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Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor - NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace - Security - 21 Apr 2026 - |7 minutes ago
Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears -- Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint -- OSes -- 21 Apr 20267 minutes ago
Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide -- Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot' -- Security -- 21 Apr 20267 minutes ago
Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months -- Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall -- Networks5 hours ago
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match - Review - An $899 CPU? In this economy? Personal Tech - 21 Apr 2026 - | 147 minutes ago
AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in -- Opinion -- We've been here before. This time, we may not get out -- AI + ML1 day ago
Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay -- kettle -- Aren't we all just prompting tokens of linguistic meaning and hoping the other person isn't bullshitting us? -- Security1 day ago
I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns -- OPINION -- Passing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturity -- Security2 days ago
Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus - Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director - Devops - 19 Apr 2026 - | 241 day ago
Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus - UPDATED - A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports7 hours ago
Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet -- Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law22 hours ago
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match - Review - An $899 CPU? In this economy?3 hours ago
Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it8 hours ago
More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks -- CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch -- Patches4 hours ago
macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets -- Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up -- Cyber-crime6 hours ago
Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks -- Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes -- Software6 hours ago
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping -- Change is glacial, but the direction is clear -- Databases7 hours ago
Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords -- Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million -- Cyber-crime8 hours ago
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume -- Science8 hours ago
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching - On Call - All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside23 hours ago
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account - CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |6 hours ago
Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies -- Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected -- Cyber-crime8 hours ago
Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters -- No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little -- Security11 hours ago
England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one -- 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork -- Personal Tech12 hours ago
Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it -- Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee -- OSes13 hours ago
Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul - Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |13 hours ago
Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture -- Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment -- Security14 hours ago
Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it -- Security15 hours ago
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess -- Science18 hours ago
Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch -- Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us. -- Devops22 hours ago
Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus - UPDATED - A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports - Security - 20 Apr 2026 - | 174 hours ago
Imagine An Army Of AI Minions Handling Incident Response5 hours ago
AI Will Soon Drive A Third Of TSMC's Business22 hours ago
Bechtolsheim & Friends Breathe Life Into Pluggable Optics One Last Time4 days ago
How HPC And AI Digital Twins Accelerate Quantum Error Correction4 days ago
Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy - Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash23 hours ago
Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again -- The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions -- On-Prem22 hours ago
World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home -- Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple -- Systems23 hours ago
Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter -- Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit -- Public Sector1 day ago
Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet -- Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law -- Security1 day ago
Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software -- OSes1 day ago
Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US -- Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currency -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant' -- Science1 day ago
Google previews Android CLI for new world of agentic development1 hour ago
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue4 days ago
Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work5 days ago
GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs5 days ago
NeuBird plans a bright future for incident response - Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes - Sponsored Feature6 hours ago
Schmoozebots: Study finds flattery will get AI everywhere -- Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete -- AI + ML12 hours ago
One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all - Updated - US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders - PaaS + IaaS - 20 Apr 2026 - | 181 hour ago
New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans -- Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball -- Software1 day ago
Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes -- Out-of-band or out of control? -- OSes1 day ago
AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London -- Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts -- On-Prem1 day ago
UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite -- Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects -- AI + ML1 day ago
Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage - Those that don't have one thing in common - Sponsored Feature1 day ago
Wasabi gets quarter billion credit facility7 hours ago
Amid memory crunch, PEAKAiO pushes pNFS software to speed older servers10 hours ago
Kioxia debuts fast QLC slablet SSD for PC makers10 hours ago
EuroStack and the kill switch1 day ago
HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life -- Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place -- Science1 day ago
Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break -- £330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform -- PaaS + IaaS1 day ago
Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing -- Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use -- On-Prem1 day ago
Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise -- Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident -- Security1 day ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild -- Who, Me? -- You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom -- Bootnotes1 day ago
NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown -- Science1 day ago
Indonesia's game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more! -- Public Sector1 day ago
Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands - Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises4 days ago
How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI -- Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI25 days ago
Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock1 month ago
Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix1 month ago
Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale -- Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed -- AI + ML3 days ago
Atlassian's new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest -- From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier -- SaaS3 days ago
Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors -- Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes -- Systems4 days ago
Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams -- The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model -- AI + ML4 days ago
CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack -- Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list -- Security4 days ago
Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker -- Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse -- Security4 days ago
Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems -- We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit -- PaaS + IaaS4 days ago
A beginner's guide to GPU virtualization: passthrough, vGPU, and MIG - What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware. Partner Content5 days ago
Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades -- Starts new one on boot loops -- PaaS + IaaS4 days ago
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms -- Science4 days ago
Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned -- Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 -- Personal Tech4 days ago
Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug -- University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast -- Personal Tech4 days ago
Would you like fries with that terminal? Bork!Bork!Bork! Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't - Offbeat - 17 Apr 2026 - | 201 day ago
Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks -- Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money -- Public Sector4 days ago
Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 -- Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software -- Security4 days ago
IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure -- Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups -- Networks4 days ago
Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day -- Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory -- Networks4 days ago
IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google -- We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer -- Networks4 days ago
Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say -- Bug or feature? -- Security4 days ago
Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers -- Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform -- AI + ML5 days ago
