AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting -- A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's

1 hour ago

Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website -- More prompt-injection hijinks from wunderwuzzi

7 hours ago

Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads

1 hour ago

AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense

21 hours 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 vehicle

1 hour ago

LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI -- It looks a bit clunky, but it does the job – and on your own computer

21 hours ago

on-prem - Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted - Tree huggers aim to end blanket critical infrastructure status for bit barns and ensure environmental standards are met

1 day ago

Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming -- GRUB's up for furry new update

1 day ago

Word 97's ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it -- Microsoft veteran recalls how a CPU errata, a mythical ICE, and a single sneaky NOP saved Clippy's big debut

21 hours ago

Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic over Claude powers it didn't have -- Judge finds national-security rationale was assembled after Hegseth had already decided AI maker was a threat

1 day ago

OS PLATFORMS - Microsoft preps this year's Windows 11 feature tweaks: 26H2 hits Release Preview - Same servicing branch as 24H2 and 25H2... and the same buggy updates

1 day ago

Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting -- Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you

1 day ago

Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- And as for getting US government to help – uncontrolled AI is not as dangerous as AI under the control of the technically clueless

1 day ago

AI AND ML - Big Tech market power will cause UK to lose AI race, think tank warns - Britain's market watchdog criticized for not creating the conditions for competition to thrive

1 day ago

BOFH -- BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition -- Why oh why are the accountants stricter than the IRS and HMRC put together?

7 hours ago

PERSONAL TECH -- On Call: Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call -- One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users

10 hours ago

Legal -- Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller

21 hours ago

AI and ml -- Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis

3 days ago

SECURITY -- Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia

4 days ago

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

2 days ago

Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that -- Rupert Goodwins

2 days ago

Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce

2 days ago

Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Rupert Goodwins

2 days ago

Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges -- Bruce Davie

2 days ago

Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- Rupert Goodwins

8 days ago

Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney -- Corey Quinn

12 days ago

FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another - Rupert Goodwins

2 days ago

ai and ML -- Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots -- Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why

1 day 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 backs

1 day ago

SOFTWARE -- Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages -- No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage

1 day ago

AL AND ML -- Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code -- Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box

1 day ago

Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT - SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it

1 day ago

Personal Tech -- Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of) -- Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee

1 day ago

Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more' -- As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized

2 days ago

Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data -- UK's largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected

7 hours ago

PERSONAL TECH -- HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC -- Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs – which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins

1 day ago

SOFTWARE -- Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap -- AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities

1 day ago

Security -- Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller -- Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls

12 hours ago

AI and ML -- Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential -- Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants

1 day ago

OS PLATFORMS -- AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi -- Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming

1 day ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down -- F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload

1 day ago

VIRTUALIZATION -- Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year -- Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse

1 day ago

FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks -- Beijing's botnets busted

1 day ago

OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face -- Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'

1 day ago

Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads -- Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet

2 days ago

Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1 -- K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years

2 days ago

Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount -- Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon

2 days ago

More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks -- 'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'

1 day ago

GitHub Actions was down yet again -- Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test

2 days ago

MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case -- Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job

3 days ago

Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too -- Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along

3 days ago

Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND -- Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills

3 days ago

Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack -- No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing

1 day ago

Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed -- One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks

1 day ago

CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027 - SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?

2 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension -- Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive

2 days ago

DATABASES -- AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database -- Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company

2 days ago

AI AND ML -- Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist -- AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work

2 days ago

LEGAL -- Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project -- Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist

2 days ago

Public sector -- Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR -- Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality

2 days ago

AI and ML -- Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose -- Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces

2 days ago

Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

1 month ago

Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

3 months ago

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

1 month ago

European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan

23 days ago

Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester

29 days ago

Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much

1 month ago

Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow

1 month ago

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

1 month ago

Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester

1 month ago

Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

1 month ago

Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist

1 month ago

France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

2 months ago

Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend

2 months ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown -- French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model

2 days ago

SCIENCE -- India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission

2 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over -- Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through

3 days ago

AI AND ML -- Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action -- Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud

3 days ago

AI and ml -- Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis -- The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal

3 days ago

AI AND ML -- Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you -- Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now

3 days ago

AI AND ML -- McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI' -- Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat

3 days ago

ON-PREM -- EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters -- State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits

3 days ago

SECURITY -- You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack -- Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert

2 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing -- Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade

3 days ago

ai and ML -- Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop -- OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots

3 days ago

Datacenters face direct hit from China rare earth curbs, as clock runs out on escalated licensing chokeoff -- Paused export controls on materials used in key IT components due for review in November

1 day ago

Nvidia and Cerebras are selling performance their customers will (probably) never see -- Touting batch 1 token generation is a bit like boasting about the top speed of your car

1 day ago

Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough -- Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful

3 days ago

OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast -- 128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin

4 days ago

SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter -- Rack-mount system intended for software porting, workload optimization, to bring open standard to the bitbarn

4 days ago

IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently -- Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere

4 days ago

What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble -- Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators

5 days ago

Legal -- US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor -- Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineer's plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled

3 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update -- Summer in Redmond, Winter for everyone else

3 days ago

SECURITY -- CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw -- Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it's finally time for the USG to plug the gap

2 days ago

Security -- Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads -- Sponsored search results lead developers straight into a ClickFix malware trap

2 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp -- Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era

3 days ago

What is virtualization modernization? SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio

3 days ago

AI AND ML -- Australia's record industry won't chart tunes recorded in the key of AI -- This is basically a riff on 'You wouldn't steal a car' and means only the human league can have a hit

3 days ago

HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA -- In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.

2 days ago

How Cloudflare's "customer zero" journey offers a blueprint for secure enterprise AI adoption -- As AI tools rapidly make their way into the enterprise, security teams face a difficult challenge.

2 days ago

CISO 3.0: Governing AI Agents at Machine Speed -- Join Snyk and AWS on 14 September to see what it takes to govern an agentic AI landscape at machine speed.

4 days ago

How to prepare for the coming wave of autonomous attacks -- AI has handed attackers a capability most security programmes were never built to face: finding architectural flaws, at machine speed.

18 days ago

AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap -- This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.

15 days ago

The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion -- Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.

29 days ago

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3 months ago

AI AND ML -- Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds -- Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services

4 days ago

Security -- You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine -- Its own command language, 23 instructions - signs point to 'well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one'

2 days ago

SECURITY -- Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks -- Glassbox dev admits he had some help from Claude to build locally running tool

2 days ago

AI AND ML -- Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg -- Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work

4 days ago

OS PLatforms -- Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today -- The version that started to bring all Microsoft's pieces together

4 days ago

YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs -- Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry

5 days ago

Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant -- No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg

2 days ago

LEGAL - Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds

7 hours ago

AI AND ML -- Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks -- Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop

4 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?

4 days ago

SOFTWARE -- GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way

1 month ago

A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 -- New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15

1 month ago

Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites -- Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide

1 month ago

Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan

1 month ago

Peeling Apart That Supposed $120 Billion Chip Deal Google Inked With Marvell

2 days ago

The Network Is More Of Nvidia's Computer Than It Ever Was At Sun

2 days ago

You Probably Forget How Cheap Memory Used To Be – And Is Not So Now

4 days ago

IBM Pushes System Design To Reach Ultra-Cold Temperatures For Quantum

10 days ago

Storage news ticker - 28 August 2026

1 day ago

Sandisk and Kioxia have yen for new NAND fabs

1 day ago

Rubrik revenues roar ahead

1 day ago

Context grapher Jedify cuts AI token costs 75 percent

2 days ago

Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1

1 day ago

How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

5 days ago

Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords

7 days ago

SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs

8 days ago

Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles -- At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 2027

5 days ago

Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain -- Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side

5 days ago

ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach -- Attackers took a look at an employee's identity dashboard, but security firm says that's as far as they got

2 days ago

Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric -- Gartner reckons $1.6 trillion year is just the start, and don't expect a bust anytime soon

5 days ago

I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime... or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg -- Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'

5 days ago

AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones -- Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered

3 days ago

ON-PREM -- US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years -- ... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping

4 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- $1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack -- Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in

3 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows -- Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia's GPUs in the datacenter

4 days ago

Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia -- Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026

3 days ago

Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI -- Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine

5 days ago

Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement

5 days ago

DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports

29 days ago

Science -- China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'

7 hours ago

AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries - SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development

5 days ago

Ancient 'Who owns Linux?' case now has one foot very deep in the grave -- Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing

5 days ago

How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings -- S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work

5 days ago

An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf -- Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust

6 days ago

If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will -- Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst

4 days ago

Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support

3 days ago

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

9 days ago

Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered

9 days ago

Software - Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it - Sleep doesn't pay

3 days ago

personal tech - Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem

3 days ago

OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign

1 month ago

ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

1 month ago

PERSONAL TECH -- User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

1 month ago

ai and ml - Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words - 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it

12 days ago

Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you -- Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated

15 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 messages

1 month ago

'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes -- Human did 10% of the job,AI did 90%

1 month ago

Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU -- EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry

18 days ago

Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat -- Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive

7 days ago

ai and ML -- AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing -- Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity

5 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter -- F-B100W adds Bluetooth and step tracking while keeping a two-year battery

5 days ago

AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough

4 days ago

Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble -- Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power

7 days ago

Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says -- Show us the money

5 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC -- Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature

5 days ago

PATCHES -- Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it -- Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf

4 days ago

SickKids children's hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in -- Toronto org says it wasn't the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability

4 days ago

Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials -- Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware

4 days ago

AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand -- Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide

8 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- Australian hotel chain leaks guests' PII after breach at third-party database operator -- Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security -- Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive

9 days ago

SECURITY -- Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments -- Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again

9 days ago

Security - CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug - Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks

11 days ago

Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse - Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro

1 day ago

Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself -- How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine

9 days ago

Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants -- McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials

3 days ago

Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too -- On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI

10 days ago

Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website

21 hours ago

US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies

1 day ago

CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago

1 day ago

Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution

1 day ago

Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it's drawing customers' blood

1 day ago

Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds

1 day ago

CRPx0 hacking service for dummies claims victim count more than quintupled

1 day ago

AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks

2 days ago

Omarchy distro gains serious backing

2 days ago

ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims

2 days ago

'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up -- CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month

8 days ago

$10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts -- Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication

5 days ago

Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic -- Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor

8 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- Microsoft sounds alarm over perfect-10 Entra ID flaw -- Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed

5 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still -- One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive

6 days ago

Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it -- After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job

8 days ago

Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation -- Policies and code of conduct breached

8 days ago

Security -- Russian snoops add OAuth abuse to targeted phishing campaigns

2 days ago

Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat

16 days ago

Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads - Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term

15 days ago

Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous -- And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there

16 days ago

CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending

17 days ago

Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal -- Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 2027

18 days ago

OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs -- Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes

18 days ago

LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity -- Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved

19 days ago

SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year -- And fly 'significant scale' in 2028 – a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt

4 days ago

Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins -- Cloudy AI is Chinese giant's 'most certain' path to growth as e-commerce slows

8 days ago

AI and ML -- Google tethers Antigravity to enterprise controls amid AI shakeup -- Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud

8 days ago

DEVOPS -- Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords -- v 1.27 expands generics to support methods

8 days ago

ai and ML -- OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge -- With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance

8 days ago

EDGE AND IOT -- Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla -- 5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency

8 days ago

SECURITY -- US Bank investigates LockBit's claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline -- Follow the money

5 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads -- Per-process NPU metrics arrive as one more venerable Windows utility risks feature bloat

8 days ago

US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations -- Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland

9 days ago

Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into sharing location data with Linux -- Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget

7 days ago

Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat -- Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot

9 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September -- Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill

8 days ago

CYBER-CRIME -- Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists -- Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with

7 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots -- Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work

8 days ago

Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory

5 days ago

Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard

12 days ago

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

19 days ago

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

26 days ago

Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data

1 month ago

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

1 month ago

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

1 month ago

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

1 month ago

Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess

2 months ago

How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!

2 months ago

Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet

2 months ago

Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug

2 months ago

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

2 months ago

Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in

3 months ago

Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything

3 months ago

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

3 months ago

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

3 months ago

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

3 months ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

3 months ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

3 months ago

The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe

3 months ago

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

3 months ago

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

3 months ago

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

3 months ago

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

3 months ago

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

3 months ago

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

3 months ago

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

3 months ago

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

3 months ago

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

3 months ago

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

3 months ago

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

3 months ago

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause

3 months ago

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

3 months ago

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

3 months ago

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

3 months ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work

1 month ago

Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

3 months ago

Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people

3 months ago

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

3 months ago

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

3 months ago

'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'

3 months ago

Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware

3 months ago

Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice

3 months ago

Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company

3 months ago

Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it

3 months ago

Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

3 months ago

Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

3 months ago

After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'

3 months ago

Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league

3 months ago

N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands

22 days ago

'Humans will be a rounding error on the internet' says Cloudflare exec

22 days ago

Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway

23 days ago

Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner

29 days ago

AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting

1 hour ago

Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election

1 day ago

You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way

2 days ago

Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch

8 days ago

EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price

8 days ago

Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.

8 days ago

ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job

10 days ago

Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit

16 days ago

I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it

20 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- £37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years -- HMRC insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions -- A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down

8 days ago

Security -- French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages -- Stolen details range from contact information to household finances and withholding rates

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI glitch locks out vetted cyber researchers – and some can't get back in -- Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision

8 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft probes reports of games taking exception to Windows 11's August update -- Affected titles crash, freeze, or restart PCs while Redmond works out whether it is to blame

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on -- Analysts warn of disruption to long-established tech activity

8 days ago

SCIENCE -- No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory

8 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- SparkyLinux 8.4 rekindles support for 32-bit PCs -- Debian 13 derivative offers minimal x86 images and lets CDE ride again

9 days ago

SECURITY - AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice

3 days ago

China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster

9 days ago

IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling -- Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside

9 days ago

Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles -- Broadcom's VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure

9 days ago

AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy -- House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago

9 days ago

Warm-Water Ready: Benchmarking Two-Phase Vs. Single-Phase Direct-to-Chip Cooling On An NVIDIA B200 Server -- To cut energy costs, the cooling technology inside the server increasingly determines both compute performance and facility economics.

23 hours ago

'Not a theoretical risk,' feds warn as attackers use AI-made code to hack critical infrastructure controllers -- 'It is an active threat'

8 days ago

SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs -- Remote functions bring type-safe remote procedure calls right into Web page components

9 days ago

Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown -- And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal

10 days ago

AI and ML -- Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS -- Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?

9 days ago

SECURITY -- ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home -- 'Personally owned body-worn cameras are prohibited,' ICE tells The Reg. Because the last thing DHS needs is more proof of misconduct

8 days 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 vehicle

10 hours ago

Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads

12 hours ago

AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense

1 day ago

Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?

2 days 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 orbit

2 days ago

UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...

3 days ago

Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago -- So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it

4 days ago

Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck

4 days ago

Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost

7 days ago

Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches

8 days ago

NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations

10 days ago

$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers -- After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers

12 days ago

The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change

13 days ago

Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices

14 days ago

Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons

15 days ago

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology

15 days ago

Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard

12 days ago

This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books

16 days ago

Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop -- Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work

16 days ago

Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad

16 days ago

We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?

17 days ago

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either

19 days ago

Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound

23 days ago

Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start

24 days ago

New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range

24 days ago

Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online -- Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web

27 days ago

Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key

28 days ago

Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police

29 days ago

30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage -- Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold

30 days ago

Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up -- Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun

30 days ago

Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba

30 days ago

AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness -- Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places

1 month ago

Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year

1 month ago

Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory -- Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?

1 month ago

British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes -- Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers

1 month ago

The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?

1 month ago

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network

1 month ago

Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs -- Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local

1 month ago

Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots -- Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat

1 month ago

UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal

1 month ago

Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display -- ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste

1 month ago

Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted

1 month ago

US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too

1 month ago

Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity -- Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'

1 month ago

Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork

1 month ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures -- Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak

11 days ago

science - How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget

10 days ago

SCIENCE -- Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year

17 days ago

SCIENCE -- South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri

19 days ago

German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters

21 hours ago

Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims

1 day ago

SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast

3 days ago

India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets

3 days ago

Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power -- MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing

22 days ago

Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs -- IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships

23 days ago

Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? -- Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward

23 days ago

Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve -- Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year

23 days ago

Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year -- Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time

24 days ago

NASA puts astronauts' lives in the hands of Tesla's flaky Cybertruck -- Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts

25 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Epic Games dismisses Apple's simplified EU App Store fees as 'junk' -- Consumer group sees improvements on paper but warns the devil remains in the detail

9 days ago

Security -- Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate -- CEO apologizes for police misuse as activists call for vandal action against license plate cameras

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- More than half of Americans now view AI negatively -- Concern continues to climb for adults under 30, as people fear being replaced by AI

9 days ago

Security -- Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover -- Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print

8 days ago