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Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password - Decade-old vulnerability in OpenSSH is now fixed, so get a-patchin'
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Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share - PWNED - They denied the data was real...then removed it4 hours ago
Copilot Chat has usage caps, and Microsoft would rather you found them by hitting them -- Mystery limits expand for users without the paid add-on, with upgrade prompts ready when features run dry3 hours ago
openSUSE Leap 16.1 gives Linux users the right to remain immutable -- One installer now offers conventional and read-only systems as separate Micro distro bows out2 hours ago
VMware quietly offers European users extended sales and support for low-end vSphere -- Version 8 of Standard and Enterprise Plus will stay alive until October 20287 hours ago
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, and promises this one stays within 'rules of engagement' -- The latest bug hunting model 'avoided exploiting out-of-scope services over 99 percent of the time', claims House of Altman3 hours ago
Anthropic won't fix a Claude Dispatch flaw that could let attackers execute remote commands across corporate boundaries - EXCLUSIVE - From EOP to RCE in six simple steps52 minutes ago
EVENT - Final_FINAL_v7.docx is not a version control strategy - EVENT: Join The Register for dinner in London on 24 November and hear, off the record, how your peers are fixing it.2 days ago
Memory makers mint megabucks while buyers beg for mercy -- DRAM revenue jumps 369 percent as AI demand keeps supplies tight and prices climbing5 hours ago
Microsoft fixed Excel 2016 copy-paste bug. Then reintroduced it. Now it's fixed again -- All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again. Maybe6 hours ago
SAP promises to open out data flows in both directions - New commitment to Apache Iceberg and expanded Databricks partnership point to battle ahead over context layer10 hours ago
Royal London plans IT outsourcing shake-up as staff brace for redundancies -- EXCLUSIVE -- IBM deal could see tech jobs shipped to India, with cuts expected before Christmas10 hours ago
When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn't happen for Google in London -- October outage caused by bad PLC config exposed at a time maintenance work reduced resilience14 hours ago
Microsoft admits certifications can be a drag, launches creds that recognize skills -- 'Pro Badges' don't require a test, Microsoft awards them by watching you use GitHub16 hours ago
personal tech - Uber says it alone can make robotaxis pay, hours after Waymo quit its app - Oh, the irony, as platform players fight14 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Meta brings Conductor on board its model train -- Agent orchestration startup gets its exit1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- Building AI factories at enterprise scale -- SPONSORED FEATURE: ASUS wants to scale AI everywhere in the enterprise1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- Hey, Siri: Plug into my app like you said you'd do way back in 2024 -- More than two years after promising it, Apple lets developers test Siri AI app integration7 hours ago
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions – Openreach4 days ago
Cops bust botnet of 1.3M infected Android TV boxes2 days ago
British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted1 day ago
Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of 'stabilization phase' and using 'much healthier model' for AI contributions3 days ago
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist1 day ago
PHP2Shell is a warning shot for vulnerability disclosure -- Keeping secrets is difficult in an open world, but we've done it before and must do it again -- Rupert Goodwins18 hours ago
Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches -- Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols1 day ago
AI's epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams -- Rupert Goodwins18 hours ago
It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill -- Mark Pesce1 day ago
No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally -- Corey Quinn7 days ago
Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world -- Rupert Goodwins10 days ago
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols13 days ago
Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what -- Rupert Goodwins14 days ago
OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian -- Corey Quinn14 days ago
AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure -- Corey Quinn21 days ago
Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage -- Rupert Goodwins24 days ago
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols18 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Fedora 45 is finally finished and fit -- After two last-minute delays, it's here and running – albeit with a kernel series already at upstream end of life5 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Boffins use machine-learning tricks to create a starlight dimmer switch -- FLIP reveals a planet hidden in Webb data, boosting detection sensitivity by up to 15 times22 hours ago
ON-PREM -- Bare metal boom: On-prem server sales for HPC and AI up 20% this year -- Firms still want kit on-premises, but spike in revenue is as much about increased costs as higher sales10 hours ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware returns to low-end server virtualization with 'vSphere Express' -- 128-cores max, sold on distributors' marketplaces, and in with a shot of restoring some trust4 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- HP Inc hires former GSK boss as CEO -- Brit Emma Walsley swaps big pharma for big printer: Prep for PCs, ink, and lots of DRAM-induced headaches1 day ago
public sector - Watchdog sticks probe into Capita's handling of 1.7 million member civil service pension scheme - UPDATED - Public Accounts Committee talks of 'broken promises' and 'chaos' as 'thousands' of retired folk miss out on money1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Achieving nirvana: Enlightenment 0.28 hits the desktop -- Very nearly 30something environment gets spruced up... and there's a new Trinity, too1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Windows pushed AI PCs, but now it's hit a wall of RAM prices -- Customers sweating assets amid tight budgets, as Microsoft execs get creative with sales pitches19 hours ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter operators must win hearts and minds, not just permits -- Schneider sees no slowdown despite backlash, but says communities deserve answers on power, water, and noise19 hours ago
China outlines plans for moonshot it hopes to land by 2030 -- We have go for launch, and the ethernet and Wi-Fi standards that will make it happen1 day ago
AMD on track to overtake Intel as biggest x86 outfit -- CEO says supply chain can cope with surging datacenter and AI demand1 day ago
Aussie Adobe assailant Canva announces layoffs in re-org affecting 22% of staff -- No mention of AI, but a nod to the pace of technological change1 day ago
North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist -- 'It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident,' exchange says1 hour ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft improves Windows 11 performance on 8 GB PCs as RAM prices keep climbing -- We've got a hunch the memory crunch is taking a bite out of Windows revenue1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia is happy to take your money whether you're using open or closed models, says Jensen Huang -- At Fireworks Forge, a celebration of specialized models1 day ago
SECURITY -- AI policy wonks declare 'sovereign agents' a threat to civilization -- These are AI agents that operate outside of human control and 'pursue open-ended, evolving survival'1 hour ago
SCIENCE -- Improved asteroid deflection model runs faster, reveals more doomsday worries -- "We expected aim to matter ... What surprised us was how much,' says Sandia physicist Nathan Moore1 day ago
SECURITY -- Password manager mSecure tells users to change passwords, won't say why -- Customers left wondering what's been compromised after vendor advises resetting passwords, 2FA and passkeys1 hour ago
OS PLATFORMS -- GhostBSD 26.2 takes the fright out of FreeBSD with a friendlier installer -- Full-disk encryption joins the toolkit, MATE and Xfce stay while Gershwin sits this one out1 day ago
CYBER-CRIME -- ShinyHunters hit 850k alumni, donors, students, and fam in last year's Harvard University raid -- How about them apples? Plenty of personal + donation data leaked by crims, data-sifting breach site claims a year after attack4 hours ago
DEVOPS -- Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI -- Sorry React die-hards, Claude prefers lean HTML-first tools over bloated SPAs1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NHS counts Palantir benefits at trusts that say they're not using it -- Medact flags 29 disputed entries as ministers weigh £330M deal's future1 day ago
Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station -- But first it needs planning permission, government approval and, rather importantly, a customer2 days ago
Britain on notice: AI-powered ransomware attacks to arrive by 2028 -- Cyber agency warns critical infrastructure is a likely target as chief urges bosses to stop doing 'tech on the cheap'5 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple's Mac business is booming, but the memory market has other plans -- New CEO John Ternus toasts record sales as soaring RAM costs threaten supplies and squeeze margins1 day ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Broadcom denied names of cloud providers backing VMware merger challenge -- EU court's confidentiality ruling clears a procedural hurdle, not the merits of CISPE's case against Commission approval2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK.gov lacks understanding of climate impact, says watchdog -- Risks of changing climate and cost of transition to low-carbon energy poorly measured by government departments2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Raspberry Pi hikes prices again, barely a month after the last round -- Memory crunch pushes 16GB Pi 5 to $385, more than triple its launch price, just a month after the last round of hikes2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI's weights -- 'Weight-Space Programming' fiddles with nerd knobs to boost benchmark scores2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Open models can do 90% of agentic work at a twentieth of the cost of a frontier LLM: Gartner -- Models are commodities, harnesses are the valuable part1 day ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Architect creates open source replacement for VM migration tool VMware has hidden -- OpenVDDK is reportedly already being used in production, at scale1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic's compute tab could top $1T as Q3 revenue nears $17B -- Revised IPO filing warns 12x revenue growth is unlikely to continue2 days ago
SECURITY -- Max-severity bug in widely used OT programming tool exploited to deliver Linux malware -- Your industrial IoT gateway isn't exposed to the internet, right? RIGHT?!7 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AI could break legal systems by finding previously hidden loopholes -- Turns out legislation may have bugs, too2 days ago
systems - Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - FEATURE - Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month ago
cyber-crime - 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 procurement4 months ago
Matrix takes sovereign messaging into the realm of the tech giants7 days ago
Open Cosmos steps up Europe's space sovereignty game, shows off ConnectedCosmos satellites8 days ago
EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors9 days ago
Europe's cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good17 days ago
Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work20 days ago
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B22 days ago
Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative29 days ago
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop1 month ago
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain1 month ago
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public1 month ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cops bust botnet of 1.3M infected Android TV boxes -- Videostrong accused of shipping devices with a backdoor baked in8 hours ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Oracle gobbles $20 billion borrowing limit a week after setting it -- In the middle of a datacenter capex binge, vendor promises no more borrowing until the end of 20302 days ago
Thieves pilfer environment variables from Trigger AI workflow tool -- So, who's ready to clear the dust out of that server closet and move things back on-prem?20 hours ago
Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges -- Don't let the LLMjackers hit you1 day ago
software - SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of... AI - EXCLUSIVE - 'Modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows' says CEO at open source biz3 days ago
Nuclear threats and street brawls: Russia, Ukraine report attacks on their emergency alert apps -- Within minutes of a ceasefire lifting in Kherson, Ukraine's citizens were pummelled with threatening notifications1 day ago
Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota -- Canadian regions stop turning back the clocks, Microsoft wishes it could3 days ago
Frozen part II: Hackers remotely defrost produce in Euro supermarkets ... again -- Let it go (bad): Dozens of stores report mass food wastage as managers start their week in puddles1 day ago
ai and ml - Anthropic's IPO prospectus is big on promises, short on answers to tough questions - KETTLE - Pity Sam Altman: He's going to have a lot more explaining to do when OpenAI follows this work of abstract legal art3 days ago
FBI pins $6.3B Binance crypto heist on North Korean hackers -- Exchange scrambles to replace stolen funds as customers withdraw billions and hackers get busy laundering their haul1 day ago
'Stop dirty datacenters': Europe-wide protests planned demanding building moratorium -- Curbing compute farms played a big part in recent US elections, now Euro activists are making their feelings known6 hours ago
America unites on one issue: Reining in datacenters -- The results were particularly stark where voters got to weigh in directly1 day ago
British fintech Revolut slashes AI coding costs 10x by cutting out Claude and going self-hosted -- Turns out cheap tokens get engineers doing things that save time, like debugging and tackling Jira tickets2 days ago
Toyota shows off SoC that stores model weights and its OS on integrated memory -- Accessing external memory puts the brakes on physical AI, so carmaker has found an economical and speedy shortcut2 days ago
Marvell wants to be a copper topper, bets $115B on photonics leader to push optical networking -- IP house believes optics demand is going to explode as Nvidia and others eye bigger systems3 days ago
ON CALL - Farm PC 'maintained' by a 14-year-old dumped support chap in a steaming pile of tech mess - Human users can be hard to handle. A few hundred head of cattle and unsupported windows XP can really stink things up1 day ago
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall -- SRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors10 days ago
Vintage fun: Prodding AI agents using retro hardware just because you can -- 'It helps me stretch what I can do in the current age of AI coding, and keeps my curiosity alive'3 days ago
Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built it -- Flash the cash, flush the cache2 days ago
ai and ml - Britain's driverless dream hits a roundabout of awkward questions - Institute for Driverless Transport wants answers on jobs impact and what happens if the supplier bails3 days ago
AI AND ML -- From expertise to intelligence: NISCO deploys world's first swarm-intelligence steel model at scale -- PARTNER CONTENT: 300+ AI applications delivering surges in core metrics and annual cost reduction of over CNY100m2 days ago
storage - Manager threatened to fire a colleague, then gave them a critical task – which they flubbed - Who me? Nobody noticed for years, at which point the boss realized they had to cover up their poor decision3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- India floats AI plan under which 'The model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model' -- Wants more local AI, without Big Tech getting open access to everything3 days ago
legal - Google says Asian advertisers spending less due to Europe's customs changes - asia in brief - PLUS: Brake pedals break on Huawei-made cars; North Korea named as source of Binance hack; and more!3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of 'stabilization phase' and using 'much healthier model' for AI contributions -- Yet machine-made patches 'often get rewritten'2 days ago
APPLICATIONS -- 'Mother of all editors' Emacs is 503 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth -- Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry3 days ago
AI Isn't the New Threat. It's the New Clock. -- In June, two compromised Azure service principals took 15 hours to map a tenant, then about seven minutes to delete most of its storage.23 days ago
Agent Observability: Optimize Cost and Quality as Agents Scale -- Our leaders will explore why agent observability is becoming essential as organizations scale their AI.9 days ago
The hidden cost of file friction: Why enterprise storage needs a rethink -- Join The Register and LucidLink to explore how organizations can rethink file access, storage, and active data for modern workflows.21 days ago
We Found the Secrets. Now What? An Introduction to TruffleHog's Secrets Revocation Program -- TruffleHog Enterprise scans nearly 2 petabytes of public data every month, finding exposed API keys, tokens, and other credentials.13 days ago
From AI Infrastructure to AI for Business -- Successfully adopting AI requires a clear understanding of the problems AI can solve.2 days ago
The Enterprise Platform for the AI Era: Unifying VMs, Kubernetes, and Agentic AI -- Join Nutanix experts to explore how NCI and NKP simplify operations, optimize GPU investments, and power AI across datacenter, cloud, and edge.27 days ago
What it takes to make your life sciences data queryable, governed and ready to share -- The demand for life sciences data has never been higher, and neither has the bar for delivering it.15 days ago
Backup storage that pays its way -- The event features a live demo on protecting backups from deletion and managing multiple customer sites through a single screen.1 day ago
Governing AI at scale: Securing a multi-model enterprise -- Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but security and governance practices are struggling to keep pace.3 hours ago
Fifty First Prompts: What to Do When Your LLM Suffers From Daily Amnesia -- Your LLM is encyclopedic about the world and blank about your organization.23 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.1 month ago
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AI AND ML -- Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use -- A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts -- Blame plunging token prices3 days ago
DEVOPS -- HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare -- How the Uber-bound delivery giant tuned its mobile networking stack to cut latency3 days ago
Crim spent $7K+ on AI services in extortion attacks, then left evidence for all to see -- n0n-existent security2 days ago
GM cracks the petty cash box for multistate driver tracking settlement -- $220 million? For all of you? Yeah, we can probably dig that up ...2 days ago
cyber-crime - Anthropic: That Claude Code extension compromise... couldn't be us1 hour ago
SCIENCE -- Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment -- Whew! Only kidding, here I am3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS -- Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland3 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit -- Agency only looking for information, but reentry countdown ticking for veteran space telescope3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive -- Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux10 days ago
Red Hat helps teach about tech writing -- But learns tough lessons about AI in the process1 day ago
NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS -- Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations23 days ago
OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties -- Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious28 days ago
Arista Lines Up Networking For 10 Gigawatts Of AI Systems2 hours ago
AMD Cannot Catch Nvidia, But It Sure Can Make Some Money20 hours ago
Marvell Cuts To The Front Of The Datacenter Optics Line With Lumentum Deal1 day ago
Qualcomm Has Eyes On The AI Inference Datacenter With HBC And AI2502 days ago
SurrealDB supplies faster performance and more scalbility with major v4.0 update4 hours ago
AI-energized trillion-row database startup Ocient raises $100 million5 hours ago
VAST Data gets vast increase in orders for its all-flash storage5 hours ago
Veeam goes to Southend-On-Sea1 day ago
Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI1 day ago
HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare3 days ago
Topcoat enables Rust to render server-side web apps3 days ago
Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers9 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute -- All that up-front investment needs time to take effect, and speeding individual tasks won't necessarily boost the entire firm6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NHS quango warns of risk to GP patient data after website vendor collapse -- Hundreds of practices hit by small health tech firm going into administration6 days ago
SECURITY -- British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many -- Other agency errors included an unchecked software bug that led to Terrorism Act detentions2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Accenture AI agents are sifting through applicants -- But a human makes final hiring decisions at global tech consultancy6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're covered -- Insurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- UK Shelly reseller warns payment data stolen after malware found on website -- Customer says they received fraudulent charges on their card hours before company notified them4 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Google's search revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bump -- Just wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly6 days ago
In the year AI re-wrote the infosec rulebook, it's comforting to know crypto exchanges still have bad security -- Binance freezes funny money after compromise of engineer's laptop linked to $6.3 billion of unauthorized trades3 days ago
PC chip plunge wipes out a quarter of Intel's value -- CEO predicts massive datacenter CPU boom, coming soon, but production problems mean Chipzilla may not cash in6 days ago
Researchers find bugs in 5 AI developer tools, with OpenAI and Microsoft flaws still unpatched -- Embedded browsers are at the heart of the problem3 days ago
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note2 months ago
Howler will have AI answer your questions, then burn the chat -- Ask AI dumb things and leave no local chat history, all with the style of a kids' fantasy novel – or rather, one of its magical letters7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Startup wants to make AI agents safe for DevOps duty -- Infrastructure automation needs something better than prompt and pray6 days ago
DEVOPS -- Topcoat enables Rust to render server-side web apps -- Rust guru rejiggers web app reactivity for potentially speedier page loading6 days ago
SECURITY -- Suspected Chinese attackers built a custom PHP2Shell exploit and rooted 25 servers -- Snoops 'likely still' have access to US government-affiliated network3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop -- Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing6 days ago
SCIENCE -- BattMan aims to turbocharge US batteries without robbin' critical minerals -- DoE-backed consortium hoping to scale, says orgs can apply to become, literally, part of BattMan6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- GSA left sensitive Google Drive files open to staff, contractors -- Auditors have flagged similar security failures since 20146 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Windows said modem worked fine. That unmistakable scorched electronics smell suggested otherwise1 day ago
SECURITY -- User refused to change her password because everyone already knew it1 day ago
SYSTEMS -- Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell1 day ago
software - Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting - Sales calls can be even nastier than support calls1 day ago
networks - Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it1 day ago
NETWORKS -- Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill28 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key1 month ago
ai and ml - Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing - Claude maker reveals financials and warns investors its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or go rogue10 days ago
Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create -- Whitehall wants agents guarding critical infrastructure as part of a wider £600M spending spree3 days ago
OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa -- We've totally got things under control12 days ago
There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero -- The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work27 days ago
Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core -- Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website1 month ago
Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters -- Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents1 day ago
$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust -- Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast21 days ago
Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat -- Big Red says AI units will add to subscriptions, as it juggles $90BN-plus capex, mounting debt and a $225BN revenue goal for 20306 days ago
Built to bend: Postgres's inventor and a steward on what AI really needs -- PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says about the road ahead7 days ago
Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline - Officials confirm this week's tax deadlines extended to November as a result1 hour ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Systemd adds support for Rust -- What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!6 days ago
SECURITY -- Shortlist of age checks for the UK's under-16 social media ban is out, 'some' adults will need verifying -- Some adults may not need to prove it, but many will3 days ago
SECURITY -- Attackers turn GitHub issues into supply chain campaign against 61 public repos in less than an hour -- 'The workflow automatically is triggered within a second, and if the workflow is indeed vulnerable, then the attack is executed successfully'6 days ago
AI AND ML -- LibreOffice's 'no AI' stance meets LLM-assisted code -- Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Traces of new Pi hardware spotted in GitHub -- A new Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A seen lurking in the repository7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft breaks New Outlook attachment opening with Edge Update -- Attachments in New Outlook come undone thanks to Windows' fundamental interconnectedness of things7 days ago
SECURITY -- Admin dropped the F-bomb in a password to show hackers who was really 1337 -- Cursing in login credentials can help keep the bad guys out, but not when the rest of your security is BS2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China -- But there's not much evidence this is anything more than echoes of unsanitized training data8 days ago
SECURITY -- LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key -- A 'strong illustration of the risks associated with failing to rotate a potentially exposed key'8 days ago
Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug -- Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw8 days ago
UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest -- Jaydip Modhwadia beats challenge designed to test real-world exploitability of PHP2Shell in around 3 hours8 days ago
We shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse, as the internet is built on sticks and glue -- What better way to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month than warning that three-quarters of the web is about to be set on fire?9 days ago
UK Biobank back online soon, months after someone tried to sell 500k people's data on Alibaba -- Charity confirms slew of security improvements as it waits for UK.gov's go-ahead7 days ago
Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds -- Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval9 days ago
Get root on a musl Linux system by slamming it with an overly long password1 hour ago
October crypto-tracker hack: Access cracked, law enforcement tokens packed1 hour ago
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Cyber, and promises this one stays within 'rules of engagement'3 hours ago
Tobacco company got smoked by leaving secret recipes on a file share4 hours ago
Anthropic won't fix a Claude Dispatch flaw that could let attackers execute remote commands across corporate boundaries7 hours ago
New York's Queens Public Library battles ransomware crims: Wi-Fi, checkouts, and website go dark7 hours ago
Norway's aid agency pwned and all users' data is stolen8 hours ago
Apple turns iCloud into spy cloud, will start looking at public share links22 hours ago
US gov IT worker pleads guilty to sending Top Secret files to Ethiopia1 day ago
Cyberattack on French plasma stores is enough to make your blood boil1 day ago
HPE puts storage to work on AI's expensive memory problem - PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20× faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough -- Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO7 days ago
SCIENCE -- Boffin's software found a possible dwarf planet - a result so rare he thought it must be a bug -- 2026 ED138 is way out beyond Neptune and perhaps the smallest known object of its type7 days ago
STORAGE -- Tape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x -- Because, sigh, AI7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google struggling to make AI Mode searches pay -- That's a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead -- Why give people tests that AI aces?7 days ago
SECURITY -- Oracle celebrates end of Cybersecurity Awareness Month with quadruple trouble -- Attackers probe another EBS bug, and ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft 0-day turns out to involve three vulns6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Amazon tells tokenmaxxing devs to slow their AI roll -- Focus more on what matters, please, like creating useful software and accomplishing company goals7 days ago
AI AND ML -- GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down -- Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive roles -- Artem Stryzhak joined both gangs, which targeted businesses and a hospital during the pandemic6 days ago
How Google fumbled the frontend with Angular 21 hour ago
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter -- Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex27 days ago
Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing -- Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen29 days ago
AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs -- Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions1 month ago
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work -- If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...1 month ago
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services -- Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how1 month ago
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI -- First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition1 month ago
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them -- USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam1 month ago
AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue -- Before long, we could be writing about a cloud company with a retail side hustle6 days ago
Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions -- Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 20307 days ago
China's spaceplane bears striking resemblance to America's X-37B - Defense Intelligence Agency space report includes a rare orbital snap of the Chinese craft, and it looks rather familiar7 days ago
Intel gets tax breaks while local authorities lose revenue, claims policy org -- Report accuses corp of getting subsidies for its fabs from Oregon and New Mexico that deprive those states of vital funds8 days ago
Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees -- Project Quarry aims to provide a 'shared language' for evaluating agent behavior3 days ago
123 Reg discloses 'AI cyberattack' on customer data, suspects China nexus -- Company chiefs believe the attackers could be the same as those who used ARTEX to breach South Korea's financial giants6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Neocloud thinks AI agents - not meatbags - will be its main customers -- Quake AI is developing APIs to let autonomous agents access its services more efficiently7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Why roaming packages have become an anachronism in the age of app-first travel -- PARTNER CONTENT: Connectivity at all times, abroad7 days ago
SK Hynix says memory shortages to persist until 2030 -- Good for its bottom line, not great news for yours, or for the PC and smartphone markets8 days ago
AI slows growth for Infosys and keeps it afloat at the same time -- Predicts slower growth as savings from automation hit price of extended deals8 days ago
Big Red gets cozy with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers - Oracle plans to add those chips alongside new Nvidia hardware and OpenAI services as businesses await AI payoffs6 days ago
'Let's just shove a bigger fan in there and see what happens'10 days ago
Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk17 days ago
To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work24 days ago
Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed1 month ago
Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data1 month ago
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on1 month ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button1 month ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire1 month ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up1 month ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory2 months ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard2 months ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn2 months ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day3 months ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data3 months ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'3 months ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap3 months ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code3 months ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess4 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!4 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet4 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug4 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident5 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in5 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything5 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch5 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving5 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch5 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild5 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it5 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe5 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference5 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo5 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble5 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract5 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction5 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell5 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead5 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office5 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server5 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam5 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key5 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 rumble5 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good5 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming5 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work4 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books5 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people5 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere5 months ago
Nervous ISPs replace Chrome as strange consumers of DNS resources15 days ago
London's mobile networks fall to bottom of Europe's capital league16 days ago
ICANN testing tech to let law enforcement access non-public WHOIS info16 days ago
Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router17 days ago
GSMA warns of growing risks to mobile networks from extreme weather2 days ago
Virgin Media O2 outlines plans to lay off thousands as revenue falls2 days ago
Ericsson says it can detect, track drones using only mobile networks3 days ago
Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions – Openreach4 days ago
Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan5 days ago
Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up10 days ago
UK threatens subsea cable saboteurs with 14 years behind bars13 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute -- Meet CLAUDE_CODE_EVEN_MORE_DANGEROUSLY_SKIP_PERMISSIONS7 days ago
SECURITY -- AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours -- One critical, three high-severity EPICS bugs could disrupt research experiments6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple takes powerful M6 chip to the MacBook Pro, iMac -- 6th-gen M-series silicon promises more cores, faster memory, a fatter NPU, and better connectivity, now in more form factors8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux -- Classic Platinum or lickable Mavericks-era Aqua – it's your choice8 days ago
Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack -- University hospitals once again accepting patients after initial ambulance diversion, but recovery to continue in phases7 days ago
Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year -- Revenue up, operating profit up, 30 million paid Copilot seats locked in, 88 DCs added, $43.8 billion returned to shareholders9 days ago
CISA confirms PHP2Shell under attack as researchers clock successful exploits -- Both critical PHP flaws land on the agency's exploited list as infosec pros confirm hackers are getting working shells7 days ago
ai and ml - A whopping 3% of boardroom execs spy productivity and costs savings from AI3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation -- Admits a 'small number' of iPhone Duos have display problems, and no, you're not folding it wrong.9 days ago
STORAGE -- When file infrastructure becomes the bottleneck -- Legacy NAS, VPNs, and file-sync workflows leave hidden costs in their wake. Is the way your organization manages files still fit for purpose?6 days ago
Microsoft releases out-of-band Windows fixes with certificate updates -- Did you hear the one about eMudhra and the power of 4? Time to get connected to certificate trust list updates7 days ago
Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts -- Alternative für Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche7 days ago
Realidade: 65% dos funcionários ignoram as regras de acesso apenas para fazer seu trabalho -- O cenário de identidade empresarial foi fragmentado.18 hours ago
ON-PREM -- UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups -- Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones9 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases -- Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions8 days ago
ON-PREM -- How everyday technology choices drive true workplace sustainability -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Introducing certified, environmentally friendly meeting room solutions, such as Barco ClickShare, in a standardized way across the organization can make the difference between hitting sustainability goals or not9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel -- They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action9 days ago
Palantir CEO says it's pioneering an antiwar movement – while happily accepting defense dollars -- Alex Karp casts military software as a force for peace while declaring a moral imperative to dominate the market1 day ago
Turn your home into a giant crane game with this open source robot -- Who needs a humanoid to pick up after you when you can suspend an AI-powered claw from cables near your ceiling?1 day ago
These smart glasses promise to turn your silent mouth movements into text -- Crazy person, or efficient employee? As always, it depends on what they're wearing2 days ago
Chap who coded Google's Pac-Man clone reveals how the game freaked out Firefox -- Waka-waka-waka-waka why why why why?3 days ago
Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1's -- Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?5 days ago
Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out -- London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists5 days ago
Critical launch for Vulcan as ULA targets Friday the 13th -- Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles7 days ago
Please state the nature of the medical emergency: Google is building a robot medic for NASA -- The AI medical assistant is still being tested. Now the space boffins want to give it hands7 days ago
Man spends 35 years collecting corporatespeak, turns it into an app -- Why waste time thinking of something useful to say when an app can leverage synergies for you?7 days ago
Year of Linux on the Beach confirmed -- Don't forget to keep code up to date. Even with a cold beverage in hand9 days ago
Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Lego bricks -- Every key is its own module, and its designer tells us the sky's the theoretical limit on the size of the frankenboard you can build10 days ago
Reg readers land on 'Binface' as name for UK space cleanup mission -- Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?11 days ago
Beware the claw: Do you want to win the bunny or reboot Android? -- Classic arcade game put to shame by judgemental Bugdroid13 days ago
Java crashes the departure board at Tyne and Wear Metro -- Train times remain on show as an elderly Windows dialog demands attention15 days ago
Happiness is the next AI KPI if Oxford boffins have their way -- Researchers say public subsidies for AI should be repaid in wellbeing, not just economic growth15 days ago
Amazon makes vague commitment to unproven nuclear tech to power Indiana datacenters -- Partner X-energy has not built a single working reactor yet16 days ago
Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline -- Black cab drivers accused ride-hailing giant of misleading London's transport regulator, but judge says they left it too late to sue17 days ago
Museum exhibit reveals the intricate workings of a knackered Dell -- When it should have been weaving tales of the Jacquard loom17 days ago
Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance -- Pop quiz: somebody left a command shell logged in. What do you do?18 days ago
Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub -- Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform20 days ago
YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays -- Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today21 days ago
Royal Navy goes fishing for suppliers to build its Type 93 robot submarine -- Preliminary notice seeks XLUUV builders, payload makers and AI developers, with Excalibur and Herne the obvious candidates21 days ago
Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee -- Things got weird, but there's a lesson to be learned: Don't trust a bot to negotiate for you21 days ago
Leap seconds face judgment day as time lords prepare to vote -- Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries22 days ago
Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007 -- Browser-based fun to remember a time before Apple's annual cash grab became a thing22 days ago
Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno -- Tick, tick, tick, tick, ticket, ticket, tick tick22 days ago
Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's -- 25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid24 days ago
US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway -- Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year27 days ago
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors -- Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up28 days ago
Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra -- What the f?28 days ago
It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat -- The ALBATROSS has landed28 days ago
Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing -- Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?29 days ago
Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb -- Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity29 days ago
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station -- No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety30 days ago
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw -- Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem30 days ago
Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand -- Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply1 month ago
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40 -- The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today1 month ago
Clever database, but can it run Doom? -- Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'1 month ago
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates -- A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport1 month ago
Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes -- So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda1 month ago
YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator -- If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have1 month ago
Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates -- A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption1 month ago
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time -- The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers1 month ago
Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business -- Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well1 month ago
Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry -- Atmospheric drag brings an extraordinarily long-lived mission to a close10 days ago
Musk disputes NASA safety panel's lunar launch estimates -- Watchdog also warns retiring Falcon and Dragon could leave US access to orbit short of a backup13 days ago
Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time -- Not to kill the human, of course – to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection13 days ago
Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too -- For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century14 days ago
Improved asteroid deflection model runs faster, reveals more doomsday worries2 days ago
Voyager 1 gives controllers the silent treatment6 days ago
NASA ponders a Hubble servicing mission or a controlled deorbit6 days ago
BattMan aims to turbocharge US batteries without robbin' critical minerals7 days ago
Veteran ESA probe rolls out welcome mat for Japan's Phobos mission -- Mars Express could support MMX's 2027 arrival as another 'last ever' extension keeps old spacecraft in flight14 days ago
HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon -- Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end15 days ago
In space, 'We've gone from exploration to exploitation,' says original Voyager team member -- Voyager imaging team member Dr. Garry Hunt joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches one light day's distance from Earth16 days ago
Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug -- Cite difficulty of updating IoT devices as major reason to stop adding time16 days ago
Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission -- ClearSpace UK aims to be operational in 2029 with public's suggestion etched on the side of the spacecraft19 days ago
Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027 -- Carbon composite woes cause another delay for Peter Beck's Hungry Hippo21 days ago
IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job -- Promises to build 'IBM Z Atlas' tool that will tidy up messy big iron and enable AIOps9 days ago
Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned -- CEO admits service used for foreign exchange trading had holes company was slow to fix7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists -- It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all9 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra -- Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price9 days ago
SECURITY -- Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail -- Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search8 days ago