IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world, but don't call it a failure - Feature - The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant

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The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere -- From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear

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

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How Microsoft gave customers what they wanted: An audience with Bill Gates - Well kinda... Your call will be transferred to the next available assistant

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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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

11 hours 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

11 hours 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 - 02 Jan 2026 - | 19

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BOFH: The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct - Episode 25 - After the boardroom is ransacked, it's straight into Arse Covering 101

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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

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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

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How Microsoft gave customers what they wanted: An audience with Bill Gates -- Well kinda... Your call will be transferred to the next available assistant -- AI + ML -- 01 Jan 2026

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Nvidia DMs TSMC: Please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s -- GPUzilla has reportedly received orders for more than two million units -- Systems -- 31 Dec 2025

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US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots -- What, weekend warriors from Silicon Valley not good enough? -- Public Sector -- 31 Dec 2025

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European Space Agency hit again as cybercrims claim 200 GB data up for sale -- As in past incidents, ESA says the impact was limited to external systems -- Cyber-crime -- 31 Dec 2025

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IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world, but don't call it a failure -- Feature -- The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant -- Networks

2 days ago

Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong -- El Reg speculates about what GPUzilla really gets out of the deal -- Systems

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The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere -- Opinion -- From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear -- Software

2 days ago

Hong Kong's newest anti-scam technology is over-the-counter banking -- Funds in 'Money Safe' accounts are only available when customers appear for face-to-face verification -- Cyber-crime

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

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Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing

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HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand

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Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition

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'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work - Opinion - Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool

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Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum -- Pair became ALPHV affiliates to prey on US-based clients -- Cyber-crime

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New York's incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party -- Zohran Mamdani appears not to understand that smartphones can be used for evil -- Security

3 days ago

ServiceNow lays out possible co-CEO structure, but says no change imminent -- The ITSM outfit would join Oracle, Comcast, and Netflix in installing bunk beds in the corner office -- CxO

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iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers -- The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids -- Science

3 days ago

An early end to the holidays: 'Heartbleed of MongoDB' is now under active exploit -- You didn't think you'd get to enjoy your time off without a major cybersecurity incident, did you? -- Patches

3 days ago

Banksy's Limitless limited by Windows Activation - Bork!Bork!Bork! Digital screen snafu or satirical comment on Microsoft's licensing policies? OSes - 30 Dec 2025 - | 29

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When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight -- Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs -- AI + ML

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Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

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GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

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Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

17 days ago

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

18 days ago

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18 hours ago

Tis the season when tech leaders rub their crystal balls -- 2026 is the year where AI must meet ROI in the enterprise, and the key to delivering it is data governance. -- AI + ML

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We will be cruising at 35,000 feet and failing to update our Apache HTTP Server - Bork!Bork!Bork! Now replace the autopilot with Copilot - Offbeat - 30 Dec 2025 - | 37

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Korean telco failed at femtocell security, exposed customers to snooping and fraud -- One cert, in plaintext, on thousands of devices, led to what looks like years of crime -- Cyber-crime

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Project Silica's glass storage archive tech progress

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Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond

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Optera's room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive

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Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

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Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words - UPDATED - 'General agents' to infuse Meta's products real soon now - AI + ML - 30 Dec 2025 - | 28

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Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer -- The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday -- Systems

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Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims -- There's more where that came from, CEO says -- Cyber-crime

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14 days ago

Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online -- Extortion group Lovely claims to have stolen 40 million pieces of info from publisher Conde Nast -- Cyber-crime

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Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line -- There's a big salary up for grabs if you can handle a high-stress role with a track record of turnover -- AI + ML

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Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try -- Four completely non-AI-related trends that will shape the future -- Systems

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How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems -- 20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly -- Public Sector

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Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age -- Feature -- Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground -- PaaS + IaaS

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When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real -- On Call Y2K -- More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers -- Columnists

4 days ago

Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83 -- Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue's fortunes during the dotcom era -- On-Prem

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Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence -- Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more -- AI + ML

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Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025 - The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase - Cyber-crime - 28 Dec 2025 - | 14

3 days ago

Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death -- BORK!BORK!BORK! -- Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD -- Offbeat

3 days ago

SSL Santa greets London Victoria visitors with a borked update -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Best not touch that screen, eh? -- Offbeat

6 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.

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

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

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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

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Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome -- The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away -- AI + ML

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From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year -- Practice makes perfect -- Security

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From video games to cyber defense: If you don't think like a hacker, you won't win - interview - In supercharged AI race, defenders need to keep up - Security - 26 Dec 2025 - | 21

4 days ago

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed -- Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls -- Networks

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IT team forced to camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss's side project -- On Call Y2K -- The lack of trust that leads to outsourcing can be expensive -- Columnists

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Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow - Investment and interest have outpaced technology and society - AI + ML - 25 Dec 2025 - | 42

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AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top? -- Hands On -- Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths -- Systems

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You don't need Linux to run free and open source software -- Part 2 -- Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows -- OSes

8 days ago

Salesforce's ChatGPT integration is really about stopping customers from leaking their own data -- Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the 'trust boundary' -- AI + ML

8 days ago

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet -- opinion -- Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return? -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws -- AI goes off the rails ... because of shoddy guardrails -- Security

9 days ago

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance - Updated - ATC: 'I don't know if you can hear me but cleared to land' AI + ML - 24 Dec 2025 - | 93

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US shuts down phisherfolk's $14.6M password-hoarding platform -- Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts -- Cyber-crime

9 days ago

Waymo pings updates to San Francisco fleet to prevent power outage chaos 2.0 -- Meanwhile, new outages, linked to storms, are pelting the area -- AI + ML

9 days ago

Sight of Clippy, Internet Explorer scares baby -- Reg reader introduces newborn to Microsoft ugly sweater. Child not amused -- Offbeat

9 days ago

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement -- Feature -- Stuck in pilot purgatory? Confused about returns? You're not alone -- AI + ML

9 days ago

North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking -- A newspaper misprint began a Christmas Eve tradition joining holiday cheer with military technology -- Offbeat

9 days ago

NASA tries Curiosity rover's Mastcam to work out where MAVEN might be -- Time running out for savin' MAVEN as stricken spacecraft still silent as Mars solar conjunction nears -- Science

9 days ago

Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date -- Part 1 -- Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026 -- OSes

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