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Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook -- Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds
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Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button -- FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges2 hours ago
Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement -- Polling suggests patience with handsets in the classroom is running shorter than a teenager's battery life1 hour ago
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine -- Schools often don't prioritize or understand cybersecurity5 hours ago
Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew -- Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts2 hours ago
Security - Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages - A lesson for aspiring vandals: Take out all the cameras, not just the ones that flout your ideals27 minutes ago
5 Things to Consider BEFORE Your VMware ELA Expiration Date -- PARTNER CONTENT46 minutes ago
From individual achievement to partner impact -- PARTNER CONTENT: subhead subhead1 hour ago
Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold -- Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices2 hours ago
ON-PREM - Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook - New button beside the ribbon promises consistency – and more questions for admins3 hours ago
MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future -- Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology4 hours 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 foothold6 hours 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 Fun7 hours ago
Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one -- Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations9 hours ago
SCIENCE - Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees - Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible12 hours ago
Qualcomm won't be a big datacenter player anytime soon -- But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple13 hours ago
Cisco 'retires' its Azure Local offering rather than catch up to Microsoft's changed hardware requirements -- Redmond now allows only locked-down rigs with joint software and hardware support for its on-prem hyperconverged cloud and Switchzilla won't go there13 hours ago
Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest -- Capex spending? What? Me worry?14 hours ago
NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud -- Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace HPE Cray machines1 hour ago
DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'15 hours ago
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres9 hours ago
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos3 hours ago
Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI15 hours ago
Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle15 hours ago
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 -- Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown -- Corey Quinn2 days ago
The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web -- Mark Pesce3 hours ago
How do you solve a problem like Capita? -- Lindsay Clark2 days ago
Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling -- Rupert Goodwins3 days ago
It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols6 days ago
BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand -- Simon Travaglia7 days ago
Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids -- Bruce Davie2 days ago
Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that... Rupert Goodwins3 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake -- Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program4 hours ago
Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute -- FSB claims Ukrainian spies use chat platform to recruit Russians for sabotage and arson16 hours ago
MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish -- AIStor keeps context, files, and secrets under customer control so interrupted jobs can pick up where they left off23 hours ago
The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy - PARTNER CONTENT: With vSphere 8 support ending in 2027, IT leaders must navigate tight timelines and costs to modernize on their terms.5 hours ago
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning -- Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK1 day ago
AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning -- Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 20281 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike -- Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans9 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started -- More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research9 hours ago
Storage -- Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package -- Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO in fiscal '2612 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure -- Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise13 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR - Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall - Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency1 day ago
Why the 'patchpocalypse' demands immediate isolation - PARTNER CONTENT: Attackers automated, but your 30-day patch window didn't19 hours ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year1 day ago
Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix -- Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay1 day ago
A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch -- With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads – but gone before they arrived14 hours ago
Security -- JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face -- OpenAI confirms the link27 minutes ago
AI AND ML -- Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives -- Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable23 hours ago
AI and ML -- War machines can run amok with AI in control -- Tour of the AI kill chain maps the risks of ubiquitous surveillance and flawed algorithms1 day ago
Security -- Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs -- Secret to their success: Using the right model for the right security job2 hours ago
AI and ML -- AI is storage's biggest opportunity – and biggest threat -- Faster access and more secure recoveries are driving business, but mishaps and attacks can endanger data1 day ago
ai and ml - College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought1 day ago
DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses' -- More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses2 hours ago
AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype -- VulnCheck says fewer than 2% of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries have been weaponized, casting doubt on claims frontier models are handing attackers a major advantage7 hours ago
SECURITY -- Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears -- Customer funds safe, but 14,000 organizations may have to phone in time-sensitive payments5 hours ago
SCIENCE -- Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires -- NASA reports some cable damage near Madrid as its antennas and ESA's Cebreros station emerge largely intact1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok -- Postmortem offers finer details on the 'unprecedented' attack that's reshaping approaches to security1 day ago
AI and ML -- Too many AI agents can get in each other's way -- For enterprise agents, less is more1 day ago
On-PREM -- Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics -- Public meeting over proposed AI bit barn ended with zoning approval, a physics teacher arrested, and fresh questions over whether clapping now counts as disorderly conduct1 day ago
Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision -- Support for e-MERLIN ends 2028 unless the historic radio astronomy center can find another source of cash2 days ago
Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock -- Unauthenticated command injection scores perfect 10 and may expose managed Edge devices23 hours ago
AI AND ML -- China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models -- Beijing happy to 'take all necessary measures' if sanctioned1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks -- AI seems to have a liberal bias1 day ago
AI + ML -- Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering -- American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper1 day ago
DEVOPS -- Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers -- Just don't call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in1 day ago
AI and ML -- Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude -- Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation1 day ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies10 days ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?2 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 procurement26 days ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much3 days ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow7 days ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical10 days ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester13 days ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road22 days ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist22 days ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well1 month ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend1 month ago
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition1 month ago
LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy1 month ago
Security -- Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms -- MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.41 day ago
AI AND ML -- Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack -- The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems1 day ago
AI has changed data architecture, but storage hasn't caught up - SPONSORED FEATURE: AI's hunger for data outstrips storage smarts, leaving GPUs famished2 days ago
PATCHES -- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update -- One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill -- History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says2 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models -- If you think OpenAI and Anthropic are the only ones with these capabilities, think again2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle -- £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal2 days ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?3 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Word up3 days ago
AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia's Groq LPUs -- The enemy of my enemy is my friend6 days ago
AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's -- Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper6 days ago
Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing -- If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?9 days ago
Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain -- Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory10 days ago
Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy -- So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike's plans for consistent names across the industry1 day ago
SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13 -- Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick3 days ago
Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI -- PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!2 days ago
Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills -- Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement3 days ago
SCIENCE - So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?2 days ago
DEVOPS -- How AI drove Shopify back to clean code -- Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else -- Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code2 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book -- But so does this customer2 days ago
AI and ML -- Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling -- And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention2 days ago
Security -- Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info -- (Security) hole-ier than thou1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI -- Hey Claude, optimize this model for me3 days ago
The identity trust delusion -- Join Rubrik's Mark Grant as he shares lessons from real recoveries, common mistakes, product evolution, and building long-term identity resilience.10 days ago
From Pilots to AI Factories: How Enterprises Are Really Scaling Agentic AI and Agent Gateways -- AI is shifting from simple chatbots to autonomous "coworkers," and most enterprises are now constrained less by models than by the complexity1 month ago
Taming Multi-Cloud Chaos: Secure and Cost-Effective Management -- Managing applications and Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud environments can quickly create operational complexity.18 hours ago
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Security -- Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com -- Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)1 day ago
AI and ML -- Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI -- Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo -- Git is aptly named: it isn't easy – but there are alternatives3 days ago
AI AND ML -- ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor -- Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism3 days ago
AI and ML -- Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents -- Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal3 days ago
SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no -- Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test6 days ago
Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled -- Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families27 minutes ago
PERSONAL TECH - LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in27 minutes ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze -- Supplier says the Horizon-era pause only stops it chasing work from new government customers3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- 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 12.1514 days 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 worldwide14 days ago
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan15 days ago
Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it -- Next version of Linux Mint's desktop has both kinds of display server20 days ago
With The Carina System, QuiX Pushes Photonic Quantum Computing Forward18 hours ago
The Rackscale AI System Roadmaps That AMD Is Using To Chase Money1 day ago
AI Hosts And Sandboxes Save Intel's Datacenter CPU Cookies2 days ago
Nvidia Accelerates Chip Engineering With AI Agents2 days ago
Seagate HAMRing customers - generating more and more $/TB46 minutes ago
Kioxia launches KV caching SSD and AI-focussed fingernail drive46 minutes ago
SK Hynix announces extraordinarily high revenues but misses expectations1 day ago
Commvault shows revenue resilience1 day ago
How AI drove Shopify back to clean code4 days ago
Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop'15 days ago
HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST16 days ago
Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships20 days ago
Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter -- The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility5 days ago
Google breaks Alibaba's record for Europe's largest DMA fine -- €890 million slap – just 0.25% of revenue – for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives6 days ago
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it -- Sleep doesn't pay6 days ago
Intel knows it needs to 'leapfrog' ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan -- Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day6 days ago
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours -- Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services6 days ago
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be -- Attack models gonna attack2 days ago
Security -- Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs -- Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software2 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will -- ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap5 days ago
AI and ML -- Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS -- AI no longer welcome in human-focused community5 days ago
Patches -- Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email -- Phishing for dummies2 days ago
DON'T MISS -- The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon -- Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components1 month ago
DEVOPS -- Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past -- Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog27 minutes ago
Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth -- Aftermarket dealer-installed KARR/SWDS security systems all use the same secure key, say UCSD researchers2 days ago
Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal -- Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads2 days ago
GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team -- Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters6 days ago
Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit -- CISA widens alert beyond Rockwell controllers as intruders target internet-facing devices across critical infrastructure3 days 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 cat7 days ago
One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company -- Researchers say OpenAI flaw let phishing bait create an autonomous corporate mole armed with employee access3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem6 days ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign7 days ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year8 days ago
personal tech - User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC - Maybe they were looking for Private Data27 days ago
security - Security boss thought MFA would be too much security27 days ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles1 month ago
Personal Tech -- This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken1 month ago
Offbeat -- Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes1 month ago
AI and ML - Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius - Connect all the things and watch what happens10 days ago
If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic -- Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages15 days ago
Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing -- Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored16 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 messages9 days 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%14 days ago
Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die -- 'GhostApproval' problem highlights human-in-the-loop fails20 days ago
AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top -- Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models22 days ago
Swiss train maker tells ransomware crooks to get off at the next stop -- Stadler refuses $12.3M demand after thieves swipe technical data through supplier platform5 days ago
IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them -- Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets7 days ago
Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything -- Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims -- Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional -- AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it6 days ago
ON-PREM -- Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions -- Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast6 days ago
SECURITY -- Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files -- Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room?5 days ago
aI AND ML -- Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic -- And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence -- Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle high demand for the G-Cloud6 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning -- Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused6 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Google Cloud is killing it -- It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online -- HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details8 days ago
AI and ML -- Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check -- PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!8 days ago
SECURITY -- AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting -- Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters9 days ago
security - Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order - Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts13 days ago
Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz - No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place1 hour ago
Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew2 hours ago
Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook4 hours ago
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine7 hours ago
Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law8 hours ago
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug21 hours ago
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos22 hours ago
Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems1 day ago
America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks1 day ago
MCP gets an enterprise makeover1 day ago
AI and ML -- Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool -- Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?7 days ago
Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports6 days ago
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter -- Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy7 days ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own -- xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models – for a price7 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents -- As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing7 days ago
Security -- Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits -- Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions -- Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals7 days ago
Security -- Greedy ransomware crews return for seconds after victims cough up first extortion payments -- Some never saw their files again either, infosec biz Proofpoint finds6 days ago
SOFTWARE - GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions1 day ago
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates -- Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug12 days ago
Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content -- You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned13 days ago
AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites -- Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery14 days ago
OFF-PREM -- Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk -- 24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim5 hours ago
OFF PREM -- Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products -- Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves6 days ago
OFF-PREM -- Amazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it -- Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts8 days ago
Off-PREM -- Fire burns Google Cloud India's network, which remains slow a week later -- PLUS: Japan's space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!8 days ago
The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time -- Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time5 hours ago
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five -- 'Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn8 days ago
Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again -- AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud8 days ago
Google Cloud outage shows it's still hard to understand hyperscalers' real resilience regimes -- UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by 'upstream' power problem and failure of diesel generators3 days ago
India's tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business -- Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed16 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products -- Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2 -- More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot7 days ago
SECURITY -- Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree -- Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act7 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face -- Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents7 days ago
AI + ML -- The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now -- Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K37 days ago
Security -- Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI -- Don't call them chatbots7 days ago
AI and ML -- AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep -- Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises -- Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI8 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data3 days ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'10 days ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code24 days 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!1 month ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet1 month ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug1 month ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident1 month ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in2 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything2 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch2 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving2 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch2 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild2 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it2 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe2 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference2 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo2 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble2 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract2 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction2 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell2 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead2 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office2 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server2 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam2 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key2 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause2 months ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble2 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good2 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming2 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work26 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books2 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people2 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere2 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver2 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'2 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware2 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice2 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company2 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it2 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe2 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery2 months ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'2 months ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league2 months ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA2 months ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it2 months ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results2 months ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off2 months ago
Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers16 days ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap17 days ago
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down22 days ago
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint22 days ago
Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first2 days ago
Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber2 days ago
Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops2 days ago
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?6 days ago
China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol8 days ago
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage13 days ago
Security -- Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement -- Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA -- Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar8 days ago
AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert -- Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time7 days ago
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet -- Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware -- Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for8 days ago
Public Sector -- UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years -- RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support -- Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset8 days ago
Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out -- Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants9 days ago
Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party -- SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal9 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade -- Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating8 days ago
Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods - Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China's cheap e-commerce champs8 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy -- French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn't seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime7 days ago
SECURITY -- Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief -- Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain8 days ago
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims -- IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake8 days ago
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical -- An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral9 days ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba19 hours 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 places1 day 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?2 days 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 soldiers3 days ago
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network6 days 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 local6 days ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal7 days 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 waste7 days ago
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too8 days 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'13 days ago
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork1 day ago
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole -- 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'16 days 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 outdoors16 days ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological17 days ago
Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car -- Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car's array of cameras22 days ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched25 days ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error28 days ago
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time -- SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world28 days ago
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule28 days ago
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands -- It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix29 days ago
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead29 days ago
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track -- Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station1 month ago
Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad -- CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious1 month ago
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM1 month ago
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says1 month ago
Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit -- Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening1 month ago
They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI1 month ago
Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars -- Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home1 month ago
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia -- A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest1 month ago
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch -- Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite1 month ago
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage -- Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen1 month ago
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart -- TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had1 month ago
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems -- One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here1 month ago
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?1 month ago
EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife -- Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation1 month ago
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package1 month ago
Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones -- Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes1 month ago
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting -- Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches1 month ago
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM1 month ago
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars -- Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements1 month ago
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build -- 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts1 month ago
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities1 month ago
SCIENCE -- SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit -- Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort10 days ago
SCIENCE - NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding -- Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure13 days ago
SCIENCE -- Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy -- Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble14 days ago
Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees9 hours ago
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning1 day ago
Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires2 days ago
Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision2 days ago
India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch -- Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit16 days ago
Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though) -- First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy16 days 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 price17 days ago
Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space -- There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos21 days ago
New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation -- Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch21 days ago
Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander -- Jim Bridenstine says Artemis 'extraordinarily complicated' compared to the days of Apollo and the Saturn V22 days ago
AI and ML -- Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid -- Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy8 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents -- Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged8 days ago
The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash -- OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly9 days ago
Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign -- Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home8 days ago