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'

2 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

2 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

2 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

3 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

2 hours ago

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

2 hours 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

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

7 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

7 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

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

10 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

10 hours ago

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

10 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

3 hours ago

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

12 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

13 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

13 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

13 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

16 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

16 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

16 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

17 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

18 hours 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

19 hours 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

18 hours ago

AI Will Soon Drive A Third Of TSMC's Business

2 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

3 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 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

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

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

18 hours 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

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

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

9 hours ago

Quantum Computing and storage

11 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

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

18 hours 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

3 days ago

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

3 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

3 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

3 days 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

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

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

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

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

10 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

4 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

4 days ago

Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan -- Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in October -- Networks

4 days ago

Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment -- Services giant's staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices -- Legal

4 days ago

Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online -- Browser fingerprinting is everywhere -- Security

5 days ago