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Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever -- Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.

10 hours ago

Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it - Exclusive - Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell

16 hours ago

Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year -- January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication

7 hours ago

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' -- And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg

7 hours ago

Wikimedia's 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created -- Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot -- AI + ML

2 hours ago

TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years - 2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises - AI + ML - 16 Jan 2026 - |

22 minutes ago

OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman -- Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks -- This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins -- Patches

7 hours ago

Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon - You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink - Systems - 15 Jan 2026 - |

2 hours ago

Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure -- The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases -- AI + ML

8 hours ago

Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies -- What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see -- Cyber-crime

8 hours ago

Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln -- Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required -- Security

9 hours ago

Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle's borrowing spree sue Big Red -- Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt. -- Systems

12 hours ago

Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork -- Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with that -- Security

12 hours ago

OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras' AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal -- SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation -- Systems

12 hours ago

Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown -- The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk's problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in -- AI + ML

15 hours ago

Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding, world still intact somehow - The Emperor Penguin has a go... just for fun

10 hours ago

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' -- And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg -- Research

16 hours ago

Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise -- When margins are this tight, mergers might follow -- Personal Tech

16 hours ago

Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year -- January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication -- OSes

16 hours ago

Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans -- Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implications -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking -- Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums -- Security

17 hours ago

Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach -- Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice -- Security

17 hours ago

Raspberry Pi 5 gets LLM smarts with AI HAT+ 2 -- 40 TOPS of inference grunt, 8 GB onboard memory, and the nagging question: who exactly needs this? -- AI + ML

19 hours ago

Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS -- Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud -- Cyber-crime

20 hours ago

Ofcom keeps X under the microscope despite Grok 'nudify' fix -- Cold milk poured over 'spicy mode,' but it might not be enough to escape a huge fine -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

Microsoft's 'From SA' scheme on trial as license resale row refuses to die -- ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment -- Software

20 hours ago

Cerebras Inks Transformative $10 Billion Inference Deal With OpenAI

16 hours ago

Startup Quantum Elements Brings AI, Digital Twins To Quantum Computing

6 days ago

Pushed By GenAI And Front End Upgrades, Ethernet Switching Hits New Highs

7 days ago

How CP/M-86's delay handed Microsoft the keys to the kingdom - A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant

10 hours ago

China's Z.ai claims it trained a model using only Huawei hardware -- Hasn't revealed how much kit did the job, so Nvidia can probably rest easy -- AI + ML

23 hours ago

Maker fight! SparkFun cuts ties with Adafruit in harassment dispute -- Adafruit claims SparkFun aims to shoot the messenger for criticizing corporate tolerance of intolerance -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

CrowdStrike shareholders lose battle to recoup losses from 2024 outage -- Investors didn't present a valid claim, says judge, but they're welcome to try again -- Legal

1 day ago

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers -- But private data will stay private and won't be used for training, Google says -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Vibe coded applications full of security blunders

13 hours ago

Code signing Windows apps may be easier and more secure with new Azure Artifact service

1 day ago

Open source MySQL repository has no commits in more than three months

2 days ago

Fly.io introduces Sprites: lightweight, persistent VMs to isolate agentic AI

2 days ago

The AI PC needs to deliver more than performance - it needs to deliver security - Scanning the future - Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

Ignore rosy datacenter expansion projections – there isn't enough power -- Grid and generation capacity are not being added fast enough to support the scale of growth many forecasts assume -- Systems

1 day ago

There was so much fraud on COVID loans, the feds trained an anti-fraud AI on the applications -- Had it been around in 2020, it could have flagged tens of billions before payouts, PRAC tells Congress -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Storage News Ticker – 15 January

13 hours ago

Dell warns against reusing SSDs as flash shortages bite

14 hours ago

SK hynix developing split-cell 5-bit flash

16 hours ago

Veeam's Chief Product Officer resigns

1 day ago

Hasta la vista! Microsoft finally ends extended updates for ancient Windows version -- Support expires for Windows Server 2008, and the codebase released to manufacturing in 2006 -- OSes

1 day ago

'Imagination the limit': DeadLock ransomware gang using smart contracts to hide their work -- New crooks on the block get crafty with blockchain to evade defenses -- Research

1 day ago

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver - Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage - Sponsored Post

9 days ago

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits -- Investment in datacenters to peak by 2029, place your bets please -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Cyber-stricken Belgian hospitals refuse ambulances, transfer critical patients -- Attack enters second day with major disruption to healthcare provision -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Stop dragging feet on AI nudification ban, UK government told -- Committee raises concerns over delays and loopholes in proposed law -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets -- Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you -- Storage

1 day ago

Spanish power giant sparks breach probe amid claims of massive data grab -- Endesa says payment info stolen after alleged crook boasted of 1 TB-plus haul -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Anthropic finds $1.5 million to help Python Foundation improve security - AI upstart also upscales its Labs to find the next frontier - Security - 14 Jan 2026 - |

2 days ago

India's flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row -- One payload out of fifteen survived and sent home some useful data -- Science

2 days ago

Trump administration sets GPU export rules that put Chinese buyers at the back of the queue -- America first, for sales and access to foundries -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era -- When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.

1 month ago

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

2 months ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

2 months ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

2 months ago

Google rekindles relationship with jilted JPEG XL image format -- Chromium commit adds support for image decoder after the Big G ditched it a few years back -- Software

2 days ago

Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm -- First Patch Tuesday of 2026 goes big -- Security

2 days ago

Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows -- Could be back to 2016 levels -- Systems

2 days ago

Popular Python libraries used in Hugging Face models subject to poisoned metadata attack -- The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss group -- Patches

2 days ago

Windows 2000 rusts in peace by the sea -- When salty coastal air meets memory errors in one of Portugal's rail ticket machines

1 day ago

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty -- EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands

11 hours ago

Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it -- Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell

14 hours ago

AI may be everywhere, but it's nowhere in recent productivity statistics -- Forrester principal analyst JP Gownder says jobs eaten by bots don't come back

12 hours ago

Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details -- Travel biz tells customers to change passwords beyond its own services

1 day ago

France fines telcos €42M for sub-par security prior to 24M customer breach -- Three major GDPR violations, including a lack of basic security controls, lead to hefty dent in profits

17 hours ago

Firefox 147 brings GPU boost, tidier tabs, and video that follows you around -- Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaks

18 hours ago

UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work -- U-turn leaves questions on costs, funding, and benefits unanswered

16 hours ago

New Linux malware targets the cloud, steals creds, and then vanishes -- Cloud-native, 37 plugins ... an attacker's dream

2 hours ago

Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever -- Transparently runs 16, 32, and 64-bit Windows apps, but still doesn't use the Microsoft store.

22 minutes ago

Anthropic Claude wants to be your helpful colleague, always looking over your shoulder -- Just be careful not to entrust the AI model with your sensitive data -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Moon hotel startup hopes you get lunar lunacy, drop $1M deposit for 2032 stay -- Step 1: Ask for deposit. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Build Moon hotel empire -- Offbeat

2 days ago

SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble -- Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers -- Storage

2 days ago

Cisco XDR in 30: Turning Security Signals Into Confident Action - How network-led Cisco XDR helps teams see threats clearly and respond faster - Sponsored Post

13 days ago

Cloud to be an American: Congress votes to kick China off remote GPU services -- US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips -- Public Sector

2 days ago

AI and automation could erase 10.4 million US roles by 2030 - AI-pocalypse - Forrester models slow, structural shift rather than sudden employment collapse - AI + ML - 13 Jan 2026 - | 13

1 day ago

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades -- Big Tech warned expansion must come without higher household bills as Microsoft signals support -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Dutch cops cuff alleged AVCheck malware kingpin in Amsterdam -- 33-year-old was under surveillance for some time before returning home from the UAE -- Legal

2 days ago

Trump may hate renewables, but AI datacenters still fancy cheap solar -- Analysts say cheap energy and storage make sense for bit barns despite policy headwinds -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Federal agencies told to fix or ditch Gogs as exploited zero-day lands on CISA hit list -- Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops -- Security

2 days ago

Mandiant open sources tool to prevent leaky Salesforce misconfigs - AuraInspector automates the most common abuses and generates fixes for customers - SaaS - 13 Jan 2026 - |

2 days ago

Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware -- Dutchman fails to convince judges his trial was unfair because cops read his encrypted chats -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Affordable housing site goes live with meme-laden test data - Updated - Yes, London property prices are high. But here's a picture of Boris Johnson - Offbeat - 13 Jan 2026 - | 27

21 hours ago

Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board -- Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster -- Databases

2 days ago

Britain goes shopping for a rapid-fire missile to help Ukraine hit back -- Project Nightfall aims to deliver a UK-built long-range strike capability at speed -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott -- Turns out the voluntary pledge to restrict public sector tendering during Horizon scandal inquiry has loopholes -- Public Sector

2 days ago