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The big AI companies are going to see their margins disappear - AI will indeed eat the world – if your world involves software-size margins
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Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' -- Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating 'unnecessary pain and pointless work'20 hours ago
Linux kernel flaw opens root-only files to unprivileged users -- Plus ModuleJail, a radical proposal for minimizing the impact of similar bugs11 minutes ago
Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative -- Shift comes amid mounting reports of successful social engineering attacks targeting higher-ups in government11 minutes ago
Security - Do fear the Reaper - stealer swipes macOS users' passwords, wallets, then backdoors them - While also spoofing all the trusted domains - Apple, Microsoft, and Google - in the same attack11 minutes ago
Security - F-35 software delays leave UK buying time with US glide bombs - MoD says StormBreaker will plug gap until homegrown SPEAR 3 integration lands12 hours ago
Google tells database devs to lean hard on AI for PostgreSQL work -- Cloud giant says humans remain accountable, even when code gets an assist from the machines13 hours ago
Google reimburses Register sources who were victims of API fraud -- But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets1 day ago
DevOps -- Git is unprepared for the AI coding tsunami -- An influx of agents is pushing GitHub to the brink13 hours ago
On-Prem -- Exploited Exchange Server flaw turns OWA inboxes into script launchpads -- Microsoft mitigation may bork inline images, calendar printing while admins wait for a proper patch20 hours ago
Patches -- Patch time for Cisco SD-WAN admins as vendor drops yet another make-me-admin zero-day -- CISA hands feds super-tight deadline for this perfect-10, actively exploited flaw11 minutes ago
OpenAI caught in TanStack npm supply chain chaos after employee devices compromised -- Attackers stole a limited amount of internal credential material after malware hidden in poisoned packages reached two staff machines2 hours ago
Security -- MPs want social media treated more like unsafe toys than harmless apps -- Parliamentary committee tells ministers online safety regime is failing children and warns 'no action is not an option'7 hours ago
Security -- Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data -- Other than Instructure execs - maybe?9 hours ago
UK begins antitrust inquiry into Microsoft's business software ecosystem -- Brit regulator has 'heard' customers can't always 'effectively combine software from Microsoft with that of other providers'4 days ago
DevOps -- Anthropic's Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI -- Version 1.3.14 of JavaScript toolkit released as last Zig version; a million lines of Rust code merged in gargantuan commit3 days ago
NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon -- SpaceX and Blue Origin may yet get a role in low Earth orbit rehearsal, readiness permitting4 days ago
Cops arrest man suspected of being Dream Market kingpin -- Owe Martin Andresen faces charges in both US and Germany connected with money laundering, claims he sent gold bars directly to his doorstep9 hours ago
OSes -- GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet -- Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest6 days ago
Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits -- Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five1 day ago
On-Prem -- Utah mega datacenter could dump 23 atomic bombs worth of energy per day -- Physicist warns proposed Stratos campus could seriously affect local environment4 days ago
Security -- Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming -- Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem3 days ago
On-Prem -- Rust stalks IBM mainframes, but only in nightly form -- Patch series would bring memory-safe code to Linux's s390 port, with compiler caveats attached4 days ago
OSes -- Linux gains more critical Windows apps: 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball -- Further demonstrating its role as industry default OS the versatility of modern porting tools5 days ago
Databases -- dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years -- Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline5 days ago
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies -- That's fine when playing poker, but less useful when we trust LLMs with serious work like finding software flaws14 hours ago
Offbeat - Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine11 minutes ago
Software -- NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash -- Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default10 days ago
Cisco Wins Over AI Customers With Merchant Silicon And Optics11 minutes ago
Cyber-crime -- Cache-poisoning caper turns TanStack npm packages toxic -- Six-minute supply chain blitz pushed 84 malicious versions with credential theft and disk-wiping code5 days ago
Apple, Google drag cross-platform texting into the encrypted age -- After years of stopping dead at the green bubble border, iPhone and Android users can finally send E2EE messages without relying on third-party apps5 days ago
Software -- Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line -- Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers6 days ago
oSes -- Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages -- Dull but important ... so, a bit like Debian itself, really6 days ago
Security -- Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator -- After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw6 days ago
Cybercrime -- $250M crypto-robbing gang's dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars -- The then-teen was told to break in and steal what the keyboard warriors couldn't7 days ago
Cyber-Crime - Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe - 20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress11 days ago
The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time - Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it11 minutes ago
AI + mL -- Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI -- Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff10 days ago
Security -- 1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials -- 13% say they've sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests10 days ago
Security -- Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops -- MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes10 days ago
Linux kernel flaw opens root-only files to unprivileged users5 hours ago
Poland directs officials to ditch Signal in favor of 'secure' state-developed alternative10 hours ago
Science -- NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration6 days ago
Columnists - Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks11 minutes ago
Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control -- All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang4 days ago
Security - Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext4 days ago
GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt -- Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site10 days ago
Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard -- A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive10 days ago
Grafana Labs admits all its codebase are belong to someone who popped its GitHub account -- No customer info stolen, no impact to operations, and no blackmail payment5 hours ago
Surprise AI bills leave AWS and Google Cloud users aghast -- Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot10 hours ago
Windows boot partition runs out of space for Microsoft's May security update -- Testing? We've heard of it8 hours ago
MAGA's Mace wants to make power bills great again, calls for datacenter moratorium -- Even self-described 'Trump in high heels' candidate warns bit barns could send power bills soaring1 hour ago
Uncle Sam's next big supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs -- Chip startup NextSilicon's high-performance-computing-focused accelerators get Sandia National Lab's stamp of approval2 hours ago
Cyber-crime - Dutch cops' shame game works wonders as most wanted scammers now turned in - Game Over?! gamified the identification of scammers who sought thrills from terrorising the elderly8 hours ago
'Big AI' is subverting regulations just like tobacco and oil firms -- Researchers warn that regulatory capture means industry concerns trump those of citizens8 hours ago
Microsoft remembers that taskbars used to move -- Experimental Windows 11 build restores some old favorites, though the rough edges are still showing9 hours ago
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you? -- Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard -- Eleven up, ten down -- Corey Quinn11 hours ago
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols4 days ago
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in -- Rupert Goodwins11 days ago
QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different -- Bruce Davie12 days ago
The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out -- Mark Pesce11 days ago
What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession -- Rupert Goodwins12 days ago
Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions - Corey Quinn4 days ago
Personal Tech -- Doom soundtrack added to National Recording Registry -- Haters are gonna hate the fact Bobby Prince's demonic dirges rank with Taylor Swift's 19895 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Samsung's weather app sparks storm of controversy by handing territory to North Korea -- PLUS: China-linked cyber-attack on central Asian oil sector; Bottom falls out of Indian smartphone sales; And more!9 hours ago
AI + ML -- Agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, are changing how we build and run AI models -- Ride your bots further by putting them in a harness8 hours ago
OSes -- Classic 7 is Windows 10 LTSC cosplaying as Windows 7 -- Uncanny rebuild resurrects the 2009 desktop, complete with support, updates, and licensing questions5 hours ago
Public Sector -- Wanted: Digital chief for England's schools. Must enjoy data, AI, and concrete problems -- Are you ready to RAAC?10 hours ago
AI + ML -- AI-generated code is 'pain waiting to happen' -- The boom is piling up technical debt, warns Lightrun's Moshe Sambol8 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Cloud-managed earbuds sound strange - as a concept, and on a plane -- The Register tests Dell's first attempt at outplaying Apple's AirPods11 hours ago
Datacenters slurping up so much juice they boosted prices 75% in largest US energy market -- BYO power for AI bit barns may be the best way to ease the problem, says energy watchdog3 days ago
AI + ML -- AI agents show they can create exploits, not just find vulns -- Mythos and GPT-5.5 muscle out the competition14 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business -- Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in15 hours ago
OSes -- Microsoft puts stability in the driver's seat with new initiative -- User interface tweaks are nice, but reliable drivers matter more16 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Google sidles up to unsuspecting users, asks for their number -- You may only get 5GB of storage instead of 15GB if you don't share your digits with the Chocolate Factory17 hours ago
Science -- NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars -- There sure are some clever people on Earth17 hours ago
AI + ML -- Anthropic urges Uncle Sam to kneecap China's AI ambitions before 2028 -- Claude maker warns authoritarian regimes could set the rules unless Washington tightens chip and model controls20 hours ago
X tells Ofcom it will finally check its moderation inbox - Comms watchdog says Musk's social media platform will now review reports of illegal hate and terror content within 24 hours... on average1 day ago
UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order -- 72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine3 days ago
Public Sector -- Britain's latest civil servant is a chatbot trained on GOV.UK misery -- Whitehall says the AI assistant will help citizens navigate public services faster; others may see it as a cheaper alternative to answering the phone2 days ago
AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can't currently buy -- Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them3 days ago
Possible Samsung strike puts even more pressure on memory pricing -- As a senior policymaker ponders whether all South Koreans should enjoy an 'AI dividend'3 days ago
Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B -- Here's a look at the tech powering the first big IPO of 20263 days ago
AI + ML -- Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts -- 60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say3 days ago
AI + ML -- Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool -- Limits Claude subscriptions to interactive use3 days ago
Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show -- Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony4 days ago
Personal Tech -- AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years -- And Counterpoint sees fad spreading from pricey handsets to smart rings and earbuds too... whether you asked for it or not3 days ago
Americans would rather have a nuclear plant in their backyard than a datacenter -- AI and the bit barns that power it have developed a serious PR problem4 days ago
AI + ML - OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw - A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform7 days ago
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security - Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money7 days ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors2 days ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own4 days ago
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads5 days ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits7 days ago
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds12 days ago
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question12 days ago
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk12 days ago
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future12 days ago
France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead12 days ago
OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'12 days ago
Public Sector -- UK government prescribes Single Patient Record for NHS data chaos -- Doctors welcome joined-up care plan, but warn patient trust depends on safeguards, access controls, and knowing where Palantir fits in3 days ago
Security -- Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access -- Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling11 hours ago
Public sector -- Calling the cops just got extra AI as police seek to add tech to contact systems -- AI already listening in to call handlers in real time, conducting live database searches4 days ago
SaaS -- Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice -- CAD: Cost Anomaly Detection or Create Astounding Debt?2 days ago
Security -- To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely -- Human IT managers thought they were being nice to the boss, but were assisting a threat actor12 hours ago
AI +ML -- AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks -- UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time13 hours ago
Tencent admits GPUs only pay for themselves when powering personalized ads -- Chinese web giant says accelerator shortage is over as local hardware arrives in volume4 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? -- If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ...3 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Google's AI-enabled mouse pointer understands 'this' and 'that' -- Right-clicking could go the way of the 3.5-inch floppy at the Chocolate Factory4 days ago
On-Prem -- Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures -- And neither AI nor international conflict are helping4 days ago
On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off -- Lazy weekend of Grand Prix fun turned into a terrifying all-nighter3 days ago
Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse -- Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?8 days ago
Datacenter to become Arm's biggest business 'soon' -- Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips11 days ago
Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway -- Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters12 days ago
Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler12 days ago
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability'12 days ago
Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm -- They were doing it in Texas...12 days ago
AI + ML -- Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks -- But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data4 days ago
Security -- Bug hunter tracks down three massive MCP flaws and one vendor won't fix theirs -- Apache, Alibaba databases vulnerable and only one has a patch3 days ago
AI + ML -- See through local AI lies with Irish eyes -- ICCL Enforce project offers Verity fact-checking server4 days ago
AI + ML -- Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown -- AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch4 days ago
Public sector -- Royal Household seeks £3M finance system fit for a King -- One seeks contractor to manage millions in taxpayer cash, will provide generous 20% off Windsor biscuit tins and tea towels4 days ago
OSes -- Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf -- Bittersweet post tells devs what they already knew: The framework is too slow4 days ago
Science -- SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade? -- May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces4 days ago
Public Sector -- Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart -- Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin5 days ago
OSes -- Microsoft gives Windows Update a Ctrl-Z for bad drivers -- Cloud-powered undo will roll back dodgy code without users or hardware partners lifting a finger4 days ago
From Prompt to Exploit: How LLMs Are Changing API Attacks -- Modern applications are API-driven, interconnected, and often over-permissioned, making them an ideal target for AI-assisted attacks.4 days ago
Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival -- Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.12 days ago
Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival -- Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.12 days ago
Unfriendly Followers: The Black Market For Your Identity -- They'll reveal how attackers use your profile as intel and show you how to make yourself harder to target12 days ago
How Agents are Reshaping AI Security -- AI adoption is accelerating and with it comes a new security challenge.6 days ago
How Agents are Reshaping AI Security -- AI adoption is accelerating and with it comes a new security challenge.6 days ago
AI Found the Problem. Now What? -- AI is transforming the software development lifecycle, helping teams identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they reach production.10 days ago
Agentic AI at Scale: From Pilot to Production -- Join us to learn how to unlock real ROI by driving adoption of AI at scale.3 days ago
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Public sector -- London cops hail fixed facial recognition cams after suspects collared every 35 mins -- Croydon trial helped secure 173 arrests, though civil liberties groups remain unconvinced5 days ago
AI + ML -- SAP U-turn brings AI features to ECC and on-prem S/4HANA -- CEO says there is 'no confusion at all' after cloud-only innovation plan drew flak5 days ago
Public Sector -- Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles -- Union demands government strips outsourcer of contract after delays, bereavement failures, and data breach4 days ago
Malware crew TeamPCP open-sources its Shai-Hulud worm on GitHub -- Where it's been well and truly forked, seemingly without Microsoft's code locker noticing14 hours ago
AI + ML -- Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less -- As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results5 days ago
Security -- Doozy of a Patch Tuesday includes 30 critical Microsoft CVEs -- The good news: no 0-days. The bad news: busy week ahead for Microsoft admins4 days ago
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives8 hours ago
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it -- New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too12 days ago
Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software7 days ago
With Its IPO Done, Cerebras Can Get Back To Pushing The AI Envelope3 days ago
HPE Throws VM Users A Lifeline, Unifying Containers And VM Management In Cloud Stack5 days ago
OpenAI, Microsoft And Friends Build A Better, More Scalable Ethernet6 days ago
Dell's AI Factory getting supercharged storage7 hours ago
WD securing disk drives with post-quantum cryptography8 hours ago
Redis agentic AI flowers with Iris9 hours ago
Storage news ticker - 15 May3 days ago
Anthropic's Bun Rust rewrite merged at speed of AI3 days ago
Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf4 days ago
C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply6 days ago
Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help6 days ago
AI + ML -- Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar -- 'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'3 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Foxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files -- Affected factories back up and running, we're told4 days ago
Personal Tech -- Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI -- If you're not a fan of having AI baked into your OS, look elsewhere5 days ago
aI + ML -- Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work -- RSL Media expands machine-readable licensing rules to cover AI use of identities and creative works5 days ago
Congress investigates Canvas breach as company pays ransom -- Instructure CEO Steve Daly's got some explaining to do4 days ago
AirBit crypto Ponzi victims can now claim slice of $400M asset haul -- After guilty pleas, prison terms, and seizures, the DOJ has opened the compensation process4 days ago
US bank reports itself after slinging customer data at 'unauthorized AI app' -- Volume and sensitivity of the data cited as chief concerns5 days ago
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch -- Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May6 days ago
NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data -- Tech firm's employees can get an 'admin' role letting them into the National Data Integration Tenant... and its identifiable information6 days ago
ZTE showcases at GSMA M360 LATAM 2026, driving future business model restructuring - AI & network two-way integration3 days ago
Fusion for the future: XLSMART and ZTE partnering for a boundless digital Indonesia3 days ago
ZTE and Telkom Indonesia sign strategic MoU to accelerate digital solutions and infrastructure development4 days ago
ZTE advances intelligent network monetization strategy at AGC2026, empowering ISPs for sustainable growth5 days ago
ZTE hosts 2026 Broadband User Congress in São Paulo, under the Theme "Monetize Your Intelligent Broadband"5 days ago
ZTE and MediaTek unveil Tri-band Wi-Fi 7, targeting a relatively unexplored premium niche in Brazil5 days ago
ZTE and Claro launch next-generation 4K Ultra HD IP STB in Brazil6 days ago
AI inference just plays by different rules11 days ago
How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot11 days ago
ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine6 days ago
DON'T MISS -- Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation -- Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'12 days ago
Software -- EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way -- Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar5 days ago
Personal tech -- Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office -- It looks like you're trying to get more Microsoft 365 users to engage with your assistant. Would you like help?5 days ago
FleetWave outage takes another turn. Chevin confirms crooks accessed customer data -- A month after bringing systems back online, SaaS vendor tells customers attackers potentially walked off with operational data, contact details, and payroll numbers5 days ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave6 days ago
To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane12 days ago
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching10 days ago
Columnists - Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job - The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job6 days ago
Columnists - Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled6 days ago
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work6 days ago
While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?10 days ago
Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds10 days ago
AI - Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs - For AI agents, seeing is expensive12 days ago
Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity -- Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits12 days ago
Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend -- Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks12 days ago
Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines -- This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows11 days ago
Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts -- The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI12 days ago
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked -- Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future12 days ago
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns -- Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change12 days ago
Japan's PM orders cybersecurity review to stop Mythos going full CyberZilla -- Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed5 days ago
GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI -- Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer6 days ago
Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter -- Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images6 days ago
Quit VMware and you'll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure -- Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration6 days ago
Double Canvas breach acknowledged as ShinyHunters sets new pay-or-leak deadline -- UPDATED: Sorry, kids, everything's back up so get to work on your new assignment - An essay on the ethics of paying ransoms, because it looks like that's what happened here5 days ago
aI + ML -- Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks -- An intern who failed this much would be shown the door6 days ago
Security -- Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers -- New IElevator2 COM interface? No problem5 days ago
AI + ML -- OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own6 days ago
AI + ML -- Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree -- GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks6 days ago
Cyber-crime -- State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands -- Internet-facing PAN-OS firewalls are once again doing impressions of initial access brokers7 days ago
Shai-Hulud copycat worm infects yet another npm package1 hour ago
TanStack weighs invitation-only pull requests after supply chain attack8 hours ago
NGINX Rift attackers waste no time targeting exposed servers9 hours ago
Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess12 hours ago
Grafana Labs admits all its codebase are belong to someone who popped its GitHub account17 hours ago
Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life -- Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth7 days ago
BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks -- Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk6 days ago
Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released -- JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector7 days ago
SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns -- Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them7 days ago
Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine -- Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years6 days ago
Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged -- Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack6 days ago
OSES -- Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos -- Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there6 days ago
Personal Tech -- Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug -- Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut6 days ago
Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis -- Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS11 days ago
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 -- Haswell's had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away12 days ago
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs -- Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it12 days ago
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 -- $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts12 days ago
AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud -- When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job12 days ago
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs -- AI is driving more searches and ads12 days ago
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises -- Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand12 days ago
UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe -- CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms12 days ago
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you're Chinese or American: Gartner -- Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent7 days ago
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power -- Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues11 days ago
AI + ML -- China's agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop -- PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!15 hours ago
AI + ML -- Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain -- In The Register's Kettle podcast we discuss how Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease computing pain, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical6 days ago
OSes -- Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon -- Furores are fermenting in the forums7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin -- It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?7 days ago
aI + mL -- Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device -- Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns7 days ago
Software -- macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel -- Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot7 days ago
Public Sector -- UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform -- Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up6 days ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything16 hours ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch2 days ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch10 days ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild10 days ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it10 days ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe10 days ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference10 days ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo10 days ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble10 days ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract10 days ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction10 days ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell10 days ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead10 days ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office10 days ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server10 days ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam10 days ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key10 days ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause10 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble10 days ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good10 days ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming10 days ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work10 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books10 days ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people10 days ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere10 days ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver10 days ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'10 days ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware10 days ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice10 days ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company10 days ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it10 days ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe10 days ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery10 days ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'10 days ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league10 days ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA10 days ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it10 days ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results10 days ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off10 days ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady10 days ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server10 days ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo10 days ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production10 days ago
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time10 days ago
Junior sysadmin's first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company10 days ago
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown10 days ago
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules10 days ago
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe10 days ago
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter10 days ago
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal12 days ago
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear12 days ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving12 days ago
Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet12 days ago
Europe tests laser links as satellite comms outgrow radio7 hours ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't11 hours ago
Cisco to fire 4,000 staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco4 days ago
FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security6 days ago
Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results6 days ago
Britain pays Starlink millions despite Musk's calls to overthrow UK government6 days ago
Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v66 days ago
Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims9 days ago
HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi10 days ago
It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet12 days ago
AI + ML -- GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash -- It's not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too7 days ago
Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift -- Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes10 days ago
Cyber Crime -- Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction -- Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations6 days ago
On-Prem -- Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs -- BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries7 days ago
Personal Tech -- Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug -- Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it7 days ago
'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit -- Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE7 days ago
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy -- In a word, 'Huh?'7 days ago
UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls - Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs6 days ago
Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack -- ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security7 days ago
The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence Is Forcing a New IT Playbook -- Infrastructure teams are facing a perfect storm: extended hardware lead times, rising costs driven by AI demand, and accelerated platform timelines.12 days ago
Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions -- Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue7 days ago
Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom -- No sparks, no glory7 days ago
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen10 days ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client -- It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in7 days ago
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren't AI enough -- Around 20 percent of staff get an 'In one hour, you might not work here anymore' email10 days ago
AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region -- Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere10 days ago
Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull -- Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference7 days ago
AI + ML -- Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar3 days ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors5 hours ago
Security -- Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator5 days ago
Networks -- Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v62 days ago
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller -- Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier5 hours ago
Dude... where's my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash -- AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files4 days ago
This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY -- Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans5 days ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu6 days ago
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue -- Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope6 days ago
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains -- Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.7 days ago
London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End9 days ago
Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price10 days ago
Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets -- Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?12 days ago
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested -- Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope6 days ago
UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones -- Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports12 days ago
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb -- GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them12 days ago
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to -- A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not12 days ago
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags12 days ago
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop -- Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space12 days ago
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs -- PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge12 days ago
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev12 days ago
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops -- Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves12 days ago
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages -- Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info12 days ago
Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute -- Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show12 days ago
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges -- PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role12 days ago
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don't pay publishers -- Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home12 days ago
China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions12 days ago
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again -- No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend12 days ago
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis -- Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day12 days ago
BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges -- Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?12 days ago
Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes -- Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn12 days ago
NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision12 days ago
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume12 days ago
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess12 days ago
You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'12 days ago
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place12 days ago
NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown12 days ago
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms12 days ago
Would you like fries with that terminal? -- Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't12 days ago
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars -- Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam12 days ago
Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler12 days ago
Science - More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook7 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely12 days ago
NASA's Psyche mission set for a brief encounter with Mars3 days ago
NASA fleshes out Artemis III, the Moon mission that won't go to the Moon4 days ago
SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade?5 days ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins6 days ago
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest12 days ago
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects12 days ago
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' -- That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed12 days ago
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months -- Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team12 days ago
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate12 days ago
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences12 days ago
BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them -- How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data?12 days ago
BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now? -- Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics7 days ago
BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge -- The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI7 days ago
BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely -- Oh. Well. Color us surprised7 days ago
BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street -- Insurance negotiations take a turn for the Thames7 days ago
BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough -- The Boss has been on a retreat, which means he needs a factory reset ASAP7 days ago
BOFH: Every computer system eventually serves ads -- Boss's bright idea enshittifies itself in record time7 days ago
BOFH: The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct -- After the boardroom is ransacked, it's straight into Arse Covering 1017 days ago
Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs -- The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams10 days ago
Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time -- Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies7 days ago
Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok' -- Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings7 days ago
60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour -- Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?7 days ago