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on-prem - Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter could be ready before the power is - Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
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OpenAI shows three staff the door over alleged information misuse -- Two safety researchers and a program manager dismissed, company denies retaliation for raising concerns2 minutes ago
cyber-crime - Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three - Operation KillSwitch takes over leak site holding at least 110 TB of stolen data2 hours ago
Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50 -- Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM2 hours ago
Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support - To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component5 hours ago
databases - Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland 'Basin' branding, promise of fewer fees - Serverless data management without egress fees, sort of18 hours ago
SAAS -- Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access -- Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April22 hours ago
SECURITY -- Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else -- US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'2 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us -- Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains1 day ago
Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call - MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails1 day ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ex-NCA officer ordered to surrender £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin -- Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.018 hours ago
COLUMNISTS -- OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian1 day ago
ON-PREM -- America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill -- Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts1 day ago
SECURITY -- Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines -- Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries8 hours ago
Dutch police arrest 'security pro' in ShinyHunters probe -- Flashbangs reportedly deployed during operation as crime group denies any connection to suspect2 days ago
Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You're Fabric app devs now -- Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude3 days ago
ai and ml - OpenAI agents went the long way round for UN data2 minutes ago
SAAS -- Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back -- Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over1 day ago
Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage -- Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up1 day ago
Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack -- Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes1 day ago
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust -- An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust6 days ago
Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug - Latest: Microsoft rolls back update2 minutes ago
STORAGE -- Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown -- Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.2 days ago
BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting -- Putting the 'om' in computing2 days ago
SECURITY -- UK cops arrest 2 EvilTokens suspects, Microsoft seizes 50 phishing kit websites -- Used by crims to compromise 12K+ email inboxes across 10K+ global orgs1 day ago
EU's hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank18 hours ago
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective! Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation7 days ago
Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right -- Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.2 days ago
UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters -- Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames7 days ago
F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown -- The Chocolate Factory is tightening the screws on Android sideloading, but the FOSS app market is rolling out a huge overhaul and planning for the future7 days ago
Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real2 minutes ago
Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing -- 'SalesBleed' security flaws 'lead to very unexpected consequences'1 day ago
Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi? We hope Zuck's Muse Charm doesn't die if you neglect it4 days ago
Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows -- Security researchers report that Microsoft considers the side-channel leak of file events to be by design4 days ago
DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB -- Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services7 days ago
Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise -- Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and Wiz's Red Agent team up to protect hospitals, public transit, and tech6 days ago
City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues - Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger7 days ago
Meta ads steered Polish Android users into a premium-rate billing trap -- CERT Polska linked 852 promotions to 17 Google Play apps capable of sending costly texts or starting recurring subscriptions6 days ago
CHANNEL -- India's outsourced software industry grows 9.5 percent to reach $239 billion -- Software product development industry shrinks a little, but if AI has dented prospects, it's not in these numbers7 days ago
security - OpenAI agents 'infiltrated Australian government website'2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension -- Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model7 days ago
SYSTEMS -- Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion -- Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs2 minutes ago
Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2 -- Annual update installed. You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Wait a minute...22 hours ago
Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting -- Sales calls can be even nastier than support calls4 hours ago
Met Police suspends use of phone-hacking software over Russian links -- Scotland Yard hits pause after US prosecutors trace supposedly American tech back to Moscow4 hours ago
UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco -- Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline1 hour ago
AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs -- Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions1 hour ago
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work -- If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems,4 hours ago
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch -- Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price47 minutes ago
Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report -- Copilot builds charts and metrics from spreadsheet data, with automatic refreshes when the numbers change47 minutes ago
Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models -- Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally16 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses -- Dogwood Local Engine checks AI tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they run2 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Build the right AI factory for your needs: partner for success -- SPONSORED FEATURE: HPE and NVIDIA help organizations apply accelerated computing, software, enterprise infrastructure, networking, control plane, and services to the workloads and business outcomes that matter most.2 hours ago
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies2 days ago
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early2 days ago
EXCLUSIVE - Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back2 days ago
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP6 hours ago
FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you'1 day ago
Your cloud survived everything except the real world -- War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem -- Rupert Goodwins1 day ago
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols2 hours ago
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Rupert Goodwins1 day ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's -- Corey Quinn8 days ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols20 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins21 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Corey Quinn22 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols29 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins29 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas - Mark Pesce18 days ago
security - CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch - PWNED - Replacing letters with symbols still doesn't make it good.1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data -- Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures6 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal -- Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP11 hours ago
SECURITY -- Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry -- Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they'll get pregnant, says survey2 hours ago
AI AND ML -- The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away -- What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents17 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Singapore's government creates a dating app -- Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking18 hours ago
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates 'much higher' prices -- Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come1 day ago
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services -- Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners -- Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.22 hours ago
YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator -- If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have1 day ago
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China -- The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding -- Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents23 hours ago
SECURITY -- 16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows -- It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?16 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon -- Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed23 hours ago
ai and ml - Where does your AI data actually live? EVENT - The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?* -- Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin1 day ago
AI AND ML -- 7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028 -- Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair -- Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten1 day ago
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills -- Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness21 hours ago
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited -- Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 62 days ago
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches -- British Transport Police's six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive23 hours ago
AI AND ML -- OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans -- Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is 'Kubernetes for agents'1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations -- Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'1 day ago
SECURITY -- Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections -- It's a worm attack, AI-style1 day ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI tries disarming AI angst with cute graphics and always-on agents -- It's not OpenClaw. It's dots1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core -- Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website1 day ago
SECURITY -- FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you' -- Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills'1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputation -- New business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai2 days ago
systems - Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - FEATURE - Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies9 days ago
cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?14 days 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 procurement2 months ago
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop3 days ago
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain3 days ago
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public7 days ago
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in10 days ago
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers22 days ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech28 days ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan1 month ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester2 months ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much2 months ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow2 months ago
AI AND ML -- Close the observability gap with agentic observability -- SPONSORED POST: How agentic AI, real-time visibility, and stronger governance can help enterprises protect critical services and manage increasingly complex IT environments.2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified -- Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap1 day ago
SECURITY -- Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services -- Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Open source tool distills Jev so you can run it locally -- Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft sends PDFs to strange new worlds instead of SharePoint -- Use SharePoint Online? Keen on PDFs? Then you won't be keen on the latest Word bug1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies -- Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work1 day ago
ON-PREM -- Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment -- Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself2 days ago
SECURITY -- Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks -- Meta-spotted flaw could hand attackers arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file1 day ago
Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work -- If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems,8 hours ago
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit -- That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment1 day ago
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI -- AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD3 days ago
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club -- Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too10 days ago
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient -- US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth11 days ago
SECURITY -- Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush -- RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference -- Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's £330M NHS data platform deal2 days ago
What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? -- A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- HMRC bets up to £2.4B on Salesforce for taxpayer CRM overhaul -- Ten-year deal covers customer records, case management, portals, analytics, and AI, with extensions possible to 20413 days ago
STORAGE -- Which copy of the file is the real one? -- A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.21 hours ago
DEVOPS -- Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes -- Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Google ending ChromeOS support two years early -- Rise of the Googlebook means ChromeOS users get eight years' support, not a decade2 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon -- Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites2 days ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.22 days ago
Escaping the Postgres Optimization Treadmill -- Learn why high-volume, time-series workloads can push PostgreSQL beyond the limits of routine optimization.18 hours ago
Lessons from deploying high-performance & resilient AI fabrics at hyperscalers, frontier model builders and neo-clouds -- This session covers key AI data center trends, MRC/UEC architectures, customer requirements and how HPE Juniper Networking addresses those needs.15 hours ago
A Flexible Path from VMware to Nutanix on Azure -- Nutanix experts discuss VMware customer challenges and key considerations for planning a migration to the public cloud.3 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.13 days ago
Business of the Year: Organized Cybercrime. -- If there were an award for the industry making the biggest moves this year, organized cybercrime would be a top contender.6 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.13 days ago
Data Sovereignty in the AI Era -- As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .14 days ago
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COLUMNISTS -- AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure -- What's wrong with being a great wholesaler?22 hours ago
SECURITY -- JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources -- Smells like more agentic ransomware, Redmond warns3 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns -- During testing, the model showed it can violate security rules more often than its predecessors3 days ago
AI AND ML -- French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs -- Because sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button3 days ago
STORAGE -- How many times are you paying for the same file? -- A Register dinner in Midtown on 27 October takes on the file infrastructure distributed teams still run and nobody chose, off the record1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's Copilot super app comes with a meter attached -- Redmond calls its pricing model an 'evolution' as advanced AI racks up usage charges2 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months -- Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments2 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants -- Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house4 days ago
KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal -- Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user13 days ago
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line -- Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'21 days ago
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push23 days ago
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin25 days ago
Micron's Numbers Show Why HBM4 Memory Is Worth 15X Its Weight In Gold9 hours ago
Build The Right AI Factory For Your Needs: Partner For Success13 hours ago
Optimization Is The Key Challenge For Quantum Computing1 day ago
Nvidia Wraps Security Layer Around Agentic AI To Stop Rogue Behavior1 day ago
Everspin demos CXL-connected MRAM memory expansion18 hours ago
NetApp discovers and resells Diskover ROT technology1 day ago
Memory gold rush bonanza makes billions for Micron1 day ago
Everpure bulks up AI offer1 day ago
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust5 days ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K12 days ago
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds15 days ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up27 days ago
AI AND ML -- Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy -- The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B -- Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 20364 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought -- Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia -- PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser -- The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT5 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money -- The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone -- Your spare Android won't come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should4 days ago
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note28 days ago
Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes -- Once a single-scalar home, spreadsheet cells are being redeveloped to handle many tenants4 days ago
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall -- Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity6 days ago
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script -- More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast2 days ago
New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x -- Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%4 days ago
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business' -- Data theft and extortion biz, that is2 days ago
Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah -- Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 20286 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key14 days ago
personal tech - 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 users7 days ago
software - Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it1 month ago
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support1 month ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees1 month ago
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered1 month ago
ai and ml - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down - Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna9 days ago
Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug -- Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild8 days ago
Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts -- 'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face4 days ago
Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there's no ROI in that -- Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner17 days ago
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race -- AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)29 days ago
Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec -- Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache13 days ago
Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel -- Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit11 days ago
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access -- Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app2 days ago
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid -- Familiar fingerprints point to Kim's regime ... to the surprise of nobody3 days ago
STORAGE -- Raspberry Pi surfs memory crunch to record first half -- A well-timed RAM stockpile helped keep boards shipping while rivals struggled for memory6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows update leaves some virtual desktops staring into the void -- Users may need to summon Explorer manually after signing in4 days ago
LEGAL -- Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels -- Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Asahi fork embraces LLMs and lands Linux on the M4 Mac mini -- Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks7 days ago
CHANNEL -- Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory -- High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch7 days ago
Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked -- Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information3 days ago
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers -- DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside3 days ago
Whisky merchant Master of Malt confirms customer data spilt -- Attackers had four days to drink in names, addresses, emails and phone numbers6 days ago
Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions -- 'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C22 days ago
ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated' -- This time it's personal8 days ago
NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past -- BigDiskBuster leaves Microsoft's antivirus running but unable to install updates8 days ago
Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode -- China's AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws8 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Well-done hack flames 3.2M Burger King Russia users -- HIBP confirms cybercrims stuck a straw into marketing reservoir, sucking up six-years of leaky Whopper secrets9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic -- Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts7 days ago
Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day2 hours ago
AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org15 hours ago
Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing20 hours ago
Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure23 hours ago
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies23 hours ago
England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents1 day ago
UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud -- PARTNER CONTENT: Huawei Cloud strengthens the silicon bedrock on the cloud6 days ago
SCIENCE -- Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer' -- The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- 2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop -- Desktop AMIs 'designed to behave as much like Windows as possible' now available as an on ramp for new users6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter -- Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here6 days ago
SECURITY -- Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs -- Operator's AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan3 days ago
Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week -- Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit7 days ago
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI -- First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition10 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them -- USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam10 days ago
AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth -- Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap13 days ago
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap14 days ago
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good -- Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible16 days ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute23 days ago
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals -- PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more24 days ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices28 days ago
AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs -- Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions8 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle -- AI-assisted bug hunting is helping pile up vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them, so Canonical is picking up the pace4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market -- Sub-$200 shipments forecast to shrink 40% by 2030 as component costs climb7 days ago
SECURITY -- Someone went shopping in ASUS's eShop – for customer data -- Contact details and order records accessed, but PC maker is keeping schtum on how many customers are affected6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze -- A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem7 days ago
Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data4 days ago
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on11 days ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button14 days ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire14 days ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up14 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory1 month ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard1 month ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn1 month ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day1 month ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data2 months ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'2 months ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap2 months ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code2 months ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess3 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!3 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet3 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug3 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident4 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in4 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything4 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch4 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving4 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch4 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild4 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it4 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe4 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference4 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo4 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble4 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract4 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction4 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell4 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead4 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office4 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server4 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam4 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key4 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause1 month ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble4 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good4 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming4 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work2 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books4 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people4 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere4 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver4 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'4 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware4 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice4 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company4 months ago
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs16 days ago
UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below16 days ago
Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite18 days ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider23 days ago
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP17 hours ago
Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount4 days ago
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it7 days ago
Europe's internet registry wants governance 'correction' because its 'Executive Board' is not the executive8 days ago
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes9 days ago
In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols9 days ago
Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal11 days ago
Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill14 days ago
HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app -- Customers say the unannounced change also cut off web access that relied on mobile authentication8 days ago
For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over -- Its vector search is ready, but coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases, says the foundation's chairman8 days ago
Experts question whether Salesforce demo breaches SAP API policy -- For the German vendor, greater challenges may lie ahead, as rivals seek to control the user experience8 days ago
Government contractor exposed path to immigration records -- IT took a shortcut when the boss was away, and it led to danger!3 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's Astra model went for a drive and no one died -- First LLM to pass test did it in a parking lot at snail's pace, at considerable expense, but it still counts for something7 days ago
Someone's attacking a critical 0-day RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM -- Good news: there's a patch. Bad news: both CISA and F5 warn that it's under active exploitation7 days ago
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology -- Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options8 days ago
A Practical Guide to Security for Growing Businesses -- This guide aims to help you understand the concrete steps you can take to improve your company's security and keep your business safe.17 hours ago
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper -- Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance8 days ago
An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip -- 16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?8 days ago
Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint -- New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction8 days ago
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack -- Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals7 days ago
Closing the observability gap for the AI-ready enterprise -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Why AI-driven operations need a data-rich view of the network8 days ago
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates -- A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport5 hours ago
Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes -- So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda1 day ago
Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates -- A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption2 days ago
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time -- The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers2 days ago
Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business -- Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well2 days ago
Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short -- SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three3 days ago
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites -- Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats6 days ago
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink -- 3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance7 days ago
BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth -- MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored9 days ago
UK's uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes -- XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests9 days ago
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water -- Meet 'superintelligence' and the 'globalist scheme' – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it9 days ago
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon -- Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain11 days ago
It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity -- Please release me, let me close...11 days ago
British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky -- Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas14 days ago
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel -- He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to15 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific16 days ago
Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow -- HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually16 days ago
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?17 days ago
UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off -- The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze17 days ago
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware19 days ago
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen20 days ago
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades20 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project23 days ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government24 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates28 days ago
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo -- Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense28 days ago
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda -- No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets29 days ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%29 days ago
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip -- Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend29 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning1 month ago
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again -- This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper1 month ago
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems -- Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle1 month ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads1 month ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense1 month 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 backs1 month ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?1 month 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 month ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...1 month 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 it1 month ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck1 month 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 20271 month ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed12 days ago
AI AND ML -- Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?13 days ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract -- Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award17 days ago
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'7 days ago
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up14 days ago
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool14 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 2216 days ago
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists -- Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures20 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded22 days ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour26 days ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches25 days ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 202828 days ago
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry29 days ago
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them -- Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities8 days ago
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch -- Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?9 days ago
British regulator takes a hard look at Pornhub's Apple-powered age checks -- Regulator wants to know whether parent Aylo did its homework before reopening the door to UK iPhone users5 days ago
Swedish celebs campaign for public rudeness ... to prevent cyber scams -- The campaign follows a highly profitable year for crooks targeting the over-60s7 days ago