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Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have -- Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat4 hours ago
BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition -- Why oh why are the accountants stricter than the IRS and HMRC put together?8 hours ago
Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting -- Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you4 hours ago
Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it -- Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut4 hours ago
On Call: Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call -- One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users3 hours ago
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller -- Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls1 day ago
applications - LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI - It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer3 hours ago
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted -- Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met3 hours ago
Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming -- GRUB's up for furry new update4 hours ago
Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview -- Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates6 hours ago
security - CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago - Organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption blamed for sorry state of affairs7 hours ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless8 hours ago
Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns -- Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive9 hours ago
ai and ML - Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots - Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why3 hours ago
Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see -- Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car20 hours ago
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims -- Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs21 hours ago
SECURITY -- Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia3 days ago
AI and ml -- Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis2 days ago
ai and ML -- Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp1 day 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 over -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols1 day ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that -- Rupert Goodwins1 day ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce1 day ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Rupert Goodwins1 day ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges -- Bruce Davie1 day ago
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney -- Corey Quinn11 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another - Rupert Goodwins1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages -- No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage6 hours ago
AL AND ML -- Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code -- Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box7 hours ago
Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT - SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it8 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of) -- Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee8 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more' -- As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized8 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC -- Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins10 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap -- AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities12 hours ago
AI and ML -- Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential -- Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants13 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi -- Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming15 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down -- F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload20 hours ago
Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year -- Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse1 day ago
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks -- Beijing's botnets busted7 hours ago
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face -- Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'7 hours ago
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads -- Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet1 day ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1 -- K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years1 day ago
Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount -- Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon1 day ago
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks -- 'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'13 hours ago
GitHub Actions was down yet again -- Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test1 day ago
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case -- Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job2 days ago
Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too -- Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along2 days ago
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND -- Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills2 days ago
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack -- No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing15 hours ago
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed -- One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks20 hours ago
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027 - SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension -- Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive1 day ago
DATABASES -- AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database -- Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist -- AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work1 day ago
LEGAL -- Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project -- Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist1 day ago
Public sector -- Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR -- Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality1 day ago
AI and ML -- Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose -- Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown -- French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model1 day ago
SCIENCE -- India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over -- Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action -- Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud2 days ago
AI and ml -- Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis -- The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal2 days ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month 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 plan22 days ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester28 days ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much1 month ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow1 month ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical1 month 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
AI AND ML -- Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you -- Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now2 days ago
AI AND ML -- McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI' -- Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat2 days ago
ON-PREM -- EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters -- State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits2 days ago
SECURITY -- You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack -- Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert23 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing -- Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade2 days ago
ai and ML -- Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop -- OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots2 days ago
Legal -- US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor -- Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineer's plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update -- Summer in Redmond, Winter for everyone else2 days ago
SECURITY -- CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw -- Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it's finally time for the USG to plug the gap1 day ago
Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff -- Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November6 hours ago
Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough -- Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful2 days ago
OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast -- 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin3 days ago
SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter -- Rack-mount system intended for software porting, workload optimization, to bring open standard to the bitbarn3 days ago
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently -- Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere3 days ago
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble -- Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators4 days ago
Security -- Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads -- Sponsored search results lead developers straight into a ClickFix malware trap1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp -- Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era2 days ago
What is virtualization modernization? SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Australia's record industry won't chart tunes recorded in the key of AI -- This is basically a riff on 'You wouldn't steal a car' and means only the human league can have a hit2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds -- Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services3 days ago
Security -- You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine -- Its own command language, 23 instructions - signs point to 'well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one'1 day ago
SECURITY -- Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks -- Glassbox dev admits he had some help from Claude to build locally running tool1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg -- Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work3 days ago
OS PLatforms -- Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today -- The version that started to bring all Microsoft's pieces together3 days ago
HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA -- In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.1 day ago
How Cloudflare's "customer zero" journey offers a blueprint for secure enterprise AI adoption -- As AI tools rapidly make their way into the enterprise, security teams face a difficult challenge.1 day ago
CISO 3.0: Governing AI Agents at Machine Speed -- Join Snyk and AWS on 14 September to see what it takes to govern an agentic AI landscape at machine speed.3 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.16 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.14 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.28 days ago
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YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs -- Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry4 days ago
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant -- No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg1 day ago
Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds -- Complaint: Peripheral maker did not want to unplug itself from higher prices and hand back cash to customers4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks -- Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?3 days ago
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles -- At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 20274 days ago
Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain -- Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side4 days ago
cyber-crime - ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach3 hours ago
Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric -- Gartner reckons $1.6 trillion year is just the start, and don't expect a bust anytime soon4 days ago
I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime... or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg -- Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'4 days ago
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones -- Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way1 month 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
Peeling Apart That Supposed $120 Billion Chip Deal Google Inked With Marvell1 day ago
The Network Is More Of Nvidia's Computer Than It Ever Was At Sun1 day ago
You Probably Forget How Cheap Memory Used To Be – And Is Not So Now3 days ago
IBM Pushes System Design To Reach Ultra-Cold Temperatures For Quantum9 days ago
Storage news ticker - 28 August 20264 hours ago
Sandisk and Kioxia have yen for new NAND fabs4 hours ago
Rubrik revenues roar ahead4 hours ago
Context grapher Jedify cuts AI token costs 75 percent1 day ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v122 hours ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings4 days ago
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords6 days ago
SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs7 days ago
ON-PREM -- US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years -- ... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping3 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- $1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack -- Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in2 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows -- Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia's GPUs in the datacenter3 days ago
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia -- Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 20262 days ago
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI -- Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine4 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement4 days ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'4 days ago
AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries - SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development4 days ago
Ancient 'Who owns Linux?' case now has one foot very deep in the grave -- Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing4 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings -- S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work4 days ago
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf -- Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust5 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports28 days ago
SECURITY -- If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will -- Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst3 days ago
ai and ML -- AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing -- Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter -- F-B100W adds Bluetooth and step tracking while keeping a two-year battery4 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough3 days ago
Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble -- Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power6 days ago
Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says -- Show us the money4 days ago
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support2 days ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees8 days ago
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered8 days ago
Software - Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it - Sleep doesn't pay2 days ago
personal tech - Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem2 days ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign1 month 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
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 it11 days ago
Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you -- Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated14 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 messages1 month 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
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 ancestry17 days ago
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat -- Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive6 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC -- Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature4 days ago
PATCHES -- Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it -- Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf3 days ago
SickKids children's hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in -- Toronto org says it wasn't the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability3 days ago
Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials -- Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware3 days ago
AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand -- Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide7 days ago
'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up -- CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month7 days ago
$10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts -- Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication4 days ago
Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic -- Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Microsoft sounds alarm over perfect-10 Entra ID flaw -- Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still -- One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive5 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Australian hotel chain leaks guests' PII after breach at third-party database operator -- Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security -- Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive8 days ago
SECURITY -- Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments -- Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again8 days ago
Security - CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug - Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks10 days ago
Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse - Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro4 hours ago
Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself -- How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine8 days ago
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants -- McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials2 days ago
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 AI9 days ago
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies3 hours ago
Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution7 hours ago
Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it's drawing customers' blood12 hours ago
Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds13 hours ago
CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled21 hours ago
AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks23 hours ago
Omarchy distro gains serious backing1 day ago
ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims1 day ago
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data1 day ago
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it -- After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job7 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins -- Cloudy AI is Chinese giant's 'most certain' path to growth as e-commerce slows7 days ago
Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation - Policies and code of conduct breached6 days ago
Russian snoops add OAuth abuse to targeted phishing campaigns -- Don't click on that State Department meeting invite4 days ago
AI and ML -- Google tethers Antigravity to enterprise controls amid AI shakeup -- Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud7 days ago
DEVOPS -- Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords -- v 1.27 expands generics to support methods6 days ago
ai and ML -- OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge -- With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance7 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla -- 5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency7 days ago
SECURITY -- US Bank investigates LockBit's claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline -- Follow the money4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS - Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads2 days ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat15 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 term14 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 there15 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending16 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 202717 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 boxes17 days ago
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity -- Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved18 days ago
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year -- And fly 'significant scale' in 2028 – a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt3 days ago
US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations -- Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland8 days ago
Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into sharing location data with Linux -- Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget6 days ago
Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat -- Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September -- Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists -- Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots -- Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- £37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years -- HMRC insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions -- A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down7 days ago
Security -- French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages -- Stolen details range from contact information to household finances and withholding rates7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI glitch locks out vetted cyber researchers – and some can't get back in -- Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft probes reports of games taking exception to Windows 11's August update -- Affected titles crash, freeze, or restart PCs while Redmond works out whether it is to blame7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on -- Analysts warn of disruption to long-established tech activity7 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory4 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard11 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn18 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day25 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data1 month ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month 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!2 months 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 in3 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything3 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
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands21 days ago
'Humans will be a rounding error on the internet' says Cloudflare exec21 days ago
Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway22 days ago
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner28 days ago
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election22 hours ago
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way1 day ago
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch7 days ago
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price7 days ago
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.7 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job9 days ago
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit15 days ago
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it19 days ago
SCIENCE -- No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- SparkyLinux 8.4 rekindles support for 32-bit PCs -- Debian 13 derivative offers minimal x86 images and lets CDE ride again7 days ago
SECURITY -- AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice -- Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first7 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster8 days ago
IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling -- Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside8 days ago
Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles -- Broadcom's VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure8 days ago
AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy -- House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago8 days ago
'Not a theoretical risk,' feds warn as attackers use AI-made code to hack critical infrastructure controllers -- 'It is an active threat'7 days ago
DEVOPS - SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs2 days ago
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown - And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal8 days ago
AI and ML - Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS - Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?8 days ago
SECURITY -- ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home -- 'Personally owned body-worn cameras are prohibited,' ICE tells The Reg. Because the last thing DHS needs is more proof of misconduct7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Epic Games dismisses Apple's simplified EU App Store fees as 'junk' -- Consumer group sees improvements on paper but warns the devil remains in the detail8 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- Le guide des PME pour protéger leur entreprise -- Guide pratique pour les PME utilisant des applications SaaS et recherchant une protection des données efficace, simple et sécurisée.4 hours ago
Security -- Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate -- CEO apologizes for police misuse as activists call for vandal action against license plate cameras7 days ago
AI AND ML -- More than half of Americans now view AI negatively -- Concern continues to climb for adults under 30, as people fear being replaced by AI8 days ago
Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover -- Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print7 days ago
Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world -- Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker9 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?1 day ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast -- Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit1 day ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...2 days ago
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago -- So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it3 days ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck3 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost6 days ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches7 days ago
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations9 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 buyers11 days ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change12 days ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices13 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons14 days ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology14 days ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard11 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books15 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 work15 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad15 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?16 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 either18 days ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound22 days ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start23 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 range23 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 web26 days ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key27 days ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police28 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 foothold29 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 Fun29 days ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba29 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 places30 days ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year30 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?1 month 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 soldiers1 month ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?1 month ago
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network1 month 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 local1 month 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 cat1 month ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal1 month 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 waste1 month ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted1 month ago
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too1 month 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 Bork30 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
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures -- Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak10 days ago
science - How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget9 days ago
SCIENCE -- Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year16 days ago
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri20 days ago
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims21 hours ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast2 days ago
India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets2 days ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight4 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 destabilizing21 days ago
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs -- IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships22 days ago
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 forward22 days ago
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve -- Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year22 days ago
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year -- Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time23 days 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 blasts24 days ago
GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm -- Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral8 days ago
Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up -- DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks9 days ago
SOFTWARE -- SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims -- Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle8 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning -- Clamp, flash, repeat – no separate IO board or host computer required8 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards -- Those legacy systems won't fix themselves8 days ago
