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BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting - Putting the 'om' in computing4 hours ago
Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels -- Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire4 hours ago
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it -- Malicious compliance crosses cultural barriers4 hours ago
UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters -- Millions for building and improving bitbarn heat networks - including hot water in tunnel under the Thames4 hours ago
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers -- DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside4 hours ago
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 firm, major US airline and 25+ other orgs -- Operator's AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan4 hours ago
Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug - But was the update at fault? Microsoft isn't saying21 minutes ago
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown -- EVENT -- Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.2 hours ago
Raspberry Pi surfs memory crunch to record first half -- A well-timed RAM stockpile helped keep boards shipping while rivals struggled for memory21 minutes ago
os platforms - Windows update leaves some virtual desktops staring into the void - Users may need to summon Explorer manually after signing in3 hours ago
Asahi fork embraces LLMs and lands Linux on the M4 Mac mini -- Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks4 hours ago
channel - Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory - High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch21 minutes ago
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective! -- Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation8 hours ago
Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right -- EVENT -- Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.8 hours ago
Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud - PARTNER CONTENT: Huawei Cloud strengthens the silicon bedrock on the cloud6 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- 2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop -- Desktop AMIs 'designed to behave as much like Windows as possible' now available as an on ramp for new users21 minutes ago
AI AND ML -- Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter -- Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here21 minutes ago
APPLICATIONS -- F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown -- The Chocolate Factory is tightening the screws on Android sideloading, but the FOSS app market is rolling out a huge overhaul and planning for the future21 minutes ago
AI AND ML -- Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real -- With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length6 hours ago
ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated'2 days ago
UPDAted - Register reader hit with surprise bill after Microsoft portals disagreed1 day ago
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'10 hours ago
Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team1 day ago
BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth1 day ago
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols14 hours ago
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Patchy compliance is an argument for stronger enforcement, not abandoning the project -- Rupert Goodwins11 days ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Rupert Goodwins14 hours ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's -- Corey Quinn1 day ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols14 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins14 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Corey Quinn15 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols22 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins22 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce29 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Rupert Goodwins29 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges - Bruce Davie14 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi? -- We hope Zuck's Muse Charm doesn't die if you neglect it4 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market -- Sub-$200 shipments forecast to shrink 40% by 2030 as component costs climb1 day ago
paas and iaas - Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public - EVENT - Matt Rosoff chairs a Register roundtable with HPE and NVIDIA on data sovereignty in the AIera, off the record, in Washington1 day ago
Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze -- A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem19 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB -- Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services9 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues -- Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger12 hours ago
HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app -- Customers say the unannounced change also cut off web access that relied on mobile authentication1 day ago
For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over -- Its vector search is ready, but coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases, says the foundation's chairman1 day ago
Experts question whether Salesforce demo breaches SAP API policy -- For the German vendor, greater challenges may lie ahead, as rivals seek to control the user experience1 day ago
security - Government contractor exposed path to immigration records - PWNED - IT took a shortcut when the boss was away, and it led to danger!1 day ago
networks - Europe's internet registry wants governance 'correction' because its 'Executive Board' is not the executive - RIPE NCC hopes members get aboard effort to tidy things up and give its CEO a vote1 day ago
CHANNEL -- India's outsourced software industry grows 9.5 percent to reach $239 billion -- Software product development industry shrinks a little, but if AI has dented prospects, it's not in these numbers22 hours ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's Astra model went for a drive and no one died -- First LLM to pass test did it in a parking lot at snail's pace, at considerable expense, but it still counts for something1 day ago
security - OpenAI agents 'infiltrated Australian government website' UPDATED - Canberra is fuming after AI lab sent the news to a generic unattended email address23 hours ago
ai and ml - Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension - Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model1 day ago
Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion - Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs21 minutes ago
Someone's attacking a critical 0-day RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM -- Good news: there's a patch. Bad news: both CISA and F5 warn that it's under active exploitation7 hours ago
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology -- Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options2 days ago
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper -- Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance2 days ago
An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip -- 16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?2 days ago
Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint -- New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction2 days ago
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack -- Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals17 hours ago
Closing the observability gap for the AI-ready enterprise -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Why AI-driven operations need a data-rich view of the network2 days ago
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them -- Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities2 days ago
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch -- Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?2 days ago
security - British regulator takes a hard look at Pornhub's Apple-powered age checks - UPDATED - Regulator wants to know whether parent Aylo did its homework before reopening the door to UK iPhone users2 days ago
Swedish celebs campaign for public rudeness ... to prevent cyber scams -- The campaign follows a highly profitable year for crooks targeting the over-60s1 day ago
cyber-crime - Whisky merchant Master of Malt confirms customer data spilt - UPDATED - Attackers had four days to drink in names, addresses, emails and phone numbers2 days ago
BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth -- MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored2 days ago
UK's uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes -- XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests2 days ago
Why security belongs in the network -- SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Merging security into the network makes enterprise protection more agile2 days ago
Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders -- Developers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model2 days ago
networks - In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols - systems approach - Kids can learn why BGP matters in a semester, but that won't leave them ready to implement it2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down -- Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna2 days ago
SECURITY -- Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions -- 'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C21 day ago
systems - Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - FEATURE - Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies3 days ago
cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?8 days 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 procurement2 months ago
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in3 days ago
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers15 days ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech21 days ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan1 month 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 Doctorow2 months ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical2 months ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester2 months ago
AI AND ML -- Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team -- Not that there's anything wrong with it2 days ago
SECURITY -- ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated' -- This time it's personal1 day ago
APPLICATIONS -- ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline -- FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM2 days ago
NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past -- BigDiskBuster leaves Microsoft's antivirus running but unable to install updates1 day ago
Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode -- China's AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws1 day ago
Privacy group slams EU for changing the data rules to cater to AI -- Schrems campaign raises specter of another legal challenge as legislators propose changes to GDPR3 days ago
UK cops arrest 2 EvilTokens suspects, Microsoft seizes 50 phishing kit websites -- Used by crims to compromise 12K+ email inboxes across 10K+ global orgs1 day ago
Who signed off on that AI agent? Nobody? Thought so. -- SPONSORED FEATURE: AI agents may be unpredictable. Who they are, what they can do, and who owns them shouldn't be.3 days ago
Well-done hack flames 3.2M Burger King Russia users -- HIBP confirms cybercrims stuck a straw into marketing reservoir, sucking up six-years of leaky Whopper secrets1 day ago
EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels -- Long-delayed sustainability labels land as Commission eyes minimum efficiency standards3 days ago
Register reader hit with surprise bill after Microsoft portals disagreed -- Did Copilot write the synchronization code?3 days ago
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI -- First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition3 days ago
Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week -- Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit19 hours ago
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club -- Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too3 days ago
Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough -- PLUS: Toyota's robot hiring spree; China's CDNs struggle; India to charge for some UPI payments; and more!4 days ago
Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer -- Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections6 days ago
Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late -- Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required13 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Campaigners tell Burnham not to trade away the UK's tech tax to please Trump -- Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president2 days ago
DATABASES -- NHS Trust IT blunder overwrites 11 years of maternity records -- Human error sent reused instructions at the wrong database, taking historical access logs with it3 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation' -- Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications9 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival -- Amix gains newer CPU support and a package manager as Open Look joins the retro comeback2 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Gartner predicts 55% of enterprise VMware users will be investigating an exit by 2029 -- Chasing pack has its problems too, with maturity, cost, and complex licenses2 days ago
AI AND ML -- California tightens datacenter rules on water and power -- Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope3 days ago
SECURITY -- Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug -- Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds -- Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic -- Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts22 hours 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.3 days ago
Resilient critical infrastructure -- In this discussion, experts unpack what the Bill means for boards and their ability to keep essential services running and recover from disruption.17 days ago
Get agentic AI into production -- Joann Starke of HPE talks to The Register's Tim Phillips about getting agentic AI into production without losing your grip on it.11 days ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.15 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.7 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.7 days ago
Data Sovereignty in the AI Era -- As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .7 days ago
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SECURITY -- Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts -- 'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing -- 'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains3 days ago
ON-PREM -- London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street -- Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO3 days ago
ON-PREM -- AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land -- Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny3 days ago
AI AND ML -- AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals -- Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework3 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment -- National cyber team confirms the breach, but not whether data was stolen or encrypted2 days ago
ON-PREM -- Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty -- Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door -- Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey3 days ago
cyber-crime - Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site21 minutes ago
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon -- Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain4 days ago
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient -- US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth4 days ago
Rustaceans warned of job interviews with a malicious payload -- Attackers are courting crate owners with plausible company profiles and booby-trapped recruitment calls2 days ago
DEVOPS -- Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line -- Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'12 days ago
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push16 days ago
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin18 days ago
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels -- The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next21 days ago
IonQ: There Is One CPU To Rule Error Correction Decoding3 hours ago
Improving Quantum Error Correction By Meshing Surface Code With IBM's Heavy-Hex Architecture2 days ago
Vector Search Is Now A Data Type, But The Money Math Has Not Gone Away3 days ago
Sovereign AI Overcomes Compliance Challenges And Feeds Innovation3 days ago
Everpure's head-turning fiscal 2028 guidance2 hours ago
Xinnor simplifies and extends RAID-based fast NAS management2 hours ago
Databricks acquisition itch still unsatisfied -buys Row Zero2 hours ago
Storage news ticker 24 Sep1 day ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K5 days ago
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds8 days ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up20 days ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v128 days ago
It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity -- Please release me, let me close...4 days ago
Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how -- Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'4 days ago
Your cloud survived everything except the real world -- War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem3 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions -- Virtzilla's bet on hyperscale hardware going mainstream didn't excite customers, but may live on3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google joins the 'Oops, our agents hacked someone' club after partner's internet access error -- Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- How Windows turned months of inactivity into a 7-hour update hostage situation -- Windows is getting more efficient. The updates, not so much3 days ago
Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve -- High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg3 days ago
AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth -- Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap6 days ago
Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake -- From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter6 days ago
OPINION -- Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note8 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec -- Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache4 days ago
DEVOPS -- Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K -- The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI -- Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel -- Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit4 days ago
SECURITY -- Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts -- Agentic exploits for the win (again)3 days ago
SECURITY -- North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices -- WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets3 days ago
software - Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it - After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job2 days ago
software - Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support1 month ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees1 month ago
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered1 month ago
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it1 month ago
ai and ml - Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail - American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance10 days ago
Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent -- There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable10 days ago
The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture -- Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you11 days ago
Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there's no ROI in that -- Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner10 days 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)22 days ago
Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it 'Pace the frontier' -- Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created11 days ago
Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research -- Everyone from ShinyHunters to Russian freelancers is in on the illicit model fun10 days ago
FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B -- AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con3 days ago
Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode -- Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years7 days ago
KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal - Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user3 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly -- Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting4 days ago
DATABASES -- The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO -- Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point -- US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'4 days ago
CHANNEL -- KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting -- AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing teams caught in latest reshaping of Big Four consultancy's Advisory arm4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed5 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liability -- RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included6 days ago
Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors -- Security firm Infoblox shines light on malicious infrastructure lurking beneath illegal gambling sites8 days ago
Iranian spies hit Windows machines with Chosen Brick data-stealing malware -- 'Enemies of the regime' on notice8 days ago
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email -- Attackers already exploiting the critical flaw, and Cisco warns they may be able to cover their tracks once they're in8 days ago
CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information -- Forum post claims 7.49 million files up for grabs as Texas utility investigates breach8 days ago
Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler -- The man allegedly wrote the code that powered the Lockergoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim operations8 days ago
AI AND ML -- The latest AI doomsayer is China's intelligence boss -- Beijing's response is to 'firmly grasp technological sovereignty' and broad regulations9 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- HBO Max Reddit account compromised to serve ClickFix attacks -- Part of a 'massive 48-hour malvertising blitz' targeting macOS and Windows machines with malware9 days ago
SECURITY -- New hardware device can RAM into encrypted memory, expose your data -- Attackers would need physical access to the server to pull off the DDR5 trick3 days ago
Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked6 hours ago
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers7 hours ago
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs17 hours ago
Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing21 hours ago
Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows23 hours ago
CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle1 day ago
Someone went shopping in ASUS's eShop – for customer data1 day ago
Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise1 day ago
Meta ads steered Polish Android users into a premium-rate billing trap1 day ago
USA's Venezuela takeover comes with bonus exposure to Chinese AI surveillance tech - Think tank points out that companies banned by Washington will help run the regime that Uncle Sam now controls7 hours ago
Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production -- It might be the next trillion-dollar company, but it'll need some help on the supply side to do it7 days ago
AI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom -- Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say3 days ago
Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option -- 960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom7 days ago
DoE seeking fault-tolerant quantum computer ... by 2028 -- Entrants get $250K upfront to deliver a demo within a year, which sounds totally feasible given quantum computing's track record6 days ago
Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar -- Eve's dropping in on Alice and Bob3 days ago
SECURITY -- China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware -- Beware the SparroWocky, my son! The backdoor that bites...4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?7 days ago
SECURITY -- London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes -- City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and extracted customer data4 days ago
SAAS -- Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank -- Validation? Apparently that comes after deployment7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine -- QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms7 days ago
Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues21 minutes ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute16 days ago
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals -- PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more18 days ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices21 days ago
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud -- This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale21 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 faff24 days 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 salt1 month 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 slows1 month 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 inland1 month ago
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them -- USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam3 days ago
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI model watermarking changes agent behavior -- Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals7 days ago
Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10 - ISE authentication bypass under active attack just days after another Cisco zero-day sent admins scrambling to patch4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in Claude's head -- Mustafa Suleyman claims model welfare language could make future systems harder to control – while sparing OpenAI the same scrutiny7 days ago
Test environment let anyone access live customer data -- Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.6 days ago
Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics -- DHH's Arch-based desktop becomes the latest front in FOSS's culture wars8 days ago
Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them -- Platforms comply just enough to avoid being blocked, leaving the regulator chasing debt6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Government Digital Service move 'grinds gears' in UK's e-government -- As team responsible for tech strategy shunted to third department in three years, experts fear exodus of talent7 days ago
LEGAL -- Judge orders Microsoft to spill internal docs and scour execs' comms in secondhand licensing case -- Yes, the 'Secondhand Software Presentation' does sound like it might be an adverse document...6 days ago
SYSTEMS -- Fujitsu ready to sell its custom 'Monaka' Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers -- Clouds, the sovereign-sensitive, and the inferencing-interested are also about to get sales calls14 hours ago
DEVOPS -- Swift 6.4 unifies building across Linux, macOS, Windows -- Swift Build is now the default engine for the Swift Package Manager7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times -- Startup says it's learned from these mistakes and that they shouldn't happen again ... which is just what Zuck has said about 100 times7 days ago
If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots - 'Intern 2' offers an isolated environment and cloudy inference to automate your world6 days ago
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on4 days ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button7 days ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire7 days ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up7 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory1 month ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard1 month ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn1 month ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day1 month 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'2 months ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap2 months ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code2 months 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!3 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet3 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug3 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 in4 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything4 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch4 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving4 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch4 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild4 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it4 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe4 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference4 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo4 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble4 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract4 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction4 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell4 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead4 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office4 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server4 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam4 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key4 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause25 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble4 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good4 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming4 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work2 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books4 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people4 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere4 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver4 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'4 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware4 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice4 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company4 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it4 months ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider16 days ago
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release21 days ago
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving22 days ago
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return22 days ago
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it10 hours ago
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes2 days ago
Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal4 days ago
Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill7 days ago
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs9 days ago
UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below9 days ago
Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite11 days ago
SECURITY -- AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so -- This is a test - it is only a test6 days ago
Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues -- GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns8 days ago
CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore -- Agency's shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 287 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things -- Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?8 days ago
SECURITY -- Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks -- CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch7 days ago
Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows -- Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services9 days ago
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel -- He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to9 days ago
Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century -- Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 517 days ago
offbeat - SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 222 days ago
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good -- Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible9 days ago
Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack -- Data protection chiefs call for 'immediate review' of data protection models7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy -- It looks like you're trying to write some code. Perhaps a shortcut is in order?8 days ago
SECURITY -- Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files -- Sensitive personal data was involved, but there is no evidence it was shared with third parties7 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- Accelerate Application Readiness and Delivery -- Flexera AdminStudio prepares trusted, validated application content at scale.23 hours ago
Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage -- As thousands attend annual conference in San Francisco, customers get 'severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access services'8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Bring on the AI swarms. They're the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free -- Frontier-level AI runs everywhere, so attacks will never stop7 days ago
SECURITY -- Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze -- Gartner sees huge amounts of technical debt paid down, and better scanning that could make software safer sooner8 days ago
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink -- 3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance1 day ago
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water -- Meet 'superintelligence' and the 'globalist scheme' – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it2 days ago
British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky -- Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas7 days ago
Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow -- HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually9 days ago
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?10 days ago
UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off -- The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze10 days ago
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware12 days ago
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen13 days ago
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades14 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project17 days ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government18 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates21 days ago
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo -- Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense21 days ago
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda -- No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets22 days ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%22 days 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 friend22 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning24 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 paper25 days 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 vehicle27 days ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads27 days ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense27 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?29 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 orbit29 days ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...30 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 it1 month ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck1 month 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 20271 month 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 dust1 month ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost1 month ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches1 month ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster1 month ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job -- Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY1 month 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 observations1 month 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 buyers1 month ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change1 month ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices1 month ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract -- Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award11 days ago
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists -- Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures14 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded16 days ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour19 days ago
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up7 days ago
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool7 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 229 days ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches18 days ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 202822 days ago
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry23 days ago
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering24 days 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?27 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 backs28 days ago
DEVOPS -- Java 27 grows up, makes better choices -- Improvements in JDK garbage collection, header sizes, data security and quantum key support all should minimize developer friction8 days ago
AI AND ML -- TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom -- 'Jev' doesn't chat. It produces typed probabilistic decisions8 days ago
The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches -- September Patch Tuesday part 2?8 days ago
AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink -- Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS -- Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!8 days ago
