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Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosure - Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon spotted attackers trying their luck four days before patches landed
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Disgraced Indian cert issuer leaves the cert issuing business -- We didn't want to issue SSL/TLS certs anyway, Indian firm suggests after one private key turns out to be the number 41 hour ago
Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases -- Vendor 'strongly recommends' upgrading to a fixed version 'as soon as possible'1 hour ago
PHP2Shell puts dozens of UK government services out of service -- Ministers report 32 unavailable and four partly disrupted, but no confirmed compromise1 hour ago
IT department and auditors at major pharmacy chain got into a rip-roaring fight about using 'password' on Cisco firewall - PWNED - Misaligned incentives led to an intractable argument1 hour ago
Apple App Store review process hits a traffic jam -- Apple log jam? Apple fast lane pie-lup? We're here all week, on stage... sweeping it1 hour ago
security - When the attacker becomes the user: Rethinking account takeover - SPONSORED FEATURE: AI makes phishing easier than ever4 hours ago
Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too -- For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century5 hours ago
Nvidia's Huang: Don't mention the AI-pocalypse -- GPU chief doesn't want to hear about job losses or the end of human civilization5 hours ago
science - Veteran ESA probe rolls out welcome mat for Japan's Phobos mission - Mars Express could support MMX's 2027 arrival as another 'last ever' extension keeps old spacecraft in flight8 hours ago
UK government hasn't the foggiest how much it's spending on digital transformation -- Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment9 hours ago
Why the immediate future of liquid cooling is hybrid -- PARTNER CONTENT: AI is driving liquid cooling adoption, but hybrid architectures will help operators balance density, flexibility, and operational realities11 hours ago
IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem -- 90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat15 hours ago
Philippine government suspends top tech official for alleged misconduct -- Founder of offshore software development firm investigated for possibly giving his former outfit government contracts15 hours ago
ai and ml - To help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain - Signs Samsung to build substrates, bolsters spend with other players18 hours ago
security - PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk - 'Coordinated vulnerability disclosure, unless there's evidence of active exploits in the wild,' Chainguard CEO tells The Reg20 hours ago
ai and ml - Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you - UPDATED - Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it8 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models -- New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows4 hours ago
Indian certification authority eMudhra's private keys compromised – one of them was the number '4'1 day ago
PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched21 hours ago
OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month11 hours ago
Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted2 days ago
PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk1 hour ago
Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world -- Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are -- Rupert Goodwins1 hour ago
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software -- EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup withElement, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols7 hours ago
Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what -- Rupert Goodwins1 hour ago
OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian -- Corey Quinn7 hours ago
AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure -- Corey Quinn7 days ago
Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage -- Rupert Goodwins10 days ago
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols14 days ago
In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols -- Bruce Davie11 days ago
Your cloud survived everything except the real world -- Rupert Goodwins14 days ago
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols20 days ago
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Rupert Goodwins22 days ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten - Rupert Goodwins1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself -- Forrester says only isolated wins are likely, while 'good enough' open-weight models soak up the tokens4 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- OpenBSD 8.0 beefs up virtual machines and gets a taste of Wine -- Proposed port brings 64-bit Windows apps within reach6 hours ago
SECURITY -- PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched -- Websites down as precaution as exploits have already been published1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision -- Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters9 hours ago
SAAS -- OneDrive gives Macs a million things to keep in sync -- October preview raises supported limit from 300,000 items, with general availability penciled in for June 20279 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap -- Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects10 hours ago
SECURITY -- AI has 'potential' to turn script kiddies into sophisticated infrastructure attackers -- Consider this the wake-up call1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia picks OpenShell to tame AI gents -- Give your agents freedom to do useful work by locking them down3 hours ago
Nvidia's grand plan for speeding up datacenter deployments: AI trailer parks -- GPUzilla boasts modular bit barns could speed up deployments from six months to just two weeks1 day ago
EU wants Booking.com to check out of its scam problem -- Commission opens DSA probe into fake listings and phishing on the platform, says its fraud defenses 'absolutely substandard'7 hours ago
The spec is the new code, so brush up on your prose, says Kaseya CTO -- Domain expertise and clear writing will matter more than syntax, and yes, that means documentation1 day ago
Happiness is the next AI KPI if Oxford boffins have their way -- Researchers say public subsidies for AI should be repaid in wellbeing, not just economic growth1 day ago
public sector - MPs urge UK government to play venture capitalist with taxpayer-funded tech - Watchdog says Whitehall is too timid about taking stakes in British startups, leaving taxpayers at risk of missing out when they strike gold1 day ago
networks - Nervous ISPs replace Chrome as strange consumers of DNS resources - ICANN 87 - Some network operators like to wear belts and suspenders to keep their services up1 day ago
Indian certification authority eMudhra's private keys compromised – one of them was the number '4' -- Massive clean-up job under way because this mess makes it possible to impersonate any website or service7 hours ago
Auto tech startup claims it traced hack attempt back to rival's IP address -- IQ.Lvbs implies that rival Comma.ai isn't playing fair9 hours ago
Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure -- And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model1 day ago
Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June -- Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries13 hours ago
SECURITY -- Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability 'avalanche' -- From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload18 hours ago
AI AND ML -- OneDrive loses bunch of Copilot shortcuts in File Explorer clear-out -- Microsoft keeps 'Ask Copilot' as dedicated actions disappear between mid-November and early December2 days ago
openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop -- Open Source Summit EU 2026 -- CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin2 days ago
AI AND ML -- How going dual-native means VM/container co-existence and sovereign security in the AI era -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Nutanix says running VMs and containers within the same operating environment shouldn't be a brake on AI ambitions1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Enterprises blow nearly a third of software budgets on upgrades they never asked for -- Keeping vendors happy is costing businesses millions, even when everything was working fine in the first place1 day ago
SCIENCE -- HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon -- Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end1 day ago
CYBER-CRIME -- 'Password1' and a forgotten test account land Welsh outfits in hot water -- ICO reprimands Ogi Networks and Data Cymru after ransomware breach exposes info of 3,300 people, mostly children1 day ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage -- Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC1 day ago
SECURITY -- Bullhorn sees red after cyberattack knocks recruitment platform offline -- Staffing software giant calls in CrowdStrike as customers face login headaches and questions remain over possible data theft1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft admits that Always On VPN problems were not fixed in the October Security Update -- Let they who are without sin throw a stone and miss the greenhouse entirely1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Whitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open -- Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive1 day ago
AI AND ML -- UK finance watchdog wants firms to report AI failures and close calls -- FCA seeks clear accountability as financial services embrace increasingly autonomous agents1 day ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted -- Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now'1 day ago
SECURITY -- Why cyber resilience is now a boardroom priority for UK public services -- PARTNER CONTENT:2 days ago
personal tech - Sony updates the Walkman as a $5,900 gold-plated MP3 player - That price buys you an Android 16 device which can display an animated cassette1 day ago
'David Beckham' was briefly the world's second-worst manga pirate -- Publishers call for better verification of domain name registrants, and ICANN is on the job with a new policy1 day ago
DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies -- Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad1 day ago
Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack forced US and European systems offline -- Second security snafu in two years1 day ago
Amazon makes vague commitment to unproven nuclear tech to power Indiana datacenters -- Partner X-energy has not built a single working reactor yet2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Maxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up -- Finally, your hardware has its own agent2 days ago
PATCHES -- Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI -- Terra finds sharp rise in GitHub security fixes reported broken within 90 days1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs -- Lies, lots of adverbs, and prosaic stories don't make for very machine-readable code, it turns out3 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 certifies1 month ago
cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?1 month 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
Europe's cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good3 days ago
Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work6 days ago
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B8 days ago
Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative15 days ago
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop24 days ago
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain24 days ago
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public28 days ago
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in1 month ago
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers1 month ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech1 month ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Red Hat helps teach about tech writing -- But learns tough lessons about AI in the process1 hour ago
SAP's Signavio hit with function injunction in Germany -- Vendor says patent ruling only restricts one specific process, not the whole product, after legal challenge from Celonis3 days ago
Admin: 'I spent all weekend on my servers' after Microsoft breaks Exchange Server with October updates -- OWA borked and lengthy email queues reported on busy servers after Microsoft tweaks a Server default3 days ago
Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up -- Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s3 days ago
In space, 'We've gone from exploration to exploitation,' says original Voyager team member -- Voyager imaging team member Dr. Garry Hunt joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches one light day's distance from Earth2 days ago
Museum exhibit reveals the intricate workings of a knackered Dell -- When it should have been weaving tales of the Jacquard loom3 days ago
LEGAL -- Microsoft's second-hand licensing appeal gets the brush-off -- Court of Appeal refuses Redmond permission to take ValueLicensing fight to the Supreme Court, with a 'Known Adverse Document' still to come2 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- AI's epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams -- The first technology created with a self-disrupt button... But why oh why didn't they call Claude clone Fauxtoshop?3 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI inference is running into a memory bottleneck. Huawei wants to tackle it with OceanStor M900 -- SPONSORED FEATURE: The Context Memory Storage platform aims to improve the economics of large-scale AI inference3 days ago
Vendors asking forward deployed engineers to make good on trillion-dollar AI bet -- They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs11 hours ago
New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs -- DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades8 days ago
Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks -- 96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 20279 days ago
AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit -- CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November10 days ago
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal -- Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters14 days ago
Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell -- Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake13 days ago
ConnectWise turns off its SaaS-y backup, security, and management services to probe security SNAFU -- Huntress alleges takeover of M365 accounts2 days ago
Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking -- Party like it's CVE-2026-99999 – a 9.3-rated nasty called PwnEscape2 days ago
Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance -- Pop quiz: somebody left a command shell logged in. What do you do?4 days ago
SECURITY -- Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems -- 'Hold my beer, have fun getting into your offices'2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you -- Would you like personalized shopping recommendations based on that conversation you just had?3 days ago
SCIENCE -- Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission -- ClearSpace UK aims to be operational in 2029 with public's suggestion etched on the side of the spacecraft3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Open-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets -- They handle 71.5% of Vercel gateway tokens and nearly a quarter of estimated spending3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price -- El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 163 days ago
DEVOPS -- Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers -- You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup3 days ago
Data Sovereignty By Design -- If data location is only part of the answer, this event will help you think more clearly about what genuine control requires and where to focus next.8 days ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.1 month ago
Escaping the Postgres Optimization Treadmill -- Learn why high-volume, time-series workloads can push PostgreSQL beyond the limits of routine optimization.21 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.20 days ago
The Data Leadership Forum on AI -- Every organization is racing to deliver value from AI—yet most are hitting the same wall: the data.7 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.24 days ago
What it takes to make your life sciences data queryable, governed and ready to share -- The demand for life sciences data has never been higher, and neither has the bar for delivering it.1 day ago
AI Isn't the New Threat. It's the New Clock. -- In June, two compromised Azure service principals took 15 hours to map a tenant, then about seven minutes to delete most of its storage.8 days ago
The hidden cost of file friction: Why enterprise storage needs a rethink -- Join The Register and LucidLink to explore how organizations can rethink file access, storage, and active data for modern workflows.6 days ago
The Enterprise Platform for the AI Era: Unifying VMs, Kubernetes, and Agentic AI -- Join Nutanix experts to explore how NCI and NKP simplify operations, optimize GPU investments, and power AI across datacenter, cloud, and edge.13 days ago
Fifty First Prompts: What to Do When Your LLM Suffers From Daily Amnesia -- Your LLM is encyclopedic about the world and blank about your organization.9 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.27 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.1 month 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 .1 month 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.1 month ago
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AI AND ML -- Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training -- The future is private, the present is plunder3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel -- 26.10 is here, with not-quite-ready kernel 7.3 and speech-to-text recognition3 days ago
AI AND ML -- New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered -- Bogus AI-generated citations keep turning up in court documents, but lawyers could at least run those docs through this legal citation checker3 days ago
SECURITY -- Networking problems after the October 2026 Windows update? NTLM might be to blame -- Legacy protocol is going to be axed, and enforcement by default will highlight how migration is going2 days ago
AI AND ML -- NTT Global Data Centers weighs the price tag of not building fast enough -- SPONSORED POST: As AI hunger soars, NTT Global Data Centers finds it's permits, not parts, that could cap the datacenter boom3 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Uncle Scam Wants You ... to cough up your cash and personal data, FBI warns ahead of midterms -- The inevitable election-themed cyberattacks are whirring again, as the feds issue PSA about the ones to watch out for2 days ago
Attack on BAE-managed system disrupts US bankruptcy courts -- Legal eagles still plodding along with some operations, but paper and e-notices delayed until further notice2 days ago
British watchdog seeks tougher terms around Microsoft's dominance of business software -- Another reason for Donald Trump to hate British regulation5 days ago
ai and ml - Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption1 hour ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita set to miss legal deadline on 93,000 civil servants' pension fixes, claims union -- PCS says outsourcer still stuck in design phase while retirees wait for McCloud corrections6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops. Repeat: Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops -- The year of Corporate Compliance on the Linux desktop is here6 days ago
DATABASES -- Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix -- Core devs revert up to 10 features, push release to November, and blame better tooling rather than vibe coding6 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties -- Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious14 days ago
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 again17 days ago
Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care -- All this, and angry NeoVim users18 days ago
Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* -- Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin21 days ago
Huang shrugs off protestors to kick off GTC Berlin with DSX Pods, Robots1 day ago
Just How Rosy Is That Datacenter Buildout Forecast?5 days ago
When Faster Supercomputers Aren't Enough: A Million Reasons Why Advanced Computing Matters For Genomics7 days ago
A Decade In, zeroRISC Sees A Bright Future For Open Silicon7 days ago
Storage news ticker - 22 October1 hour ago
DDN joins NetApp and VAST Data at Dutch neocloud Nebul1 hour ago
Micron skipping planned NAND generation4 hours ago
HPE and Kioxia SSDs are going to the Moon1 day ago
Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers4 days ago
Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support7 days ago
When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS9 days ago
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster12 days ago
Thief snatches school snapper's SD cards in smash & grab -- UK school admits data protection bungle as children's data at risk1 day ago
User refused to change her password because everyone already knew it -- School staff seemed to be trying to get ransomware – for a second time1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters -- Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents2 days ago
SECURITY -- Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before French supermarkets got hit -- They tried to sound the alarm in August2 days ago
DEVOPS -- $24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust -- Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices -- AI's appetite for components hammers budget handsets, with analysts seeing little relief before 20286 days ago
Workday wants a slice of customers' labour budget that its AI agents could replace -- CEO eyes usage-based billing as automation pushes HR software vendor beyond traditional IT spending7 days ago
TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document -- For those times when a full-fat editor is overkill7 days ago
KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era -- Wayland-only Plasma 6.8 heads for Kubuntu 'Tenacious T-Rex' early next year6 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
When faster supercomputers aren't enough -- PARTNER CONTENT: A million reasons why advanced computing matters for genomics7 days ago
Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse -- Israeli adtech outfit allegedly helped spyware vendors infect phones while enjoying Google's seal of approval3 days ago
Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified -- CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today3 days ago
TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver -- Silicon giant budgets up to $64B for expansion while keeping an eye on construction progress and power supplies7 days ago
SECURITY -- X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms -- Platform points to Iran, Russia, and China but provides no public evidence for attribution3 days ago
SCIENCE -- Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027 -- Carbon composite woes cause another delay for Peter Beck's Hungry Hippo6 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI claims 100-plus secret files followed ex-employee back to Apple -- ChatGPT maker turns tables in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, claiming confidential hardware plans made their way back to Cupertino6 days ago
Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting10 days ago
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it27 days ago
Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill1 month ago
personal tech - Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix - There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer8 days ago
personal tech - User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key8 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call1 month ago
SOFTWARE -- Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it1 month ago
SOFTWARE -- Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support1 month ago
ai and ml - Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude - New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference13 days ago
Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill -- Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired as separate Marketplace charges piled up10 days ago
AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI -- Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage13 days ago
There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero -- The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work13 days ago
Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core -- Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website22 days ago
Anthropic reconfigures its cool kids security program -- Company's Project Glasswing and Cyber Verification Program metamorphose into triple tier threat hunting club14 days ago
Anthropic Claude subscription plan provides more value than OpenAI's, study says -- Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes15 days ago
Legal Aid Agency hackers made off with records dating back to 1978 -- Nearly 50 years of data caught up in breach, with probation service records also among the haul5 days ago
US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions -- The term military intelligence seems like an oxymoron in this case2 days ago
Japanese consortium bets on building bobbing bit barns - Four firms believe server farms on barges in ports will help solve the problem of finding suitable sites7 days ago
AI AND ML -- UK keeps AI safeguards in the maybe pile for Cyber Security BIll -- Officials say amendments remain under consideration despite minister's pledge to act6 days ago
SECURITY -- Metropolitan Police's unchecked use of shoplifting platform lands force in trouble with data watchdog -- Officers unlawfully uploaded 179 people's details to Auror without required privacy checks or corporate approval6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Jev and other decision models can still be tricked with prompt injection -- Never making type errors does not mean never making errors6 days ago
SECURITY -- Cisco make-me-root email bug exploited as a 0-day by unknown crims -- Both Switchzilla and CISA sound the alarm6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage -- Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use7 days ago
SECURITY -- Security researchers spent 6 days doing their Chromework, built 1B user exploit -- Xbow earned a $250K bug bounty and all the AI model got was a lousy t-shirt7 days ago
SECURITY -- Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day after researchers confirm in-the-wild attacks -- Vendor promises fix for separate privilege-escalation flaw in the coming weeks7 days ago
AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready -- Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'8 days ago
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers -- Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites9 days ago
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials -- Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier3 days ago
Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch -- No word on exploitation status, but a 9.5 severity score suggests time is of the essence9 days ago
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide -- Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in7 days ago
High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers -- The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-474839 days ago
Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise -- Credential-stealing malware detected within minutes of npm release, but impact remains unknown9 days ago
Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms -- Researchers corroborate parts of Silent Ransom Group dump detailing crypto payouts, cash brokers, and recruitment10 days ago
Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases1 hour ago
Disgraced Indian cert issuer leaves the cert issuing business1 hour ago
PHP2Shell puts dozens of UK government services out of service1 hour ago
Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosure7 hours ago
Microsoft says ConnectWise breach let Chinese spies loose on 2,250 cloud tenants8 hours ago
IT department and auditors at major pharmacy chain got into a rip-roaring fight about using 'password' on Cisco firewall9 hours ago
Certification authority eMudhra defends its laughably weak private keys11 hours ago
LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets1 day ago
Signal bug could keep your mic - and camera - on after hangup1 day ago
Leap seconds face judgment day as time lords prepare to vote - Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking -- What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Tiny11 puts Windows 11 on a diet without the PowerShell workout -- New desktop app simplifies stripping out bundled software, with heavier cuts carrying security and support risks7 days ago
DEVOPS -- Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support -- Decades of cross-platform character corruption finally comes to an end for Windows coders8 days ago
KPMG tech and data boss tells staff facing the boot he's getting promoted -- Paul Henninger shares news of his move up via email as around 200 colleagues prepare for redundancy7 days ago
OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper -- FBI alleges covert recorder was plugged into a TV, with a second device later discovered in the employee's bag7 days ago
The AI math isn't mathing as infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue1 hour ago
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter -- Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex13 days 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 days 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 suggestions20 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...20 days ago
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services -- Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how21 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 ambition1 month 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 steam1 month 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 scrap1 month ago
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap1 month ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns -- Whitehall's digital staffing falls short of its own target as ministers leave the skills gap unresolved7 days ago
It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill - New models arrive so fast, we already have more new tech than it's possible to understand in a career6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff' -- 37% of ransomware attacks involve psychological or physical threats, global survey found7 days ago
DEVOPS -- Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code -- When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many -- Nick Andersen wants to work with private industry on security, but the Trump admin has taken an axe to such efforts.7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt -- Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks -- The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices8 days ago
SECURITY -- Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing -- Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse -- Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter7 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset' -- Jefferies wonders if LLMs will ever beprofitable during the 'ongoing collapse in token pricing'8 days ago
SAAS -- Microsoft celebrates end of Office 2021 LTSC with MS 365 outage -- So how's that cloud migration working out for German and UK users?8 days ago
NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS - Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations7 days ago
Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk3 days ago
To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work10 days ago
Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data24 days ago
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on1 month ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button1 month ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire1 month ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up1 month 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 motherboard2 months ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn2 months 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'3 months ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap3 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!4 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet4 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug4 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 everything5 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch5 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 lunch5 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild5 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it5 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe5 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference5 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo5 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble5 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract5 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction5 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell5 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead5 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office5 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server5 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam5 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key5 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 rumble5 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good5 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming5 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 books5 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people5 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere5 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver5 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'5 months ago
NETWORKS -- HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years -- And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions11 hours ago
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier13 days ago
ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains14 days ago
BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected17 days ago
Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed17 days ago
London's mobile networks fall to bottom of Europe's capital league2 days ago
ICANN testing tech to let law enforcement access non-public WHOIS info2 days ago
Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router3 days ago
ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency3 days ago
Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug3 days ago
Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable8 days ago
Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users9 days ago
No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally10 days ago
Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's10 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns -- Financial watchdog fears AI spending bust could rattle markets, with mounting debt and cyberattacks adding to the headache8 days ago
SECURITY -- Cyberattacks crank French supermarket refrigeration systems up to 50°C -- Stock spoiled at hundreds of stores as manufacturer says affected equipment ran outdated firmware7 days ago
'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people -- Local media reports three weakly protected accounts at small IT biz whose access to national register was abused7 days ago
European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene -- Moody's forecasts server farms could consume 17% of Dutch electricity and 30% of Ireland's by 20359 days ago
Owner of fashion brands Hobbs and Whistles joins autumn pwned collection -- Several IT systems remain offline and orders face delays as TFG London becomes latest retailer to suffer cyberattack7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK Cabinet Office takes £7.8M hit to kill off recruitment system -- Department told to ditch it to get back in line with Shared Services Strategy, plus faces £8.9M fine for IR35 shambles8 days ago
public sector - Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks3 days ago
VMware is pushing so many patches, it thinks users need new tools to manage the flood -- It's 2026 and Virtzilla reckons it's OK to pay for MFA7 days ago
Microsoft blames a configuration change for Exchange Admin Center tumble -- Rollback fixed things, but stop us if you've heard this before9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Chatbot refuseniks edge out users in the US, and they're not for turning -- Pew Research Center finds 51% of Americans say no, cite lack of interest - not know-how - as the top reason8 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- The AI & SaaS Data Protection Gap: Why Fast-Growing Asia Pacific Businesses Are More Exposed Than They Realize -- Midmarket organizations across Asia Pacific are rapidly adopting software as a service (SaaS) and AI-powered tools.5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Which AI infrastructure option actually holds a boundary? -- Just over two weeks before The Register's Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture.6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot -- 'Learn More' shortcut to local setup reportedly patched server-side, leaving users with more involved workarounds10 days ago
Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline -- Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal8 days ago
UCLA settles Oracle ERP dispute with $3.1M in credits and $1.31M wiped off the bill -- University alleged cloud software couldn't meet its needs after years of delays to financial systems overhaul10 days ago
Java crashes the departure board at Tyne and Wear Metro -- Train times remain on show as an elderly Windows dialog demands attention1 day ago
Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline -- Black cab drivers accused ride-hailing giant of misleading London's transport regulator, but judge says they left it too late to sue3 days ago
Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub -- Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform6 days ago
YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays -- Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today7 days ago
Royal Navy goes fishing for suppliers to build its Type 93 robot submarine -- Preliminary notice seeks XLUUV builders, payload makers and AI developers, with Excalibur and Herne the obvious candidates7 days ago
Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee -- Things got weird, but there's a lesson to be learned: Don't trust a bot to negotiate for you7 days ago
Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007 -- Browser-based fun to remember a time before Apple's annual cash grab became a thing8 days ago
Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno -- Tick, tick, tick, tick, ticket, ticket, tick tick8 days ago
US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway -- Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year13 days ago
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors -- Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up13 days ago
Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra -- What the f?14 days ago
It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat -- The ALBATROSS has landed14 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?15 days ago
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station -- No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety16 days ago
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw -- Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem16 days ago
Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand -- Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply17 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 today18 days ago
Clever database, but can it run Doom? -- Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'19 days ago
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates -- A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport20 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 propaganda21 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 have21 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 Eruption22 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 servers22 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 well23 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 three23 days ago
What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? -- A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger23 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 threats26 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 probation27 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 performance28 days ago
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology -- Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options29 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 distance29 days ago
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch -- Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?29 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 restored29 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 tests29 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 it29 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 uncertain1 month 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...1 month 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 overseas1 month 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 to1 month ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific1 month 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 – eventually1 month ago
Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips -- Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 203011 days ago
Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks' -- Understanding why our nearest star does what it does14 days ago
Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to -- Talking to an X-ray nanoprobe beamline is far better than talking to a toaster, we assume14 days 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 productivity15 days ago
Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too5 hours ago
Veteran ESA probe rolls out welcome mat for Japan's Phobos mission8 hours ago
HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon2 days ago
In space, 'We've gone from exploration to exploitation,' says original Voyager team member2 days 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 all16 days 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 change16 days ago
SCIENCE -- Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer' -- The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent27 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 squeezed1 month 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?1 month ago
APPLICATIONS -- Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition -- Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah...9 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- London cabbies want Sadiq Khan to slam the brakes on robotaxis -- Union urges Mayor to halt driverless taxi rollout as City Hall report raises questions about safety, congestion, and who's actually in charge9 days ago
Imagine there's no Shiny Hunters – AI could make human hacking crews obsolete -- This week on The Kettle, we discuss some arrests and how Mythos' mathematical expertise has led to a second exploited bug that no human would have found8 days ago
DEVOPS -- When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS -- How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint.9 days ago