GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger - Opinion - Proposal targets long-standing behavior as 'an X11ism' OSes - 07 Jan 2026 - | 17

15 minutes ago

Congress ctrl-Zs bulk of proposed cuts to NASA science -- Fate of Shuttle Discovery remains conspicuously unaddressed in FY2026 agreement text

6 hours ago

What if Linux ran Windows... and meant it? Meet Loss32 -- It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work

6 hours ago

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results -- Wanted: Chief Disinformation Officer to pollute company knowledge graphs

20 hours ago

One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on -- Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials

14 hours ago

Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025 -- Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year -- On-Prem

1 hour ago

Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions -- Committee told shifting timelines could alter automatic reversals in UK's historic Fujitsu computing scandal -- Public Sector

1 hour ago

Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack -- High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted -- Cyber-crime

2 hours ago

Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath -- Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3 -- Cyber-crime

3 hours ago

Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery - Bork!Bork!Bork! The rise will be postponed until you hit F1 to continue - Offbeat - 07 Jan 2026 - | 8

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HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations -- Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid -- Security

4 hours ago

UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go -- Department for Work and Pensions lines up bot bouncers for one of Europe's largest call-handling systems -- Public Sector

5 hours ago

Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll -- The company has also redesigned the X1 Carbon's internals for easier repairs -- Personal Tech

14 hours ago

Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires -- Amazon's community surveillance biz bets on AI to recognize danger -- AI + ML

14 hours ago

HackerOne 'ghosted' me for months over $8,500 bug bounty, says researcher -- Long after CVEs issued and open source flaws fixed -- Security

15 hours ago

Snowflake gets frosty with Google Gemini - Munge that corporate data using the LLM of your choice - AI + ML - 06 Jan 2026 - |

4 hours ago

AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention - An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter

14 hours ago

Brave refurbishes Rust adblocking engine for reduced memory footprint - Have your privacy cake and consume the web too - Applications - 06 Jan 2026 - | 12

2 hours ago

Optimus Schmoptimus - Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot is already in mass production - CES 2026 - Atlas will be deployed to Hyundai and Google facilities this year - AI + ML - 06 Jan 2026 - | 16

3 hours ago

Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale - Crimson Collective claims 'sophisticated attack' Cyber-crime - 06 Jan 2026 - |

17 hours ago

Lego crams an ASIC in a brick to keep kids interested -- Neat idea, but with no mention of a dev kit it's another sign of Lego's descent into designing nothing but fun on rails -- Offbeat

21 hours ago

What if Linux ran Windows... and meant it? Meet Loss32 -- It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work -- OSes

21 hours ago

StockHistory function becomes StockMystery as Microsoft Excel bugs out -- New Year glitch leaves users staring at connection errors instead of market data -- Applications

1 day ago

No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric - AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house - Databases - 06 Jan 2026 - |

22 hours ago

Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike -- Samsung and SK hynix readying another gouge as server silicon squeeze leaves PCs and phones out in the cold -- Systems

1 day ago

Fake Windows BSODs check in at Europe's hotels to con staff into running malware -- Phishers posing as Booking.com use panic-inducing blue screens to bypass security controls -- Research

1 day ago

Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one -- Also: The XPS brand is back -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Congress ctrl-Zs bulk of proposed cuts to NASA science -- Fate of Shuttle Discovery remains conspicuously unaddressed in FY2026 agreement text -- Science

1 day ago

AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute

1 day ago

Nvidia's Vera-Rubin Platform Obsoletes Current AI Iron Six Months Ahead Of Launch

1 day ago

Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia

14 days ago

Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing

15 days ago

Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching - It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse

14 hours ago

Crypto wallet shop Ledger confirms customer data lifted in Global-e snafu -- Order and contact details accessed via ecommerce partner, and phishing has begun -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow -- Campaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results -- Wanted: Chief Disinformation Officer to pollute company knowledge graphs -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT -- Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd -- Central government will supposedly be as secure as energy facilities and datacenters under new proposals -- Public Sector

1 day ago

AI's grand promise: Less drudgery, more complexity, same (or lower) pay -- Workers face new mental health pressures as they shift from doing tasks to babysitting agentic AI -- AI + ML

1 day ago

One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on -- Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready

23 hours ago

Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help

1 day ago

Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

19 days ago

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

21 days 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

23 hours ago

Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks -- Notebook updates and enterprise tools also inbound from IT giant -- Systems

1 day ago

AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched -- New chips same as the old chips -- Systems

1 day ago

Intel unleashes Panther Lake CPUs, first built on 18A process -- Company claims its Ultra Series 3 processors will offer the best battery life yet -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

WD Black and Blue replaced by Sandisk Optimus branding

1 hour ago

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver

22 hours ago

Storage Ticker – 6 January 2026

22 hours ago

Nvidia pushes AI inference context out to NVMe SSDs

1 day ago

Nvidia says it's more than doubled the DGX Spark's performance since launch -- Just maybe not in the way you're thinking -- Systems

1 day ago

Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES -- Teasing the next generation earlier than usual -- Systems

1 day ago

Claude devs complain about surprise usage limits, Anthropic blames expiring bonus -- Holiday hangover? -- AI + ML

1 day 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

5 days ago

ServiceNow snags Microsoft vet to run legal amid M&A spree -- Hossein Nowbar waged antitrust battles and created new legal policies around AI for Redmond -- SaaS

1 day ago

ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money -- One man's failing healthcare system is another man's opportunity -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Congrats, cybercrims: You just fell into a honeypot -- A subpoena has been issued, apparently -- Security

1 day ago

Playing Koi: Palo Alto isn't saying if it will buy security start-up -- CEO Nikesh Arora's trip to Tel Aviv last month sparked rumors. -- Security

1 day ago

Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer -- With no hardware for sale and no local service agreement, SpaceX's move looks more like politics than philanthropy -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips -- Enterprises have been slow to adopt Arm laptops so far -- Systems

1 day ago

EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them -- US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes -- Legal

1 day ago

The last supported version of HP-UX is no more -- Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it does -- OSes

1 day ago

UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help -- Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes -- Exclusive -- Outsourcer promises customers a service with 'AI at its core.' They just want a website that works -- Public Sector

1 day ago

New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack -- Government 'incredibly' concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it -- Opinion -- From buried settings to geopolitical risk, the business model is surveillance -- Edge + IoT

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

1 month 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

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble -- Who, Me? -- Meet the 'Mean Avenger', the office anti-hero who steps in when managers don't defend their team -- Software

2 days ago

Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions -- infosec in brief -- Also, Korean Air hacked, EmEditor installer hijacked, a perfect 10 router RCE vuln, and more -- Security

2 days ago

Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026's biggest insider threat -- interview -- Lock 'em down -- Security

3 days ago

Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot - Rust veteran Steve Klabnik is using an LLM to explore memory safety without garbage collection - AI + ML - 03 Jan 2026 - | 67

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Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it -- Repeat after me: Chatbots are not sentient and have no agency -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025 -- But how about some smart glasses instead? -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop -- Exec argues we need a new metaphor focused on AI as a lever rather than a job killer -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature

18 days ago

Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release -- Netflix documentary part 2 in the works? -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities -- For the bargain price of 6.5 bitcoin -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage -- EU 'closely monitoring' along with NATO as state action suspected but not confirmed -- Networks

4 days ago

Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars -- A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who'd rather skip AI assistants -- Applications

4 days ago

Google snaps up datacenter power biz Intersect while xAI plans more capacity -- The AI era needs more juice -- Systems

4 days ago

Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems -- Jacob Riggs is set to swap London for Sydney some time in the next year -- Security

4 days ago

Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns -- Move will see spacecraft shift from 550 km to 480 km as collision risks rise -- Networks

5 days ago

LockBit takedown architect gets New Year award from King Charles -- Gavin Webb orchestrated Operation Cronos as it pulled off the legendary disruption sting -- Cyber-crime

5 days ago

Safe CEO: AI is an assistant, not a replacement -- Interview -- There is no automated substitute for experienced staff, and 'if there's one thing AI has a never-ending thirst for ... it's data' -- AI + ML

5 days ago

The Y2K bug delayed my honeymoon ... by 17 years! -- ON CALL Y2K -- More tales of apocalypse avoided - including in an animal testing lab - and the hard work that made that possible -- Columnists

5 days ago

Satellite radio transmissions are jamming telescopes and driving astronomers batty -- Interview -- 'What do we need to do better?' El Reg talks to comms boss about the problem -- Science

4 days ago

Welcome to Wendy's! Before your order can be taken, you must first reset this kiosk -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Do you want bork with that? -- Offbeat

6 days ago