You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too -- 'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination

9 minutes ago

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

9 minutes ago

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match -- An $899 CPU? In this economy?

1 day ago

Sharing isn't caring if it's an admin password -- Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later

9 minutes ago

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences -- Science

9 minutes ago

Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals - Breaking - World's largest biomedical dataset lifted and shifted on Chinese mega marketplace - Cyber-crime - 23 Apr 2026 - | 11

9 minutes ago

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records - Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population - Cyber-crime - 22 Apr 2026 - | 36

9 minutes 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

47 minutes 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

47 minutes 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

2 hours 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 -- 23 Apr 2026

2 hours ago

AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues - Rise of the Machines - Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy - AI + ML - 23 Apr 2026 - | 8

47 minutes 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 -- 23 Apr 2026

3 hours ago

Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn -- Offbeat

4 hours ago

Sharing isn't caring if it's an admin password -- PWNED -- Keeping it simple for the developers can lead to very complex headaches later -- Security

5 hours 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

5 hours ago

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

6 hours ago

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

23 hours ago

Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art -- Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa -- Software

10 hours ago

Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments -- Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method' -- Cyber-crime

16 hours ago

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger -- Hackpocalypse deferred -- Security

16 hours 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

18 hours ago

OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot -- Make your model smarter through self-surveillance -- AI + ML

18 hours ago

GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not -- Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement -- Devops

20 hours 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

20 hours ago

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

21 hours ago

Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran -- Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees -- SaaS

22 hours ago

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive -- Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice -- Applications

22 hours ago

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too -- 'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination -- OSes

23 hours ago

The Second Time Will Be The IPO Charm For Cerebras

20 hours ago

Imagine An Army Of AI Minions Handling Incident Response

1 day ago

AI Will Soon Drive A Third Of TSMC's Business

2 days ago

Bechtolsheim & Friends Breathe Life Into Pluggable Optics One Last Time

5 days ago

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet - Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law

23 hours ago

NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision -- Science

1 day 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 - |

1 day 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

1 day ago

Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl -- AI + ML

6 hours ago

Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies -- Security

6 hours ago

Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win -- AI + ML

6 hours ago

Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks

1 day ago

Google previews Android CLI for new world of agentic development

1 day ago

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

6 days ago

Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work

7 days ago

Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure - Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure - Partner Content

1 day 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

1 day ago

UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial -- Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs -- Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption -- Databases

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn't spot -- Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security -- Software

1 day ago

NeuBird plans a bright future for incident response - Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes - Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

Graid sees cash potential in KV caching

3 hours ago

SK Hynix memory, NAND revenues explode as prices rocket

3 hours ago

Google's cloud storage gets faster and smarter for AI

1 day ago

Dell turns up PowerMax dial to 11

1 day ago

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs -- Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan -- Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone -- Software

1 day 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 - | 22

6 hours ago

Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor -- NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace -- Security

1 day ago

Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears -- Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint -- OSes

1 day ago

Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide -- Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot' -- Security

1 day ago

More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks -- CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch -- Patches

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets -- Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks -- Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes -- Software

1 day ago

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping -- Change is glacial, but the direction is clear -- Databases

1 day ago

Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords -- Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises

6 days ago

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI -- Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

27 days ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

1 month ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

1 month 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

2 days ago

AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account - CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |

1 day 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

2 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

2 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

2 days ago

Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it -- Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee -- OSes

2 days ago

Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul - Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |

2 days ago

Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage - Those that don't have one thing in common - Sponsored Feature

3 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

2 days ago

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it -- Security

2 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

2 days ago

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch -- Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us. -- Devops

2 days ago

Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus - UPDATED - A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports - Security - 20 Apr 2026 - | 22

1 day 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

2 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

2 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

2 days ago

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software -- OSes

2 days ago

Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US -- Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currency -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant' -- Science

2 days ago

Schmoozebots: Study finds flattery will get AI everywhere -- Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete -- AI + ML

2 days ago