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Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked -- Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future10 hours ago
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more -- Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech17 hours ago
Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner -- Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges1 day ago
AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops - which could cost 500,00 tokens per click -- Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper -- PaaS + IaaS2 hours ago
India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree -- Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks -- Security5 hours ago
Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend -- Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks -- SaaS5 hours ago
OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year -- If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math -- AI + ML10 hours ago
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb -- GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them -- Legal11 hours ago
Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch -- High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggage -- AI + ML11 hours ago
Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents -- Always bet on backpropagation -- AI + ML11 hours ago
IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf -- With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2 -- AI + ML14 hours ago
ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower -- ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows -- AI + ML14 hours ago
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to -- A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not -- Offbeat14 hours ago
Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw -- Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn't sit idle for long -- Cyber-crime15 hours ago
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook - OPINION - Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time - Science - 05 May 2026 - | 142 hours ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave - On Call - For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem1 day ago
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked -- Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future -- Devops17 hours ago
Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking -- Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats -- Cyber-crime18 hours ago
SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition - ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration - Databases - 05 May 2026 - |17 hours ago
VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination -- Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock -- PaaS + IaaS18 hours ago
ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild -- Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched -- Cyber-crime19 hours ago
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more -- Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech -- AI + ML19 hours ago
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday -- Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories -- Security19 hours ago
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal -- CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of schedule -- Networks19 hours ago
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags -- Offbeat21 hours ago
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns -- Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change -- Software19 hours ago
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- Opinion -- If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you? -- Software23 hours ago
Cleveland Clinic Simulates Large Proteins With Quantum-Centric Supercomputing4 hours ago
Broadcom Helps CPU And XPU Makers Go Vertical With Compute10 hours ago
Microsoft Committed To Doubling AI Infrastructure In Two Years1 day ago
Google Is A Full Stack AI Player, And Is Playing Well3 days ago
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet - PWNED - Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection1 day ago
Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release - Antiques Code Show - New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard - Personal Tech - 05 May 2026 - | 212 hours ago
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 -- Haswell's had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away -- Off-Prem1 day ago
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation -- Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC -- Security1 day ago
Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us' -- The Iran war has been great for business -- Public Sector1 day ago
Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 -- The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work -- Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default -- AI + ML1 day ago
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache -- 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them -- Research1 day ago
AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story5 days ago
IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability6 days ago
OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party6 days ago
Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad12 days ago
AI inference just plays by different rules - Why no cloud storage architecture was designed for what agentic AI is about to demand - Partner Content1 day ago
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop -- Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space -- Offbeat1 day ago
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port -- It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho -- Devops1 day ago
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear - FEATURE - The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino - Networks - 04 May 2026 - | 718 hours ago
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs -- 'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect' -- Security1 day ago
Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner -- Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges -- On-Prem1 day ago
If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked -- Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows -- Security1 day ago
When robots join the race: 5G-A powers a new kind of marathon - Human and humanoid runners share the track as next-gen connectivity underpins real-time AI performance - Sponsored Post7 days ago
Pinecone providing compiled vector artifacts to accelerate AI Agents10 hours ago
Komprise patents dynamic load balancing tech15 hours ago
Micron's new SSD replaces disk for fast access storage15 hours ago
SAP bags Dremio and Prior Labs in enterprise AI data push15 hours ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving - Who, Me? That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble - Networks - 04 May 2026 - | 732 hours ago
Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back -- Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades -- Personal Tech1 day ago
Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky -- Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada -- Security1 day ago
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs -- PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge -- Legal2 days ago
Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better - kettle - Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what's wrong at Redmond? OSes - 03 May 2026 - | 628 hours ago
Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark -- In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy -- AI + ML2 days ago
Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in 'Hybrid Navy' -- Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet -- Public Sector2 days ago
Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise -- PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this? -- Public Sector2 days ago
Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents -- Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM -- AI + ML3 days ago
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs -- Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it -- Off-Prem3 days ago
Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt -- Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once -- Security3 days ago
ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs -- CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements' -- SaaS4 days ago
How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot -- Forget "have you tried turning it off and on again?" Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.19 hours ago
NeuBird AI plans a bright future for incident response -- Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes6 days ago
Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage -- Those that don't have one thing in common6 days ago
Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises18 days ago
Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred -- Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it -- Public Sector4 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely -- Science4 days ago
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives -- Personal Tech4 days ago
CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos -- If software writes software the risk is "systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester -- AI + ML4 days ago
That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry -- Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock -- Personal Tech4 days ago
First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed -- Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand -- Cyber-crime4 days ago
Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' -- Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow -- OSes4 days ago
It's time to make agentic automation scalable - Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits - Sponsored Post8 days ago
OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that -- Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked -- Security4 days ago
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev -- Science4 days ago
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down -- 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming -- Cyber-crime4 days ago
UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender -- Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters -- Public Sector4 days ago
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? Bork!Bork!Bork! Things that go bork in the night - OSes - 01 May 2026 - | 271 day ago
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year -- Security4 days ago
DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it -- Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right' -- Public Sector4 days ago
Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler -- Systems5 days ago
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability' -- Systems -- 01 May 20265 days ago
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 -- $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts -- Off-Prem -- 01 May 20265 days ago
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools - Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware - Security - 30 Apr 2026 - |5 days ago
Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue -- Stop the sprawl! -- AI + ML -- 30 Apr 20265 days ago
