Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere -- Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete

8 hours ago

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet -- Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law

8 hours ago

One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all -- US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders

9 hours ago

You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'

8 hours ago

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture -- Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment -- Security

5 minutes ago

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it -- Security

59 minutes ago

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess -- Science

4 hours ago

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch -- Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us. -- Devops

8 hours ago

Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus - UPDATED - A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports - Security - 20 Apr 2026 - | 5

37 minutes ago

Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again -- The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions -- On-Prem

8 hours ago

World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home -- Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple -- Systems

9 hours ago

Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter -- Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit -- Public Sector

10 hours ago

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet -- Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law -- Security

10 hours ago

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software -- OSes

13 hours ago

Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US -- Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currency -- Cyber-crime

13 hours ago

You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant' -- Science

15 hours ago

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching - On Call - All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside

9 hours ago

Schmoozebots: study finds flattery will get AI everywhere -- Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete -- AI + ML

15 hours ago

One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all -- US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders -- PaaS + IaaS

16 hours ago

New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans -- Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball -- Software

16 hours ago

Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes -- Out-of-band or out of control? -- OSes

18 hours ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London -- Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts -- On-Prem

19 hours ago

UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite -- Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects -- AI + ML

19 hours ago

HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life -- Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown -- Personal Tech

19 hours ago

Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place -- Science

22 hours ago

Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break -- £330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform -- PaaS + IaaS

22 hours ago

Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing -- Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use -- On-Prem

22 hours ago

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in - Opinion - We've been here before. This time, we may not get out - AI + ML - 20 Apr 2026 - | 17

5 minutes ago

AI Will Soon Drive A Third Of TSMC's Business

7 hours ago

Bechtolsheim & Friends Breathe Life Into Pluggable Optics One Last Time

3 days ago

How HPC And AI Digital Twins Accelerate Quantum Error Correction

3 days ago

The Embrace Of AI In Design Transforms Cadence And Its Customers

4 days ago

Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy - Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cash

9 hours ago

Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise -- Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident -- Security

1 day ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild - Who, Me? You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom - Bootnotes - 20 Apr 2026 - | 57

5 minutes ago

NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown -- Science

1 day ago

Indonesia's game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more! -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay -- kettle -- Aren't we all just prompting tokens of linguistic meaning and hoping the other person isn't bullshitting us? -- Security

1 day ago

I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns -- OPINION -- Passing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturity -- Security

1 day ago

Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus - Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director - Devops - 19 Apr 2026 - | 24

10 hours ago

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

3 days ago

Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work

4 days ago

GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs

4 days ago

Claude Code cache confusion as Anthropic tweaks defaults, but quotas still drain

6 days ago

Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage - Those that don't have one thing in common - Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale -- Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Atlassian's new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest -- From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier -- SaaS

2 days ago

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors -- Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes -- Systems

3 days ago

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams -- The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model -- AI + ML

3 days ago

CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack -- Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list -- Security

3 days ago

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker -- Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse -- Security

3 days ago

A beginner's guide to GPU virtualization: passthrough, vGPU, and MIG - What every IT generalist needs to know before deploying GPU workloads, and why the platform matters more than the hardware. Partner Content

4 days ago

EuroStack and the kill switch

15 hours ago

Quantum Computing and storage

17 hours ago

IBM lays out recipe for turning enterprise storage into an AI prep engine

3 days ago

Storage news ticker – April 17

3 days ago

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems -- We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades -- Starts new one on boot loops -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms -- Science

3 days ago

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned -- Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug -- University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Would you like fries with that terminal? Bork!Bork!Bork! Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't - Offbeat - 17 Apr 2026 - | 20

1 day ago

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks -- Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 -- Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software -- Security

4 days ago

IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure -- Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups -- Networks

4 days ago

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day -- Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory -- Networks

4 days ago

IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google -- We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer -- Networks

4 days ago

Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say -- Bug or feature? -- Security

4 days ago

Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises

3 days ago

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI -- Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

24 days ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

1 month ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

1 month ago

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers -- Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform -- AI + ML

4 days ago

NodeWeaver says its perpetual licensing beats VMware's perpetual price hikes -- 'I think you can run this thing on a potato,' NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said. -- Virtualization

4 days ago

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal - UPDATED - Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing - AI + ML - 16 Apr 2026 - | 35

1 day ago

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban -- If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard -- Public Sector

4 days ago

North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist -- Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID -- Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit -- AI + ML

4 days ago

DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses -- Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims -- Databases

4 days ago

Unpacking AI security in 2026 from experimentation to the agentic era - Cut through the noise and understand the real risks, responsibilities, and responses shaping enterprise AI today. Webinar Promo

11 days ago

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband -- Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes -- Networks

4 days ago

Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars -- Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam -- Legal

4 days ago

Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews -- Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned -- When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on... -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue -- Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs -- Software

4 days ago

Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod -- Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainer -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed -- Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked data -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine -- Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systems -- Edge + IoT

4 days ago

Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start -- Offbeat

4 days ago

Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive -- Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Server-room lock was nothing but a crock -- PWNED -- Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the servers -- Security

5 days ago

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different -- Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant -- Networks

5 days ago