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Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project - Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist
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Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose -- Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces4 hours ago
Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist -- AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work4 hours ago
Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis -- The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal18 hours ago
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database -- Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company2 hours ago
Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR -- Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality5 hours ago
Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop -- OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots1 day ago
legal - Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too - Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along29 minutes ago
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND -- Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills29 minutes ago
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027 -- SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?2 hours ago
Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension -- Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive2 hours ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...7 hours ago
Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown -- French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model7 hours ago
India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission8 hours ago
Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over -- Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through11 hours ago
ai and ml - Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action - Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud17 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you -- Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI' -- Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat1 hour ago
ON-PREM -- EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters -- State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits1 hour ago
SECURITY -- Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia22 hours ago
Security -- AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones1 day ago
DEVOPS -- How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings2 days ago
SAAS -- Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says2 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories -- Mark Pesce2 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Just add smart humans – and a pinch of dog -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney -- Corey Quinn9 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Rupert Goodwins13 days ago
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 - Corey Quinn2 days ago
Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing -- Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade1 day ago
US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor -- Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineer's plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update -- Summer in Redmond, Winter for everyone else7 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp -- Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era8 hours ago
What is virtualization modernization? SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio17 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Australia's record industry won't chart tunes recorded in the key of AI -- This is basically a riff on 'You wouldn't steal a car' and means only the human league can have a hit18 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds -- Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services23 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg -- Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work1 day ago
OS PLatforms -- Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today -- The version that started to bring all Microsoft's pieces together1 day ago
YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs -- Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry1 day ago
Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds -- Complaint: Peripheral maker did not want to unplug itself from higher prices and hand back cash to customers2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks -- Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?1 day 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 20272 days ago
Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain -- Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side2 days ago
Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric -- Gartner reckons $1.6 trillion year is just the start, and don't expect a bust anytime soon2 days ago
I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime... or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg -- Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'2 days ago
ON-PREM -- US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years -- ... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping1 day ago
CYBER-CRIME -- $1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack -- Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows -- Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia's GPUs in the datacenter1 day ago
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia -- Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 20262 hours ago
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI -- Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine2 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement2 days ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'2 days ago
AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries - SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development2 days ago
Ancient 'Who owns Linux?' case now has one foot very deep in the grave -- Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing2 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings -- S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work2 days ago
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf -- Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust3 days ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?3 months ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement1 month ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan20 days ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester26 days ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much30 days ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow1 month ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical1 month ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester1 month ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road1 month ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist1 month ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well2 months ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend2 months ago
SECURITY -- If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will -- Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst1 day ago
ai and ML -- AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing -- Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter -- F-B100W adds Bluetooth and step tracking while keeping a two-year battery2 days ago
SECURITY -- AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough1 day ago
SAAS -- Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says -- Show us the money2 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC -- Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature2 days ago
PATCHES -- Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it -- Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf1 day ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches5 days ago
SickKids children's hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in -- Toronto org says it wasn't the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability1 day ago
Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials -- Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware1 day ago
Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough -- Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful18 hours ago
OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast -- 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin1 day ago
SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter -- Rack-mount system intended for software porting, workload optimization, to bring open standard to the bitbarn1 day ago
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently -- Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere1 day ago
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble -- Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators1 day ago
Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble -- Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power4 days ago
AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand -- Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide5 days ago
'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up -- CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month5 days ago
$10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts -- Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication2 days ago
Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic -- Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor5 days ago
Microsoft sounds alarm over perfect-10 Entra ID flaw -- Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still -- One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive3 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
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 slows5 days ago
Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation - Policies and code of conduct breached4 days ago
F5 and Scality: Enhanced AI data delivery at scale -- As AI and analytics workloads scale up, organizations face challenges with storage inefficiencies, inconsistent performance, and more.20 days ago
Taming Hybrid Cloud Chaos: Secure and Efficient Kubernetes Across Clouds -- Extending containerized applications to hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure often doubles operational overhead before delivering real agility.26 days ago
CISO 3.0: Governing AI Agents at Machine Speed -- Join Snyk and AWS on 14 September to see what it takes to govern an agentic AI landscape at machine speed.1 day 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.14 days ago
AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap -- This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.12 days ago
The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion -- Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.26 days ago
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Security -- Russian snoops add OAuth abuse to targeted phishing campaigns -- Don't click on that State Department meeting invite2 days ago
AI and ML -- Google tethers Antigravity to enterprise controls amid AI shakeup -- Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud5 days ago
DEVOPS -- Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords -- v 1.27 expands generics to support methods4 days ago
ai and ML -- OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge -- With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance5 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla -- 5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency5 days ago
SECURITY -- US Bank investigates LockBit's claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline -- Follow the money2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads -- Per-process NPU metrics arrive as one more venerable Windows utility risks feature bloat5 days ago
Security - Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into sharing location data with Linux29 minutes ago
Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat -- Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot6 days ago
Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September -- Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill6 days ago
Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists -- Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with4 days ago
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way1 month ago
A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 -- New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.151 month ago
Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites -- Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide1 month ago
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan1 month ago
You Probably Forget How Cheap Memory Used To Be – And Is Not So Now22 hours ago
IBM Pushes System Design To Reach Ultra-Cold Temperatures For Quantum7 days ago
Cerebras Overclocks WSE-3 Waferscale Engine To Boost Inference Oomph In "Nexus" CS-47 days ago
Quantum Startup Qarakal Takes Lessons From Classical Systems With Pangaea Architecture7 days ago
Folio Photonics optical archive tech is heading to Brazil2 hours ago
Nutanix adds more rooms to its agentic AI building2 hours ago
IBM upgrades DS8000 with faster flash drives7 hours ago
Ventiva says away with fans for thin and light laptops22 hours ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings2 days ago
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords4 days ago
SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs5 days ago
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots -- Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- £37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years -- HMRC insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions -- A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down5 days ago
Security -- French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages -- Stolen details range from contact information to household finances and withholding rates5 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI glitch locks out vetted cyber researchers – and some can't get back in -- Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft probes reports of games taking exception to Windows 11's August update -- Affected titles crash, freeze, or restart PCs while Redmond works out whether it is to blame5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on -- Analysts warn of disruption to long-established tech activity5 days ago
SCIENCE -- No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- SparkyLinux 8.4 rekindles support for 32-bit PCs -- Debian 13 derivative offers minimal x86 images and lets CDE ride again5 days ago
AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice -- Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first5 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster6 days ago
IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling -- Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside6 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports26 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles -- Broadcom's VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure29 minutes ago
AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy -- House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago6 days ago
'Not a theoretical risk,' feds warn as attackers use AI-made code to hack critical infrastructure controllers -- 'It is an active threat'5 days ago
SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs -- Remote functions bring type-safe remote procedure calls right into Web page components6 days ago
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown - And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal6 days ago
AI and ML -- Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS -- Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?6 days ago
SECURITY -- ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home -- 'Personally owned body-worn cameras are prohibited,' ICE tells The Reg. Because the last thing DHS needs is more proof of misconduct5 days ago
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support5 hours ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees6 days ago
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered6 days ago
Software - Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it - Sleep doesn't pay5 hours ago
personal tech - Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem5 hours ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign1 month ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC1 month ago
AI and ML - Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you - Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated12 days ago
Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU -- EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry15 days ago
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN -- A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages1 month ago
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes -- Human did 10% of the job,AI did 90%1 month ago
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat -- Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive4 days ago
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default -- Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Epic Games dismisses Apple's simplified EU App Store fees as 'junk' -- Consumer group sees improvements on paper but warns the devil remains in the detail6 days ago
Security -- Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate -- CEO apologizes for police misuse as activists call for vandal action against license plate cameras5 days ago
AI AND ML -- More than half of Americans now view AI negatively -- Concern continues to climb for adults under 30, as people fear being replaced by AI6 days ago
Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover -- Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print5 days ago
Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world -- Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker7 days ago
GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm -- Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral6 days ago
Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up -- DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks7 days ago
SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims -- Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle7 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning -- Clamp, flash, repeat – no separate IO board or host computer required6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards -- Those legacy systems won't fix themselves6 days ago
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records -- Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage7 days ago
Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure -- Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn9 days ago
Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers' details exposed in logistics breach -- Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down9 days ago
SECURITY - Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed - Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected12 days ago
New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs - Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online1 hour ago
Ai and ML -- OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging -- 'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories9 days ago
SECURITY -- Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back -- Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M9 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals -- Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender5 days ago
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack1 hour ago
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed1 hour ago
You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack1 day ago
CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw1 day ago
Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads1 day ago
You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine1 day ago
Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks1 day ago
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant1 day ago
ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach2 days ago
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones2 days ago
Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to 'supply chain' issues -- It seems like Nvidia's not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon7 days ago
Australian hotel chain leaks guests' PII after breach at third-party database operator -- Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties5 days ago
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance -- Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security -- Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive6 days ago
SECURITY -- Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments -- Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Study finds Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data -- Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, survey shows6 days ago
CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug -- Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks8 days ago
Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse -- Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro8 days ago
Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 71 -- Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online7 hours ago
OS PLatforms -- Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu -- Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory7 days ago
Security -- Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself -- How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine6 days ago
SOFTWARE - Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions2 days ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat13 days ago
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads - Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term12 days ago
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous -- And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there13 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending14 days ago
Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal -- Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 202714 days ago
OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs -- Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes15 days ago
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity -- Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved16 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 day 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 inland6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Passport out-of-control at French airport -- Papers please. Windows is watching7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment -- Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails -- Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find -- Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data7 days ago
CXO -- UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7% -- Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills7 days ago
AI and ml -- Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI -- $10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP7 days ago
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced -- If you're still talking about 'DirSync' or 'Active Directory' instead of 'Entra', and need to explain why, this is the site for you8 days ago
Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains -- Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards8 days ago
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore -- Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations8 days ago
AI and ml -- Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales -- AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration7 days ago
ON-PREM -- Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks -- Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS -- Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads7 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory2 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard9 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn16 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day23 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data30 days ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap1 month ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code1 month ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess1 month ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!2 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet2 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug2 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident2 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in3 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything3 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch3 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving3 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch3 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild3 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it3 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe3 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference3 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo3 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble3 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract3 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction3 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell3 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead3 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office3 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server3 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam3 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key3 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause3 months ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble3 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good3 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming3 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work1 month ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books3 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people3 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere3 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver3 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'3 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware3 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice3 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company3 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it3 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe3 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery3 months ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'3 months ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league3 months ago
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands19 days ago
'Humans will be a rounding error on the internet' says Cloudflare exec19 days ago
Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway20 days ago
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner26 days ago
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch5 days ago
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price5 days ago
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.5 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job7 days ago
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit13 days ago
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it16 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges21 days ago
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate -- Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release -- Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC8 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures -- Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak8 days ago
AI AND ml -- Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028 -- Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns8 days ago
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants -- McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials29 minutes ago
AI and Ml -- Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin -- Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone8 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over8 days ago
COLUMNISTS - Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await4 days ago
Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too -- On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI7 days ago
OS Platforms -- Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says 'new normal' means he had to do it now ... or never? -- Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support8 days ago
AI + ML -- Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again -- Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result8 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- How State and Local Agencies Can Build FOIA-Proof Archives -- State and local governments are facing a wave of FOIA and public records requests. Without the right tools, it's easy to fall behind.3 days ago
Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can't say when it will arrive -- Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service7 days ago
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI -- PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!7 days ago
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do -- Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'7 days ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change10 days ago
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses -- Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks7 days ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast -- Plans to break ground in 2027, produce own propellent, power in 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 orbit5 hours 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 day ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck1 day ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost4 days ago
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations7 days ago
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers -- After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers9 days ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices11 days ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology12 days ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard9 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books12 days ago
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop -- Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work13 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad13 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?14 days ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either16 days ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound20 days ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start21 days ago
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range21 days ago
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online -- Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web24 days ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key25 days ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police26 days ago
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage -- Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold27 days ago
Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up -- Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun27 days ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba27 days ago
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness -- Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places28 days ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year28 days 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?30 days 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 soldiers30 days ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?30 days ago
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network1 month ago
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs -- Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local1 month ago
Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots -- Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat1 month ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal1 month ago
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display -- ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste1 month ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted1 month ago
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too1 month 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'1 month ago
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork28 days ago
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole -- 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'1 month 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 outdoors1 month 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 price1 month ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological1 month ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 197713 days ago
science - Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation8 days ago
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri18 days ago
Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power -- MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing18 days ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast4 hours ago
India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets9 hours ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight2 days ago
No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue6 days ago
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs -- IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships19 days ago
Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? -- Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward20 days ago
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve -- Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year19 days ago
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year -- Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time21 days ago
NASA puts astronauts' lives in the hands of Tesla's flaky Cybertruck -- Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts22 days ago
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover -- Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap23 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words -- 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it9 days ago
AI and ML -- DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in -- Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense9 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- 1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack -- Another one bites the dust7 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons12 days ago