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Security - Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert - ShinyHunters leaks names, addresses, DOBs, and more after Christian college discloses cyberattack8 hours ago
SECURITY - Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist - Attested TLS: the handshake that can't prove who's on the other end2 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year -- There might also be a downside12 minutes ago
Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track -- A final humiliation for Australia's Securities Exchange and its attempts to run a bourse on distributed ledgers3 days ago
SECURITY -- Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together -- Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously8 hours ago
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released -- Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch3 days ago
Madlad builds homebrew GPU using 8,192 RISC-V chips -- The next version will have 32,000 MCUs12 minutes ago
British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems -- £120k ... but you must take ultimate responsibility for functionality of e-gates, passports and more12 days ago
Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo -- At least two vulnerabilities are already under attack4 days ago
DevOps -- .NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains -- Three-year lifecycle leaves enterprises with barely a year to adopt each LTS release6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS - Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive12 minutes ago
SOFTWARE -- Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form -- Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK12 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head -- Show not tell makes a far finer script6 days ago
Security -- It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns -- Time to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war5 days ago
Security -- Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones -- Personal cell phones on protective missions, no threat detection on government-issued devices among the litany of sins5 days ago
SCIENCE -- Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands -- Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal7 days ago
Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds -- Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations6 days ago
Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees -- Open source advocates remain concerned over lack of binding commitments10 days ago
One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V -- A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system10 days ago
SECURITY -- Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus npm packages, hunts for developer secrets -- Microsoft says latest attack targets Leo Platform and RStreams packages, harvesting creds and going after more maintainers6 days ago
SAAS -- Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365 -- Regulator says subscribers may have been defaulted onto more expensive plans with Copilot features attached7 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry -- There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud7 days ago
EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP57 minutes ago
Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters6 hours ago
Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool8 hours ago
Software - Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency4 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure -- Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge10 days ago
LEGAL -- European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status -- Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act10 days ago
APPLICATIONS -- Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up -- Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default10 days ago
DATABASES -- Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting -- CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas10 days ago
Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another -- The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone11 days ago
Security -- The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities -- CVE-2026-20230 under exploitation, while an earlier SD-WAN 0-day looks even worse than we thought8 days ago
Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors' -- Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound10 days ago
ai and ml - Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them5 days ago
SECURITY -- London cops bring live facial recognition to West End -- 'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics10 days ago
Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs -- Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads12 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit -- Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground17 days ago
Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list -- Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn't broken away from the world12 days ago
Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that... Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble1 hour ago
Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble -- Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess5 hours ago
AMD's Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap -- 128 GB of memory! In this economy?3 hours ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched1 hour ago
GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues -- A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself.37 minutes ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code -- Who wrote this rubbish? Oh ...11 hours ago
Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again -- SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims12 hours ago
Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter -- Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept2 hours ago
Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams -- Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability3 hours ago
Japan's asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock -- Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission13 hours ago
EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister's bank account -- PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!14 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82 -- Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones... and duvets57 minutes ago
Security -- Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size4 days ago
AI AND ML -- New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch3 days ago
SECURITY -- Confidential computing's core trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist5 hours ago
Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest -- Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick a contract fight with a monster of the art -- Rupert Goodwins3 days ago
Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck -- Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger -- Corey Quinn6 hours ago
Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace -- Mark Pesce6 hours ago
Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' -- Corey Quinn6 hours ago
Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform -- Rupert Goodwins3 days ago
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand -- Corey Quinn6 hours ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't -- Rupert Goodwins24 days ago
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? Corey Quinn6 hours ago
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AI AND ML -- AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing -- KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments5 hours ago
ON-PREM -- EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists -- Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade5 hours ago
DATABASES -- Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy -- LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch7 hours ago
Amazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it -- Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts3 days ago
LEGAL -- Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage -- MeetingTV wants to see the evidence57 minutes ago
AI and ML -- Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme -- What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course18 hours ago
AI and ML -- Companies that add more AI also add more people -- But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs1 day ago
Security -- Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack -- Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up7 hours ago
AI AND ML -- SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training -- Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building3 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery -- Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard3 days ago
AI AND ML -- SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI -- Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to jobs and business trips as it tries to keep pace11 hours ago
Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list -- Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers8 hours ago
Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data -- Company that also makes insulin pumps and other devices tells users what was exposed months after ShinyHunters attack1 day ago
India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears -- Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators2 days ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error4 days ago
AI AND ML -- UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse -- Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues3 days ago
Security -- Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access -- Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network3 days ago
LEGAL -- Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore -- Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house3 days ago
AI AND ML -- New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch -- They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI -- Risk factors galore3 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought -- It's a 'complete BEC operations environment,' Talos researcher says3 days ago
DEVOPS -- Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy -- Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors -- Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system3 days ago
AI and ML -- Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions -- 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'3 days ago
Security -- Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied -- 'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg3 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models -- Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough4 days ago
RESEARCH -- Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding -- People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form -- Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait4 days ago
AI + ML -- Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages -- Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites -- AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside4 days ago
Virtualization -- Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills -- But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price -- Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets4 days ago
Security - 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 procurement2 days ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well20 days ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend25 days ago
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition27 days ago
LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy27 days ago
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots1 month ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project1 month ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors1 month ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own1 month ago
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads1 month ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies -- Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion -- Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?4 days ago
AI and ML -- Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care -- We've learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let's level that up with added AI, says minister4 days ago
Legal -- Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys -- Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program4 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out -- 303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out -- Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist4 days ago
AI and ML -- Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show -- SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings5 days ago
SECURITY -- Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools -- 29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are4 days ago
Security -- Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe -- Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'3 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution -- DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg5 days ago
Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module -- Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?3 days ago
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM -- With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall5 days ago
IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future -- Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom11 days ago
Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters -- Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market11 days ago
OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom -- Jalapeño is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker12 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows -- Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Arm64 on the desktop? It's spendy and it's sluggish -- Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don't want it5 days ago
Applications -- UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees -- Proposals could open cheaper routes for purchases made through third parties5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size -- Rolling back the years and the bloat for veteran text editor4 days ago
AI and ML -- Where there's a will, AI still has work to do -- Probate lawyer finds generated document looked the part but missed many of the questions that matter5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number -- Linux 6.18 arrives with a few desktop tweaks, while the neglected x86 edition remains stuck on Debian 115 days ago
Software -- No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle -- Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals -- After several delays in development, Atlas went live without functionality Home Office case manager needed, inspectors say5 days ago
How is AI changing datacenter network fabrics? EXPLAINER AI workloads are overwhelming the traditional datacenter fabrics they run on. Here's what's replacing them.5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings -- Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in4 days ago
AI AND ML -- South Korea's hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band -- Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse5 days ago
Accelerate your innovation -- This is your technical deep-dive into the practical tools and techniques that define the next generation of resilient Dev and IT operations.26 days ago
ShinyHunters: How to close the Credential Rotation Gap -- We'll cover the three failure points that make this attack repeatable across organizations of any size14 days ago
From Pilots to AI Factories: How Enterprises Are Really Scaling Agentic AI and Agent Gateways -- AI is shifting from simple chatbots to autonomous "coworkers," and most enterprises are now constrained less by models than by the complexity6 days ago
Miro's Move: Detection Coverage for Claude Enterprise -- Discover how enhanced Claude visibility helps SecOps teams detect, investigate, and respond to AI activity and risks.17 days ago
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SECURITY -- India's central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info -- Open API could reveal everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials4 days ago
AI and ML -- Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection -- If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day4 days ago
SECURITY -- Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe -- Not today, Putin4 days ago
Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data -- Efforts to grab all the location data in an area get clogged by Fourth Amendment6 days ago
Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor -- The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists6 days ago
AI and ML -- How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS -- Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge6 days ago
AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity -- You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy4 days ago
Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release' -- More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too17 days ago
History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system -- When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'28 days ago
As Goes AI Compute, So Goes Ethernet Networking37 minutes ago
Of Course Meta Platforms Is Going To Be A Cloud4 days ago
Three HPC Gurus Ask: Do We Still Need GPUs?6 days ago
Optical Scale Up Fabrics Are Limited By Manufacturing, Not Architecture6 days ago
Samsung and SK Hynix spending big on chip fabs37 minutes ago
SurrealDB's high-speed AI agent context layer37 minutes ago
The iodyne route to Edge 2.05 hours ago
Veeam leads 2026 Gartner Backup MQ by a whisker3 days ago
.NET's long term support is not long term enough, dev complains3 days ago
Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency10 days ago
Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update11 days ago
The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure11 days ago
Microsoft keeps Windows Server 2022 hotpatching alive into 2027 -- In the Azure Edition, of course5 days ago
Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad -- CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious7 days ago
Nissan says Oracle PeopleSoft break-in may have spilled payroll records, SSNs -- Carmaker points finger at an 'unknown' flaw as customer fallout continues5 days ago
Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC -- In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts -- KRA Consultancy Ltd fined £300K over fake bailiff threats in 'calculated' scheme that caused 'real fear and distress'6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids -- PLUS: Qualcomm tweaks datacenter chips for China; Japan's Air Force stretches into space; WiseTechs' woes mutiply; and more!6 days ago
SCIENCE -- Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light -- Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?6 days ago
In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical3 days ago
When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery5 days ago
What the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling6 days ago
The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure11 days ago
The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale18 days ago
Digital sovereignty needs an operating model19 days ago
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation20 days ago
Europe's AI paralysis has a solution - and it starts with a semantic twin21 days ago
Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt25 days ago
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis1 month ago
DON'T MISS -- The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon -- Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components10 days ago
AI AND ML -- NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor -- Please state the nature of the medical emergency7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms -- Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing7 days ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles10 days ago
Personal Tech -- This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken24 days ago
Offbeat -- Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes12 days ago
Networks - Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner - What a wind-up!1 month ago
Software - Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working1 month ago
On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off1 month ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client1 month ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave1 month ago
ai and ml - Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated - It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it3 days ago
Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn -- Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions18 days ago
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher -- According to the one person who actually read the research paper19 days ago
Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show1 month ago
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers1 month ago
Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs -- How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin20 days ago
US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive -- Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence21 days ago
AI AND ML -- Notion kills its Gmail client after AI agents keep humans from troubling inbox -- More than half of users now let bots handle email, so service is headed for shutdown7 days ago
Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant -- SEC claims former Constellation employee made $1.4M trading options before the restart deal was announced10 days ago
Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit -- Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening10 days ago
Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers -- Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes10 days ago
SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security -- One rule for the workers, another for execs6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable -- Tiny tweak to support page reveals consumers can purchase another year of patch protection6 days ago
Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become 'major operational and financial crises' -- Bosses told to step up and get cybersecurity right10 days ago
Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI -- Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out10 days ago
OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too! -- A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge11 days ago
Software - Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors - Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens13 days ago
Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims - As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations11 hours ago
Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid -- London Hydro says names, addresses, account details may have been exposed, but much about the intrusion is unknown10 days ago
Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert -- Severe weather event alert platform buzzed devices across the country with the word 'misanthropy'4 days ago
Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day -- IT thought a fake offer of extra time off for hard-pressed Canadian medical workers was the way to go12 days ago
MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage18 hours ago
AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data3 days ago
NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet3 days ago
User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC3 days ago
Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway3 days ago
Security -- Chinese cybersecurity company claims it's built a better-than-Mythos bug finder -- Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it's needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models6 days ago
AI and ML -- AI giants back non-profit to retrain workers left behind by AI -- Sorry we spent your wages on datacenters, but call us when you're AI-ready9 days ago
SECURITY -- Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs -- Spotted in intrusions targeting insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors7 days ago
Cyber-Crime -- Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues -- Former employee accuses company of prioritizing pending IPO over client security7 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI says 97.9 percent of its employees are now using agents -- Codex, it's not just for developers, really9 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM -- Not just any old BASIC, either: OS-9's BASIC0910 days ago
Recovery has to keep up with AI - SPONSORED POST: Why an AI-era recovery architecture looks different, with Eon's Gonen Stein10 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers -- Fondleslab and Mac prices rise by hundreds; phones safe ... for now10 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad -- Point-in-time restore offers a 72-hour escape hatch for stricken PCs10 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure1 month ago
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows -- Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms1 month ago
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat -- Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot1 month ago
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage -- This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit1 month ago
Fire burns Google Cloud India's network, which remains slow a week later -- PLUS: Japan's space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!21 days ago
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow -- Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source22 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream1 month ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.1 month ago
Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange -- LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost1 month ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions -- Minutes will not be published, and MPs still have no answer on the group's budget or how its members were chosen10 days ago
UK school's network left wide open for invasion, student found -- And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field7 days ago
Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there's more to writing software than writing software -- Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs11 days ago
Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to 'cripple it at a time of their choosing' -- To defuse another attack, Oz spies called foreign counterparts to tell them an op was a bust9 days ago
Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years -- Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits11 days ago
Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen -- 93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI11 days ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code11 hours ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess7 days ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!14 days ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet21 days ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug28 days ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident1 month ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in1 month ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything1 month ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch1 month ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving2 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch1 month ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild1 month ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it1 month ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe1 month ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference1 month ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo1 month ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble1 month ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract1 month ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction1 month ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell1 month ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead1 month ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office1 month ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server1 month ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam1 month ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key1 month ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause1 month ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble1 month ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good1 month ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming1 month ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work2 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books1 month ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people1 month ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere1 month ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver1 month ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'1 month ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware1 month ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice1 month ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company1 month ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it1 month ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe1 month ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery1 month ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'1 month ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league1 month ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA1 month ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it1 month ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results1 month ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off1 month ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady1 month ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server1 month ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo1 month ago
Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks17 days ago
Geopolitical jitters push Europe's internet registry away from cloud-first strategy17 days ago
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand19 days ago
AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking23 days ago
Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms3 days ago
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger5 days ago
Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal7 days ago
Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement7 days ago
BT and Verizon spin off international networking arms into $4B joint venture7 days ago
End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service7 days ago
Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses7 days ago
Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled12 days ago
O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date13 days ago
AI AND ML -- Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop -- Prompting less and automating more comes with a price11 days ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit -- 200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down10 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft -- Maybe sometimes users know best11 days ago
Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update -- Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications11 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise -- That's public service media such as the BBC, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport11 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them -- Consumption-based pricing and scant cost controls are sending monthly bills into five figures, Gartner warns11 days ago
Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them -- Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition12 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC -- Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project11 days ago
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia -- A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest12 days ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched1 day ago
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time -- SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world5 days ago
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule5 days ago
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands -- It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix5 days ago
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead6 days ago
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track -- Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station6 days ago
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM8 days ago
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says10 days ago
They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI9 days ago
Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars -- Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home11 days ago
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch -- Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite13 days ago
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage -- Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen13 days ago
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart -- TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had14 days ago
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems -- One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here14 days ago
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?14 days ago
EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife -- Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation16 days ago
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package16 days ago
Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones -- Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes17 days ago
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting -- Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches17 days ago
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM18 days ago
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars -- Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements20 days ago
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build -- 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts21 days ago
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities21 days ago
US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses -- L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets22 days ago
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs -- Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register23 days ago
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway -- A blast from the past greets commuters23 days ago
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000 -- Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut23 days ago
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans -- It's just not cricket24 days ago
Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers -- We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?25 days ago
Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR -- Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 199925 days ago
Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks -- Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can27 days ago
NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear -- What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?28 days ago
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships -- If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship29 days ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft1 month ago
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right -- TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations1 month ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh1 month ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals1 month ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder1 month ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck1 month ago
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers -- A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign1 month ago
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship -- Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors1 month ago
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice -- AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh1 month ago
UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties -- Low-cost laser-guided rockets offer cheaper way to swat Shahed-style threats than firing pricey air-to-air missiles1 month ago
SCIENCE -- Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon -- Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind13 days ago
On-PREM - 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' -- The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention12 days ago
Japan's asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock12 hours ago
NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year2 days ago
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time4 days ago
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great6 days ago
Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave -- Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast18 days ago
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job -- The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is18 days ago
NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment -- Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve20 days ago
NASA management wants a word and won't say why -- A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew21 days ago
Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks25 days ago
NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal -- Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered26 days ago
You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials -- Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate10 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions -- Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost11 days ago
AI and ML -- Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker -- The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack12 days ago
Security -- Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era -- Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP10 days ago
