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GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm - Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral
5 hours 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 components1 hour ago
Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS -- Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?3 hours 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 deal3 hours ago
Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world -- Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker5 hours 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 observations12 hours ago
Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments -- Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again22 hours ago
SECURITY - 'Not a theoretical risk,' feds warn as attackers use AI-made code to hack critical infrastructure controllers - 'It is an active threat'8 minutes ago
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 detail4 hours 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 AI7 hours ago
Security - Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover - Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print9 hours ago
Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up -- DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks11 hours ago
SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims -- Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle11 hours ago
Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning -- Clamp, flash, repeat – no separate IO board or host computer required5 hours ago
UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards -- Those legacy systems won't fix themselves13 hours ago
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance -- Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack22 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Study finds Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data -- Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, survey shows4 hours ago
AI and ml -- Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI22 hours ago
AI and Ml -- Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin1 day ago
DEVOPS -- GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate1 day ago
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- 'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind' -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney -- Corey Quinn2 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Rupert Goodwins6 days ago
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 -- Corey Quinn12 days ago
The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web -- Mark Pesce20 days ago
How do you solve a problem like Capita? Lindsay Clark2 days ago
Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70 -- Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online1 day ago
OS PLatforms -- Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu -- Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory8 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions -- Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is11 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Passport out-of-control at French airport -- Papers please. Windows is watching11 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment -- Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps11 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails -- Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact12 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find -- Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data13 hours ago
CXO -- UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7% -- Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills14 hours ago
AI and ml -- Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI -- $10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP16 hours ago
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced -- If you're still talking about 'DirSync' or 'Active Directory' instead of 'Entra', and need to explain why, this is the site for you1 day ago
Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains -- Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards1 day ago
DEVOPS -- Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore -- Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations20 hours ago
AI and ml -- Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales -- AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration23 hours ago
Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks -- Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit2 days ago
Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS -- Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads2 days ago
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate -- Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience1 day 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 buyers2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release -- Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC1 day 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 outbreak1 day ago
AI AND ml -- Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028 -- Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns1 day ago
SECURITY -- Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants -- McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials8 minutes ago
AI and Ml -- Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin -- Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone1 day ago
COLUMNISTS -- 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 over1 day 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 that3 hours 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 AI6 hours ago
OS Platforms -- Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says 'new normal' means he had to do it now ... or never? -- Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support1 day ago
AI + ML -- Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again -- Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can't say when it will arrive -- Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service9 hours ago
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI -- PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!20 hours ago
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do -- Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'23 hours ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change3 days ago
SECURITY -- ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses -- Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks14 hours 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 it2 days ago
AI and ML -- DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in -- Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense2 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- 1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack -- Another one bites the dust1 day ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology5 days ago
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records -- Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage1 day ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard3 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 certifies30 days 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 procurement1 month ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan13 days ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester19 days ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much23 days ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow27 days ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical30 days ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester1 month ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road1 month ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist1 month ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well2 months ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend2 months ago
SECURITY -- Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure -- Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down -- Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education2 days ago
CHANNEL -- TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant -- 70,000 customers will join the collective, whose name and leader remain unknown2 days ago
Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers' details exposed in logistics breach -- Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down2 days ago
BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime -- Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza3 days ago
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed -- Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected2 days ago
AI and ML -- Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you -- Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support -- Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter2 days ago
SECURITY -- New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs -- Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online2 days ago
Ai and ML -- OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging -- 'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Give Google the boot by building your own search engine -- Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity -- Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop4 days ago
Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to 'supply chain' issues -- It seems like Nvidia's not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon18 hours ago
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon -- Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second13 days ago
Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice -- Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records12 days ago
HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months -- Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady13 days ago
Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars -- In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate14 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books6 days ago
Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back -- Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M2 days ago
The backup Microsoft never promised you -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check6 days ago
Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals -- Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender3 days ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat6 days ago
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data -- CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form4 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 work6 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad6 days ago
Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results -- Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete5 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 term5 days ago
Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find -- Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM5 days ago
F5 and Scality: Enhanced AI data delivery at scale -- As AI and analytics workloads scale up, organizations face challenges with storage inefficiencies, inconsistent performance, and more.14 days ago
Taming Hybrid Cloud Chaos: Secure and Efficient Kubernetes Across Clouds -- Extending containerized applications to hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure often doubles operational overhead before delivering real agility.20 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.8 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.5 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.19 days ago
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AI and ML -- OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns -- ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you5 days ago
Security -- 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency -- Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm5 days ago
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages -- Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset survived months of hunting and required a new logging tool to identify6 days ago
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare -- Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure7 days ago
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible -- Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router? -- NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows -- Exploit Wednesday's back, baby5 days ago
ai and ml - OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models8 minutes ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes -- Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Sovereign AI overcomes compliance challenges and feeds innovation in public sector and other regulated industries, say HPE and NVIDIA -- SPONSORED POST: Sovereign AI is becoming a strategic infrastructure priority, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti6 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 way27 days 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 12.151 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 worldwide1 month ago
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan1 month ago
IBM Pushes System Design To Reach Ultra-Cold Temperatures For Quantum6 hours ago
Cerebras Overclocks WSE-3 Waferscale Engine To Boost Inference Oomph In "Nexus" CS-416 hours ago
Quantum Startup Qarakal Takes Lessons From Classical Systems With Pangaea Architecture1 day ago
Cisco Can Finally Sell Lots Of Supercomputers And Their Networks1 day ago
Surging NAND demand sends big five's revenue skywards in Q21 hour ago
Storage News Ticker - 19 August11 hours ago
Commvault Cloud Rewind now wraps round even more Azure1 day ago
Hard reality of surging SSD costs force tech pros to consider software defined storage1 day ago
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore1 day ago
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses3 days ago
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare5 days ago
AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription11 days ago
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in -- Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes5 days ago
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak -- Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated6 days ago
Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor -- Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode6 days ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 19776 days ago
Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground -- Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine6 days ago
Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware -- AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice -- Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in?6 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories7 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports19 days ago
SECURITY -- Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you're actually chatting with the right person -- One big caveat, though: You need your contact's phone number6 days ago
SECURITY -- 421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one -- Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm6 days ago
public Sector -- Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo -- Draft memo taps AI data analysis biz for help with military production efficiency7 days ago
DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi -- This is why we can't have nice things, people7 days ago
Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy -- Semiconductor giant says opaquely it will use the proceeds for 'general corporate purposes'8 days ago
Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers -- Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered6 days ago
Software -- Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it13 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem27 days ago
on-prem - Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC1 month ago
SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security1 month ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles1 month ago
AI AND ML - AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project - Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge14 days ago
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder -- Whoever wins, we lose15 days ago
Anthropic's Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations -- Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem5 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 messages29 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%1 month ago
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 research21 days ago
MCP gets an enterprise makeover -- Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle8 days ago
Feds warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting known bugs to hit critical infrastructure -- Newly minted RaaS crew breaks in through using internet-facing kit via known Fortinet flaws, then steals and scrambles data7 days ago
Cyberattack on logistics giant CEVA delivers customer data into the wrong hands -- Valve, Bol, ING, Ajax, and others affected as pwnage disrupts eight European warehouses7 days ago
Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster -- Face-swap software blinked for 'barely a second,' giving Spanish cops the break they needed7 days ago
Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub -- Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update7 days ago
Building up the US power grid won't be wasted, even if the AI bubble bursts -- The bigger risk is underinvestment, claims consulting biz McKinsey8 days ago
Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G -- Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code7 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Why hybrid clouds break and what to do about it -- SPONSORED EXPLAINER: There's nothing wrong with hybrid cloud. It's the one-size-fits-all strategy on top of it that's the problem.7 days ago
SCIENCE -- Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation -- H3 rocket gets the job done after losing a bird last year7 days ago
AI and ML -- Alibaba Cloud is using AI to help it use less AI -- Solves tech support tickets faster and more accurately by keeping them away from LLMs7 days ago
Ai and ML -- 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 ancestry7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you -- $125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?7 days ago
ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home3 hours ago
Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate6 hours ago
Australian hotel chain leaks guests' PII after breach at third-party database operator18 hours ago
OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security23 hours ago
Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments23 hours ago
CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug1 day ago
Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse1 day ago
Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself1 day ago
Security -- DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection -- Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI7 days ago
AI and ML -- The future is for billionaires – the rest of us will get open weight AI models, maybe -- Mark Zuckerberg muses about 'superintelligence' and 'arc of human civilization'8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Zuck rekindles open weights Llama drama with Muse Glimmer -- 30-billion parameter LLM, Meta's first in more than a year, signals Meta's return to the open weights arena. Open version of Muse Spark to follow8 days ago
Security -- North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief -- Kimsuky's phishing attacks get an AI boost8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list -- What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw?8 days ago
ON-PREM -- As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them -- Bans on new server farm projects spread across the US, while plans meet with protests in the UK8 days ago
SECURITY -- Attackers pick Levi's pockets in social engineering attack -- Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data8 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China -- No, no nasties to see here, guv...8 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack -- Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape8 days ago
AI AND ML - Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat2 days ago
Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn -- Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources14 days ago
Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges -- Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough15 days ago
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing -- Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating18 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 time20 days ago
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours -- Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services26 days 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 turn28 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 cloud29 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 deal3 hours 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 there7 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending7 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 20278 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 boxes8 days ago
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity -- Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved9 days ago
London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up -- The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M259 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Just add smart humans – and a pinch of dog9 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal -- He's not thrilled, but won't let it delay the release of version 7.28 days ago
AI AND ML -- Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads -- PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car -- PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!8 days ago
SECURITY -- Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager -- Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops8 days ago
AI and ML -- Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default -- Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools9 days ago
SCIENCE -- South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri9 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash -- Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI9 days ago
Security -- Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief after suspected Iran attacks -- Calling all defenders9 days ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard2 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn9 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day16 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data23 days ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'30 days ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap1 month ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code1 month 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 tablet2 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug2 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident2 months 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 everything3 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch3 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving3 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch3 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild3 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it3 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe3 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference3 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo3 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble3 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract3 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction3 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell3 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead3 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office3 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server3 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam3 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key3 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause3 months ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble3 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good3 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming3 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work1 month ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books3 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people3 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere3 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver3 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'3 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware3 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice3 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company3 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it3 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe3 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery3 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 league3 months ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA3 months ago
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner19 days ago
Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first22 days ago
Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber22 days ago
Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops22 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job7 hours ago
Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit6 days ago
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it10 days ago
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands12 days ago
'Humans will be a rounding error on the internet' says Cloudflare exec12 days ago
Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway13 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges14 days ago
AI and ML -- AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription -- Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms9 days ago
Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI -- What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?9 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 destabilizing12 days ago
ShinyHunters called cancer diagnostics biz and tricked staffers into giving them access. Now they've dumped 10.9M email addresses -- Cancer diagnostics breach spills personal and health info as extortion crew says healthcare giant 'should've paid the ransom'9 days ago
MIT boffins' TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs -- Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it9 days ago
Scot NHS trust probes access to medical records of 9-year-old girl after man arrested on suspicion of murder -- Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman's file after she was named for the first time this week9 days ago
Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard -- Website support widget lasted 18 months before Redmond ended the conversation11 days ago
Security - Attacker phished way into US defense supplier's Microsoft 365 account5 days ago
Intrusion at US healthcare software provider puts 3.8M people's data at risk -- Unlimited Technology Systems says names, Social Security numbers, diagnoses, and insurance details may have been swiped10 days ago
'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director -- Humans will get the AI models they deserve11 days ago
Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses -- Former Merseyside police officer sacked after failing to declare he was 'too close' with the wrong crowd12 days ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees -- What an idiot12 days ago
When Seeing Double Provides Greater Insight: The Case for Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing -- Explore digital twin differences, approaches to building them, and how hybrid digital twins from Ansys can empower your operations.1 day ago
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks' products -- Beijing's not saying why, which is just what happened when it investigated Micron11 days ago
AI and ML -- How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era -- AI usage is evident but isn't yet a serious problem11 days ago
AI and ML -- AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision -- Left alone, autonomous fixes often fail to fully remediate flaws11 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 observations16 hours ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices4 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons5 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?7 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 either9 days ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound13 days ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start14 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 range14 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 web17 days ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key18 days ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police19 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 foothold20 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 Fun20 days ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba21 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 places21 days ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year21 days 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?23 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 soldiers23 days ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?23 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 network26 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 local26 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 cat27 days ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal27 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 waste28 days ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted28 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, too28 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'1 month ago
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork21 days ago
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole -- 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'1 month 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 outdoors1 month 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 price1 month ago
Backup and running? Not this digital sign -- Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby1 month ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological1 month 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 cameras1 month ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched1 month ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error1 month 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 world1 month ago
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule1 month 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 fix1 month 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 ahead1 month 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
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 year13 days ago
SCIENCE - Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year7 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 blasts15 days ago
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover -- Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap16 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job6 hours ago
Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures2 days ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget7 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas7 days ago
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin -- Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date19 days ago
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 horrible20 days ago
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning -- Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK21 days ago
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 intact22 days 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 cash22 days ago
SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13 -- Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick23 days ago
Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death -- Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits12 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 ships13 days ago
AI AND ML -- Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests -- You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?12 days ago
SCIENCE -- 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 forward12 days ago
DEVOPS -- Platform Engineering 2.0: your platform was built for a different era. AI just exposed it -- PARTNER CONTENT: Platform engineering won the argument. Now it has to grow up fast and evolve for the AI era.12 days ago