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GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate - Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience
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Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin -- Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone2 hours ago
Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS -- Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads23 minutes ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over8 hours ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard -- Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie8 hours 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 buyers2 hours 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 kit23 minutes ago
Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release -- Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC4 hours ago
Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028 -- Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns5 hours ago
SECURITY - Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants - McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials7 hours ago
security - 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 AI11 hours ago
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 support13 hours ago
Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again -- Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result3 hours ago
security - 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'1 day 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 day 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 it4 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support14 hours ago
OFFBEAT -- Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine8 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words8 hours ago
OFFBEAT -- Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age8 hours ago
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- 'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind' -- Rupert Goodwins2 days ago
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney -- "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies" -- Corey Quinn4 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 -- Corey Quinn10 days ago
The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web -- Mark Pesce18 days ago
How do you solve a problem like Capita? -- Lindsay Clark20 days ago
Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling - Rupert Goodwins2 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 defense4 hours ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology3 days ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard22 hours ago
SECURITY -- Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure -- Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down -- Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education9 hours ago
CHANNEL -- TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant -- 70,000 customers will join the collective, whose name and leader remain unknown9 hours 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 down7 hours ago
BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime -- Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza1 day ago
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed -- Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected10 hours ago
AI and ML -- Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you -- Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated18 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support -- Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter18 hours ago
SECURITY -- 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 online11 hours ago
Ai and ML -- OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging -- 'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories16 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Give Google the boot by building your own search engine -- Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity -- Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop2 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books4 days ago
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 $1M18 hours ago
The backup Microsoft never promised you -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check4 days ago
Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals -- Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender1 day ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat4 days ago
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data -- CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form2 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 work4 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad4 days ago
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results -- Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete3 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 term3 days ago
SECURITY -- Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find -- Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM3 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns -- ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you3 days ago
'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency -- Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm3 days ago
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages -- Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset survived months of hunting and required a new logging tool to identify4 days ago
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare -- Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure4 days ago
SECURITY -- Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible -- Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router? -- NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream4 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows -- Exploit Wednesday's back, baby3 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models -- Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions4 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes -- Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Sovereign AI overcomes compliance challenges and feeds innovation in public sector and other regulated industries, say HPE and NVIDIA -- SPONSORED POST: Sovereign AI is becoming a strategic infrastructure priority, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti4 days ago
Security -- Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in -- Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes3 days ago
SECURITY -- Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak -- Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated4 days ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies28 days 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 plan11 days ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester17 days ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much21 days ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow25 days ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical28 days 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
Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor -- Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode4 days ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 19774 days ago
Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground -- Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice -- Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in?4 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- 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 theories4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Zuck's Chinese agentic prey escapes, will resume standalone ops -- Manus AI will delete some data to satisfy legal requirements4 days ago
AI AND ML -- India's central bank wants AI to approve loans that humans would reject -- Regulator hopes for greater financial inclusion, without extra risk or blaming models for bad decisions4 days ago
AI and ML -- Modular's Mojo programming language hits 1.0 milestone -- Developers await open source compiler release to dispel uncertainty following Qualcomm acquisition4 days ago
SECURITY -- Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you're actually chatting with the right person -- One big caveat, though: You need your contact's phone number4 days ago
SECURITY -- 421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one -- Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm4 days ago
Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware -- AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back5 days ago
London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up -- The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M257 days ago
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon -- Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second10 days ago
Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice -- Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records10 days ago
Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars -- In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate12 days ago
AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries -- The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first12 days ago
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it -- 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip16 days ago
public Sector -- Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo -- Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency5 days ago
SECURITY -- DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi -- This is why we can't have nice things, people4 days ago
Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy -- Semiconductor giant says opaquely it will use the proceeds for 'general corporate purposes'6 days ago
Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers -- Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent4 days ago
Feds warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting known bugs to hit critical infrastructure -- Newly minted RaaS crew breaks in through using internet-facing kit via known Fortinet flaws, then steals and scrambles data5 days ago
Cyberattack on logistics giant CEVA delivers customer data into the wrong hands -- Valve, Bol, ING, Ajax, and others affected as pwnage disrupts eight European warehouses5 days ago
Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster -- Face-swap software blinked for 'barely a second,' giving Spanish cops the break they needed5 days ago
Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub -- Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update5 days ago
ON-PREM -- Building up the US power grid won't be wasted, even if the AI bubble bursts -- The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey5 days ago
SECURITY -- Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G -- Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code5 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Why hybrid clouds break and what to do about it -- SPONSORED EXPLAINER: There's nothing wrong with hybrid cloud. It's the one-size-fits-all strategy on top of it that's the problem.5 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.12 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.17 days ago
How to prepare for the coming wave of autonomous attacks -- AI has handed attackers a capability most security programmes were never built to face: finding architectural flaws, at machine speed.6 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.3 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.17 days ago
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SCIENCE -- Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year5 days ago
AI and ML -- Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI -- Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs5 days ago
Ai and ML -- 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 ancestry5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you -- $125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?5 days ago
Security -- DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection -- Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI5 days ago
AI and ML -- The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe -- Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer -- 30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow6 days ago
Security - North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list -- What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?5 days ago
ON-PREM -- As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them -- Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK6 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 way26 days 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
The Neoclouds Build Cash Hoards Faster Than Revenues2 days ago
The War Between Open Source, Open Weight, And Closed AI Models3 days ago
The GenAI Boom Will Lift Supermicro, But It Will Lift Others, Too4 days ago
Nvidia Drives Bang For The Buck With New GenAI Model And Router5 days ago
St Louis PBS station moves one step closer to retrieving archive marooned in Iron Mountain2 hours ago
Storage News Ticker - 13 August3 days ago
Hitachi Vantara storage sales buck up4 days ago
Dell 200PB Rack storage building block4 days ago
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses1 day ago
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare3 days ago
AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription9 days ago
Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it11 days ago
SECURITY -- Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack -- Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data6 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China -- No, no nasties to see here, guv...6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack -- Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat -- Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive6 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- 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 dog6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal -- He's not thrilled, but won't let it delay the release of version 7.26 days ago
AI AND ML -- Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads -- PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car -- PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!6 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports17 days ago
SECURITY -- Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager -- Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops6 days ago
AI and ML -- Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default -- Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools6 days ago
SCIENCE -- South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri6 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash -- Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI7 days ago
Security -- Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks -- Calling all defenders7 days ago
AI and ML -- AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription -- Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms7 days ago
SECURITY -- Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI -- What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered4 days ago
Software -- Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it11 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem25 days 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
SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security1 month ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles1 month ago
SECURITY - Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder - Whoever wins, we lose14 days ago
Anthropic's Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations -- Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem3 days ago
AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started -- More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research19 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 messages27 days ago
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes -- Human did 10% of the job,AI did 90%1 month ago
MCP gets an enterprise makeover -- Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle6 days ago
AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype -- VulnCheck says fewer than 2% of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries have been weaponized, casting doubt on claims frontier models are handing attackers a major advantage18 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 destabilizing10 days ago
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses -- Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant 'should've paid the ransom'7 days ago
MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs -- Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it7 days ago
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder -- Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman's file after she was named for the first time this week7 days ago
Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard -- Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation9 days ago
Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account -- Intruder gained access to engineering files and potentially export-controlled technical data7 days ago
Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk -- Unlimited Technology Systems says names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and insurance details may have been swiped8 days ago
'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director -- Humans will get the AI models they deserve9 days ago
Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses -- Former Merseyside police officer sacked after failing to declare he was 'too close' with the wrong crowd10 days ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees -- What an idiot10 days ago
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products -- Beijing's not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron9 days ago
An AI broke Snowflake's code. Then another AI agent exploited it2 hours ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await10 hours ago
Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can't say when it will arrive13 hours ago
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI11 hours ago
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses1 day ago
1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack3 days ago
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records3 days ago
AI and ML -- How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era -- AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem9 days ago
AI and ML -- AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision -- Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws9 days ago
DEVOPS -- Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death -- Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits9 days ago
SCIENCE -- Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs -- IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests -- You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?10 days ago
SCIENCE -- 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 forward10 days ago
DEVOPS -- Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it -- PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era.10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft excludes Domain Exclusion from MS 365 Copilot – days after rolling it out -- Perhaps an allow list of domains might be better?10 days ago
SCIENCE - Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve4 days ago
Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges -- Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough13 days ago
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing -- Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating16 days ago
The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time -- Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time18 days ago
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours -- Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services24 days ago
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five -- 'Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn26 days ago
OFF-PREM -- Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again -- AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud5 days ago
OFF PREM -- Google Cloud outage shows it's still hard to understand hyperscalers' real resilience regimes -- UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by 'upstream' power problem and failure of diesel generators6 days ago
OFF-PREM -- AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical -- An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral7 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 there4 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending5 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 20276 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 boxes6 days ago
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity -- Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved7 days ago
SECURITY -- IT department put sticky notes on the laptops to help employees log in -- Leaving this information exposed allowed someone else to gain access10 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 10 LTSC 2021 has five months before security updates cost extra -- ESU meter starts running in January, unless you're on the IoT edition10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Meta latest to tell world its AI agent wandered out of test pen -- Another week, another firm explaining why one of its models reached somewhere it wasn't supposed to10 days ago
AI AND ML -- News Corp labels some AI companies 'crass kleptomaniacs' -- Pay it for content, like OpenAI and Meta, to become 'principled' and 'honorable'10 days ago
HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months -- Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady11 days ago
Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro -- VMware competitor aiming for the AI datacenter11 days ago
Security -- OpenAI reveals its rogue agent swarm went a little bit Borg ahead of Hugging Face hack -- It started with an 'impossible task' and led to AI deciding it needed to act as a collective intelligence10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent -- Muse Code showcases Muse Spark's fresh software engineering chops11 days ago
AI AND ML -- An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse -- Would you rather play Russian roulette with an LLM or put your health and safety in the hands of a professional11 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard13 hours ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn7 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day14 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data21 days ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'28 days 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!1 month 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 in2 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything2 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
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA3 months ago
Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first20 days ago
Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber20 days ago
Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops20 days ago
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?24 days ago
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit4 days ago
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it8 days ago
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands10 days ago
'Humans will be a rounding error on the internet' says Cloudflare exec10 days ago
Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway11 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges12 days ago
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner17 days ago
Prompt injection isn't the bug, AI agent frameworks are -- Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- Time Magazine has a separate version of its website with ads only AI can see -- Brands are already paying to influence what chatbots say about them11 days ago
IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now -- A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA10 days ago
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas -- But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid12 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm -- Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures11 days ago
AI AND ML -- Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA -- SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti11 days ago
AI AND ML -- SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions -- Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B11 days ago
Security - London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says5 days ago
Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn -- Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources12 days ago
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year -- Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time12 days ago
UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack -- Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details10 days ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start12 days ago
AI-Powered Machine Account Discovery -- AI-powered Machine Account Discovery revolutionizes how organizations gain visibility into their machine account landscape.2 days ago
Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge -- Tribunal to explore how £270 million reseller case intersects with multibillion-pound class action12 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 range12 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project -- Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge11 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 buyers4 hours ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices2 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons3 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?5 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 either7 days ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound11 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 web15 days ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key16 days ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police17 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 foothold18 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 Fun18 days ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba18 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 places19 days ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year19 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?21 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 soldiers21 days ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?21 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 network24 days ago
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs -- Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local24 days 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 cat25 days ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal25 days ago
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display -- ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste25 days ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted26 days ago
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too26 days ago
Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity -- Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'1 month ago
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork19 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
Backup and running? Not this digital sign -- Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby1 month ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological1 month ago
Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car -- Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car's array of cameras1 month ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched1 month ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error1 month ago
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time -- SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world1 month ago
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule1 month ago
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands -- It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix1 month ago
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead1 month ago
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track -- Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station1 month ago
Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad -- CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious1 month ago
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM1 month ago
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says1 month 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 blasts13 days ago
SCIENCE - NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover6 days ago
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin -- Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date17 days ago
SCIENCE -- Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees -- Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible10 days ago
Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures5 hours ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget5 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas5 days ago
Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation6 days ago
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning -- Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK19 days ago
Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires -- NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact20 days ago
Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision -- Support for e-MERLIN ends 2028 unless the historic radio astronomy center can find another source of cash20 days ago
SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13 -- Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick21 days ago
SCIENCE - So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?20 days ago
SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no -- Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test24 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller -- Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like?11 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT -- New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys11 days ago
Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages -- New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims12 days ago
Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it -- Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help11 days ago
This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp ... -- What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas11 days ago