security - America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks - Docs point to China's Unitree as prime example of the foreign clanker threat

12 minutes ago

SECURITY - Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears - Customer funds safe, but 14,000 organizations may have to phone in time-sensitive payments

4 hours ago

Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires -- NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact

11 hours ago

SCIENCE - Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision - Support for e-MERLIN ends 2028 unless the historic radio astronomy center can find another source of cash

10 hours ago

AI AND ML -- Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack -- The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems

12 minutes ago

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update -- One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems

12 minutes ago

Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle -- £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal

1 day ago

How AI drove Shopify back to clean code -- Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback

2 days ago

ON-PREM -- Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter -- The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility

1 day ago

IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them -- Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets

5 days ago

Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything -- Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job

5 days ago

Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports

5 days ago

OFFBEAT - Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor

12 minutes ago

AI AND ML -- Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own -- xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models – for a price

5 days ago

The Rackscale AI System Roadmaps That AMD Is Using To Chase Money

12 minutes ago

Security -- Greedy ransomware crews return for seconds after victims cough up first extortion payments -- Some never saw their files again either, infosec biz Proofpoint finds

5 days ago

SOFTWARE -- GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way

5 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products -- Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other

5 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party -- SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal

6 days ago

VIRTUALIZATION -- OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy -- French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn't seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime

6 days ago

SECURITY -- Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief -- Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain

6 days ago

Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs

6 hours ago

AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype

10 hours ago

Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock

14 hours ago

SECURITY -- Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims -- IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake

6 days ago

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents -- Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged

7 days ago

Public Sector - UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

3 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red -- Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action

7 days ago

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting -- Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters

7 days ago

SAAS -- Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room -- Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026

8 days ago

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit -- Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort

11 days ago

Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz -- No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place

7 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 messages

7 days ago

SOFTWARE -- AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You -- Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year

4 days ago

A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV Cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch - With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads - but gone before they arrived

2 hours ago

MCP gets an enterprise makeover -- Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle

2 hours ago

Looks like JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face -- The vendor won't confirm or deny

2 hours ago

Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics -- Public meeting over proposed AI bit barn ended with zoning approval, a physics teacher arrested, and fresh questions over whether clapping now counts as disorderly conduct

7 hours ago

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses' -- More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses

2 hours ago

Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives -- Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable

2 hours ago

War machines can run amok with AI in control -- Tour of the AI kill chain maps the risks of ubiquitous surveillance and flawed algorithms

6 hours ago

AI is storage's biggest opportunity - and biggest threat -- Faster access and more secure recoveries are driving business, but mishaps and attacks can endanger data

4 hours ago

College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought -- 32 of 35 students were caught in his nonsense text trap

9 hours ago

Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok -- Postmortem offers finer details on the 'unprecedented' attack that's reshaping approaches to security

12 hours ago

Too many AI agents can get in each other's way -- For enterprise agents, less is more

13 hours ago

AI AND ML -- China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models -- Beijing happy to 'take all necessary measures' if sanctioned

4 hours ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo

1 day ago

Security -- Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal

4 days ago

SECURITY -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days

5 days ago

SECURITY -- Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth

2 days ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

5 days ago

Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 -- Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown -- Corey Quinn

16 hours ago

The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web -- 'We don't serve their kind here' protects today's publishers, but won't help rebels destroy the monetization Death Stars built by Google and Meta -- Mark Pesce

1 day ago

How do you solve a problem like Capita? -- Lindsay Clark

16 hours ago

Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling -- Rupert Goodwins

1 day ago

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

4 days ago

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand -- Simon Travaglia

5 days ago

Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids -- Bruce Davie

13 hours ago

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that... -- Rupert Goodwins

6 days ago

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

16 hours ago

AI AND ML -- Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks -- AI seems to have a liberal bias

7 hours ago

AI + ML -- Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering -- American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper

6 hours ago

DEVOPS -- Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers -- Just don't call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in

6 hours ago

AI and ML -- Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude -- Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation

9 hours 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 day ago

AI has changed data architecture, but storage hasn't caught up - SPONSORED FEATURE: AI's hunger for data outstrips storage smarts, leaving GPUs famished

12 hours ago

AI AND ML -- Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill -- History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says

13 hours ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models -- If you think OpenAI and Anthropic are the only ones with these capabilities, think again

14 hours ago

The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?

1 day ago

FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Word up

1 day ago

Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy -- So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike's plans for consistent names across the industry

4 hours ago

SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13 -- Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick

1 day ago

Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI -- PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!

1 day ago

Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills -- Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement

1 day ago

SCIENCE - So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else -- Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code

1 day ago

BOFH -- BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book -- But so does this customer

1 day ago

AI and ML -- Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling -- And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention

1 day ago

Security -- Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info -- (Security) hole-ier than thou

7 hours ago

AI AND ML -- AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI -- Hey Claude, optimize this model for me

1 day ago

Security -- Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com -- Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)

10 hours ago

AI and ML -- Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI -- Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?

1 day ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo -- Git is aptly named: it isn't easy – but there are alternatives

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor -- Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism

1 day ago

AI and ML -- Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents -- Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal

1 day ago

SCIENCE -- SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no -- Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test

1 day ago

Security -- Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled -- Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families

11 hours ago

PERSONAL TECH -- LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in -- Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched

1 day ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze -- Supplier says the Horizon-era pause only stops it chasing work from new government customers

2 days ago

Google breaks Alibaba's record for Europe's largest DMA fine -- €890 million slap – just 0.25% of revenue – for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives

4 days ago

Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it -- Sleep doesn't pay

4 days ago

Intel knows it needs to 'leapfrog' ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan -- Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day

4 days ago

Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

8 days ago

Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

2 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 procurement

24 days ago

Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

1 day ago

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

6 days ago

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

8 days ago

Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester

11 days ago

Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

20 days ago

Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist

20 days ago

France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

1 month ago

Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend

1 month ago

Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition

1 month ago

LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy

1 month ago

Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours -- Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services

4 days ago

OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be -- Attack models gonna attack

12 hours ago

Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs -- Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software

13 hours ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will -- ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap

4 days ago

AI and ML -- Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS -- AI no longer welcome in human-focused community

4 days ago

AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's -- Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper

5 days ago

Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email -- Phishing for dummies

17 hours ago

Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past -- Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

5 days ago

Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth -- Aftermarket dealer-installed KARR/SWDS security systems all use the same secure key, say UCSD researchers

1 day ago

Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal -- Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads

1 day ago

GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team -- Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters

5 days ago

AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia's Groq LPUs -- The enemy of my enemy is my friend

5 days ago

Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing -- If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?

7 days ago

Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet -- Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon

6 days ago

Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out -- Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants

7 days ago

Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain -- Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory

8 days ago

High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required -- Worries about 'prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node'

8 days ago

Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief -- Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom

12 days ago

Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit -- CISA widens alert beyond Rockwell controllers as intruders target internet-facing devices across critical infrastructure

1 day 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 cat

5 days ago

One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company -- Researchers say OpenAI flaw let phishing bait create an autonomous corporate mole armed with employee access

1 day ago

Swiss train maker tells ransomware crooks to get off at the next stop -- Stadler refuses $12.3M demand after thieves swipe technical data through supplier platform

4 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims -- Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect

4 days ago

AI AND ML -- Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional -- AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it

5 days ago

ON-PREM -- Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions -- Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast

4 days ago

SECURITY -- Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files -- Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room?

4 days ago

aI AND ML -- Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic -- And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack

5 days ago

The identity trust delusion -- Join Rubrik's Mark Grant as he shares lessons from real recoveries, common mistakes, product evolution, and building long-term identity resilience.

8 days ago

From Pilots to AI Factories: How Enterprises Are Really Scaling Agentic AI and Agent Gateways -- AI is shifting from simple chatbots to autonomous "coworkers," and most enterprises are now constrained less by models than by the complexity

29 days ago

Know Your Adversary: Counter Operations that Wreck Global Cybercrime -- When Silk Typhoon launched a campaign against Microsoft, it looked like another case of a state-backed hacking group getting away again.

21 days ago

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2 months ago

AI AND ML -- Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence -- Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle high demand for the G-Cloud

5 days ago

AI and ML -- OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning -- Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused

4 days ago

PAAS AND IAAS -- Google Cloud is killing it -- It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit

5 days ago

AI and ML -- Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool -- Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?

5 days ago

Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter -- Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy

6 days ago

AI and ML -- OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents -- As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing

5 days ago

Security -- Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits -- Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town

5 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- 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 12.15

12 days 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 worldwide

12 days ago

Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan

13 days ago

Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it -- Next version of Linux Mint's desktop has both kinds of display server

18 days ago

AI Hosts And Sandboxes Save Intel's Datacenter CPU Cookies

22 hours ago

Nvidia Accelerates Chip Engineering With AI Agents

1 day ago

The Money AMD Is Chasing With Its Rackscale AI System Roadmaps

4 days ago

Nutanix gets Dell PowerStore support

8 hours ago

Kioxia launches its first PCIe gen 5 liquid-cooled SSD

5 hours ago

AI has changed data architecture, but storage hasn't caught up

11 hours ago

How can you trust AI agents? Veeam can help

1 day ago

How AI drove Shopify back to clean code

2 days ago

Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop'

13 days ago

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

14 days ago

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

18 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions -- Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals

5 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2 -- More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot

5 days ago

SECURITY -- Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree -- Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act

5 days ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face -- Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents

5 days ago

AI + ML -- The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now -- Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3

6 days ago

Security -- Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI -- Don't call them chatbots

5 days ago

AI and ML -- AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep -- Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult

5 days ago

DON'T MISS -- The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon -- Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components

1 month ago

AI AND ML -- Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises -- Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI

6 days ago

Security -- Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement -- Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain

5 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA -- Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar

6 days ago

SECURITY -- AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert -- Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time

5 days ago

OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign

5 days ago

ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

6 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

13 days ago

security - Security boss thought MFA would be too much security - One rule for the workers, another for execs

1 month ago

Personal tech - Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles

5 days ago

Personal Tech -- This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

1 month ago

Offbeat -- Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

1 month ago

Networks -- Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner

1 month ago

AI and ML - If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic - Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages

13 days ago

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing -- Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored

14 days ago

Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die -- 'GhostApproval' problem highlights human-in-the-loop fails

18 days 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%

12 days ago

Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway -- Left hand, meet right hand

21 days ago

AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top -- Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models

20 days ago

AI startup that's never turned a profit says it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease -- Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf

8 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware -- Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for

6 days ago

Public Sector -- UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years -- RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride

6 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support -- Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset

6 days ago

SCIENCE - And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't

6 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade -- Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating

6 days ago

Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods - Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China's cheap e-commerce champs

7 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest -- Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering

5 days ago

Cyber-crime -- Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack -- Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history

9 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due -- One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer

9 days ago

Security - Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection - t.me borked for a day until platform proved it had no ties to service favored by cybercriminals

12 days ago

Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all - Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything

3 hours ago

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas -- It's possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules

11 days ago

Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC -- The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner's systems go down

11 days ago

CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws -- Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain

1 day ago

MCP gets an enterprise makeover

3 hours ago

Looks like JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face

3 hours ago

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'

10 hours ago

Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first

13 hours ago

Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms

1 day ago

AI and ML -- Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid -- Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

6 days ago

The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash -- OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly

7 days ago

Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign -- Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home

7 days ago

AI AND ML -- EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month -- Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who – or what – users are talking to

7 days ago

ai and Ml -- Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball -- On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally

7 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online -- HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details

7 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs -- With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all

7 days ago

OFF PREM -- Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products -- Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves

5 days ago

OFF-PREM -- Amazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it -- Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts

6 days ago

Off-PREM -- Fire burns Google Cloud India's network, which remains slow a week later -- PLUS: Japan's space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!

7 days ago

OFF-PREM -- EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow -- Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source

7 days ago

OFF PREM -- Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream

7 days ago

Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five -- 'Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn

6 days ago

Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again -- AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud

7 days ago

Google Cloud outage shows it's still hard to understand hyperscalers' real resilience regimes -- UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by 'upstream' power problem and failure of diesel generators

2 days ago

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical -- An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral

8 days ago

AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites -- Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery

12 days ago

India's tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business -- Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed

15 days ago

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk -- 24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim

19 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings -- Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

7 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner -- Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker

7 days ago

DEVOPS -- Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage -- Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over

8 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD -- New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code

8 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly -- And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close

8 days ago

Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data

1 day ago

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

8 days ago

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

22 days ago

Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess

29 days ago

How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!

1 month ago

Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet

1 month ago

Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug

1 month ago

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

1 month ago

Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in

2 months ago

Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything

2 months ago

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

2 months ago

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

2 months ago

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

2 months ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

2 months ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

2 months ago

The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe

2 months ago

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

2 months ago

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

2 months ago

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

2 months ago

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

2 months ago

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

2 months ago

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

2 months ago

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

2 months ago

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

2 months ago

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

2 months ago

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

2 months ago

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

2 months ago

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause

2 months ago

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

2 months ago

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

2 months ago

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

2 months ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work

25 days ago

Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

2 months ago

Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people

2 months ago

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

2 months ago

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

2 months ago

'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'

2 months ago

Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

2 months ago

Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice

2 months ago

Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company

2 months ago

Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

2 months ago

Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

2 months ago

Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

2 months ago

After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

2 months ago

Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

2 months ago

I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA

2 months ago

CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it

2 months ago

Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

2 months ago

Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off

2 months ago

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

15 days ago

Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down

20 days ago

Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint

20 days ago

Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms

25 days ago

Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber

17 hours ago

Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops

17 hours ago

EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?

4 days ago

China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol

6 days ago

NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage

11 days ago

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

14 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month -- 22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11

8 days ago

Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates -- Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug

11 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' -- More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust

8 days ago

Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content -- You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned

11 days ago

Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order -- Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts

7 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge -- Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year

8 days ago

How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality - SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution

8 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem -- We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days

9 days ago

AI AND ML -- South Korea making its own security-centric AI model -- Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos

8 days ago

AI and ML -- OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake' -- Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid

8 days ago

Britain hopes £7.3M will help electric and hydrogen aircraft take off -- Government finds some loose change down to chuck at emission-free flight research

10 hours 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 soldiers

1 day ago

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network

4 days 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 local

4 days ago

UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal

5 days 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 waste

6 days ago

US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too

6 days ago

Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity -- Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'

11 days ago

Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork

13 days ago

Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole -- 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'

14 days ago

Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street -- Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors

15 days ago

Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological

15 days ago

Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car -- Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car's array of cameras

20 days ago

C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched

23 days ago

Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error

26 days ago

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time -- SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world

27 days ago

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule

27 days ago

Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead

28 days ago

HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track -- Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station

28 days ago

Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad -- CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious

29 days ago

Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM

1 month ago

US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says

1 month ago

Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit -- Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening

1 month ago

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI

1 month ago

Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars -- Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home

1 month ago

Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia -- A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest

1 month ago

Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch -- Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite

1 month ago

Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage -- Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen

1 month ago

Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart -- TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had

1 month ago

Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems -- One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here

1 month ago

Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?

1 month ago

EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife -- Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation

1 month ago

Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package

1 month ago

Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones -- Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes

1 month ago

Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting -- Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches

1 month ago

Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM

1 month ago

DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars -- Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements

1 month ago

The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build -- 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts

1 month ago

Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities

1 month ago

US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses -- L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets

1 month ago

World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs -- Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register

1 month ago

XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway -- A blast from the past greets commuters

1 month ago

NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one -- Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad

12 days ago

AI AND ML - AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding

5 days ago

Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy -- Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble

14 days ago

India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch -- Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit

14 days ago

Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires

12 hours ago

Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision

16 hours ago

SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13

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17 hours ago

Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though) -- First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy

15 days ago

Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test -- Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price

15 days ago

Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space -- There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos

19 days ago

New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation -- Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch

19 days ago

Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander -- Jim Bridenstine says Artemis 'extraordinarily complicated' compared to the days of Apollo and the Saturn V

20 days ago

NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons -- Advanced Space's privately owned probe will keep flying, but the agency's role is over

21 days ago

AI AND ML -- Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project -- Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel

11 days ago

AI and ML -- Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100 -- Models demand trust without offering verification

8 days ago

TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan -- Beware of fab makers bearing press releases

12 days ago

EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids -- The Chocolate Factory is not amused

12 days ago