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Iranian spies hit Windows machines with Chosen Brick data-stealing malware - 'Enemies of the regime' on notice
5 hours ago
AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink -- Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack5 hours ago
The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches -- September Patch Tuesday part 2?4 hours ago
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email -- Attackers already exploiting the critical flaw, and Cisco warns they may be able to cover their tracks once they're in6 hours ago
Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors -- Security firm Infoblox shines light on malicious infrastructure lurking beneath illegal gambling sites5 hours 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 – eventually5 hours ago
Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS -- Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!5 hours ago
ai and ml - TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom - 'Jev' doesn't chat. It produces typed probabilistic decisions1 hour ago
America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them -- Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources8 hours ago
Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again -- Nitter's repository archived as of September 11, 202610 hours ago
Who's governing your AI? A trust framework for enterprise agents and models -- SPONSORED FEATURE: DigiCert wants to hand every agent a passport, an expiry date and a named human owner11 hours ago
cyber-crime - CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information - Forum post claims 7.49 million files up for grabs as Texas utility investigates breach12 hours ago
September's Windows 11 patch needs an emergency patch of its own -- Microsoft fixes RDP and Hyper-V fallout, but some USB audio stays silent12 hours ago
security - Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler - The man allegedly wrote the code that powered the Lockergoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim operations11 hours ago
Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail -- American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance13 hours ago
Microsoft account refuseniks have another way of installing Windows -- Has the good bork fairy paid a visit to Redmond?13 hours ago
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?14 hours ago
Gov.uk still struggling with IT contractor tax rules -- IR35 rules not getting easier for government departments14 hours ago
PostgreSQL 19 graph queries fail the 'would you ship this?' test -- SQL/PGQ gets bounced over unresolved bugs as concurrent REPACK promises fewer midnight calls for DBAs16 hours ago
Give Xfce a Mac or Unity-style makeover -- The existing layouts are fun, but there's much more we can do16 hours ago
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter17 hours ago
Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there's no ROI in that -- Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner18 hours ago
DATABASES -- Oracle celebrates banner quarter with another round of layoffs5 hours ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent10 hours ago
SECURITY -- Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow1 day ago
OS Platforms -- Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste13 hours ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Hacking education to thrive in the AI world is the first and best step in keeping control -- Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols4 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Corey Quinn6 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols12 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins13 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce19 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic - Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
DEVOPS -- Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds -- Cupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage8 hours ago
AI AND ML -- COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it -- Australia Taxation Office sees footling with Copilot as a way to develop 'muscles' for real AI work5 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input -- Redmond outlines 'aspirational' goals for model behavior, but gives itself a pass if it gets things wrong11 hours ago
DATABASES -- Oracle celebrates banner quarter with another round of layoffs -- Congratulations on helping Larry Ellison's AI cloud boom. Now please pack your bags and go5 hours ago
Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder -- Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent -- There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable10 hours ago
OS Platforms -- Ubuntu Noble's likely last point release lands, then loses its desktop download -- Installer bug crashes extended setups while Stonking Stingray circles ahead of October debut13 hours ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cyberattack sends International Meteor Organization crashing back to Earth -- Attack dealt a 'critical blow' to aging infrastructure, with several weeks of disruption expected4 hours 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 award1 day ago
Perfect-10 GitLab bug under attack days after patch lands -- CISA confirms active exploitation as watchTowr spots miscreants probing internet-facing servers5 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand -- Bitcoin farms, aluminum smelters, and other old infra is more lucrative to repurpose as a datacenter16 hours ago
OS Platforms -- Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste -- Redmond's quality drive takes another detour through the known issues list16 hours ago
AI AND ML -- MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation -- Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies18 hours ago
Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data -- Passports, selfies, transaction histories exposed as self-proclaimed culprits demand 10,000 Bitcoin6 hours ago
CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues1 day ago
AI AND ML -- The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture -- Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you21 hours ago
Security -- UK.gov begins killing off passwords for 23 million users -- Passkeys promise fewer phishing headaches – and £600 a day off Whitehall's SMS bill10 hours ago
COLUMNISTS -- Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Patchy compliance is an argument for stronger enforcement, not abandoning the project19 hours ago
AI and ML -- AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner -- Model-makers move too fast and don't care when they break things1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it 'Pace the frontier' -- Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created1 day ago
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware2 days ago
Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow -- RIP, you won't be mourned12 hours ago
How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want -- Panel Profiles handles the heavy lifting, once you've installed the plugins it expects2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Dell's 52-inch enormo-monitor is a tsunami of impractical fun -- You probably don't need it, but as an example of the possible it impresses1 day ago
ai and ML -- AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money -- Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life1 day ago
SECURITY -- More JFrog Artifactory bugs under attack, and all 3 have patches -- If you're waiting for a sign to upgrade to a fixed version: this is it13 hours ago
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades4 days ago
AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle -- Phone shop staffer claimed he was paid less than $4k for in his part attacks leading to combined intended losses of $600,00021 hours ago
Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand -- Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility -- Whitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios1 day ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ukrainian lawyer's second career as a Conti coder earns him 4 years behind bars -- Swapping legal work for malware development ended in extradition and a guilty plea1 day ago
Security -- EU's Cyber Resilience Act starts the 24-hour vulnerability clock -- Manufacturers must now disclose actively exploited flaws and severe security incidents through ENISA's new reporting platform1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in -- TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux -- A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland1 day ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation -- How could such a terrible tragedy have occurred?2 days ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?4 months ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement2 months ago
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers5 days ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech11 days ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan1 month ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester1 month ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much1 month ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow1 month ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical1 month ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester1 month ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road2 months ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist2 months ago
AI and ML -- DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean -- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix -- There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer3 days ago
DEVOPS -- Microsoft anoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language -- Redmond's coders get the tool to help them scrub memory bugs off Windows2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on -- It's a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too2 days ago
ai AND ml -- OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time -- GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid3 days ago
SECURITY -- Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research -- Everyone from ShinyHunters to Russian freelancers is in on the illicit model fun1 day ago
Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent -- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance1 day 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'5 days ago
Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script -- Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!1 day ago
AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink -- Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack5 hours ago
Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late -- Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required3 days ago
d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs -- AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers5 days ago
Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain -- Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory6 days ago
Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip -- Resistance is futile7 days ago
Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution -- Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor5 days ago
Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment -- Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul5 days ago
ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson -- Have I Been Pwned logs leaked records spanning patients, staff, and providers1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled -- Government orders independent review as carriers demand boss's resignation4 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree -- Attackers exploit legitimate mailing channels to demand crypto wallet backups1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web -- Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration -- 'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'4 days ago
SECURITY -- Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company -- Toothless security2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM -- Puts a whole new spin on 'Cheap as chips'5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter -- Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI5 days ago
The AI Iceberg: What 3,000+ Codebases Reveal About the Risk Hiding Below Your Model Count -- Snyk analyzed 1.39 million repositories across 3,044 enterprise accounts.12 days ago
How to prepare for the coming wave of autonomous attacks -- AI has handed attackers a capability most security programmes were never built to face: finding architectural flaws, at machine speed.1 month ago
AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap -- This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.1 month ago
The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion -- Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.1 month ago
Operationalizing AI with visibility, control, and multitenancy -- In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.14 days ago
The Attacker's View of a Leaked AWS Key -- Join Product Manager Jim Freely in this session to learn why AWS access resists inspection, and how to see what a leaked credential really reaches.8 days ago
Resilient critical infrastructure -- In this discussion, experts unpack what the Bill means for boards and their ability to keep essential services running and recover from disruption.7 days ago
Get agentic AI into production -- Joann Starke of HPE talks to The Register's Tim Phillips about getting agentic AI into production without losing your grip on it.1 day ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.6 days ago
Building a Unified AI Data Platform with Qumulo and Databricks -- As AI and analytics initiatives expand, organizations need governed access to distributed enterprise data — without the cost and complexity.12 days ago
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VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals -- Says license was never about moving VMs4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI -- Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's4 days ago
RESEARCH -- Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits -- Mind the patch gap, please and thank you4 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI models don't kill people – people kill people -- AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple hawks $2k folding fondleslab -- Another new form factor for devs to adapt to5 days ago
Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit -- A bypass of a bypass of a bypass4 days 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 crowded6 days ago
ON-PREM - Google takes the nuclear option for €13B Finland expansion1 hour ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers -- Procurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium5 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cryptocrook ringleader, 22, who met crew on Minecraft admits role in $245M heist -- Stolen funds bought mansions, private jets, and supercars – now he faces up to 20 years4 days ago
Security -- WeChat worm could pwn a friend before they even answered the call -- Calif says AI helped turn a VoIP memory bug into cross-platform RCE before Tencent shut it down5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s -- The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot11 days ago
Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast -- A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone12 days ago
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 -- Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas13 days ago
Debian votes to let contributors code with AI -- Disclosure optional, quality mandatory15 days ago
Operationalize AI At Scale With HPE And Nvidia20 hours ago
Despite Hefty Capital Investments, The Cloud Starts Paying Off For Oracle1 day ago
Broadcom Rides Rocketing Trend For Custom AI Accelerators5 days ago
Startup d-Matrix Will Pair Its Raptor Memory-Based XPU To Nvidia Rackscale Iron5 days ago
CTERA finds 95% of enterprise file data rarely used10 hours ago
HPE recruits ex-Hitachi Vantara CEO11 hours ago
VDURA's Sentinel watches over fleets for faults11 hours ago
How Everpure plans to stop AI from starving without data18 hours ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up10 days ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v119 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings22 days ago
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords25 days ago
Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online -- Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives6 days ago
Security boffin claims airport group left API keys in client-side JavaScript for four years -- Researcher believes overprivileged Iterable creds exposed 8.8M customer records – and could have enabled mass deletion5 days ago
PERSONAL tech -- Huawei Watch D3 pumps up its health-monitoring credentials -- Inflatable wrist cuff delivers 24-hour blood pressure readings, though the design remains chunky5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Another Microsoft team admits it's struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code -- Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing -- Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month5 days ago
AI AND ML -- US claims Chinese AI companies' core AI strategy is distilling American models -- Spooks and CISA point to 'industrial-scale distillation' by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players6 days ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge -- Adobe also brought goodies to the patch party and they deserve immediate attention5 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic -- Vend it like Altman6 days ago
AI+ML -- Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas -- See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad6 days ago
Security -- OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack -- Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access5 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports1 month ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads -- No defense against the dark arts Microsoft is practicing on your wallpaper6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle -- DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check6 days ago
Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail -- Firm wants to take atomic power generation on a barge to wherever the need is7 days ago
Boston Scientific left nursing its bottom line after cyberattack -- Medical device giant warns August intrusion will hit Q3 and full-year sales and earnings as recovery drags on5 days ago
ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips -- Industry push aims to eliminate stitching constraints and ready high-NA EUV systems for production by 20337 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support6 days ago
software - Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees - What an idiot6 days ago
SOFTWARE - Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered1 month ago
Software -- Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem1 month ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign1 month ago
AI AND ML - Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance - But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully12 days ago
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say -- Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'8 days ago
Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest' -- Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America13 days ago
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race -- AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)13 days ago
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN -- A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages1 month ago
Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked -- More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable14 days ago
Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in -- Security ... this time it will be different1 day ago
How to secure hybrid meeting rooms without sacrificing user experience - SPONSORED FEATURE: With regulators tightening rules and attack surfaces widening, meeting-room kit must bake in security without pushing users toward workarounds6 days ago
LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection -- Claims follow scrutiny over monitors installing adware without user consent5 days ago
BigBear phishing crew nets thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials -- Researchers got inside the crooks' admin panel and found 5,137 stolen records tied to 461 organizations5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Mistral bags €3B to build Europe's sovereign AI champion -- Samsung-led round values the French model maker at more than €21B6 days ago
RESEARCH -- Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns -- Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK energy operator sticks with Palantir in £21M direct award -- Proprietary platform keeps incumbent in place while NESO prepares a future competition6 days ago
Legal -- Grindr pays £26M to settle UK privacy class action -- Dating app admits no liability over allegations that it shared sensitive user data, including HIV status, with third parties6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Whitehall's latest plan to get things done: Less Whitehall -- Ministers declare war on an 'industry of dither and delay' as consultations, legal caution, and judicial reviews get the chop7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad -- Cross-government plan combines civil ambitions with an increasingly military view of orbit6 days ago
Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform -- New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget7 days ago
HPE makes its "unified storage" claim real as B10000 R6 hits GA - PARTNER CONTENT: Pairs block and adjacent file workloads with independent scaling of performance and capacity7 days ago
'Global reckoning' is coming for big tech, says Australian minister -- Introduces 'digital duty of care' that will mean Aussies get 'my feed, my way' – without algorithms if requested7 days ago
Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes -- Armed with password hashes and salts, attackers could already be kraken those creds6 days ago
UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say -- Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures8 days ago
Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access -- They had more access than the average Joe, and IT didn't track what needed to be cut off8 days ago
ai and ml - To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks - Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren't enough to keep frontier models at bay. "Data diodes" might do the job12 days ago
AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit - Adding insult to injury9 hours ago
SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again -- Miscreants use chained zero days to pwn boxen as third-party SOCs say further attacks 'almost certain'1 day ago
Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers -- Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials12 days ago
UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it -- Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards4 days ago
The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches4 hours ago
Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors5 hours ago
Iranian spies hit Windows machines with Chosen Brick data-stealing malware6 hours ago
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email10 hours ago
The latest AI doomsayer is China's intelligence boss19 hours ago
HBO Max Reddit account compromised to serve ClickFix attacks1 day ago
New hardware device can RAM into encrypted memory, expose your data1 day ago
OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction' -- MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise7 days ago
DRAM contract prices forecast to grow only 13-18% in Q3 -- PC buyers already had enough of helping to fund the AI revolution, only essential refreshes happening now8 days ago
Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register -- Nothing says 'For internal use only' quite like emailing it to the press6 days ago
Oracle may be next in EU software licensing hot seat following SAP deal -- Commission reportedly seeks third-party views, although no formal investigation is underway8 days ago
SECURITY -- Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys -- Self-described white hats promise to return 'most' of the 4,000 BTC once the vulnerability is fixed6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Asahi Linux takes on Apple M3, minus a few creature comforts -- Most hardware works, although graphics, sleep, and external displays need more attention7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Nitter lives to proxy another day after taking legal advice -- Public instance XCancel uncancelled after X Corp's cease-and-desist campaign, with others promised shortly7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements -- Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability7 days ago
Security -- Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff -- NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago6 days ago
SECURITY - UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks1 day ago
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed -- New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff14 days ago
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year -- And fly 'significant scale' in 2028 – a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt21 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins -- Cloudy AI is Chinese giant's 'most certain' path to growth as e-commerce slows25 days ago
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown - And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal26 days ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat1 month ago
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads - Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term1 month ago
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous -- And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there1 month ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute7 days ago
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals -- PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more8 days ago
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud -- This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale11 days ago
US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations -- Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland26 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin7 days ago
Security -- Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook -- Ministers say £17M corporate fines and forthcoming board-level governance rules provide sufficient accountability7 days ago
ON-PREM -- Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport -- Couldn't stop before the end of a runway7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry -- This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds -- Last week, he blamed himself for being 'a grade A nincompoop' who assumed a system upgrade couldn't possibly go wrong7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why -- DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale8 days ago
SCIENCE -- 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 approaches8 days ago
AI and ml -- Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you -- Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases8 days ago
On-PREM -- AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets -- AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk8 days ago
Who, Me? Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button1 day ago
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire8 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory22 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard29 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn1 month ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day1 month ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data1 month ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap2 months ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code2 months ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess2 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!2 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet3 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug3 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident3 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in3 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything3 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch3 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving4 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch4 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild4 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it4 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe4 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference4 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo4 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble4 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract4 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction4 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell4 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead4 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office4 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server4 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam4 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key4 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause16 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble4 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good4 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming4 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work2 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books4 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people4 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere4 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver4 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'4 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware4 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice4 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company4 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it4 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe4 months ago
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return13 days ago
London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above13 days ago
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up15 days ago
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election19 days ago
Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite1 day ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider6 days ago
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release11 days ago
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving12 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's15 days ago
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way19 days ago
SECURITY -- ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk -- Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident -- Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?7 days ago
Applications -- My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement -- Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels -- The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next8 days ago
ON-PREM -- Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers -- 2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes8 days ago
PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries -- Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up11 days ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up -- Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.11 days ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices11 days ago
AI AND ML - Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides4 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates11 days ago
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave -- Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment11 days 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 defense11 days ago
Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money? PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything9 days ago
Four Strategies to Manage VMware by Broadcom Risk -- With four key strategies, Nutanix helps you reduce risk, modernize your IT infrastructure, and prepare your business for a hybrid multicloud future.1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key -- Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work9 days ago
OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders -- Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams7 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 – eventually8 hours 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 booze16 hours ago
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen3 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 structures4 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project7 days ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government8 days 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 hour9 days 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 markets12 days ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%12 days ago
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip -- Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend13 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning14 days ago
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again -- This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper15 days ago
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems -- Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle17 days ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads17 days ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense18 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?19 days ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...20 days ago
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago -- So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it21 days ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck21 days ago
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles -- At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 202722 days ago
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf -- Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust23 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost24 days ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches25 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster26 days ago
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations27 days ago
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers -- After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers29 days ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change30 days ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices1 month ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons1 month ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology1 month ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard30 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books1 month ago
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop -- Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work1 month ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad1 month ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?1 month ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either1 month ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound1 month ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start1 month ago
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range1 month ago
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online -- Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web1 month ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key1 month ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 202812 days ago
SCIENCE - NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science6 days ago
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering14 days ago
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters -- How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?18 days ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract1 day ago
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists4 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft6 days ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium9 days ago
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims -- Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs19 days ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast -- Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit20 days ago
India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission20 days ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'22 days ago
No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory26 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job -- Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY27 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI throws Astra into the top-tier model ring -- OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot11 days ago
AI AND ML -- 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 note11 days ago
AI and ML -- True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once -- All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues11 days ago
Security -- Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC -- A shared security 'Nightmare'8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian -- Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem11 days ago