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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 projects
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Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner -- £4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator1 hour ago
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font -- ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting13 hours ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police1 hour ago
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder -- Whoever wins, we lose1 hour 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 hour ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester -- European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure1 hour ago
Cyber-crime - US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data - History suggests this was not wise32 minutes ago
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar -- A nice little summer job for someone32 minutes 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 date2 hours 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"1 hour ago
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 come1 hour ago
Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu -- Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party16 hours ago
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 rainbows21 hours 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 life1 day 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 credential32 minutes ago
Microsoft makes Copilot harder to miss in Classic Outlook -- New button beside the ribbon promises consistency – and more questions for admins1 day ago
SECURITY -- DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'16 hours ago
DATABASES -- After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres13 hours ago
SECURITY -- Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos15 hours ago
AI and ML -- Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug16 hours 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 Quinn3 days ago
The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web -- Mark Pesce1 day ago
How do you solve a problem like Capita? -- Lindsay Clark3 days ago
Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling -- Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols7 days ago
BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand -- Simon Travaglia8 days ago
Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids -- Bruce Davie3 days ago
Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that... Rupert Goodwins1 day 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 charges1 day 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 technology1 day 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 time1 day 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 foothold1 day 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 Fun1 day ago
Veeam adds support for six more hypervisors in case you are up for a new one -- Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations1 day 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 horrible1 day ago
Qualcomm won't be a big datacenter player anytime soon -- But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple1 day 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 there1 day ago
Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest -- Capex spending? What? Me worry?1 day ago
NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud -- Government agency will use Google Cloud H4D VMs to replace HPE Cray machines1 day ago
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 program1 day 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 source32 minutes ago
SECURITY -- Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos -- Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation32 minutes ago
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 arson1 day ago
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 off1 day 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.1 day ago
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning -- Two reaction wheels are out and comms sporadic as controllers work to stabilize LINK2 days 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 culprit2 hours ago
STORAGE -- AI storage boom is keeping Seagate's hard drives spinning -- Cloud operators have already claimed most of its nearline capacity through 20281 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike -- Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans1 day 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 research1 day 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 frontends13 hours 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 '261 day 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 surprise1 day 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 incoherency1 day ago
Why the 'patchpocalypse' demands immediate isolation - PARTNER CONTENT: Attackers automated, but your 30-day patch window didn't1 day ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year2 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 stay2 days ago
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 hours 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 arrived1 day ago
AI and ML -- MCP gets an enterprise makeover -- Now happier running in a conventional K8s environment, with `an easier-to-live-with lifecycle13 hours ago
Security -- JFrog's 0-days let OpenAI's models hack Hugging Face -- OpenAI confirms the link1 day 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 affordable2 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 algorithms2 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 job1 day 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 data2 days ago
ai and ml - College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought2 days ago
SECURITY -- DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses' -- More organizers prohibit camera-equipped specs, even with prescription lenses1 day ago
Systems -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies11 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 procurement27 days ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester5 hours ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much4 days ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow8 days ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical11 days ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester14 days ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road23 days ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist23 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
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 advantage1 day ago
Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears -- Customer funds safe, but 14,000 organizations may have to phone in time-sensitive payments1 day 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 intact3 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 security2 days ago
AI and ML -- Too many AI agents can get in each other's way -- For enterprise agents, less is more2 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 conduct2 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 cash3 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 devices1 day 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 sanctioned2 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 realized7 hours 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 prices1 day ago
AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia's Groq LPUs -- The enemy of my enemy is my friend7 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 paper7 days ago
Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing -- If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?10 days ago
Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out -- Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks -- AI seems to have a liberal bias2 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 paper2 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-in2 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 distillation2 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-5.42 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 systems2 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?4 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 famished3 days 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 systems2 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 says3 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models -- If you think OpenAI and Anthropic are the only ones with these capabilities, think again3 days ago
Taming Hybrid Cloud Chaos: Secure and Efficient Kubernetes Across Clouds -- Extending containerized applications to hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure often doubles operational overhead before delivering real agility.19 hours 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.2 hours ago
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Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle -- £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal3 days ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?4 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Word up4 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 industry2 days ago
SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13 -- Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick4 days ago
Foxconn 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!3 days ago
ON-prem - Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills32 minutes ago
SCIENCE - So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?3 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 feedback3 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 code3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- 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 12.1515 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 worldwide15 days ago
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan16 days ago
Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it -- Next version of Linux Mint's desktop has both kinds of display server21 days ago
Just How Rosy Are Those AI Infrastructure Spending Forecasts?16 hours ago
With The Carina System, QuiX Pushes Photonic Quantum Computing Forward1 day ago
The Rackscale AI System Roadmaps That AMD Is Using To Chase Money2 days ago
AI Hosts And Sandboxes Save Intel's Datacenter CPU Cookies3 days ago
For Samsung, HBM is the gift that keeps on giving1 hour ago
MinIO's AIStor Memory enables agents to inherit organizational memory22 hours ago
Seagate HAMRing customers - generating more and more $/TB1 day ago
Kioxia launches KV caching SSD and AI-focussed fingernail drive1 day ago
How AI drove Shopify back to clean code5 days ago
Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop'16 days ago
HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST17 days ago
Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships21 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book -- But so does this customer3 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 retention4 days ago
Security -- Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info -- (Security) hole-ier than thou2 days ago
AI AND ML -- AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI -- Hey Claude, optimize this model for me4 days ago
Security -- Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com -- Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)3 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?4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo -- Git is aptly named: it isn't easy – but there are alternatives4 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 embolism4 days 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 deal4 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 test4 days ago
Security -- Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled -- Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families3 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports3 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in -- Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched4 days 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 customers4 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 facility6 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 alternatives7 days ago
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it -- Sleep doesn't pay7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem7 days ago
OFFBEAT -- Backup and running? Not this digital sign8 days ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year9 days ago
personal tech - User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC - Maybe they were looking for Private Data28 days ago
security - Security boss thought MFA would be too much security28 days 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
AI and ML - Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius - Connect all the things and watch what happens12 days ago
If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic -- Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages16 days ago
Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing -- Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored17 days ago
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN -- A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages10 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%15 days ago
Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die -- 'GhostApproval' problem highlights human-in-the-loop fails21 days ago
AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top -- Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models23 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 day7 days ago
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours -- Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services7 days ago
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be -- Attack models gonna attack3 days ago
Security -- Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs -- Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software3 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will -- ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap6 days ago
AI and ML -- Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS -- AI no longer welcome in human-focused community6 days ago
Patches -- Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email -- Phishing for dummies3 days ago
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 slog7 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 researchers3 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 workloads4 days ago
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy -- French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn't seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime8 days ago
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief -- Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain9 days ago
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims -- IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake9 days ago
AI and ML - Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid - Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy10 days ago
Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents - Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged13 hours ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign -- Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home9 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online -- HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details9 days ago
AI and ML -- Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check -- PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!9 days ago
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder1 hour ago
Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts1 hour ago
Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in4 hours ago
Anthropic's Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations13 hours ago
Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages1 day ago
Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew1 day ago
Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook1 day ago
Headteacher had the most guessable username-password combo you could imagine1 day ago
Excuses like 'AI did it' don't exist in the eyes of the law1 day ago
GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team -- Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters7 days ago
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 infrastructure4 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 cat8 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 access4 days ago
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
IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them -- Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything -- Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims -- Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional -- AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it7 days ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal8 days ago
Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions -- Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast8 days ago
SECURITY - Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files2 days ago
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 warned14 days ago
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 Lottery15 days ago
OFF-PREM -- Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk -- 24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim1 day ago
OFF PREM -- Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products -- Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves7 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 cloud9 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 generators4 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 moral10 days ago
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates -- Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug13 days ago
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 succeed17 days ago
aI AND ML -- Senior White House official claims China's K3 model stolen from Anthropic -- And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence -- Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle high demand for the G-Cloud7 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 caused7 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Google Cloud is killing it -- It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit8 days ago
AI and ML -- Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool -- Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?8 days ago
SCIENCE -- Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter -- Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own -- xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models – for a price8 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents -- As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing8 days ago
Security -- Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits -- Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town7 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data4 days ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'11 days ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code25 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 incident1 month 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 work27 days 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
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off2 months ago
Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers17 days ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap18 days ago
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down23 days ago
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint23 days ago
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner3 hours ago
Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first3 days ago
Openreach nudges another 112 exchange areas toward full fiber3 days ago
Cisco close to releasing more AI models, this time for deep networking ops3 days ago
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?7 days ago
China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol9 days ago
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage14 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions -- Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals8 days ago
Greedy ransomware crews return for seconds after victims cough up first extortion payments -- Some never saw their files again either, infosec biz Proofpoint finds7 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 way9 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products -- Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other8 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2 -- More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot8 days ago
SECURITY -- Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree -- Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act8 days ago
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five -- 'Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn9 days ago
AI AND ML - OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face1 day ago
AI + ML -- 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 K38 days ago
Security -- Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI -- Don't call them chatbots8 days ago
AI and ML -- AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep -- Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises -- Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI9 days ago
Security -- Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement -- Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain8 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA -- Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar9 days ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police7 hours ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba1 day 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 places2 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 soldiers4 days ago
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network7 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 local7 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 waste8 days ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted9 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, too9 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'14 days ago
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork2 days ago
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole -- 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'17 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 outdoors17 days ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological18 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 cameras23 days ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched26 days ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error29 days 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 world29 days ago
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule30 days 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 fix30 days 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
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting -- Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches1 month ago
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM1 month ago
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars -- Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements1 month ago
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build -- 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts1 month ago
And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't10 days ago
SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit32 minutes 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 pad15 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 infrastructure14 days ago
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin3 hours ago
Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees1 day ago
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning2 days ago
Deep space dishes dodge devastation from Spanish wildfires3 days ago
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 trouble17 days ago
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 orbit17 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 galaxy17 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 price18 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 politicos22 days ago
New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation -- Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch22 days ago
AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert -- Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time8 days ago
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet -- Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon8 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware -- Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for9 days ago
Public Sector -- UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years -- RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride9 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support -- Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset9 days ago