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'Uncle Larry's biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree -- WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed17 hours ago
Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands - Updated - A hard-coded limit on deny rules drops automatic enforcement for concatenated commands21 hours ago
Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed -- Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen17 hours ago
Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working' -- In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft12 hours ago
When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food -- Bootnotes1 hour ago
Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled - On Call Y2k - Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine - Columnists - 03 Apr 2026 - | 724 minutes ago
AI models will deceive you to save their own kind -- Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior -- AI + ML -- 02 Apr 20265 hours ago
Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4 -- Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages -- AI + ML -- 02 Apr 20265 hours ago
Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images -- About that partnership... -- AI + ML15 hours ago
US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks -- Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems -- Networks17 hours ago
Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important -- Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong -- AI + ML18 hours ago
IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI -- Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue's access to power-efficient compute -- Systems19 hours ago
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash -- Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners' -- Applications19 hours ago
Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle -- The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services -- SaaS19 hours ago
Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected' Unexpected quota drain prompts complaints, breaks automated workflows20 hours ago
Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript -- Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer -- Devops20 hours ago
Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons -- Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings -- Public Sector23 hours ago
AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer -- We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control' -- Networks1 day ago
Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo -- And of course the Orion toilet malfunctioned -- Science1 day ago
SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support -- And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis -- OSes1 day ago
AI recruiting biz Mercor says it was 'one of thousands' hit in LiteLLM supply-chain attack -- First public downstream victim, but won't be the last -- Cyber-crime1 day ago
Google's TurboQuant saves memory, but won't save us from DRAM-pricing hell -- Chocolate Factory's compression tech clears the way to cheaper AI inference, not more affordable memory -- AI + ML1 day ago
Live and Let AI: Former CIA officer says human spies matter more in the LLM age -- AI is eroding trust in digital communications and data, giving old-school spycraft fresh relevance for modern agents -- Public Sector1 day ago
Nvidia Software Pushes MLPerf Inference Benchmarks To New Highs18 hours ago
Broadcom Makes Its Pitch To Run Kubernetes On VMware VCF21 hours ago
The $2 Billion Nvidia Deal With Marvell Is About A Lot More Than NVLink Fusion2 days ago
Classiq Says Quantum Is On Its Way, But Patience Is Needed3 days ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference - Who, Me? Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences17 hours ago
Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard - Second-hand ship, seawater cooling, with operations eyed for 2027 - On-Prem - 01 Apr 2026 - | 181 hour ago
Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover -- Board-backed account of maintainer ouster is unlikely to settle row over governance, control, and trust -- Software1 day ago
France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M -- Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder -- HPC1 day ago
Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover21 hours ago
Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'2 days ago
Contracts are in C++26 despite disquiet over their value2 days ago
Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead6 days ago
EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG: Reclaiming control of the enterprise data warehouse - Proprietary warehouses delivered scale — but at the cost of control, predictable pricing, and real flexibility. Enterprises are doing the math. Partner Content2 days ago
One in seven Americans are ready for an AI boss, but they might not trust it -- Poll finds 15% happy to take orders from a bot even as most question its output and fear job losses -- AI + ML2 days ago
AI server farms heat up the neighborhood for miles around, paper finds -- Researchers say localized warming can extend well past site edges, raising concerns about community impact -- Systems2 days ago
We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke -- Hot DRAM! Who is going to drop nearly $400 on an underpowered Linux computer? -- Personal Tech2 days ago
UK manufacturers under cyber fire with 80% reporting attacks -- ESET says factory outages, lost revenue, and supply chain disruption are becoming routine -- Security2 days ago
Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system -- If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code -- Devops2 days ago
Enterprise infrastructure is entering an economic reset - Here's how to cope with the memory pricing squeeze - Partner Content4 days ago
Kioxia killing off old NAND chippery18 hours ago
Geyser Data, Spectra Logic bring tape-as-a-service archive to London21 hours ago
Everpure says it's outpacing rivals in revenue, capacity growth21 hours ago
Remote NetApp array over photonic link nears local access speed1 day ago
Don't open that WhatsApp message, Microsoft warns -- How to avoid social engineering attacks? Employee training tops the list -- Research2 days ago
Gmail celebrates 22 years by finally letting users change their addresses -- Congratulations, XxXh4xx0r420xXx, you can now use that account in your professional life, too -- Applications2 days ago
Iran targets M365 accounts with password-spraying attacks -- Researchers say some targets correlate with cities hit by Iranian missile strikes -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Oracle cuts jobs across sales, engineering, security -- Big Red declines comment as reports point to layoffs in the thousands -- AI + ML2 days ago
Anthropic goes nude, exposes Claude Code source by accident -- Oopsy-doodle: Did someone forget to check their build pipeline? -- AI + ML2 days ago
Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid - Exclusive - Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills - OSes - 31 Mar 2026 - | 816 hours ago
UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe -- CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms -- Off-Prem2 days ago
Starlink sprays debris into orbit following another satellite 'anomaly' -- No risk to ISS or Artemis, but not ideal for operator peace of mind -- Science2 days ago
Mars coughs up another maybe-life clue in the form of nickel compounds -- Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology -- Science2 days ago
ServiceNow allegedly says salesman 'overachieved' and is not entitled to comp -- The 13-year sales vet closed two deals worth $27 million, but ServiceNow has "nullified" his compensation saying he "overachieved" his quota. -- SaaS2 days ago
Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue -- Weren't these supposed to be 'atypical'? -- OSes2 days ago
Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China -- Chip shipments overtake boards and modules as industrial demand grows, raising questions about hobbyist roots -- Personal Tech2 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
Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence1 month ago
Arm says agentic AI needs a new kind of CPU. Intel's DC chief isn't buying it -- Interview -- Cores it's got what agents crave -- Systems2 days ago
Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive -- Yep, you read that right. And there's no official Linux client from Google -- OSes2 days ago
Usage pricing leaving software vendors guessing what lands on the invoice -- 'Converting AI capability into sustainable, auditable revenue remains a challenge' says PwC survey -- Software3 days ago
Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines -- Updated -- Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios -- CSO22 hours ago
'Uncle Larry's biggest fan' cut by email in early morning Oracle layoff spree -- WARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed20 hours ago
Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working' -- In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft13 hours ago
Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year -- Cool, but fossil-fuel additions and AI-era power demand still muddy the climate math15 hours ago
Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed -- Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen10 hours ago
Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands -- A hard-coded limit on deny rules drops automatic enforcement for concatenated commands15 hours ago
The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom -- Connected devices can leave an otherwise secure network vulnerable7 hours ago
'People's Panel' to check if UK wants controversial Digital ID will cost £630K -- We could tell you no for free1 day ago
Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales with out-of-this-world price hikes -- Flights to resume in 2026 before space tourism biz runs out of cash1 day ago
Amazon security boss: AI makes pentesting 40% more efficient - interview - Plus: how to train your - human - AI2 hours ago
They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead -- Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks37 minutes ago
Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean -- Aimed at blind tablet users, although it's winning sighted fans too -- Personal Tech3 days ago
Contracts are in C++26 despite disagreement over their value -- Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup argues feature is neither minimal nor viable -- Devops3 days ago
Memory-makers' shares are down. Some RAM prices have eased. Blaming Google is not a good idea -- Chocolate Factory boffins have found a way to reduce AI's memory use, but don't assume that means less demand for DRAM -- Systems3 days ago
Explainer: Self-driving networks - Here's how your next network will look after itself - The Register Explainer4 days ago
Surprise! Big Tech has been a bit rubbish at enforcing Australia's kids social media ban -- Regulator 'moving into an enforcement stance' and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll -- Legal3 days ago
GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash - Updated - Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager - AI + ML - 30 Mar 2026 - | 501 hour ago
OpenAI patches ChatGPT flaw that smuggled data over DNS -- Check Point says outbound controls blocked web traffic but overlooked DNS -- Security3 days ago
US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems -- Omdia says education, consumer, commercial, and public sector demand will weaken through 2026 -- Systems3 days ago
Telnyx joins LiteLLM in latest PyPI package poisoning tied to Trivy breach - infosec in brief - Also, EU probes Snapchat, RedLine suspect extradited, AstraZeneca leak claim surfaces, and more - Cyber-crime - 30 Mar 2026 - | 22 days ago
FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines -- But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut -- Networks3 days ago
Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby -- Orion's four astronauts edge toward liftoff for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than 50 years -- Science3 days ago
UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev -- Regulator says payments totaling £635K reached entity owned and controlled by a designated person -- Applications3 days ago
SAP looking to pull more external data into its AI platform with Reltio acquisition -- Merger positioned to boost appeal of ERP giant's Business Data Cloud -- Databases3 days ago
Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat - Researchers say attackers are already looting vulnerable boxes - Patches - 30 Mar 2026 - |3 days ago
South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions eyes new shores for rack-scale invasion -- Funding round comes ahead of planned IPO -- Systems3 days ago
Microsoft Fabric Database Hub only a 'partial' solution for admins -- Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS -- Databases3 days ago
