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AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit - Adding insult to injury
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VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade -- Found the time to focus and 'corrected' incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds1 hour ago
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race -- AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)1 hour ago
Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook -- Predictive text remains available, but users will have to invite it into their workflow6 hours ago
A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter -- The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble1 hour ago
Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon' -- While you wait, Meta says it's taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often1 hour ago
Security by obscurity is dead -- Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'1 hour ago
devops - Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November - The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data1 hour ago
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip -- Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend3 hours ago
Infosec pros say we're not ready to lose control of AI -- Nearly two-thirds of US national security pros surveyed believe AI risks, and government posture toward them, are unacceptable4 hours ago
SCIENCE - NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science - Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry1 hour ago
Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill -- Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for8 hours ago
Security - Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers - Cloud storage biz severs old integration and urges victims to reset credentials1 hour ago
Offshoots of cancelled TrueNAS Core upgrade to FreeBSD 15 -- Exeunt zVault stage right; enter FreeCORE and BSDnas10 hours ago
Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest' -- Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America10 hours ago
Microsoft update disarms Outlook and Teams on Arm PCs -- Installing an AI gaming package offers relief while custom cursors suffer a separate reset11 hours ago
NETWORKS - London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above - Mobile signal below ground beats the citywide average, Ookla says10 hours ago
AI AND ML -- UK goes shopping for homegrown AI with £100M procurement scheme -- Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy1 hour ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Northern Ireland adds £15M to Fujitsu education deal without competition -- Japanese supplier remains in place despite scrutiny over its Horizon role2 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK digital ID may be dead, but its legacy IT problem lives on -- Spending watchdog says fragmented data and inconsistent standards would constrain any future attempt3 hours ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries1 day ago
SECURITY -- Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website1 day ago
NETWORKS -- A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's1 day ago
AI AND ML -- OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire1 day ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough -- Corey Quinn2 hours ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols6 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins2 hours ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce6 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Rupert Goodwins6 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges -- Bruce Davie6 days ago
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- Rupert Goodwins12 days ago
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney -- Corey Quinn16 days ago
Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss -- And RISC-V is absolutely nowhere14 hours ago
Tape still isn't dead, but shipments slipped by 16 exabytes in 2025 -- LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling9 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic promises zero data retention – but customers must check it worked -- More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable6 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- ReactOS 0.4.16 serves '90s Windows nostalgia with fewer bugs -- 30 years on, it's still alpha, but 0.4.16 brings plenty of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements - just in time for Windows XP's 25th anniversary11 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle pins hopes on 'Star Wars' productivity jump to lightspeed from AI-assisted engineering -- Big Red talks up superhuman coders after shedding 21,000 staff9 hours ago
SCIENCE -- ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering11 hours ago
The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft -- Ransomware crew threatens publication while healthcare biz assesses which records escaped2 hours ago
33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble -- Hosting software vendor tells customers to reset credentials and hunt for malicious packages3 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 misses the pointer while Defender cries wolf -- August 27 update reportedly scrambles cursor customizations as bogus antivirus alerts spread13 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Insider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets -- And no sharing your allowance! What do you think we are, communists?14 hours ago
AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate -- Dutch in-process OLAP systems set to be the 'SDK for data' as developers scale systems, cloud giant claims after DuckLab acquisition1 day ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning1 day ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Hacking education to thrive in the AI world is the first and best step in keeping control1 day ago
If hardware price squeezes make you sad, VMware says it will all end in tiers -- Virtzilla finding more ways to pull data out of DRAM to enable 'densification' and dodge the RAMpocalypse1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI adoption at work is broad but shallow -- GenAI now reaches 80% of occupations, but in most of those fewer than half of workers use it22 hours ago
Security -- Healthcare cyberattacks hit pacemakers and millions of patient records -- McKesson admits breach as ShinyHunters demands $55.2M1 hour ago
Virtualization -- VMware uses Nvidia-favored 'AI factory' brand to build something with rival AMD -- Forget the confusing branding and focus on your shrinking token bill1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Orbify.eu pitches warped Inception-style 3D maps for navigation -- 'You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling'1 day ago
AI AND ML -- OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire -- Making installation easier and putting a new wrapper on the interface while leaving most of the security to users is a recipe for more trouble with the popular agent harness9 hours ago
Attack hides malware in PNGs and drops custom reverse tunnel on victims' machines -- Next-level ClickFix wave sets off multi-stage attack chain13 hours ago
Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python, Java libraries -- Promises 'secure artifacts' for Spring and RabbitMQ, and other projects that matter to its Tanzu suite1 day ago
Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens -- Commodity malware steals authenticated sessions, letting thieves freeload on victims' paid usage22 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Energy biz SSE smacked around in court by a guy and AI -- Company's three year pursuit of debt from non-existent address ended by Oxford judge1 day ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- The balkanization of virtualization will de-throne VMware, which doesn't mind a bit -- The real fight is who wins the most AI and K8s workloads1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Debian votes to let contributors code with AI -- Disclosure optional, quality mandatory1 day ago
SECURITY -- Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private -- Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats1 day ago
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems -- Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle4 days ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads4 days ago
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website -- More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi1 day ago
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters -- How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?5 days ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense5 days ago
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI -- It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer5 days ago
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted -- Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met5 days ago
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies -- The IT specialist began contacting a foreign government within days of being assigned to the DIA's Insider Threat Division1 day ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?3 months ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement1 month ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan27 days ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester1 month ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much1 month ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow1 month ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical1 month ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester1 month ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road1 month ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist1 month ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well2 months ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend2 months ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming -- GRUB's up for furry new update2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it -- Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have -- Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview -- Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates2 days ago
SECURITY -- CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago -- Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs1 day ago
SECURITY -- Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution -- 100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting -- Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you2 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns -- Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive3 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition -- Why oh why are the accountants stricter than the IRS and HMRC put together?4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call -- One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users4 days ago
Nvidia is building an IP licensing empire on the back of NVLink -- Even when you think you're not buying Nvidia, you might still be buying Nvidia2 days ago
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff -- Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November5 days ago
Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough -- Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful8 days ago
OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast -- 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin8 days ago
SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter -- Rack-mount system intended for software porting, workload optimization, to bring open standard to the bitbarn8 days ago
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently -- Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere8 days ago
SECURITY -- Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it's drawing customers' blood -- The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline1 day ago
Security -- Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds -- Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI2 days ago
ai and ML -- Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots -- Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why5 days ago
Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see -- Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car6 days ago
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled -- It's 'built to be operated by a human with no technical background'2 days ago
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims -- Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs6 days ago
AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks -- Even testing and staging sites need protection from prying eyes2 days ago
Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages -- No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Omarchy distro gains serious backing -- Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M2 days ago
AL AND ML -- Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code -- Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box5 days ago
SECURITY -- ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims -- US Justice Department investigating the breach3 days ago
Operationalizing AI with visibility, control, and multitenancy -- In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.1 day ago
How Cloudflare's "customer zero" journey offers a blueprint for secure enterprise AI adoption -- As AI tools rapidly enter the enterprise, security teams face a hard balance.2 days ago
CISO 3.0: Governing AI Agents at Machine Speed -- Join Snyk and AWS on 14 September to see what it takes to govern an agentic AI landscape at machine speed.8 days ago
How to prepare for the coming wave of autonomous attacks -- AI has handed attackers a capability most security programmes were never built to face: finding architectural flaws, at machine speed.22 days ago
AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap -- This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.19 days ago
The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion -- Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.1 month ago
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Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT - SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of) -- Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more' -- As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized5 days ago
SECURITY -- Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data -- UK's largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC -- Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap -- AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities5 days ago
Security -- Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller -- Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls4 days ago
AI and ML -- Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential -- Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS - AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi1 hour ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down -- F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload6 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Word up30 days ago
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way1 month ago
A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 -- New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.151 month ago
Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites -- Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide1 month ago
Optics Still Driving Marvell's AI Business More Than Custom Chips3 hours ago
VMware Intros Private AI Cloud, AI Factory As Workloads Shift To On-Prem1 day ago
In The Long Run, Nvidia NVSwitch Is The InfiniBand Of Scale Up AI Networks2 days ago
Peeling Apart That Supposed $120 Billion Chip Deal Google Inked With Marvell6 days ago
CrowdStrike's security agents can trigger Commvault, Rubrik and VAST Data cyber-recovery10 hours ago
Dell's revenue bonanza benefits from killer AI workloads10 hours ago
MinIO goes to Saudi Arabia to build HUMAIN AI data fabric1 day ago
MLPerf Storage benchmark updated for modern AI1 day ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v16 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings9 days ago
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords12 days ago
SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs13 days ago
Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year -- Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse6 days ago
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks -- Beijing's botnets busted5 days ago
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face -- Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'5 days ago
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads -- Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet7 days ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1 -- K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years6 days ago
Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount -- Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon6 days ago
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks -- 'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'5 days ago
GitHub Actions was down yet again -- Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test6 days ago
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case -- Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job7 days ago
Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too -- Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along7 days ago
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND -- Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills7 days ago
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack -- No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing5 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports1 month ago
SECURITY -- Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed -- One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks6 days ago
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027 - SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension -- Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive6 days ago
DATABASES -- AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database -- Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist -- AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work6 days ago
LEGAL -- Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project -- Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist6 days ago
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it12 hours ago
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support7 days ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees13 days ago
SOFTWARE - Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered - The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects12 hours ago
Software - Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem1 month ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign1 month ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year1 month ago
ai and ml - AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC - Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature12 days ago
OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge -- With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance12 days ago
Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS -- Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?13 days ago
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN -- A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages1 month ago
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes -- Human did 10% of the job,AI did 90%1 month ago
Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words -- 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it16 days ago
Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you -- Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated19 days ago
Public sector -- Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR -- Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality6 days ago
AI and ML -- Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose -- Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown -- French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model7 days ago
SCIENCE -- India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over -- Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action -- Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud7 days ago
AI and ml -- Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis -- The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you -- Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now7 days ago
AI AND ML -- McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI' -- Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat7 days ago
ON-PREM -- EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters -- State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits7 days ago
Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it -- Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf8 days ago
SickKids children's hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in -- Toronto org says it wasn't the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability9 days ago
Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials -- Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware9 days ago
cyber-crime - $10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts - Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication12 days ago
Microsoft sounds alarm over perfect-10 Entra ID flaw - Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed4 hours ago
Russian snoops add OAuth abuse to targeted phishing campaigns -- Don't click on that State Department meeting invite9 days ago
US Bank investigates LockBit's claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline -- Follow the money2 days ago
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say2 hours ago
AI agents carried out every step of this ransomware attack – then left the victim an 80-page security audit5 hours ago
SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again6 hours ago
UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it13 hours ago
Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes22 hours ago
Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans1 day ago
Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks1 day ago
Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads1 day ago
Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in1 day ago
SECURITY -- You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack -- Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing -- Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade7 days ago
ai and ML -- Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop -- OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots7 days ago
Legal -- US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor -- Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineer's plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update -- Summer in Redmond, Winter for everyone else7 days ago
SECURITY -- CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw -- Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it's finally time for the USG to plug the gap6 days ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck8 days ago
Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads -- Sponsored search results lead developers straight into a ClickFix malware trap6 days ago
public sector - HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp2 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins -- Cloudy AI is Chinese giant's 'most certain' path to growth as e-commerce slows12 days ago
US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations -- Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland13 days ago
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown - And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal13 days ago
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads - Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term19 days ago
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous -- And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there21 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending21 days ago
Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal -- Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 202722 days ago
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed -- New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff1 day ago
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year -- And fly 'significant scale' in 2028 – a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt8 days ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat20 days ago
What is virtualization modernization? SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Australia's record industry won't chart tunes recorded in the key of AI -- This is basically a riff on 'You wouldn't steal a car' and means only the human league can have a hit8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds -- Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services8 days ago
Security -- You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine -- Its own command language, 23 instructions - signs point to 'well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one'6 days ago
SECURITY -- Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks -- Glassbox dev admits he had some help from Claude to build locally running tool6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg -- Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work8 days ago
OS PLatforms -- Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today -- The version that started to bring all Microsoft's pieces together8 days ago
YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs -- Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry9 days ago
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant -- No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg6 days ago
Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds -- Complaint: Peripheral maker did not want to unplug itself from higher prices and hand back cash to customers9 days ago
Who, me? Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up2 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard16 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn23 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day30 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data1 month ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap1 month ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code1 month ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess2 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!2 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet2 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug2 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident3 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in3 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything3 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch3 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving3 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch3 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild3 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it3 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe3 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference3 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo3 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble3 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract3 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction3 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell3 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead3 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office3 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server3 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam3 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key3 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause3 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble3 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good3 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming3 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work1 month ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books3 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people3 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere3 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver3 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'3 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware3 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice3 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company3 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it3 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe3 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery3 months ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'3 months ago
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price12 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job14 days ago
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit20 days ago
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it24 days ago
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return6 hours ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's2 days ago
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election6 days ago
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way6 days ago
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch12 days ago
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.12 days ago
AI AND ML -- Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks -- Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?8 days ago
SYSTEMS -- What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble -- Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators2 days ago
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles -- At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 20279 days ago
Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain -- Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side9 days ago
ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach -- Attackers took a look at an employee's identity dashboard, but security firm says that's as far as they got7 days ago
Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric -- Gartner reckons $1.6 trillion year is just the start, and don't expect a bust anytime soon9 days ago
I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime... or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg -- Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'9 days ago
Security - AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones5 days ago
US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years -- ... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping9 days ago
$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack -- Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows -- Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia's GPUs in the datacenter9 days ago
SECURITY -- Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia -- Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 20267 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- Warm-Water Ready: Benchmarking Two-Phase Vs. Single-Phase Direct-to-Chip Cooling On An NVIDIA B200 Server -- To cut energy costs, the cooling technology inside the server increasingly determines both compute performance and facility economics.5 days ago
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI -- Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine9 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement9 days ago
Science -- China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'4 days ago
SOFTWARE - Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory - It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?9 days ago
AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries - SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development9 days ago
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again -- This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper2 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?6 days ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast -- Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit7 days ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...7 days ago
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago -- So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it8 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost11 days ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches12 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster13 days ago
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations14 days ago
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers -- After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers16 days ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change17 days ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices18 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons19 days ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology19 days ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard17 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books20 days ago
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop -- Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work20 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad20 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?21 days ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either23 days ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound27 days ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start28 days ago
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range28 days ago
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online -- Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web1 month ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key1 month ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police1 month ago
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage -- Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold1 month ago
Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up -- Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun1 month ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba1 month ago
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness -- Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places1 month ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year1 month ago
Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory -- Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?1 month ago
British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes -- Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers1 month ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?1 month ago
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network1 month ago
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs -- Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local1 month ago
Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots -- Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat1 month ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal1 month ago
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display -- ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste1 month ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted1 month ago
No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory13 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR - Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures9 days ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 197720 days ago
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year22 days ago
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science8 hours ago
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango1 day ago
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters5 days ago
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims6 days ago
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri25 days ago
Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power -- MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing26 days ago
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs -- IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships27 days ago
Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? -- Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward27 days ago
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve -- Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year27 days ago
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year -- Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time28 days ago
Ancient 'Who owns Linux?' case now has one foot very deep in the grave -- Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing10 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings -- S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work9 days ago
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf -- Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust10 days ago
If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will -- Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst8 days ago
ai and ML -- AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing -- Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity9 days ago