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Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm - Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures
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New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range8 hours ago
IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now -- A critical Langflow flaw allowing RCE on default deployments is being exploited, says the CISA18 minutes ago
SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions -- Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B3 hours ago
COLUMNISTS - Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges - This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent4 hours ago
AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries -- The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first18 minutes ago
Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller -- Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like?18 minutes ago
DEVOPS - Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages - New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims21 hours ago
SECURITY -- Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home -- Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k18 minutes ago
Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence -- Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another4 hours ago
AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns -- With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue7 hours ago
Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems -- Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert16 hours ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak -- ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education20 hours ago
Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict -- Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames 'grossly incompetent' governor of Minnesota instead21 hours ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in -- APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft1 day ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies16 days ago
Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars -- In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate18 minutes ago
HPC -- NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud -- Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace HPE Cray machines5 days ago
SECURITY -- Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos -- Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation5 days ago
APPLICATIONS -- Moscow slaps Telegram founder on wanted list, Durov responds with one-finger salute -- FSB claims Ukrainian spies use chat platform to recruit Russians for sabotage and arson6 days ago
STORAGE - MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish - AIStor keeps context, files, and secrets under customer control so interrupted jobs can pick up where they left off7 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning18 minutes ago
Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems -- More than 30 facilities disrupted in 'coordinated cyberattack,' though officials have yet to name a culprit5 days ago
AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning -- Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 20287 days ago
Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike -- Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans7 days ago
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way14 days ago
SECURITY -- America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks -- Docs point to China's Unitree as prime example of the foreign clanker threat5 days ago
SECURITY -- DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses' -- More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses6 days ago
Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears -- Customer funds safe, but 14,000 organizations may have to phone in time-sensitive payments6 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 intact8 days ago
Hyperscale, hypersensitive: US teacher cuffed for applauding datacenter critics -- Public meeting over proposed AI bit barn ended with zoning approval, a physics teacher arrested, and fresh questions over whether clapping now counts as disorderly conduct7 days ago
IBM's agentic AI platform is under active attack - patch now18 minutes ago
Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it21 hours ago
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update -- One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems7 days ago
ai and ml - OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models2 days ago
Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle -- £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal8 days ago
BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book -- But so does this customer11 days ago
offbeat - Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs1 day ago
AI and ML -- Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents -- Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal9 days ago
SCIENCE -- SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no -- Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test9 days ago
Security -- Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled -- Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families8 days ago
Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter -- The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility11 days ago
London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says -- Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches3 hours ago
Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge -- Tribunal to explore how £270 million reseller case intersects with multibillion-pound class action5 hours ago
UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack -- Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details3 hours ago
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas -- But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid1 hour ago
Operationalize AI at scale with HPE and NVIDIA -- SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE's Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA's Kaushik Shirhatti3 hours ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start8 hours ago
OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT -- New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys20 hours ago
NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs -- Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day1 day ago
AI AND ML -- The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 1117 hours ago
NETWORKS -- Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner2 days ago
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 -- Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown -- Corey Quinn8 days ago
The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web -- Mark Pesce6 days ago
How do you solve a problem like Capita? -- Lindsay Clark8 days ago
Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling -- Rupert Goodwins9 days ago
It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols12 days ago
BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand -- Simon Travaglia13 days ago
Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids -- Bruce Davie8 days ago
Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that... Rupert Goodwins6 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 enough1 day ago
UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware -- Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers1 day 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 blasts1 day ago
LEGAL -- China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits' -- Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs7 hours ago
AI AND ML -- China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic -- For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition8 hours ago
AI AND ML -- MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push -- Taiwanese silicon biz believes it can take up to 20% of $80B market with upcoming ASIC chips, but analysts are sceptical20 hours ago
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover -- Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google Earth's AI makeover survives for just one planetary rotation -- Turns out letting anyone rewrite the planet with a prompt had drawbacks1 day ago
AI AND ML -- The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet -- Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast1 day ago
SECURITY -- UK government investment arm cops to 40-hour leak of officials' contact details -- Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft -- LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril1 day ago
AI AND ML -- As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK -- Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output1 day ago
COLUMNISTS -- Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- 'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind'1 day ago
SECURITY -- AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks -- CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11 -- Redmond adds new items to its make-Windows-better list1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Meta straps on a 'Kick Me' sign by mistakenly taking down video by India's prime minister -- PLUS: DeepSeek to double peak hour prices for new model; Australia hikes fines for Big Tech; Japan's next moonshot to ride local rocket; and more!1 day 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 web3 days ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key4 days ago
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it -- 88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip4 days ago
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing -- Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating4 days ago
Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer -- Persistent sessions could be just the beginning2 days ago
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters -- Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems1 day ago
US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data -- History suggests this was not wise1 day ago
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder -- Whoever wins, we lose1 day ago
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar -- A nice little summer job for someone5 days ago
Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts -- A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff1 day 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 date5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered -- The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects2 days ago
AI AND ML -- 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 problem2 days ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?2 months ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement1 month ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester5 days ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much9 days ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow13 days ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical16 days ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester19 days ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road28 days ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist28 days ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well1 month ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend1 month ago
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition1 month ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney -- "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies"2 days ago
AI AND ML -- LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower -- AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu -- Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party4 days ago
STORAGE -- GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech -- High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font -- ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting2 days ago
Security -- Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages -- A lesson for aspiring vandals: Take out all the cameras, not just the ones that flout your ideals2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement -- Polling suggests patience with handsets in the classroom is running shorter than a teenager's battery life4 days ago
From individual achievement to partner impact - PARTNER CONTENT: Databricks survey data suggests certified professionals lift partner delivery capacity, customer credibility, and AI readiness well beyond the individuals who earn the credential5 days ago
Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew -- Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts2 days ago
Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook -- New button beside the ribbon promises consistency – and more questions for admins6 days ago
Hims & Hers accused of sharing health secrets and hiding the cancel button -- FTC says Meta and Snap received sensitive patient information while customers faced unexpected prescription charges6 days ago
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests -- Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized5 days ago
Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold -- Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices6 days ago
AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia's Groq LPUs -- The enemy of my enemy is my friend12 days ago
AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's -- Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper13 days ago
MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future -- Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology6 days ago
Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook -- Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds2 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 time6 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 foothold6 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 Fun6 days ago
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine -- Schools often don't prioritize or understand cybersecurity2 days ago
Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law -- If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer5 days ago
Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one -- Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations6 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 horrible6 days ago
Qualcomm won't be a big datacenter player anytime soon -- But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple6 days ago
Cisco 'retires' its Azure Local offering rather than catch up to Microsoft's changed hardware requirements -- Redmond now allows only locked-down rigs with joint software and hardware support for its on-prem hyperconverged cloud and Switchzilla won't go there6 days ago
Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest -- Capex spending? What? Me worry?6 days ago
Future-Proofing Payments -- Discover how payment rail consolidation, cloud and AI improve resilience, streamline operations, accelerate innovation, and fight fraud.1 day 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.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.5 days ago
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PUBLIC SECTOR -- Uncle Sam sees the light, offers GlobalFoundries $300M to pursue silicon photonics while taking 1% stake -- Meanwhile, the other state-backed foundry, Intel, wraps up RAMP-C defense test chip program6 days ago
AI and ML -- Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug -- "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" is an effective sales pitch for open source5 days ago
The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy -- PARTNER CONTENT: With vSphere 8 support ending in 2027, IT leaders must navigate tight timelines and costs to modernize on their terms.7 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 12.1521 days ago
Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites -- Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide20 days ago
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan21 days ago
AMD Catches The Agentic AI Wave And Will Ride It Up Masterfully4 hours ago
Why Shouldn't Amazon Spinoff AWS And Annapurna Labs?1 day ago
IBM: Three Demonstrations Prove Quantum Advantage Has Been Reached4 days ago
AI Dominates The Microsoft Conversation, But Not The Company's Business4 days ago
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Interview: Qdrant and TurboQuant compression4 hours ago
Getting flash up close and personal to GPUs5 hours ago
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Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer3 days ago
How AI drove Shopify back to clean code10 days ago
Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop'21 days ago
HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST22 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI insiders ask Uncle Sam to help slow the race they started -- More than 1,200 industry staff sign petition seeking international guardrails for automated research6 days ago
DATABASES -- After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres -- Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends5 days ago
Storage -- Back of the NetApp: Latest exec signing scores $34M compensation package -- Product chief shoots straight to the top of the pay league, out-earning CEO in fiscal '266 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NHS England rapped over inaccurate Palantir patient data disclosure -- Privacy guardian warns public trust quickly erodes when supplier access comes as a surprise6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Burnham's spanner in the works leaves UK government tech scattered across Whitehall -- Splitting up responsibility for digital transformation and procurement while AI gets a seat at Cabinet risks incoherency6 days ago
Why the 'patchpocalypse' demands immediate isolation - PARTNER CONTENT: Attackers automated, but your 30-day patch window didn't6 days ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year7 days ago
Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix -- Don't worry about an AI bust, monster profits and huge margins are here to stay7 days ago
Storage -- A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch -- With microscopic latencies and otherworldly write endurance, it was perfect for today's AI workloads – but gone before they arrived6 days ago
AI and ML -- MCP gets an enterprise makeover -- Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle5 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports5 days ago
Security -- JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face -- OpenAI confirms the link6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives -- Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable7 days ago
AI and ML -- War machines can run amok with AI in control -- Tour of the AI kill chain maps the risks of ubiquitous surveillance and flawed algorithms7 days ago
Security -- Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs -- Secret to their success: Using the right model for the right security job6 days ago
AI and ML -- AI is storage's biggest opportunity – and biggest threat -- Faster access and more secure recoveries are driving business, but mishaps and attacks can endanger data7 days ago
ai and ml - College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem13 days ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign13 days ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year14 days ago
personal tech - User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC - Maybe they were looking for Private Data1 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
Personal Tech -- This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken1 month ago
Offbeat -- Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes1 month ago
DEVOPS - Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past - Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog13 days ago
Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic -- And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack13 days ago
The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now -- Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K31 day 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 messages15 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%20 days ago
Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius -- Connect all the things and watch what happens2 days ago
If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic -- Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages21 days ago
AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype -- VulnCheck says fewer than 2% of AI-assisted vulnerability discoveries have been weaponized, casting doubt on claims frontier models are handing attackers a major advantage6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Hugging Face rebuilt a third of its infrastructure after OpenAI agents ran amok -- Postmortem offers finer details on the 'unprecedented' attack that's reshaping approaches to security7 days ago
AI and ML -- Too many AI agents can get in each other's way -- For enterprise agents, less is more7 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 cash8 days ago
Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock -- Unauthenticated command injection scores perfect 10 and may expose managed Edge devices7 days ago
AI AND ML -- China fights back in AI spat with claim US AI companies distil Chinese models -- Beijing happy to 'take all necessary measures' if sanctioned7 days ago
Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email -- Phishing for dummies8 days ago
Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth -- Aftermarket dealer-installed KARR/SWDS security systems all use the same secure key, say UCSD researchers8 days ago
Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal -- Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads9 days ago
SECURITY - Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit - CISA widens alert beyond Rockwell controllers as intruders target internet-facing devices across critical infrastructure13 days ago
One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company - Researchers say OpenAI flaw let phishing bait create an autonomous corporate mole armed with employee access3 hours ago
Security -- Swiss train maker tells ransomware crooks to get off at the next stop -- Stadler refuses $12.3M demand after thieves swipe technical data through supplier platform6 days ago
SECURITY -- Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files -- Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room?11 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning -- Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused12 days ago
London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says4 hours ago
UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack6 hours ago
AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project13 hours ago
This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp ...1 day ago
Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit1 day ago
AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday1 day ago
Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras1 day ago
CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks -- AI seems to have a liberal bias7 days ago
AI + ML -- Jensen puts his thumb on the scales against open-weights fearmongering -- American AI flag bearers get in line, at least on paper7 days ago
DEVOPS -- Microsoft lays out a buffet of Windows goodies for JavaScript Developers -- Just don't call the WinRT projection for Node.js a lock-in7 days ago
AI and ML -- Impostor Chinese models pretend they're Claude -- Researchers find GLM and Kimi can adopt Claude's identity, but the evidence stops short of proving distillation8 days ago
Security -- Microsoft's solution to AI security: more AI and more acronyms -- MDASH stuffed with MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a side of GPT-5.47 days ago
AI AND ML -- Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack -- The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems7 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?9 days ago
AI has changed data architecture, but storage hasn't caught up - SPONSORED FEATURE: AI's hunger for data outstrips storage smarts, leaving GPUs famished8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill -- History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says8 days ago
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical -- An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral15 days ago
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates -- Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug19 days ago
Off-prem -- Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content -- You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned5 hours ago
OFF-PREM -- AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites -- Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery1 day ago
OFF PREM -- India's tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business -- Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed4 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 resources5 hours ago
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five -- 'Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn14 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 cloud14 days ago
Google Cloud outage shows it's still hard to understand hyperscalers' real resilience regimes -- UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by 'upstream' power problem and failure of diesel generators9 days ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?9 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Word up9 days ago
Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy -- So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike's plans for consistent names across the industry7 days ago
SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13 -- Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick9 days ago
Foxconn unit drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI -- PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!4 days ago
Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills -- Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement9 days ago
SCIENCE - So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?8 days ago
DEVOPS -- How AI drove Shopify back to clean code -- Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else -- Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code8 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day2 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data9 days ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'16 days ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code30 days ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess1 month ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!1 month ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet1 month ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug1 month ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security 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 everything2 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch2 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving2 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch2 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild2 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it2 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe2 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference2 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo2 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble2 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract2 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction2 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell2 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead2 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office2 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server2 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam2 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key2 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause2 months ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble2 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good2 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming2 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work1 month ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books2 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people2 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere2 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver2 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'2 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware2 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice2 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company2 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it2 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe2 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery2 months ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'2 months ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league2 months ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA2 months ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it2 months ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results2 months ago
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage19 days ago
Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers22 days ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap23 days ago
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down28 days ago
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner5 days ago
Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first8 days ago
Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber8 days ago
Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops8 days ago
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?12 days ago
China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol14 days ago
AI and ML -- Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling -- And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention9 days ago
Security -- Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info -- (Security) hole-ier than thou7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI -- Hey Claude, optimize this model for me9 days ago
Security -- Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com -- Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)8 days ago
AI and ML -- Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI -- Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?9 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo -- Git is aptly named: it isn't easy – but there are alternatives9 days ago
AI AND ML -- ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor -- Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism9 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in -- Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched9 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- Eliminate Print Servers -- Learn how PrinterLogic simplifies print management, eliminates server drawbacks, and improves the end-user printing experience.1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze -- Supplier says the Horizon-era pause only stops it chasing work from new government customers9 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 local12 days ago
Google breaks Alibaba's record for Europe's largest DMA fine -- €890 million slap – just 0.25% of revenue – for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives12 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 range11 hours ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police5 days ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba6 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 places7 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 soldiers9 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 cat13 days ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal13 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 waste13 days ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted14 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, too14 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'19 days ago
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork7 days ago
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole -- 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'22 days ago
Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street -- Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors22 days ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological23 days ago
Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car -- Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car's array of cameras28 days 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
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM1 month ago
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says1 month ago
Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit -- Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening1 month ago
They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI1 month ago
Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars -- Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home1 month ago
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia -- A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest1 month ago
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch -- Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite1 month ago
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage -- Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen1 month ago
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart -- TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had1 month ago
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems -- One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here1 month ago
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?1 month ago
EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife -- Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation1 month ago
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package1 month ago
Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones -- Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes1 month ago
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter -- Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy14 days ago
SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit -- Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort19 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one -- Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad19 days ago
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year5 hours ago
NASA puts astronauts' lives in the hands of Tesla's flaky Cybertruck1 day ago
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover2 days ago
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin5 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding -- Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure19 days ago
SCIENCE -- Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy -- Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble20 days ago
SCIENCE -- India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch -- Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit21 days ago
Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though) -- First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy23 days ago
Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test -- Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price23 days ago
Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space -- There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos27 days ago
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it -- Sleep doesn't pay12 days ago
Intel knows it needs to 'leapfrog' ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan -- Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day12 days ago
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours -- Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services12 days ago
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be -- Attack models gonna attack8 days ago
Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs -- Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software8 days ago