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Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding - As GitHub struggles to manage AI load, challengers take aim
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The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey -- The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up11 hours ago
AI memory crunch takes a bite out of PC shipments -- IDC warns smaller players may struggle as DRAM drought drags on11 hours ago
Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out -- CA and VMware both suing insurance giant11 hours ago
Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B -- Project which included new SAP system saw delays and costs rise from an £800m estimate while causing financial disruptions20 hours ago
Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human -- Startup insists it's not trying to help anyone cheat the system - honest!11 hours ago
Cyber-crime - Accenture admits to 'isolated matter' after crook tries to flog alleged 35GB haul - Consulting giant says it has 'remediated ... source' after crook claims to offer source code, keys, and cloud creds for sale20 minutes ago
Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support – and gets Rustier -- Even so, it has some issues with the Rust coreutils20 minutes ago
Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best -- If your name's not on the list, you're... probably not a setup program1 hour ago
Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space -- There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos1 hour ago
Security - Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy - If people think you are doing a legitimate job, you can get away with anything4 hours ago
New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation -- Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch4 hours ago
AI AND ML - Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek thinks AI is going to pay off - Downer for doomers as conservative investor plans to lift portfolio exposure by 150 percent, and even more once it adds electrification ventures1 hour ago
Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products -- Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves9 hours ago
OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter -- With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once9 hours ago
Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks -- Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.713 hours ago
ai and ml - OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs - What, did someone get some bad news during their IPO process or something?15 hours ago
Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car -- Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car's array of cameras19 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble1 day ago
Security -- Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access6 days ago
OFFBEAT -- C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability2 days ago
AI AND ML -- New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle9 hours ago
Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest -- Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick a contract fight with a monster of the art -- Rupert Goodwins6 days ago
Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck -- Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger -- Corey Quinn2 days ago
Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace -- Mark Pesce2 days ago
Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' -- Corey Quinn2 days ago
Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform -- Rupert Goodwins6 days ago
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand -- Corey Quinn2 days ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't -- Rupert Goodwins26 days ago
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? Corey Quinn2 days ago
Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design -- Mystery of the disappearing storage solved (for some)22 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs -- Coalition says ICO failed to act despite hundreds of complaints about bug-plagued digital immigration status scheme13 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits -- Campaigners say ministers repeated claims about FDP despite an admission that the data does not prove cause and effect13 hours ago
AI's biggest challenge is not compute - it's data storage - SPONSORED FEATURE: As AI evolves from novelty to autonomy, the real bottleneck isn't processing power—it's where to put all that data.15 hours ago
AI and ML -- AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top -- Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models15 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows -- No USB stick required if your Win 11 box has a pulse and a network driver19 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay -- Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away16 hours ago
AI AND ML -- South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters -- RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs21 hours ago
NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons -- Advanced Space's privately owned probe will keep flying, but the agency's role is over1 day ago
New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead -- Fed up with forgetting flags? Let Instagui read --help output and build a browser GUI instead1 day ago
Predatorgate snoopfest victims launch €8M sueball at spyware maker -- Greek lawsuit comes as rights campaigners lobby the EU to take firmer stance on spyware abuses20 minutes ago
Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle -- ValueLicensing celebrates while Redmond considers next steps11 hours ago
Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU -- Everyone else must opt out manually if they don't fancy settings data shipped off-device1 day ago
SECURITY -- Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking -- Majority report AI-related security incidents or vulnerabilities4 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- DRAM prices are killing the cheap smartphone -- Now eats 60% of a sub-$400 handset's bill of materials and it's only getting worse1 day ago
Cybercrime -- Fake IT bods on Microsoft Teams coax workers into installing malware -- Unit 42 says attackers are posing as helpdesk staff and persuading employees to hand over remote control before dropping EtherRAT trojan12 hours ago
SECURITY -- Spain collars alleged pro-Russia hacktivist after FBI tip-off -- Palencia man suspected of links to CARR, Z-Pentest, and NoName057(16), plus helping a Ukrainian hacker flee to Russia15 hours ago
Security -- Government's cyber pledge lands 60 signatories, including M&S and, somehow, Capita -- Whitehall's latest attempt to boost corporate cyber hygiene has already produced a curious roll call17 hours ago
AI AND ML -- MPs tell Brit government: Sort out your tech sovereignty or get left out in the cold -- Committee says Anthropic's brief US export ban shows UK can't even trust its allies to keep the AI lights on1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract -- New procurement could be worth £851M after previous Fujitsu award was scrapped1 day ago
ON-PREM -- UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster -- Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain1 day ago
Brussels shows how to remove friction from collaboration - SPONSORED FEATURE: Flemish Government explores the radical notion that meeting rooms should just work1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Broadcom and Apple extend custom silicon pact to 2031 -- Probably an extension of long-running iThing innards arrangement, not a new custom AI accelerator deal1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI startup that's never turned a profit say's it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease -- Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf1 day ago
Science -- Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma -- Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium1 day ago
AI and ML -- Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies -- AI's impact on tech business is complicated1 day ago
Madlad builds homebrew GPU using 8,192 RISC-V chips -- The next version will have 32,000 MCUs2 days ago
GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues -- A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself1 day ago
EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP -- Campaigners demand investigation and long-delayed action on PEGA Committee recommendations21 hours ago
ON-PREM -- Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter -- Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams -- Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability2 days ago
AI and ML -- AMD's Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap -- 128 GB of memory! In this economy?1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains -- Good news if you're an OEM printer maker, EU retail biz, or a customs official... but hobbyists and others less pleased2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble -- Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess1 day ago
SECURITY -- Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters -- Up to 150 more stores to get the 'Orwellian' tech by year's end21 hours ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?1 month 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 procurement5 days ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road21 hours ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist20 hours ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well23 days ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend27 days ago
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition29 days ago
LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy29 days ago
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots1 month ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project1 month ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors1 month ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own1 month ago
Security -- Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert -- ShinyHunters leaks names, addresses, DOBs, and more after Christian college discloses cyberattack1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool -- Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades1 day ago
COLUMNISTS -- Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that... -- Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble2 days ago
Science -- Japan's asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock -- Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission - and sent back a pic, too2 days ago
OS PLatforms -- Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again -- SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims2 days ago
EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister's bank account -- PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!3 days ago
MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage -- Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience.1 day ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched3 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year -- There might also be a downside2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82 -- Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones... and duvets2 days ago
Samsung's profits jump 19x in a year and you don't need AI to figure out why -- Share price down sharply, apparently amid fears the bubble is getting bigger2 days ago
IBM teases new rackable mainframes that 'complete' the z17 family -- UPDATED: Big Blue happy for users to BYO rack and slot Z machines alongside other tech1 day ago
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM -- With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall8 days ago
Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant -- SEC claims former Constellation employee made $1.4M trading options before the restart deal was announced13 days ago
IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future -- Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom14 days ago
Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years -- Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits14 days ago
AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data -- Third-party contractor compromise exposed health information and insurance billing passwords1 day ago
Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module -- Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?5 days ago
Security -- NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet -- Other residential proxy brands may rely on the same network1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing -- KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments2 days ago
ON-PREM -- EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists -- Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade2 days ago
DATABASES -- Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy -- LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC -- Maybe they were looking for Private Data2 days ago
Software -- Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track -- A final humiliation for Australia's Securities Exchange and its attempts to run a bourse on distributed ledgers3 days ago
Amazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it -- Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts6 days ago
Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway -- Left hand, meet right hand2 days ago
ShinyHunters: How to close the Credential Rotation Gap -- We'll cover the three failure points that make this attack repeatable across organizations of any size16 days ago
From Pilots to AI Factories: How Enterprises Are Really Scaling Agentic AI and Agent Gateways -- AI is shifting from simple chatbots to autonomous "coworkers," and most enterprises are now constrained less by models than by the complexity9 days ago
Know Your Adversary: Counter Operations that Wreck Global Cybercrime -- When Silk Typhoon launched a campaign against Microsoft, it looked like another case of a state-backed hacking group getting away again.1 day ago
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LEGAL -- Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage -- MeetingTV wants to see the evidence2 days ago
AI and ML -- Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme -- What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course3 days ago
AI and ML -- Companies that add more AI also add more people -- But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs3 days ago
Security -- Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack -- Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up2 days ago
AI AND ML -- SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training -- Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery -- Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard5 days ago
AI AND ML -- SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI -- Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to jobs and business trips as it tries to keep pace3 days ago
SECURITY -- Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together -- Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously3 days ago
security - Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list20 minutes ago
Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data -- Company that also makes insulin pumps and other devices tells users what was exposed months after ShinyHunters attack3 days ago
India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears -- Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators4 days ago
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released -- Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch5 days ago
Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up -- Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default13 days ago
Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form -- Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK15 days ago
Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release' -- More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too19 days ago
Why AI-Ready Data Is The Real Advantage21 hours ago
QuiX Quantum Shows Off A Photonic Architecture For HPC Datacenters1 day ago
As Goes AI Compute, So Goes Ethernet Networking2 days ago
Of Course Meta Platforms Is Going To Be A Cloud7 days ago
Diskover finds and eliminates ROT data17 hours ago
DDN gets Infinia ready for production AI inferencing21 hours ago
StorONE can tier disk data to existing all-flash arrays21 hours ago
Put all your data and AI to work and get it out of silos and lakehouses1 day ago
GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues1 day ago
.NET's long term support is not long term enough, dev complains5 days ago
Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency12 days ago
Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update13 days ago
AI AND ML -- UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse -- Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues6 days ago
Security -- Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access -- Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network5 days ago
LEGAL -- Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore -- Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house6 days ago
AI AND ML -- New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch -- They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI -- Risk factors galore6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought -- It's a 'complete BEC operations environment,' Talos researcher says6 days ago
DEVOPS -- Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy -- Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors -- Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system6 days ago
AI and ML -- Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions -- 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'6 days ago
Security -- Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied -- 'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg6 days ago
nubia Neo 5 GT Special Edition debuts with the first and only Liquid and Air Dual Active Cooling System in its class4 hours ago
Put all your data and AI to work and get it out of silos and lakehouses1 day ago
In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical6 days ago
When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery7 days ago
What the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling8 days ago
The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure14 days ago
The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale20 days ago
Digital sovereignty needs an operating model21 days ago
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation23 days ago
Europe's AI paralysis has a solution - and it starts with a semantic twin23 days ago
DON'T MISS -- The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon -- Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components13 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models -- Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough6 days ago
RESEARCH -- Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding -- People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form -- Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait6 days ago
AI + ML -- Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages -- Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites -- AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside7 days ago
Virtualization -- Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills -- But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back7 days ago
SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security12 hours ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles13 days ago
Personal Tech -- This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken27 days ago
Networks - Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner12 hours ago
Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working1 month ago
On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off1 month ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client1 month ago
AI and ML - Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker - The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack14 days ago
Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated -- It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it2 days ago
Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn -- Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions21 days ago
Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show1 month ago
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers1 month ago
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher -- According to the one person who actually read the research paper21 days ago
Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs -- How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin23 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price -- Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies -- Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion -- Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?7 days ago
AI and ML -- Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care -- We've learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let's level that up with added AI, says minister7 days ago
Legal -- Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys -- Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program7 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out -- 303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out -- Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist7 days ago
AI and ML -- Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show -- SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings7 days ago
SECURITY -- Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools -- 29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are6 days ago
SECURITY -- Miasma campaign poisons 20-plus npm packages, hunts for developer secrets -- Microsoft says latest attack targets Leo Platform and RStreams packages, harvesting creds and going after more maintainers9 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable -- Tiny tweak to support page reveals consumers can purchase another year of patch protection9 days ago
Security -- Chinese cybersecurity company claims it's built a better-than-Mythos bug finder -- Qihoo 360, which the US has banned, says it's needed as a deterrent to weaponized Anthropic models9 days ago
security - Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs - Spotted in intrusions targeting insurance, education, IT, and professional services sectors13 days ago
Ex-Huntress analyst claims company insider fed info to a ransomware crim. Social media drama ensues - Former employee accuses company of prioritizing pending IPO over client security2 hours ago
UK school's network left wide open for invasion, student found -- And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field9 days ago
Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to 'cripple it at a time of their choosing' -- To defuse another attack, Oz spies called foreign counterparts to tell them an op was a bust12 days ago
The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities -- CVE-2026-20230 under exploitation, while an earlier SD-WAN 0-day looks even worse than we thought12 days ago
Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers12 hours ago
GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code15 hours ago
Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human19 hours ago
Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die19 hours ago
China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears21 hours ago
Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect1 day ago
GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely1 day ago
CAI cloud worm gives competitors' malware the boot, then steals secrets and mines for coin1 day ago
Security -- Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe -- Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'6 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution -- DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg7 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows -- Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications7 days ago
Personal Tech -- Arm64 on the desktop? It's spendy and it's sluggish -- Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don't want it7 days ago
Applications -- UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees -- Proposals could open cheaper routes for purchases made through third parties7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size -- Rolling back the years and the bloat for veteran text editor7 days ago
AI and ML -- Where there's a will, AI still has work to do -- Probate lawyer finds generated document looked the part but missed many of the questions that matter8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number -- Linux 6.18 arrives with a few desktop tweaks, while the neglected x86 edition remains stuck on Debian 118 days ago
No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle -- Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support9 days ago
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track -- Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station9 days ago
public sector - Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals2 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure1 month ago
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows -- Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms1 month ago
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat -- Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot1 month ago
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage -- This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit1 month ago
Fire burns Google Cloud India's network, which remains slow a week later -- PLUS: Japan's space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!24 days ago
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow -- Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source25 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream1 month ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.1 month ago
How is AI changing datacenter network fabrics? EXPLAINER AI workloads are overwhelming the traditional datacenter fabrics they run on. Here's what's replacing them.8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings -- Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in6 days ago
AI AND ML -- South Korea's hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band -- Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse8 days ago
SECURITY -- India's central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info -- Open API could reveal everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials7 days ago
AI and ML -- Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection -- If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day7 days ago
SECURITY -- Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe -- Not today, Putin7 days ago
Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo -- At least two vulnerabilities are already under attack7 days ago
Supreme Court rules cops need a warrant to vacuum up phone location data -- Efforts to grab all the location data in an area get clogged by Fourth Amendment9 days ago
Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor -- The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists9 days ago
DevOps -- .NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains -- Three-year lifecycle leaves enterprises with barely a year to adopt each LTS release8 days ago
AI and ML -- How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS -- Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive -- Polished Mandriva descendant still makes room for PCs the 64-bit world has left behind8 days ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code3 days ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess10 days ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!17 days ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet24 days ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug1 month ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident1 month ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in1 month ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything1 month ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch1 month ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving2 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch2 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild2 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it2 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe2 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference2 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo2 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble2 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract2 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction2 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell2 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead2 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office2 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server2 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam2 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key2 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause2 months ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble2 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good2 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming2 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work5 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books2 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people2 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere2 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver2 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'2 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware2 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice2 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company2 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it2 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe2 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery2 months ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'2 months ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league2 months ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA2 months ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it2 months ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results2 months ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off2 months ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady2 months ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server2 months ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo2 months ago
Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled -- Unexplained GSM-R failure at Deutsche Bahn caused confusion and delay23 hours ago
O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date15 days ago
Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks19 days ago
Geopolitical jitters push Europe's internet registry away from cloud-first strategy20 days ago
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand21 days ago
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down22 hours ago
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint23 hours ago
Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids1 day ago
Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms5 days ago
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger7 days ago
Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal9 days ago
Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement9 days ago
BT and Verizon spin off international networking arms into $4B joint venture9 days ago
End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service10 days ago
Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses10 days ago
AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity -- You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy7 days ago
Microsoft keeps Windows Server 2022 hotpatching alive into 2027 -- In the Azure Edition, of course7 days ago
Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad -- CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious9 days ago
Nissan says Oracle PeopleSoft break-in may have spilled payroll records, SSNs -- Carmaker points finger at an 'unknown' flaw as customer fallout continues7 days ago
Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC -- In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads10 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK firm bombarded debt-ridden people with 5.5M texts -- KRA Consultancy Ltd fined £300K over fake bailiff threats in 'calculated' scheme that caused 'real fear and distress'9 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head -- Show not tell makes a far finer script9 days ago
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PUBLIC SECTOR -- Australia investigating five social media giants for not enforcing ban on kids -- PLUS: Qualcomm tweaks datacenter chips for China; Japan's Air Force stretches into space; WiseTechs' woes mutiply; and more!9 days ago
SCIENCE -- Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light -- Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?9 days ago
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM11 days ago
AI AND ML -- NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor -- Please state the nature of the medical emergency9 days ago
Security -- It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns -- Time to start praying to the goddess of wisdom and war8 days ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error7 days ago
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time -- SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world7 days ago
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule7 days ago
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands -- It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix8 days ago
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead8 days ago
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says12 days ago
Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit -- Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening13 days ago
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia -- A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest15 days ago
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch -- Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite15 days ago
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage -- Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen16 days ago
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart -- TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had16 days ago
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems -- One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here16 days ago
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?17 days ago
EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife -- Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation19 days ago
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package19 days ago
Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones -- Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes19 days ago
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting -- Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches20 days ago
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM20 days ago
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars -- Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements23 days ago
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build -- 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts23 days ago
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities24 days ago
US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses -- L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets24 days ago
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs -- Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register25 days ago
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway -- A blast from the past greets commuters26 days ago
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000 -- Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut26 days ago
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans -- It's just not cricket27 days ago
Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers -- We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?27 days ago
Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR -- Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 199928 days ago
Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks -- Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can29 days ago
NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear -- What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?1 month ago
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships -- If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship1 month ago
Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes -- Bulletproof vests and armored vehicles were not in the job description1 month ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft1 month ago
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right -- TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations1 month ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh1 month ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals1 month ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder1 month ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck1 month ago
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers -- A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign1 month ago
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship -- Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors1 month ago
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice -- AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh1 month ago
They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI12 days ago
offbeat - Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars6 days ago
Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another -- The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone14 days ago
Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon -- Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind16 days ago
Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space2 hours ago
New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation4 hours ago
Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander21 hours ago
NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons1 day ago
On-PREM -- 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud -- You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute17 days ago
AI AND ML -- Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' -- The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention14 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit -- Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground19 days ago
Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave -- Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast20 days ago
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job -- The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is20 days ago
NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment -- Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve22 days ago
Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones -- Personal cell phones on protective missions, no threat detection on government-issued devices among the litany of sins8 days ago
Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands -- Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal11 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms -- Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing9 days ago
Amazon Q flaw let booby-trapped Git repos execute code, swipe cloud creds -- Researchers warn many AI coding assistants now execute commands from project configurations9 days ago