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Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs -- Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI
19 minutes ago
Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan -- Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone19 minutes ago
Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it23 hours ago
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping -- Change is glacial, but the direction is clear19 minutes ago
Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 -- Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery -- Personal Tech34 minutes ago
Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl - Google Cloud Next - As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the way - AI + ML - 22 Apr 2026 - | 119 minutes ago
Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies -- Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos -- Security1 hour ago
Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win - x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores - AI + ML - 22 Apr 2026 - | 119 minutes ago
France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records -- Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population -- Cyber-crime1 hour ago
Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on Londoners, say judges -- Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws -- Security1 hour ago
UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial - Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure - PaaS + IaaS - 22 Apr 2026 - |1 hour ago
Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs -- Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption -- Databases3 hours ago
Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects -- Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators -- AI + ML3 hours ago
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock -- Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment -- On-Prem4 hours ago
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn't spot -- Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security -- Software6 hours ago
Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs -- Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI -- AI + ML9 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 aside1 day ago
Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan -- Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone -- Software11 hours ago
Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI - OPINION - John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been - On-Prem - 21 Apr 2026 - | 161 hour ago
Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor -- NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace -- Security15 hours ago
Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears -- Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint -- OSes16 hours ago
Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide -- Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot' -- Security16 hours ago
More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks -- CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch -- Patches19 hours ago
Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months -- Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall -- Networks20 hours ago
macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets -- Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up -- Cyber-crime21 hours ago
Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks -- Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes -- Software21 hours ago
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping -- Change is glacial, but the direction is clear -- Databases22 hours ago
Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords -- Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million -- Cyber-crime22 hours ago
Imagine An Army Of AI Minions Handling Incident Response20 hours ago
AI Will Soon Drive A Third Of TSMC's Business1 day ago
Bechtolsheim & Friends Breathe Life Into Pluggable Optics One Last Time4 days ago
How HPC And AI Digital Twins Accelerate Quantum Error Correction4 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 cash1 day ago
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume - Science - 21 Apr 2026 - | 634 minutes ago
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match - Review - An $899 CPU? In this economy? Personal Tech - 21 Apr 2026 - | 2343 minutes ago
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account - CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |20 hours ago
Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies -- Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected -- Cyber-crime23 hours ago
Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters -- No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little -- Security1 day ago
England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one -- 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it -- Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee -- OSes1 day ago
Google previews Android CLI for new world of agentic development15 hours ago
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue4 days ago
Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work6 days ago
GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs6 days ago
Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure - Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure - Partner Content12 hours ago
Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul - Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |1 day 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 enrolment1 day ago
Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it1 day 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 -- Science1 day 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. -- Devops1 day 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 - | 2156 minutes ago
NeuBird plans a bright future for incident response - Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes - Sponsored Feature21 hours ago
WD's chief product bod peers into the AI data system future3 hours ago
Wasabi gets quarter billion credit facility21 hours ago
Amid memory crunch, PEAKAiO pushes pNFS software to speed older servers1 day ago
Kioxia debuts fast QLC slablet SSD for PC makers1 day ago
Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again -- The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions -- On-Prem1 day 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 -- Systems1 day 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 Sector1 day 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 -- Security1 day ago
Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software -- OSes1 day 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-crime1 day 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' -- Science1 day 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 + ML1 day ago
One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all - Updated - US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders - PaaS + IaaS - 20 Apr 2026 - | 3034 minutes ago
New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans -- Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball -- Software1 day ago
Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes -- Out-of-band or out of control? -- OSes1 day 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-Prem2 days ago
Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises5 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 AI26 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 deadlock1 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 fix1 month 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 + ML2 days 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 Tech2 days 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 -- Science2 days 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 + IaaS10 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-Prem2 days 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 - | 191 day ago
Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise -- Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident -- Security2 days ago
Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage - Those that don't have one thing in common - Sponsored Feature2 days 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 -- Bootnotes2 days 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 - 20 Apr 2026 - | 3410 hours 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 Sector2 days 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? -- Security2 days 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 - 19 Apr 2026 - | 381 day ago
Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus -- Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director -- Devops2 days ago
Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale -- Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed -- AI + ML4 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 -- SaaS4 days ago
Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors -- Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes -- Systems4 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 + ML4 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 -- Security4 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 -- Security4 days ago