Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive -- Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise

4 hours ago

52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4 -- It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

4 hours ago

AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing -- Study finds many tests don't measure the right things

4 hours ago

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS -- All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30

2 days ago

Microsoft teases agents that become 'independent users within the workforce' -- Licensing expert worries they'll be out of control on day one -- AI + ML

19 minutes ago

Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: India's tech services exports growing fast; South Korea puts the bite on TXT spam; NTT gets into autonomous vehicles; and more!

19 minutes ago

Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one -- Infosec in brief -- PLUS: CISA layoffs continue; Lawmakers criticize camera security; China to execute scammers; And more

5 hours ago

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks -- Two different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share? -- Networks

17 hours ago

Here's one way to cut support ticket volume... send them to another company entirely -- Misdirection is the new resolution at major video game house -- Offbeat

18 hours ago

Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map -- interview -- Esra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade' -- Security

1 day ago

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control -- OPINION -- At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend -- Software

1 day ago

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump -- The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off -- Off-Prem

2 days ago

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok make very squishy jury members -- All three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones -- 'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed -- Research

2 days ago

AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing -- Study finds many tests don't measure the right things -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Blackwell a no-sell in China as trade deal fails to materialize -- Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Help desk boss fell for 'Internet Cleaning Day' prank - then swore he got the joke - On Call - Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes ...

4 hours ago

52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4 -- It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C -- OSes

19 minutes ago

China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume -- Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker -- Systems

2 days ago

Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive -- Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions -- Multi-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Researchers want to kill the vibe, propose better model for AI coding -- MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software -- Software

2 days ago

Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached -- Behold the one trillion dollar man -- AI + ML

2 days ago

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it -- Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions. -- OSes

2 days ago

Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction -- Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands

2 days ago

Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers -- The DoE's planned funding runs through 2030

2 days ago

$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday -- Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot

2 days ago

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI - Feature - How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff

2 days ago

VAST Data's $1.17 Billion Deal With CoreWeave Is A Leading Indicator

1 hour ago

Attacking Interconnects And Networks Across All Scales

3 days ago

AMD Is Coiled To Hockey Stick In The AI Datacenter

4 days ago

Arista Modular Switches Aim At Scale Across Networks, Hit Scale Out, Too

5 days ago

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS -- All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30 -- Science

2 days ago

Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty! -- Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth -- This kind of material economic impact from online crooks thought to be a UK-first -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

UK tax collector falls short on digital efficiency, watchdog says -- Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory -- We're months away from AI building AI -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million -- Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn't make that easy -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people -- Redmond's new AI boss is willing to sacrifice performance for the future of our species -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Gootloader malware back for the attack, serves up ransomware -- Move fast - miscreants compromised a domain controller in 17 hours -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

The race to shore up Europe's power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage - Feature - Ukraine first to demo open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement

4 hours ago

Google's Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe -- Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale -- AI + ML

3 days ago

OpenAI's Altman and Friar walk back remarks about federal loan guarantees - updated - Money-losing biz says it does not need help to meet massive infrastructure commitments - AI + ML - 06 Nov 2025 - | 27

19 hours ago

Cisco warns of 'new attack variant' battering firewalls under exploit for 6 months -- Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now -- Patches

3 days ago

Why the future of the datacenter is the infrastructure operating system - From bolt-on chaos to built-in AI: Infrastructure with no assembly required - Partner Content

3 days ago

Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October - ai-pocalypse - Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation. AI + ML - 06 Nov 2025 - | 37

19 hours ago

Union brands Rockstar's leak claim "a distraction" as protests hit Take-Two London -- Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting -- Software

3 days ago

FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute -- Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules -- Legal

3 days ago

Sandisk revenues boom as data center glory beckons

2 days ago

Backblaze cloud storage revenues fire up nicely while backup is flat

2 days ago

Dell PowerFlex/Regatta database combo overcomes trad database limitations

3 days ago

VAST Data lands $1.17 billion CoreWeave deal

3 days ago

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software - Opinion - Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era - AI + ML - 06 Nov 2025 - | 35

1 day ago

Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters -- Sustainable vision? Who knows -- On-Prem

3 days ago

'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant -- It's not a bug, it's a feeling -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Why UK businesses are paying ICO millions for password mistakes you're probably making right now - Strongly-worded emails to staff telling them to be more careful aren't going to cut it anymore - Partner Content

3 days ago

Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet -- Shopping bots pick first option and are 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds -- AI + ML

3 days ago

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will -- Most of you still can't do better than 123456? -- Security

3 days ago

Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence -- Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen -- Applications

3 days ago

SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach -- Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge -- Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack -- Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us -- Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn -- Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services -- Science

3 days ago

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS -- Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship -- Science

3 days ago

Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can't run it all it forever -- Awkward, seeing as they're close partners -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit - Updated - Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don't want, once it fixed a bad link - SaaS - 06 Nov 2025 - | 45

2 days ago

Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks -- Some clever networking hacks open the door -- AI + ML

4 days ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

2 days ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

3 days ago

AI's biggest threat isn't skynet, it's thermodynamics -- xFusion champions a holistic hardware strategy that tackles the fundamental physics of the modern datacenter

3 days ago

Huawei's ACT pathway powers scalable AI adoption across industries -- Company unveils pathway for intelligent transformation

13 days ago

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event' -- Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs -- PaaS + IaaS

4 days ago

Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees' -- Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer - hands on - For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store - Applications - 05 Nov 2025 - | 9

3 days ago

Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M -- An hour's tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B -- Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year -- Security

4 days ago

When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade -- Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build -- OSes

4 days ago

AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system -- CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers -- Systems

4 days ago

How IT professionals can thrive — not just survive — in the age of AI - Want to be a hot commodity in an AI economy? Get smart and get certified - Partner Content

4 days ago

Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP -- S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change -- Databases

4 days ago

AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security -- Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way -- Security

4 days ago

Attackers abuse Gemini AI to develop 'Thinking Robot' malware and data processing agent for spying purposes -- Meanwhile, others tried to social-engineer the chatbot itself -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding -- Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work -- Software

4 days ago

Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions - Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI - Databases - 05 Nov 2025 - |

4 days ago

M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump -- Retailer's tech systems aren't down anymore, but the same can't be said for its rocky financials -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C... and likes what he sees -- A 'three-letter person' experiments with the new type-safe C, and is impressed -- Software

4 days ago

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support -- After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA -- Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Supermicro admits building AI infrastructure is a tricky, low-margin business ... for now -- Can't rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects -- Systems

4 days ago

Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage -- Net access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer -- Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to ... wrenches? -- AI + ML

5 days ago