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Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work - Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss9 hours ago
Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas -- Can't take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out5 hours ago
Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA -- Wanna know a secret?6 hours ago
193 CYBERCRIMS ARRESTED, ACCUSED OF PLOTTING 'VIOLENCE-AS-A-SERVICE' -- Minors groomed to kill and intimidate victims -- Cyber-crime25 minutes ago
Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft's agentic future -- Native MCP support lands in Insider Dev and Beta builds -- OSes2 hours ago
Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered -- Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone? -- OSes2 hours ago
Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years -- Analysts reckon only a handful of manufacturers will push ahead as the rest hit the brakes -- AI + ML3 hours ago
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse -- Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates -- Databases3 hours ago
IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions -- Big Blue's latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka -- AI + ML5 hours ago
UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up -- Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance -- Networks6 hours ago
Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute -- Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections -- The Future of the Datacenter2 hours ago
X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement -- Brussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video -- Personal Tech6 hours ago
Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests -- Japanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones -- Networks7 hours ago
Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes -- Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement -- Security7 hours ago
Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data -- Body confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul -- Cyber-crime8 hours ago
Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours - On Call - Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security5 hours ago
UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact -- Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants -- Public Sector9 hours ago
Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era -- Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops -- Software9 hours ago
Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas -- Can't take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out -- Software9 hours ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work -- Who, Me? -- Ignorance really can be bliss -- On-Prem12 hours ago
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner - Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things - AI + ML - 08 Dec 2025 - | 2725 minutes ago
China's first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more -- Networks18 hours ago
Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool -- Infosec in Brief -- PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more! -- Security20 hours ago
Amazon's Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia's mold -- From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now -- The Future of the Datacenter1 day ago
And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is... -- Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be. Or not -- Offbeat2 days ago
Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA -- Wanna know a secret? -- Security2 days ago
Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL -- Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC's copyleft enforcement push -- Legal2 days ago
AWS Graviton5 Strikes A Different Balance For Server CPUs3 days ago
With Celestial AI Buy, Marvell Scales Up The Datacenter And Itself4 days ago
With Trainium4, AWS Will Crank Up Everything But The Clocks4 days ago
HPE Gets The Lead Out On Juniper-Aruba Networking Integration4 days ago
Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling - Opinion - Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome5 hours ago
Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams -- Proof of life? Or an active social media presence? -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it -- Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed -- Applications2 days ago
Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG -- Who needs JavaScript? -- Research2 days ago
Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln -- Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says -- Security2 days ago
EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception -- TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency -- Legal3 days ago
Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 ... to pay for more AI and security -- All those new features won't fund themselves -- SaaS3 days ago
Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist -- Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs -- AI + ML3 days ago
AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go1 hour ago
Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers3 days ago
Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding5 days ago
AWS Transform revamp uses AI to shift applications from Microsoft's SQL Server6 days ago
Modernizing hyperconverged infrastructure: how StorPool and Oracle are changing the game - Webinar Promo3 days ago
Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul -- Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns -- State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist -- With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up -- SaaS3 days ago
IBM snaps up Confluent in $11B all-cash deal4 hours ago
Rocketship Rubrik's revenues roar robustly to record2 days ago
HPE networking shines while servers dim and Alletra glistens3 days ago
Storage news ticker – 4 December 20253 days ago
Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it -- Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite -- OSes3 days ago
Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown -- Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals -- Applications3 days ago
UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash -- Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance -- Security3 days ago
Escaping the squeeze: your strategy for a confident VMware-to-AWS migration - Make the transition with confidence in this focused webinar - Sponsored Post5 days ago
FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built -- Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process -- OSes3 days ago
Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help -- Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout -- Public Sector3 days ago
Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance -- Updated -- The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts -- Networks3 days ago
Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net? -- Opinion -- You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks -- AI + ML3 days ago
Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch -- New 'Datacenter Manager' manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters -- Virtualization3 days ago
HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge -- Never mind, says jolly green giant, we're a networking-centric company now -- Systems3 days ago
An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense -- Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency -- Security3 days ago
Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU - re:invent - The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years - AWS Re:invent - 04 Dec 2025 - | 516 hours ago
PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years -- 'Dozens' of US orgs infected -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief -- 'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!' -- AI + ML3 days ago
Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says -- He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem -- Security3 days ago
Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases -- And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era -- When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.17 days ago
Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation27 days ago
How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption1 month ago
Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix1 month ago
We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares -- Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again' -- Science4 days ago
Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike - Exclusive - Major OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite - Systems - 04 Dec 2025 - | 143 days ago
Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up -- $200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted '90%+' accuracy needs human oversight -- AI + ML4 days ago
Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job -- Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions -- Networks4 days ago
EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform -- OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere -- AI + ML4 days ago
Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative -- Nvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally -- The Future of the Datacenter4 days ago
Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse -- Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files -- Patches4 days ago
How to make your data AI-ready, using infrastructure you already own - Hammerspace maximizes your GPU usage using your existing NVMe storage - Partner content6 days ago
Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits -- Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices -- Software4 days ago
Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL -- Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself -- Offbeat4 days ago
Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet -- Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks -- Cyber-crime4 days ago
Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power -- 3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove -- The Future of the Datacenter4 days ago
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze -- Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle -- Databases4 days ago
Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals -- Exclusive -- One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they'll have to pass it on -- SaaS4 days ago
Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail -- It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices -- The Future of the Datacenter4 days ago
TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets -- Systems Approach -- Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear -- Networks4 days ago
Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec -- Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability -- Software4 days ago
India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform -- Minister wants to 'free drivers from dependency on private companies' -- Public Sector4 days ago
Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches -- First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory? -- Storage4 days ago
John Henry still leading the race vs AI in customer service -- Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI -- AI + ML4 days ago
