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Tiny11 puts Windows 11 on a diet without the PowerShell workout -- New desktop app simplifies stripping out bundled software, with heavier cuts carrying security and support risks

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Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support -- Decades of cross-platform character corruption finally comes to an end for Windows coders

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Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable -- If you thought 1.6 Tbps was fast, just wait, Cisco's USFP targets 12.8 Tbps in a single optical pluggable

2 minutes ago

cyber-crime - Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff' 37% of ransomware attacks involve psychological or physical threats, global survey found

10 hours ago

paas and iaas - Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset' Jefferies wonders if LLMs will ever beprofitable during the 'ongoing collapse in token pricing'

22 hours ago

os platforms - Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot - 'Learn More' shortcut to local setup reportedly patched server-side, leaving users with more involved workarounds

2 days ago

APPLICATIONS -- Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition -- Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah...

1 day ago

Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world -- Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are

2 days ago

Raspberry Pi Desktop catches up with Debian 13 after 4-year wait - Want a lightweight GUI OS for an old PC? Try this first

2 days ago

security - AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready - Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'

2 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment -- Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders

1 day ago

BOFH: Smells like team spirit -- EPISODE 19 -- In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses

5 days ago

software - Whose roadmap is your software estate running on? SPONSORED POST: Vendor roadmaps set the pace of change in most enterprise software estates. Origina argues the business should.

5 days ago

India's tech giants shrug off changes to USA's skilled visa program -- As Microsoft denies alleged 'fraud and abuse' that sparked the tweaks

5 days ago

SECURITY -- High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers -- The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47483

1 day ago

New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs -- DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades

2 minutes ago

VIRTUALIZATION -- IBM offloads 'hundreds' of its cloudy VMware customers -- Broadcom partner 11:11 picks 'em up ahead of channel death deadline

5 days ago

Ransomware fixer claimed he could decrypt files, allegedly defrauded clients instead -- Feds claim he charged clients more than ransoms, paid up, pocketed the difference

3 days ago

ai and ml - OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties

2 minutes ago

SCIENCE -- Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to -- Talking to an X-ray nanoprobe beamline is far better than talking to a toaster, we assume

6 days ago

Veeam stars in inaugural Gartner Privacy user experience MQ

2 minutes ago

VIRTUALIZATION -- Nine in 10 VMware customers eye the exit as licensing bills bite -- Rimini Street-sponsored survey finds 48% have no plans to move workloads to Broadcom's preferred subscription platform

6 days ago

Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note

1 month ago

SECURITY -- Anthropic reconfigures its cool kids security program -- Company's Project Glasswing and Cyber Verification Program metamorphose into triple tier threat hunting club

6 days ago

Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim - Millions of automated requests may have contributed to partial Wikidata outage in May

5 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Microsoft extends the Outlook naughty step with two more file types -- You didn't really want to be sending around .msix and .msixbundle files, did you?

6 days ago

Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom -- Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system

6 days ago

KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it -- Staff in AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing told the consultation is over, with notices due Friday

8 days ago

Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse

21 hours ago

OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text - Compliance, we've heard of it

8 days ago

Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system -- Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all

8 days ago

Citrix NetScaler security snafus get even worse amid more 0-day reports -- The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service

7 days ago

SYSTEMS -- Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators -- Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?

2 minutes ago

OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads

2 minutes ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch -- AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally

8 days ago

The question you would ask HPE and NVIDIA if nobody was recording - The Register's data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE's and NVIDIA's AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.

1 day ago

Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care - All this, and angry NeoVim users

7 days ago

HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years

3 days ago

Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows -- Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says

7 days ago

SECURITY -- OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worse -- Mostly 'routine research tasks,' and 'some involved government websites, which our models often use,' AI giant tells The Reg

8 days ago

security - Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam's approval

5 days ago

VIRTUALIZATION -- The VMware exit is a protection upgrade -- PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity

9 days ago

Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch -- Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price

12 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three -- Operation KillSwitch takes over leak site holding at least 110 TB of stolen data

8 days ago

Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand -- Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply

9 days ago

Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40 -- The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today

10 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Met Police suspends use of phone-hacking software over Russian links -- Scotland Yard hits pause after US prosecutors trace supposedly American tech back to Moscow

12 days ago

Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting -- Sales calls can be even nastier than support calls

7 days ago

KPMG tech and data boss tells staff facing the boot he's getting promoted -- Exclusive -- Paul Henninger shares news of his move up via email as around 200 colleagues prepare for redundancy

2 hours ago

Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code -- When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo

16 hours ago

OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper -- FBI alleges covert recorder was plugged into a TV, with a second device later discovered in the employee's bag

4 hours ago

Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks -- The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices

18 hours ago

The AI math isn't mathing as infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue -- Analyst predicts 80% of neoclouds will disappear as standalone businesses by 2030

5 hours ago

public sector - UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns - Whitehall's digital staffing falls short of its own target as ministers leave the skills gap unresolved

6 hours ago

It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill -- New models arrive so fast, we already have more new tech than it's possible to understand in a career

6 hours ago

CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many -- Nick Andersen wants to work with private industry on security, but the Trump admin has taken an axe to such efforts.

4 hours ago

OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt -- Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions

3 hours ago

SAAS -- Microsoft celebrates end of Office 2021 LTSC with MS 365 outage -- So how's that cloud migration working out for German and UK users?

38 minutes ago

OS PLATFORMS -- NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS -- Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations

1 hour ago

AI AND ML -- AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns -- Financial watchdog fears AI spending bust could rattle markets, with mounting debt and cyberattacks adding to the headache

3 hours ago

Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude

4 days ago

'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people

23 hours ago

Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users

18 hours ago

When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS

12 hours ago

No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally

2 hours ago

OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian -- By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion -- Corey Quinn

2 days ago

AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure -- What's wrong with being a great wholesaler? -- Corey Quinn

5 days ago

Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage -- Rupert Goodwins

2 days ago

Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

5 days ago

In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols -- Bruce Davie

3 days ago

Your cloud survived everything except the real world -- Rupert Goodwins

6 days ago

Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

12 days ago

Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Rupert Goodwins

13 days ago

The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Rupert Goodwins

19 days ago

A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's -- Corey Quinn

20 days ago

Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

1 month ago

Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring - Rupert Goodwins

2 days ago

European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene -- Moody's forecasts server farms could consume 17% of Dutch electricity and 30% of Ireland's by 2035

23 hours ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK Cabinet Office takes £7.8M hit to kill off recruitment system -- Department told to ditch it to get back in line with Shared Services Strategy, plus faces £8.9M fine for IR35 shambles

6 hours ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks -- Ministers promised faster decisions, but campaigners say the technology is making mistakes while asylum processing times are getting worse

7 hours ago

SAAS -- Microsoft blames a configuration change for Exchange Admin Center tumble -- Rollback fixed things, but stop us if you've heard this before

16 hours ago

ai and ml - Which AI infrastructure option actually holds a boundary? EVENT - Just over two weeks before The Register's Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture.

1 day ago

UCLA settles Oracle ERP dispute with $3.1M in credits and $1.31M wiped off the bill -- University alleged cloud software couldn't meet its needs after years of delays to financial systems overhaul

2 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- London cabbies want Sadiq Khan to slam the brakes on robotaxis -- Union urges Mayor to halt driverless taxi rollout as City Hall report raises questions about safety, congestion, and who's actually in charge

1 day ago

Imagine there's no Shiny Hunters – AI could make human hacking crews obsolete -- This week on The Kettle, we discuss some arrests and how Mythos' mathematical expertise has led to a second exploited bug that no human would have found

5 hours ago

When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS -- How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint.

2 days ago

Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips -- Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030

3 days ago

Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers -- Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites

21 hours ago

columnists - EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software - OPINION - EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup withElement, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev -- The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures

2 days ago

SECURITY -- AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials -- Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier

22 hours ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage -- What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again

2 days ago

NETWORKS -- Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters -- SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.

2 days ago

AI AND ML -- Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world -- Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in

2 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand -- Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring

2 days ago

SECURITY -- Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch -- No word on exploitation status, but a 9.5 severity score suggests time is of the essence

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude -- New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference

5 days ago

PAAS AND IAAS -- Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill -- Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired as separate Marketplace charges piled up

2 days ago

systems - Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - FEATURE - Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

22 days ago

cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

27 days 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 procurement

3 months ago

US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B

2 hours ago

Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative

7 days ago

Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop

15 days ago

Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain

15 days ago

Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public

19 days ago

GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in

22 days ago

Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers

1 month ago

The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech

1 month ago

European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan

2 months ago

Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester

2 months ago

So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes -- Octocats claim 35x write improvement

5 days ago

Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter -- Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex

5 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI -- Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage

4 days ago

SECURITY -- US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide -- Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in

1 day ago

HPC -- Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance -- Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers

4 days ago

AI AND ML -- There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero -- The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work

4 days ago

TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal -- Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters

5 days ago

Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster -- If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE

5 days ago

Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise -- Credential-stealing malware detected within minutes of npm release, but impact remains unknown

1 day ago

Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks -- 96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 2027

1 day ago

AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit -- CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November

1 day ago

Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell -- Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake

5 days ago

Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price -- AI demand fattens chipmakers' margins while cheaper PCs and phones become harder to produce profitably

6 days ago

Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up -- Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity

7 days ago

Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work -- If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...

12 days ago

RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates 'much higher' prices -- Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come

13 days ago

Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms -- Researchers corroborate parts of Silent Ransom Group dump detailing crypto payouts, cash brokers, and recruitment

1 day ago

Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive -- Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness

5 days ago

Fighting GenAI with GenAI: The New Email Security Landscape -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Old attack, new protections

5 days ago

Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90 -- Her team's code kept Apollo 11's landing on course when the guidance computer became overloaded

19 hours ago

Rust upstart reveals 'reimplementation' of Microsoft Office – with Claude on coding duty -- ArtCraft adds Word, Excel, and PowerPoint lookalikes to its open source lineup, but they're not ready for production

5 days ago

CrowdStrike finds possible bank hacker's CV among exposed AI logs -- Suspected Chinese speaker used Claude Code and agentic pentesting tool ARTEX in attacks on South Korean lenders

2 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny -- Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six others agree to changes, but the ICO isn't done asking questions

5 days ago

SECURITY -- UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms -- Security pact promises information-sharing and coordinated disruption, but offers little detail on agencies or funding

2 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Windows Search learns to take orders -- Preview lets users change settings and carry out tasks directly from a tidier results list

5 days ago

Data Sovereignty By Design -- If data location is only part of the answer, this event will help you think more clearly about what genuine control requires and where to focus next.

18 hours ago

Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.

1 month ago

Escaping the Postgres Optimization Treadmill -- Learn why high-volume, time-series workloads can push PostgreSQL beyond the limits of routine optimization.

12 days ago

Lessons from deploying high-performance & resilient AI fabrics at hyperscalers, frontier model builders and neo-clouds -- This session covers key AI data center trends, MRC/UEC architectures, customer requirements and how HPE Juniper Networking addresses those needs.

12 days ago

A Flexible Path from VMware to Nutanix on Azure -- Nutanix experts discuss VMware customer challenges and key considerations for planning a migration to the public cloud.

15 days ago

AI Isn't the New Threat. It's the New Clock. -- In June, two compromised Azure service principals took 15 hours to map a tenant, then about seven minutes to delete most of its storage.

18 hours ago

The Enterprise Platform for the AI Era: Unifying VMs, Kubernetes, and Agentic AI -- Join Nutanix experts to explore how NCI and NKP simplify operations, optimize GPU investments, and power AI across datacenter, cloud, and edge.

4 days ago

Fifty First Prompts: What to Do When Your LLM Suffers From Daily Amnesia -- Your LLM is encyclopedic about the world and blank about your organization.

22 hours ago

Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.

25 days ago

Business of the Year: Organized Cybercrime. -- If there were an award for the industry making the biggest moves this year, organized cybercrime would be a top contender.

18 days ago

Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.

25 days ago

Data Sovereignty in the AI Era -- As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .

26 days ago

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5 months ago

SCIENCE -- Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks' -- Understanding why our nearest star does what it does

6 days ago

SECURITY -- Cheapskates wouldn't pay for security help, got hit by ransomware, and went bust months later -- The owner knew a guy...

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Embedding the human factor into AI agent adoption -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Making the link between business strategy and how the workforce adopts technology will be crucial to business success in the agentic AI era

6 days ago

It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat -- The ALBATROSS has landed

6 days ago

AI AND ML -- Singapore's central bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review -- Failures of third-party services no excuse for island nation's financial sector

5 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system -- But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?

5 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra -- Poverty-spec model starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of RAM and 512GB of storage with 128 GB models topping $5,899

6 days ago

SECURITY -- Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs -- Trusted brand impersonation without the usual browser certificate warnings spells trouble

4 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* -- Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin

13 days ago

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal -- Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

25 days ago

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line -- Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'

1 month ago

Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push

1 month ago

Cisco Turns Its Attention To The Control Layers Of Its Quantum Network

10 hours ago

Microsoft's "Clea" Maia 300 Inference XPU Is A Bandwidth Beast

18 hours ago

Upscale AI Partners With Nvidia While Competing With It

4 days ago

Memory Is The Lynchpin Of The IT Industry, And Doubly So For AI

6 days ago

Uvi gives AI agents enterprise context

3 hours ago

Marvell boosts CXL-connected memory capacity and speed with AI in mind

22 hours ago

TapeArk moves tape libraries to public cloud VTLs for lower cost and higher speed

23 hours ago

When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS

1 day ago

Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster

4 days ago

TCP is failing AI, but Stanford's Homa is here to help

11 days ago

Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust

17 days ago

RESEARCH -- Browser-in-browser attacks use fake Meta Muse Ad lure to steal credentials -- Wiley fisherfolk spin up a new page just days after Meta's AI agent launch

5 days ago

AI AND ML -- AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters -- Strands Box is the latest open source AI control tool from the cloud giant; like its predecessors, it promises tighter reins on autonomous agents

5 days ago

SECURITY -- US states sue popular kitmaker TP-Link over China risks -- Router maker rejects allegations it misled buyers about protection and its reliance on Chinese suppliers

5 days ago

SECURITY -- Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers -- Quoth the LLM, 'More and more'

5 days ago

AI AND ML -- When one datacenter is no longer enough -- SPONSORED POST: Why training AI across multiple sites is creating a new networking challenge

6 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels -- Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel

6 days ago

FortiBleed still a bleeding nuisance as FBI confirms ongoing attacks -- Tens of thousands more victims and more ransomware groups getting in on the act

5 days ago

Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism -- David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-coded bakeoff produced curious results

6 days ago

COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in -- System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore

7 days ago

From reactive to proactive: How endpoint monitoring is fixing broken meeting rooms -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Cloud-based telemetry is turning meeting rooms into managed endpoints, letting IT teams anticipate failures rather than scramble once users complain

7 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks -- 'Complete security paradigm refresh' needed for the AI era

6 days ago

AI AND ML -- Anthropic Claude subscription plan provides more value than OpenAI's, study says -- Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes

6 days ago

NETWORKS -- Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it

1 day ago

NETWORKS -- Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill

6 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix

19 days ago

personal tech - User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key - Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work

8 days ago

personal tech - Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call

8 days ago

Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

1 month ago

Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support

1 month ago

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

1 month ago

security - Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing - Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached

12 days ago

Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations -- Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'

14 days ago

Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning -- Just wait until you hear the bad news

3 days ago

Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core -- Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website

14 days ago

Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter -- Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here

19 days ago

Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real -- With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length

19 days ago

Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down -- Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna

21 days ago

AI AND ML -- European AI flag bearer Mistral's new open weights model is 'Le Chonk' -- Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month

6 days ago

SECURITY -- Trump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device -- All that glitters ...

6 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Classic Outlook clings to stale search results as Microsoft works on a fix -- Moved messages linger and throw errors when clicked, leaving Windows Desktop Search as the workaround

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets -- Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances

6 days ago

SECURITY -- Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion -- Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified

5 days ago

SECURITY -- Denmark's ID register spills more people's details than the country has residents -- Abuse of private firm's access exposed 8.8M records, including those of people who had died or moved abroad

6 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running -- Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services

8 days ago

Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station -- No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety

8 days ago

AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org -- Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds

8 days ago

EU's hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank -- RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too

8 days ago

Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure -- Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name

10 days ago

MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies -- Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law

11 days ago

CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch -- Replacing letters with symbols still doesn't make it good.

8 days ago

England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents -- Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is

11 days ago

UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ -- The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control

11 days ago

Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry -- Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they'll get pregnant, says survey

11 days ago

OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper

4 hours ago

Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing

19 hours ago

Cyberattacks crank French supermarket refrigeration systems up to 50°C

1 day ago

'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people

1 day ago

Owner of fashion brands Hobbs and Whistles joins autumn pwned collection

1 day ago

VMware is pushing so many patches, it thinks users need new tools to manage the flood

1 day ago

Chatbot refuseniks edge out users in the US, and they're not for turning

1 day ago

Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline

2 days ago

Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products -- Tells users 'action required' – but maybe don't make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug

6 days ago

Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw -- Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem

8 days ago

Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies -- Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs -- Like OpenClaw but with access control

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool -- Meet RemoveMacAI

7 days ago

SECURITY -- FBI confirms 'multiple' arrests related to ShinyHunters hack -- Another few bite the dust

7 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue -- AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2

8 days ago

AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs -- Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions

12 days ago

Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services -- Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how

13 days ago

Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI -- First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition

22 days ago

Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them -- USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam

22 days ago

AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth -- Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap

25 days ago

AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap

26 days ago

AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good -- Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible

28 days ago

Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute

1 month ago

Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing -- Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen

7 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP -- Warhammer set in 40,000? Yes, ERP projects can seem to take that long

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it -- Pay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle

6 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text -- GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again

9 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double -- How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?

9 days ago

AI AND ML -- Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what -- Meta isn't helping — or perhaps it is

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it -- I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before

8 days ago

To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work

2 days ago

Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed

9 days ago

Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data

16 days ago

Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on

23 days ago

Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button

26 days ago

Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire

26 days ago

Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up

26 days ago

Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory

1 month ago

Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard

1 month ago

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

2 months ago

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

2 months ago

Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data

2 months ago

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

2 months ago

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

3 months ago

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

3 months ago

Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess

3 months ago

How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!

3 months ago

Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet

3 months ago

Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug

4 months ago

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

4 months ago

Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in

4 months ago

Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything

4 months ago

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

4 months ago

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

5 months ago

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

5 months ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

5 months ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

5 months ago

The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe

5 months ago

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

5 months ago

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

5 months ago

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

5 months ago

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

5 months ago

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

5 months ago

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

5 months ago

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

5 months ago

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

5 months ago

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

5 months ago

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

5 months ago

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

5 months ago

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause

1 month ago

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

5 months ago

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

5 months ago

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

5 months ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work

3 months ago

Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

5 months ago

Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people

5 months ago

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

5 months ago

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

5 months ago

'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'

5 months ago

Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

5 months ago

Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount

16 days ago

Europe's internet registry wants governance 'correction' because its 'Executive Board' is not the executive

20 days ago

Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes

21 days ago

Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal

23 days ago

Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable

38 minutes ago

Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users

1 day ago

No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally

1 day ago

Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's

2 days ago

SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier

4 days ago

ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains

6 days ago

BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected

9 days ago

Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP

12 days ago

Clever database, but can it run Doom? -- Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'

11 days ago

Palantir's fondness for French food cooked up tech's latest fad – forward-deployed engineers -- Embedded consultants who get you up to speed on new tech in a hurry aren't new, but they meet the AI moment

11 days ago

Google hearts Apple's Swift so much it's pumping out server-side support -- After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal

10 days ago

Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent -- Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!

11 days ago

AI AND ML -- arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide -- Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena -- Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong

8 days ago

ON-PREM -- Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter -- Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk

9 days ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI shows three staff the door over alleged information misuse -- Two safety researchers and a program manager dismissed, company denies retaliation for raising concerns

9 days ago

WHITEPAPERS -- Quobyte Delivers on the Promise of GPU Converged Storage -- AI infrastructure has a simple but expensive truth: GPU servers contain far more than just GPUs.

10 hours ago

Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report -- Copilot builds charts and metrics from spreadsheet data, with automatic refreshes when the numbers change

12 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50 -- Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM

9 days ago

SECURITY -- Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day -- No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches

8 days ago

Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno -- Tick, tick, tick, tick, ticket, ticket, tick tick

3 hours ago

US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway -- Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year

5 days ago

NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors -- Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up

5 days ago

Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra -- What the f?

6 days ago

Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing -- Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?

6 days ago

Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb -- Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity

7 days ago

Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes -- So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda

13 days ago

YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator -- If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have

13 days ago

Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates -- A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption

14 days ago

Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time -- The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers

14 days ago

Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business -- Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well

14 days ago

Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short -- SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three

15 days ago

What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? -- A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger

15 days ago

Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites -- Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats

18 days ago

Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective! -- Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation

19 days ago

iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink -- 3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance

19 days ago

Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology -- Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options

20 days ago

Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper -- Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance

20 days ago

A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch -- Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?

21 days ago

BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth -- MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored

21 days ago

UK's uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes -- XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests

21 days ago

Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water -- Meet 'superintelligence' and the 'globalist scheme' – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it

21 days ago

NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon -- Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain

23 days ago

It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity -- Please release me, let me close...

23 days ago

British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky -- Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas

26 days ago

Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel -- He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to

27 days ago

Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow -- HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually

28 days ago

US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?

29 days ago

UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off -- The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze

29 days ago

The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware

1 month ago

The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen

1 month ago

Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades

1 month ago

Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project

1 month ago

US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government

1 month ago

Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates

1 month ago

UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo -- Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense

1 month ago

'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda -- No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets

1 month ago

British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%

1 month ago

SCIENCE -- Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer' -- The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent

18 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed

24 days ago

AI AND ML -- Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?

25 days ago

SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific

28 days ago

Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips

3 days ago

Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks'

6 days ago

Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to

6 days ago

Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb

7 days ago

Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract -- Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award

29 days ago

Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists -- Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures

1 month ago

Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded

1 month ago

Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour

1 month ago

BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches

1 month ago

NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028

1 month ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco -- Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline

12 days ago

Flight delayed? So are these codec updates -- A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport

12 days ago

AI AND ML -- Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support -- To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component

12 days ago