches -- Hunting and fishing license incident catches 3M residents9 days ago
Britain's privacy watchdog quits after 'poor judgment' admission -- John Edwards says his position had become 'untenable' following investigation into conduct including inappropriate attempts at humor9 days ago
Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate -- Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned9 days ago
Security - Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed - EXCLUSIVE 'Working as intended' for the win ... again13 days ago
Major US carrier stored credit card info in the clear, employee learned on first day - It happened at a major US telco in the early 2000s2 hours ago
Cyber offenses now account for around a third of all crime across Asia and South Pacific -- Latest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions10 days ago
Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls -- Why are you even reading this?! Rotate your passwords!!10 days ago
Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory -- Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though10 days ago
India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears1 hour ago
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released2 hours ago
Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access6 hours ago
EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought16 hours ago
Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy16 hours ago
Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied18 hours ago
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time18 hours ago
Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding21 hours ago
Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools1 day ago
You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials -- Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate6 days ago
Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list -- Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn't broken away from the world8 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions -- Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost7 days ago
AI and ML -- Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker -- The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack7 days ago
Security -- Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era -- Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze -- Alternatively, you can install SteamOS 3.8 on your own AMD-powered hardware7 days ago
21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI -- Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion8 days ago
Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028 -- Ahem. National effort required to kick-start the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery and keep America ahead of the game9 days ago
databases - Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit2 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure1 month ago
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows -- Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms1 month ago
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat -- Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot1 month ago
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage -- This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit1 month ago
Fire burns Google Cloud India's network, which remains slow a week later -- PLUS: Japan's space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!17 days ago
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow -- Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source18 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream1 month ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.1 month ago
Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange -- LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost1 month ago
Baidu says the quiet part out loud – you can't build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in -- CFO says GPU rentals are 'structurally higher margin than CPU cloud'1 month ago
DEVOPS -- AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime -- Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form -- Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK8 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax -- Poll finds two-thirds support squeeze on Silicon Valley despite US pressure8 days ago
Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges -- Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites9 days ago
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage -- Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen9 days ago
Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become 'major operational and financial crises' -- Bosses told to step up and get cybersecurity right6 days ago
Personal tech -- India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1 -- PLUS: Indian telco ponders broadband satellites; Samsung goes all-in on OpenAI; Vietnam centrally plans ten tech giants; and more!8 days ago
Security -- Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI -- Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out6 days ago
Security -- OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too! -- A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge7 days ago
Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter - and 20 years of gas turbine emissions -- The air turns brown when bit barns come to town ... deep in the heart of Texas9 days ago
Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors -- Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens7 days ago
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Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet17 days ago
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Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver1 month ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'1 month ago
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Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it1 month ago
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After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'1 month ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league1 month ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA1 month ago
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Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results1 month ago
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Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady1 month ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server1 month ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo1 month ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production1 month ago
Geopolitical jitters push Europe's internet registry away from cloud-first strategy13 days ago
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand14 days ago
AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking19 days ago
Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet23 days ago
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger1 day ago
Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal2 days ago
Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement2 days ago
BT and Verizon spin off international networking arms into $4B joint venture3 days ago
End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service3 days ago
Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses3 days ago
Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled8 days ago
O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date8 days ago
Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks13 days ago
Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research -- Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant9 days ago
The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators -- From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate9 days ago
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart -- TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had9 days ago
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems -- One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here9 days ago
The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything -- 'Humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years,' product exec tells us9 days ago
Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid -- London Hydro says names, addresses, account details may have been exposed, but much about the intrusion is unknown6 days ago
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PUBLIC SECTOR -- As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains -- Attempting to boost growth, efficiency, and sovereign tech proved too difficult. The next leader will face the same challenges... and temptations9 days ago
security - Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads -- Redmond manages to break replying to an email on Outlook for macOS, one of the most basic functions9 days ago
Security -- Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day -- IT thought a fake offer of extra time off for hard-pressed Canadian medical workers was the way to go8 days ago
Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon -- Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind10 days ago
Gizmodo readers hit with ClickFix malware prompts after account compromise -- Infosec buffs say Windows users could have been infected with a nasty trojan, while Mac users got off lightly8 days ago
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Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?10 days ago
Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest -- Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick a contract fight with a monster of the art10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated -- It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it8 days ago
Security -- Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance -- VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually8 days ago
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule22 hours ago
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands -- It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix1 day ago
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track -- Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station2 days ago
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM4 days ago
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says5 days ago
They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI5 days ago
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia -- A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest8 days ago
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch -- Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite8 days ago
Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones -- Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes13 days ago
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting -- Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches13 days ago
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM14 days ago
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars -- Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements16 days ago
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build -- 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts16 days ago
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities17 days ago
US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses -- L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets18 days ago
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs -- Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register19 days ago
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway -- A blast from the past greets commuters19 days ago
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000 -- Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut19 days ago
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans -- It's just not cricket20 days ago
Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers -- We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?20 days ago
Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR -- Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 199921 days ago
Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks -- Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can22 days ago
NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear -- What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?23 days ago
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships -- If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship25 days ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft1 month ago
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right -- TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations1 month ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh1 month ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals1 month ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder1 month ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck1 month ago
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers -- A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign1 month ago
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship -- Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors1 month ago
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice -- AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh1 month ago
UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties -- Low-cost laser-guided rockets offer cheaper way to swat Shahed-style threats than firing pricey air-to-air missiles1 month ago
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller -- Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier1 month ago
2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud -- You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute12 days ago
ai and ml - Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'6 days ago
NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit -- Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground13 days ago
Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave -- Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast13 days ago
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time18 hours ago
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great1 day ago
Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor2 days ago
Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light3 days ago
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job -- The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is13 days ago
NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment -- Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve16 days ago
NASA management wants a word and won't say why -- A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew16 days ago
Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks20 days ago
NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal -- Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered22 days ago
MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer -- Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?22 days ago
EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife -- Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation12 days ago
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package12 days ago
Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones -- Owners of affected iPhones can stop checking for patches now: the fix for this SecureROM bug comes in a new handset9 days ago
Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia -- Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms12 days ago
Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release' -- More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too12 days ago