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Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative - Email and calendars move in-house in 2027, with European open source tools to follow
6 hours ago
Nine in 10 VMware customers eye the exit as licensing bills bite -- Rimini Street-sponsored survey finds 48% have no plans to move workloads to Broadcom's preferred subscription platform51 minutes ago
Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers -- Quoth the LLM, 'More and more'51 minutes ago
Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing -- Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?51 minutes ago
FortiBleed still a bleeding nuisance as FBI confirms ongoing attacks -- Tens of thousands more victims and more ransomware groups getting in on the act51 minutes ago
Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism -- David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-coded bakeoff produced curious results6 hours ago
Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels -- Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel51 minutes ago
ai and ml - AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters - Strands Box is the latest open source AI control tool from the cloud giant; like its predecessors, it promises tighter reins on autonomous agents27 minutes ago
When one datacenter is no longer enough -- SPONSORED POST: Why training AI across multiple sites is creating a new networking challenge2 hours ago
COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in -- System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore9 hours ago
on-prem - From reactive to proactive: How endpoint monitoring is fixing broken meeting rooms - SPONSORED FEATURE: Cloud-based telemetry is turning meeting rooms into managed endpoints, letting IT teams anticipate failures rather than scramble once users complain10 hours ago
Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up -- Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity18 hours ago
Anthropic Claude subscription plan provides more value than OpenAI's, study says -- Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes51 minutes ago
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb -- Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity21 hours ago
ai and ml - European AI flag bearer Mistral's new open weights model is 'Le Chonk' Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim -- Millions of automated requests may have contributed to partial Wikidata outage in May20 hours ago
Classic Outlook clings to stale search results as Microsoft works on a fix -- Moved messages linger and throw errors when clicked, leaving Windows Desktop Search as the workaround1 day ago
Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP1 day ago
Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows2 days ago
FBI confirms 'multiple' arrests related to ShinyHunters hack15 hours ago
EXCLUSIVE - KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it11 hours ago
Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three3 days ago
Your cloud survived everything except the real world -- War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols5 days ago
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Rupert Goodwins12 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's -- Corey Quinn13 days ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols26 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins26 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Corey Quinn27 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols1 month ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins1 month ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas - Mark Pesce23 days ago
security - Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion - UPDATED - Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified18 hours ago
SECURITY -- Denmark's ID register spills more people's details than the country has residents -- Abuse of private firm's access exposed 8.8M records, including those of people who had died or moved abroad27 minutes ago
public sector - Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running - Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services6 hours ago
Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom -- Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system27 minutes ago
KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it -- Staff in AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing told the consultation is over, with notices due Friday1 day ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text -- Compliance, we've heard of it1 day ago
SCIENCE -- Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system -- Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all1 day ago
Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products -- Tells users 'action required' – but maybe don't make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug2 hours ago
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw -- Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem1 day ago
Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies -- Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra1 day ago
SECURITY -- Citrix NetScaler security snafus get even worse amid more 0-day reports -- The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service14 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs -- Like OpenClaw but with access control1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool -- Meet RemoveMacAI1 day ago
SECURITY -- FBI confirms 'multiple' arrests related to ShinyHunters hack -- Another few bite the dust18 hours ago
os platforms - Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue - AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H21 day ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads -- Want to generate an image with ChatGPT? Then prepare for ads if you're in the US2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch -- AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally2 days ago
ai and ml - The question you would ask HPE and NVIDIA if nobody was recording - EVENT - The Register's data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE's and NVIDIA's AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.2 days ago
Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP - Warhammer set in 40,000? Yes, ERP projects can seem to take that long27 minutes ago
ai and ml - Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it - KETTLE - Pay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text -- GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double -- How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what -- OPINION -- Meta isn't helping — or perhaps it is1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it -- I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care -- All this, and angry NeoVim users1 day ago
Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows -- Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says1 day ago
Clever database, but can it run Doom? -- Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'4 days ago
Palantir's fondness for French food cooked up tech's latest fad – forward-deployed engineers -- Embedded consultants who get you up to speed on new tech in a hurry aren't new, but they meet the AI moment4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Google hearts Apple's Swift so much it's pumping out server-side support -- After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal1 day ago
AI AND ML -- arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide -- Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change1 day ago
OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worse -- Mostly 'routine research tasks,' and 'some involved government websites, which our models often use,' AI giant tells The Reg1 day ago
Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam's approval -- Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence'1 day ago
The VMware exit is a protection upgrade -- PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity5 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena -- Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong1 day ago
ON-PREM -- Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter -- Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk2 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI shows three staff the door over alleged information misuse -- Two safety researchers and a program manager dismissed, company denies retaliation for raising concerns2 days ago
systems - Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - FEATURE - Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies15 days ago
cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?20 days ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement3 months ago
Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative6 hours ago
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop8 days ago
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain8 days ago
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public13 days ago
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in15 days ago
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers27 days ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech1 month ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan2 months ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester2 months ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much2 months ago
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch -- Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price5 days ago
Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report -- Copilot builds charts and metrics from spreadsheet data, with automatic refreshes when the numbers change5 days ago
Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three -- Operation KillSwitch takes over leak site holding at least 110 TB of stolen data1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50 -- Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM2 days ago
SECURITY -- Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day -- No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco -- Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline5 days ago
Met Police suspends use of phone-hacking software over Russian links -- Scotland Yard hits pause after US prosecutors trace supposedly American tech back to Moscow5 days ago
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates -- A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport5 days ago
Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting -- Sales calls can be even nastier than support calls5 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support -- To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component5 days ago
Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators -- Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?2 days ago
Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent -- Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!4 days ago
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work -- If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...5 days ago
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China -- The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says6 days ago
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit -- That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment7 days ago
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI -- AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD8 days ago
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall -- Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity11 days ago
Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah -- Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 202812 days ago
SECURITY -- AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org -- Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models -- Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally5 days ago
Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland 'Basin' branding, promise of fewer fees -- Serverless data management without egress fees, sort of5 days ago
EU's hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank -- RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too2 days ago
Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing -- Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached2 days ago
AI AND ML -- AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses -- Dogwood Local Engine checks AI tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they run5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2 -- Annual update installed. You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Wait a minute...4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Build the right AI factory for your needs: partner for success -- SPONSORED FEATURE: HPE and NVIDIA help organizations apply accelerated computing, software, enterprise infrastructure, networking, control plane, and services to the workloads and business outcomes that matter most.5 days ago
Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure -- Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name3 days ago
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies -- Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law5 days ago
CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch -- Replacing letters with symbols still doesn't make it good.1 day ago
From Connectivity Infrastructure to Intelligence Infrastructure -- AI is moving from an application layer directly into the digital infrastructure itself.51 minutes ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.27 days ago
Escaping the Postgres Optimization Treadmill -- Learn why high-volume, time-series workloads can push PostgreSQL beyond the limits of routine optimization.5 days ago
Lessons from deploying high-performance & resilient AI fabrics at hyperscalers, frontier model builders and neo-clouds -- This session covers key AI data center trends, MRC/UEC architectures, customer requirements and how HPE Juniper Networking addresses those needs.5 days ago
A Flexible Path from VMware to Nutanix on Azure -- Nutanix experts discuss VMware customer challenges and key considerations for planning a migration to the public cloud.8 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.19 days ago
Business of the Year: Organized Cybercrime. -- If there were an award for the industry making the biggest moves this year, organized cybercrime would be a top contender.11 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.19 days ago
Data Sovereignty in the AI Era -- As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .19 days ago
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SAAS -- Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access -- Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data -- Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures5 days ago
SECURITY -- England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents -- Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is5 days ago
SECURITY -- UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ -- The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal -- Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP5 days ago
SECURITY -- Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry -- Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they'll get pregnant, says survey5 days ago
AI AND ML -- The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away -- What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents5 days ago
public sector - Singapore's government creates a dating app27 minutes ago
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates 'much higher' prices -- Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come6 days ago
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services -- Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how6 days ago
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else -- US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal -- Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user8 days ago
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line -- Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'26 days ago
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push28 days ago
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin1 month ago
When One Datacenter Is No Longer Enough1 day ago
Dell Adds Data Context, Prep, And Storage Features To Its AI Data Platform1 day ago
AI Spending Is The Honey Badger Of Budgets1 day ago
Micron's Numbers Show Why HBM4 Memory Is Worth 15X Its Weight In Gold5 days ago
RackWare migration, disaster recovery, and backup3 hours ago
DBtune autonomous optimization blows PostgreSQL bottlenecks away3 hours ago
Making enterprise data AI ready? Precisely!4 hours ago
Nasuni unveils new AI platform, 'PSYCHIC' framework13 hours ago
TCP is failing AI, but Stanford's Homa is here to help4 days ago
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust10 days ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K17 days ago
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds20 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners -- Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding -- Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents6 days ago
SECURITY -- 16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows -- It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon -- Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ex-NCA officer ordered to surrender £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin -- Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.05 days ago
AI AND ML -- Where does your AI data actually live? -- The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.2 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian7 days ago
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note1 month ago
Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* -- Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin6 days ago
AI AND ML -- 7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028 -- Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair -- Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten7 days ago
America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill -- Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts7 days ago
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills -- Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness6 days ago
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited -- Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 67 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix12 days ago
personal tech - User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key - Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work1 day ago
personal tech - Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call1 day ago
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it1 month ago
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support1 month ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees1 month ago
ai and ml - Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real - With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length12 days ago
Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down -- Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna14 days ago
Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug -- Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild14 days ago
Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter -- Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here12 days ago
Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there's no ROI in that -- Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner22 days ago
Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts -- 'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face9 days ago
Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec -- Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache18 days ago
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches -- British Transport Police's six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive6 days ago
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines -- Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries6 days ago
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time - The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers5 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans -- Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is 'Kubernetes for agents'6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations -- Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'7 days ago
SECURITY -- Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections -- It's a worm attack, AI-style6 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI tries disarming AI angst with cute graphics and always-on agents -- It's not OpenClaw. It's dots7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core -- Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website7 days ago
SECURITY -- FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you' -- Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills'6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputation -- New business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Close the observability gap with agentic observability -- SPONSORED POST: How agentic AI, real-time visibility, and stronger governance can help enterprises protect critical services and manage increasingly complex IT environments.7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified -- Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap7 days ago
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script -- More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast8 days ago
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business' -- Data theft and extortion biz, that is7 days ago
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access -- Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app8 days ago
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid -- Familiar fingerprints point to Kim's regime ... to the surprise of nobody8 days ago
Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked -- Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information8 days ago
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers -- DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside8 days ago
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs -- Operator's AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan8 days ago
Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing -- 'SalesBleed' security flaws 'lead to very unexpected consequences'6 days ago
US states sue popular kitmaker TP-Link over China risks27 minutes ago
Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers1 hour ago
FortiBleed still a bleeding nuisance as FBI confirms ongoing attacks5 hours ago
South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks10 hours ago
Anthropic reconfigures its cool kids security program18 hours ago
Trump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device1 day ago
Microsoft extends the Outlook naughty step with two more file types1 day ago
Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets1 day ago
Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services - Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Open source tool distills Jev so you can run it locally -- Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft sends PDFs to strange new worlds instead of SharePoint -- Use SharePoint Online? Keen on PDFs? Then you won't be keen on the latest Word bug7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies -- Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work6 days ago
ON-PREM -- Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment -- Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself8 days ago
SECURITY -- Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks -- Meta-spotted flaw could hand attackers arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file6 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark -- Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning -- Just wait until you hear the bad news5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineers -- Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away8 days ago
Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush8 days ago
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI -- First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition15 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them -- USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam15 days ago
AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth -- Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap18 days ago
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap19 days ago
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good -- Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible21 days ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute29 days ago
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals -- PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more1 month ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices1 month ago
Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing -- Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen15 hours ago
AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs -- Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference -- Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's £330M NHS data platform deal8 days ago
Dutch police arrest 'security pro' in ShinyHunters probe - Flashbangs reportedly deployed during operation as crime group denies any connection to suspect1 day ago
APPLICATIONS -- Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You're Fabric app devs now -- Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude8 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- HMRC bets up to £2.4B on Salesforce for taxpayer CRM overhaul -- Ten-year deal covers customer records, case management, portals, analytics, and AI, with extensions possible to 20418 days ago
STORAGE -- Which copy of the file is the real one? -- A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.6 days ago
DEVOPS -- Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes -- Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Google ending ChromeOS support two years early -- Rise of the Googlebook means ChromeOS users get eight years' support, not a decade7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon -- Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites7 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure -- What's wrong with being a great wholesaler?6 days ago
JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources - Smells like more agentic ransomware, Redmond warns7 days ago
Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed2 days ago
Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data9 days ago
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on16 days ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button19 days ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire19 days ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up19 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory1 month ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard1 month ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn1 month ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day2 months ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data2 months ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'2 months ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap2 months ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code3 months ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess3 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!3 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet3 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug3 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident4 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in4 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything4 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch4 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving5 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch4 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild4 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it4 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe4 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference4 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo4 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble4 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract4 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction4 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell4 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead4 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office4 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server4 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam4 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key4 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause1 month ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble4 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good4 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming4 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work3 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books4 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people4 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere4 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver4 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'4 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware4 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice4 months ago
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes14 days ago
Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal16 days ago
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs21 days ago
UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below21 days ago
BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected2 days ago
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP5 days ago
Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount9 days ago
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it12 days ago
Europe's internet registry wants governance 'correction' because its 'Executive Board' is not the executive13 days ago
In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols14 days ago
Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill19 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns -- During testing, the model showed it can violate security rules more often than its predecessors8 days ago
AI AND ML -- French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs -- Because sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button8 days ago
STORAGE -- How many times are you paying for the same file? -- A Register dinner in Midtown on 27 October takes on the file infrastructure distributed teams still run and nobody chose, off the record6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's Copilot super app comes with a meter attached -- Redmond calls its pricing model an 'evolution' as advanced AI racks up usage charges7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI agents went the long way round for UN data -- Research suggests ChatGPT maker's agents got surprisingly creative when a UN data API proved less than cooperative8 days ago
SAAS -- Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back -- Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over6 days ago
cyber-crime - Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months27 minutes ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants -- Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy -- The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only8 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B -- Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 20369 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- Beyond the Warehouse and the Lakehouse -- For years, enterprise analytics followed a familiar progression: data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouses.9 hours ago
Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage -- Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up6 days ago
Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack -- Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes6 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought -- Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia -- PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on7 days ago
Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing -- Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?1 hour ago
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station -- No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety1 day ago
Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand -- Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply2 days ago
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40 -- The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today3 days ago
Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes -- So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda6 days ago
YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator -- If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have6 days ago
Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates -- A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption7 days ago
Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business -- Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well8 days ago
Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short -- SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three8 days ago
What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? -- A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger8 days ago
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites -- Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats11 days ago
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective! -- Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation12 days ago
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink -- 3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance13 days ago
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology -- Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options14 days ago
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper -- Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance14 days ago
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch -- Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?14 days ago
BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth -- MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored14 days ago
UK's uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes -- XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests14 days ago
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water -- Meet 'superintelligence' and the 'globalist scheme' – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it14 days ago
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon -- Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain16 days ago
It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity -- Please release me, let me close...16 days ago
British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky -- Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas19 days ago
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel -- He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to21 days ago
Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow -- HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually22 days ago
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?22 days ago
UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off -- The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze22 days ago
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware24 days ago
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen25 days ago
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades26 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project29 days ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government1 month ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates1 month ago
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo -- Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense1 month ago
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda -- No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets1 month ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%1 month ago
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip -- Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend1 month ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning1 month ago
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again -- This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper1 month ago
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems -- Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle1 month ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads1 month ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense1 month ago
SCIENCE -- Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer' -- The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent11 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed17 days ago
AI AND ML -- Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?19 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific21 days ago
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb20 hours ago
Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system1 day ago
arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide4 days ago
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'12 days ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract -- Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award23 days ago
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists -- Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures26 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded28 days ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour1 month ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches1 month ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 20281 month ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser -- The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT10 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money -- The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone -- Your spare Android won't come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should9 days ago
DEVOPS -- Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust -- An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust8 days ago