Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back -- Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades

12 hours ago

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner -- Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

12 hours ago

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents -- Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM

19 hours ago

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache -- 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

59 minutes ago

Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags -- Offbeat

38 minutes ago

NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns - Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change - Software - 05 May 2026 - | 1

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Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- Opinion -- If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you? -- Software

2 hours ago

Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release -- Antiques Code Show -- New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard -- Personal Tech

4 hours ago

Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 -- Haswell's had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away -- Off-Prem

5 hours ago

Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation -- Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC -- Security

5 hours ago

Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us' -- The Iran war has been great for business -- Public Sector

10 hours ago

Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 -- The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer -- Personal Tech

8 hours ago

Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work -- Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default -- AI + ML

13 hours ago

Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop -- Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space -- Offbeat

14 hours ago

Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port -- It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho -- Devops

17 hours ago

User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave - On Call - For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem

12 hours ago

Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs -- 'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect' -- Security

19 hours ago

If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked -- Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows -- Security

1 day ago

Microsoft Committed To Doubling AI Infrastructure In Two Years

13 hours ago

Google Is A Full Stack AI Player, And Is Playing Well

2 days ago

AWS Will Be An OEM, Just Like Google And Maybe Microsoft

4 days ago

New Google Networks Tuned Up For GenAI Inference And Training

6 days ago

Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet - PWNED - Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection

12 hours ago

Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise -- PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this? -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents -- Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM -- AI + ML

2 days ago

UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs -- Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it -- Off-Prem

3 days ago

Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt -- Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once -- Security

3 days ago

ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs -- CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements' -- SaaS

3 days ago

Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred -- Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely -- Science

3 days ago

AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story

4 days ago

IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

5 days ago

OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party

5 days ago

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad

11 days ago

AI inference just plays by different rules - Why no cloud storage architecture was designed for what agentic AI is about to demand - Partner Content

19 hours ago

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos -- If software writes software the risk is "systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester -- AI + ML

3 days ago

That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry -- Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed -- Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' -- Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow -- OSes

3 days ago

OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that -- Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked -- Security

3 days ago

How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot - Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem. Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

AI inference just plays by different rules

19 hours ago

Panzura Nexus gives Copilot LLMs access to Panzura data

1 day ago

Spectacular cash generator Sandisk generates spectacular pile of dollars

3 days ago

AI demand drives WD revenue's sky high with more to come

3 days ago

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev -- Science

3 days ago

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender -- Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? Bork!Bork!Bork! Things that go bork in the night - OSes - 01 May 2026 - | 27

19 hours ago

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year -- Security

3 days ago

DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it -- Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right' -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler -- Systems

4 days ago

Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability' -- Systems

4 days ago

ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 -- $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts -- Off-Prem -- 01 May 2026

4 days ago

The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools - Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware - Security - 30 Apr 2026 - |

4 days ago

Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue -- Stop the sprawl! -- AI + ML -- 30 Apr 2026

4 days ago

Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser - Updated - Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open - AI + ML - 30 Apr 2026 - | 35

2 hours ago

NeuBird AI plans a bright future for incident response -- Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes

5 days ago

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

5 days ago

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

17 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

1 month ago

Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled -- KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start -- Security

4 days ago

FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' -- One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend -- Security

4 days ago

Phone users know when to hold 'em, delay upgrades amid inflation -- Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet -- Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs -- Networks

4 days ago

Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky -- Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

1 day ago

Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner -- Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

22 hours ago

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache -- 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

3 hours ago

Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back -- Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades

1 day ago

Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better -- kettle -- Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what's wrong at Redmond?

1 day ago

Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark -- In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

1 day ago

Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs -- PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge

1 day ago

Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in 'Hybrid Navy' -- Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet

1 day ago

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving -- Who, Me? -- That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble

1 day ago

Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear -- FEATURE -- The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

1 hour ago

Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines -- This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows -- Patches

4 days ago

French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state's secure document agency -- Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool -- Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor -- Devops

4 days ago

When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon - Human and humanoid runners share the track as next-gen connectivity underpins real-time AI performance - Sponsored Post

6 days ago

AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud -- When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job -- Off-Prem

4 days ago

Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI -- Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party -- SaaS

4 days ago

SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy -- Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systems -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' -- But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? -- OSes

4 days ago

Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes -- AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 -- Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia - Exclusive - Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit - Cyber-crime - 30 Apr 2026 - | 3

4 days ago

Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day -- Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected -- Patches

4 days ago

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs -- Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops -- Software

5 days ago

Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops -- Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves -- Offbeat

5 days ago

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds -- Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management -- On-Prem

5 days ago

Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs -- AI is driving more searches and ads -- Off-Prem

5 days ago