iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers -- The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids

10 hours ago

New York's incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party -- Zohran Mamdani appears not to understand that smartphones can be used for evil

10 hours ago

Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer -- The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday

1 day ago

When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight -- Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs

10 hours ago

Nvidia DMs TSMC: please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s -- GPUzilla has reportedly received orders for more than two million units -- Systems

8 hours ago

US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots -- What, weekend warriors from Silicon Valley not good enough? -- Public Sector

8 hours ago

European Space Agency hit again as cybercrims claim 200 GB data up for sale -- As in past incidents, ESA says the impact was limited to external systems -- Cyber-crime

10 hours ago

Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong -- El Reg speculates about what GPUzilla really gets out of the deal -- Systems

15 hours ago

Hong Kong's newest anti-scam technology is over-the-counter banking -- Funds in 'Money Safe' accounts are only available when customers appear for face-to-face verification -- Cyber-crime

21 hours ago

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat - Opinion - Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it

10 hours ago

Tis the season when tech leaders rub their crystal balls -- 2026 is the year where AI must meet ROI in the enterprise, and the key to delivering it is data governance. -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Korean telco failed at femtocell security, exposed customers to snooping and fraud -- One cert, in plaintext, on thousands of devices, led to what looks like years of crime -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words -- UPDATED -- 'General agents' to infuse Meta's products real soon now -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer -- The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday -- Systems

2 days ago

Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims -- There's more where that came from, CEO says -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online -- Extortion group Lovely claims to have stolen 40 million pieces of info from publisher Conde Nast -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line -- There's a big salary up for grabs if you can handle a high-stress role with a track record of turnover -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try -- Four completely non-AI-related trends that will shape the future -- Systems

1 day ago

Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia

8 days ago

Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing

9 days ago

HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand

12 days ago

Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition

13 days ago

Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows - Bork!Bork!Bork! Menu.exe not found

10 hours ago

How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems - 20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly - Public Sector - 29 Dec 2025 - | 21

16 minutes ago

Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age -- Feature -- Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real -- On Call Y2K -- More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers -- Columnists

2 days ago

Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83 -- Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue's fortunes during the dotcom era -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence -- Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company - Asia In Brief - PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more - AI + ML - 29 Dec 2025 - | 24

1 day ago

Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025 -- The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

13 days ago

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

14 days ago

Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

15 days ago

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

16 days ago

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

12 days ago

Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death -- BORK!BORK!BORK! -- Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD

2 days ago

SSL Santa greets London Victoria visitors with a borked update -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Best not touch that screen, eh?

3 days ago

BOFH - : The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct - Episode 25 - After the boardroom is ransacked, it's straight into Arse Covering 101 - BOFH - 27 Dec 2025 - | 38

1 day ago

Project Silica's glass storage archive tech progress

8 days ago

Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond

8 days ago

Optera's room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive

10 days ago

Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

12 days ago

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome -- The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away -- AI + ML

5 days ago

From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year -- Practice makes perfect -- Security

5 days ago

From video games to cyber defense: If you don't think like a hacker, you won't win - interview - In supercharged AI race, defenders need to keep up - Security - 26 Dec 2025 - | 21

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

12 days ago

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed -- Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls -- Networks

5 days ago

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work -- Opinion -- Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool -- AI + ML

5 days ago

IT team forced to camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss's side project -- On Call Y2K -- The lack of trust that leads to outsourcing can be expensive -- Columnists

5 days ago

Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow -- Investment and interest have outpaced technology and society -- AI + ML

6 days ago

AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top? -- Hands On -- Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths -- Systems

6 days ago

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software -- Part 2 -- Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows -- OSes

6 days ago

Salesforce's ChatGPT integration is really about stopping customers from leaking their own data - Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the 'trust boundary' AI + ML - 24 Dec 2025 - | 6

5 days ago

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet -- opinion -- Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return? -- AI + ML

7 days ago

Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws -- AI goes off the rails ... because of shoddy guardrails -- Security

7 days ago

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance -- ATC: 'I don't know if you can hear me but cleared to land' -- AI + ML

7 days ago

US shuts down phisherfolk's $14.6M password-hoarding platform -- Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

Waymo pings updates to San Francisco fleet to prevent power outage chaos 2.0 -- Meanwhile, new outages, linked to storms, are pelting the area -- AI + ML

7 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.

1 month 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

Sight of Clippy, Internet Explorer scares baby -- Reg reader introduces newborn to Microsoft ugly sweater. Child not amused -- Offbeat

7 days ago

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement - Feature - Stuck in pilot purgatory? Confused about returns? You're not alone - AI + ML - 24 Dec 2025 - | 63

2 hours ago

North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking -- A newspaper misprint began a Christmas Eve tradition joining holiday cheer with military technology -- Offbeat

7 days ago

NASA tries Curiosity rover's Mastcam to work out where MAVEN might be -- Time running out for savin' MAVEN as stricken spacecraft still silent as Mars solar conjunction nears -- Science

7 days ago

New York's incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party -- Zohran Mamdani appears not to understand that smartphones can be used for evil

20 hours ago

When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight -- Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs

1 day ago

Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation -- Digital screen snafu or satirical comment on Microsoft's licensing policies?

20 hours ago

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere -- From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear

8 hours ago

We will be cruising at 35,000 feet and failing to update our Apache HTTP Server -- Now replace the autopilot with Copilot

18 hours ago

An early end to the holidays: 'Heartbleed of MongoDB' is now under active exploit -- You didn't think you'd get to enjoy your time off without a major cybersecurity incident, did you?

10 hours ago

Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum -- Pair became ALPHV affiliates to prey on US-based clients

23 hours ago

IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world, but don't call it a failure -- The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant

5 hours ago

iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers -- The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids

3 hours ago

ServiceNow lays out possible co-CEO structure, but says no change imminent -- The ITSM outfit would join Oracle, Comcast, and Netflix in installing bunk beds in the corner office

16 minutes ago

Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date - Part 1 - Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026 - OSes - 24 Dec 2025 - | 87

10 hours ago

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 -- Plans move to Rust, with help from AI -- Software

8 days ago

AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix's AHV hypervisor -- VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options -- Virtualization

8 days ago

The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post

12 days ago

US punishes China's 'dominance' of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs - World War Fee - President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027 - Public Sector - 24 Dec 2025 - | 42

3 days ago

ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled 'Buy security company, make it Armis' Customers will be able to see vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and close them with automated workflows. SaaS - 23 Dec 2025 - |

8 days ago

21K Nissan customers' data stolen in Red Hat raid -- Automaker's third security snafu in three years -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth -- Spacecraft set to burn up in a few weeks, but it could have been worse -- Science

8 days ago

Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug -- Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas -- Patches

8 days ago

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here's how to try it -- You'll need to be using a Windows Insider build to see it -- OSes

8 days ago

Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time -- Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster -- AI + ML

8 days ago

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again -- Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works -- Storage

8 days ago

Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming -- The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI -- PaaS + IaaS

8 days ago

Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year -- Cab drivers protested Uber's arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs -- AI + ML

9 days ago

France's post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident' -- Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried -- 25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous -- Science

9 days ago