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Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths -- Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn't escalate their concerns2 days ago
BOFH: All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner - Episode 24 - Minor firmware issues coincide with workplace absence among leadership1 day ago
Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era - When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.1 month ago
pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree -- Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen1 day ago
Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss -- Interview -- What if AI vendors focused on the demand side? -- AI + ML7 hours ago
NIST tried to pull the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift -- A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage -- Security10 hours ago
Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul -- We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg -- Storage1 day ago
Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck -- hands on -- Custom-designed $10,000 scooter goes 65mph, has a 60-mile range, and runs silently -- Offbeat4 hours ago
DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission -- But not Phil Collins, sadly -- AI + ML2 days ago
WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack -- Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls -- Networks2 days ago
Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo -- Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits -- UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos -- Public Sector2 days ago
pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree -- Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen -- OSes2 days ago
BOFH - : All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner - Episode 24 - Minor firmware issues coincide with workplace absence among leadership - BOFH - 19 Dec 2025 - | 363 hours ago
HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10 -- Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform -- Patches2 days ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming - Who, Me? One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure3 days ago
UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires -- Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade -- Networks2 days ago
Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky -- Officials admit 'there certainly has been a hack,' but refuse to confirm China link or data theft -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits -- Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health -- Off-Prem2 days ago
GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens -- Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses -- Public Sector2 days ago
Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau -- Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference? -- Offbeat2 days ago
User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis - On Call - Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone - Networks - 19 Dec 2025 - | 11657 minutes ago
Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths -- Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn't escalate their concerns -- Networks2 days ago
Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs -- Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful -- Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many. -- Software2 days ago
HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand2 days ago
Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition3 days ago
Building The AI Factory Datacenter3 days ago
Nvidia Is The Only AI Model Maker That Can Afford To Give It Away4 days ago
User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - On Call - Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up3 days ago
Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide -- Customers in 10 of the company's 23 regions had "operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete." -- PaaS + IaaS2 days ago
Your car's web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin -- Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date -- Research2 days ago
Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins -- 'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational' -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics -- NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use -- Networks3 days ago
Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon -- Ambitious timelines don't bend the laws of physics -- Science3 days ago
Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 -- ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy lifting -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit -- Flaw in remote-access appliance lets attackers chain bugs for root-level takeover -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome3 days ago
GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 20264 days ago
Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers5 days ago
Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code6 days ago
Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature2 days ago
FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation -- Justice Department claims unlicensed exchange funneled ransomware profits -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt -- Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against China -- Science3 days ago
NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems - Updated - Around 2,000 GP practices use its products - Cyber-crime - 18 Dec 2025 - | 32 days ago
Optera's room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive8 hours ago
Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration2 days ago
The storage integration problem that breaks infrastructure automation3 days ago
Storage news ticker – December 183 days ago
React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines -- Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networks -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI -- Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants -- AI + ML3 days ago
DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in -- 18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500 -- On-Prem3 days ago
AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post2 days ago
UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns -- Investigatory Powers Commissioner says reforms have failed to close oversight gaps -- Security3 days ago
Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions -- MPs press minister for answers – and get few -- Networks3 days ago
United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance -- World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net -- Public Sector3 days ago
Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future -- Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply -- Systems3 days ago
ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow -- Believes it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROI -- SaaS3 days ago
Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement -- GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads -- AI + ML3 days ago
Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November -- No timeline for a patch -- Security3 days ago
CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns - interview - Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead - Security - 17 Dec 2025 - | 63 days ago
Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists -- Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google -- AI + ML3 days ago
Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause -- Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boom -- Public Sector3 days ago
All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup -- Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next year -- The Future of the Datacenter4 days ago
Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation1 month ago
How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption1 month ago
Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix1 month ago
NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth -- Spacecraft was 'rotating in an unexpected manner' and might have shifted orbit -- Science4 days ago
Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack -- Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings -- Security4 days ago
AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans -- CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers -- AI + ML4 days ago
NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential -- Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war -- Security4 days ago
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud -- Exclusive -- Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution22 hours ago
GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners -- updated -- Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.3 hours ago
Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches -- Both admit attackers were already exploiting the bugs, with scant detail and hints of spyware-grade abuse6 days ago
Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy -- Minister insists 'modest' bill is not an assault on privacy-preserving tech6 days ago
MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian -- New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war'4 days ago
Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card -- Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on Swift5 days ago
China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET -- Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'2 days ago
From pr0n to playlists and paperclips, trio of breaches spills data of millions -- Adult site, streaming platform, and Japanese retailer expose user info, but not credentials4 days ago
ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US -- Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members1 day ago
Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband satellite -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Drugs found in ink cartridges; Censorship fighters criticize Vultr; Coupang CEO resigns; And more!6 days ago
California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims -- Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a 'violation of state law' -- AI + ML4 days ago
Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems -- Folder permission changes cause queue failures and misleading error messages, no real fix yet -- OSes3 days ago
X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill -- Lawsuit concedes the bird is still the word for many -- Legal4 days ago
The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post2 days ago
Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI -- Follows Nick Clegg at Meta and Rishi Sunak at Anthropic in snuggling up to US tech -- AI + ML4 days ago
UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge -- Six months after expert testimony, no one has yet dialed into promised summit on technical solutions -- Personal Tech4 days ago
England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion -- Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits -- Public Sector4 days ago
UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband -- Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations -- Networks4 days ago
Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products -- Apparently you're about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructure -- AI + ML4 days ago
India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 -- No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride -- Systems4 days ago
China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks -- Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out -- Research4 days ago
Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs -- The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer people -- AI + ML4 days ago
Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims -- An employee of the adult site could be responsible. -- Security4 days ago
Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips -- No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people -- AI + ML4 days ago
Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats -- More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions -- AI + ML4 days ago
Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators -- Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary -- The Future of the Datacenter4 days ago
