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Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down -- And it's not the first time gunfire has cut Spectrum's lines -- Networks

1 hour ago

Nadella hands Microsoft money machine off to new commercial CEO so he can visioneer the future -- Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running -- Software

7 hours ago

Windows 11 25H2 is mostly 24H2 with bits bolted on or ripped out -- Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow -- OSes

7 hours ago

The cloud reset is a financial reckoning in disguise - Partner Content - Private cloud solutions are making a comeback - Partner Content

10 hours ago

Taiwan gets chippy about US request it shifts manufacturing -- US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support -- Systems

9 hours ago

Export controls now a key factor in AI chip development – adding risk for the whole industry - Analysis - The physics of transistors and politics of trading licenses are colliding on the AI frontier - Systems - 01 Oct 2025 - | 3

2 hours ago

Raspberry Pi prices hiked as AI gobbles all the memory -- Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year -- Personal Tech

11 hours ago

Judge dismisses Arm's last legal claim against Qualcomm in licensing spat -- Chip designer tells The Reg it plans to appeal -- Systems

13 hours ago

Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told -- Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead -- Public Sector

15 hours ago

Schools are swotting up on security yet still flunk recovery when cyberattacks strike -- Coursework 'gone forever' as 10% report critical damage -- Cybersecurity Month

5 hours ago

UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check -- Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone? -- Public Sector

16 hours ago

Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline -- No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery -- Networks

16 hours ago

Beijing-backed burglars master .NET to target government web servers -- 'Phantom Taurus' created custom malware to hunt secrets across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East -- Cybersecurity Month -- 01 Oct 2025

3 hours ago

Blood-red bot stalks the burbs armed with . . . groceries - Rise of the machines - DashCam's autonomous vehicle may strike fear into the hearts... of delivery drivers - Offbeat - 30 Sep 2025 - | 40

8 hours ago

Warnings about Cisco vulns under active exploit are falling on deaf ears -- 50,000 firewall devices still exposed -- Patches -- 30 Sep 2025

1 day ago

Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC -- Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right? -- OSes -- 30 Sep 2025

1 day ago

Logitech's MX Master 4 mouse buzzes with haptic feedback but lacks lefty love -- (Right) Hands On -- Ergonomic, feature-packed, and still right-handed only -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

'Money-saving' UK procurement platform racks up monster tab -- Updated -- Projected £1.5M running costs balloon to £12M under new contracts -- Public Sector

7 hours ago

Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide -- Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year -- Security

1 day ago

UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy -- Taxpayer cash fuels 14 projects from NHS blood-hauling UAVs to posh eVTOL shuttles -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Healthcare lags in Windows 11 upgrades – and lives may depend on it - Interview - Most orgs still on Windows 10, so maybe don't get ill after October 14 - OSes - 30 Sep 2025 - | 9

15 hours ago

YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump 'censorship' case go away -- Alphabet's vid-streamer will fund construction of a ballroom The Donald adores -- Legal

1 day ago

Feds cut funding to program that shared cyber threat info with local governments -- The federal government's not the only thing shutting down on Oct. 1 -- Public Sector

1 day ago

FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again -- Jet maker only gets to issue certs every other week, though, freeing up FAA inspectors to do more poking around -- Public Sector

2 days ago

EU member states pile pressure on Brussels for Chips Act rethink -- Semicon Coalition presses European Commission for stronger funding, strategy, and skills drive -- Systems

2 days ago

UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X -- Ed Miliband takes aim at social media overlord for promoting violence and disinformation -- Public Sector

2 days ago

OpenNvidia could become the AI generation's WinTel - Opinion - Duo could dominate in the same way Microsoft and Intel ruled PCs for decades - AI + ML - 29 Sep 2025 - | 15

22 hours ago

Jaguar Land Rover gets £1.5B government jump-start after cyber breakdown -- Hundreds of thousands of workers in financial despair supported with landmark loan -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us -- Opinion -- Socio political backdrop is not what it once was.... -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report -- Feature -- Guess how much of our direct transatlantic data capacity runs through two cables in Bude? -- Networks

2 days ago

Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs - Alleges bias and security problems - Public Sector - 29 Sep 2025 - | 88

7 hours ago

Trump's tariff‑shaped stick can't beat reality on US chip fabbing -- Comment -- The proposed 1:1 chip rule means nothing but pain for US tech until he's out of office -- Systems

3 days ago

Alibaba unveils $53B global AI plan – but it will need GPUs to back it up - Analysis - Chinese giant maps out datacenters across Europe and beyond, yet US chip curbs cast a long shadow - AI + ML - 27 Sep 2025 - | 1

2 days ago

Cyber threat-sharing law set to shut down, along with US government -- Act passed in 2015 is due to lapse unless a continuing resolution passes - and that's unlikely -- Security

4 days ago

Federal agencies DOGE questions about what cost-cutting team is doing -- Oversight efforts have been rebuffed, says Democratic report, 'putting Americans' personal data at risk' -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice -- Study finds microgrids with wind, solar, and batteries can be built years sooner and at lower cost than SMRs -- Systems

5 days ago

UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029 -- Prime Minister Starmer revives controversial scheme despite past denials, sparking civil liberties backlash -- Public Sector

5 days ago

Microsoft agrees to 11th hour Win 10 end of life concessions -- Updated -- Consumer org forces Redmond to expunge list of requirements for free ESU in Euro Economic Area, just need a Microsoft account -- OSes

2 days ago

Hardware inspector fired for spotting an error he wasn't trained to find -- On Call -- Manager's quality control priorities were upside down -- On-Prem

5 days ago

Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud -- Apple prices meet Dell style -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

800,000 TONS OF MUD PROBABLY JUST MADE ELECTRONICS A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE -- Accident causes major copper mine to suspend operations, as commodity and share prices soar -- Offbeat

5 days ago

Intel reportedly wants TSMC's help to end its reliance on ...TSMC -- Chipzilla seeks investment from its top fab frenemy -- On-Prem

6 days ago

X2 Elite is Qualcomm's latest attempt to bring Apple's M-series magic to the PC -- Plus the Snapdragon 8 Elite turns 5 -- Systems

6 days ago

AI that once called itself MechaHitler will now be available to the US government for $0.42 -- Elon Musk's AI appears to be more ideological than competitors -- Public Sector

6 days ago

DARPA wants AI to know when it's being an energy hog -- New research program seeks 'energy-aware' ML that balances performance with power draw -- AI + ML

6 days ago

Oracle saddles up with $18B debt amid AI infrastructure gamble -- Ballooning leverage and shaky customer funding could strain Big Red's balance sheet -- PaaS + IaaS

6 days ago

Zero-day deja vu as another Cisco IOS bug comes under attack -- The latest in a run of serious networking bugs gives attackers root if they have SNMP access -- Networks

6 days ago

Check your own databases before asking to see our passport photos, Home Office tells UK cops -- Guidance follows privacy complaints over sharp increase in police searches of travel doc and visa pic libraries -- Databases

6 days ago

The sweetest slice of Pi: Raspberry Pi 500+ sports mechanical keys, 16GB, and built-in SSD - HANDS ON - Big performance on offer, but be prepared to spend $200 - Personal Tech - 25 Sep 2025 - | 109

1 hour ago

Google, Meta and Vodafone want smartphone-makers to reduce their bandwidth bills -- By supporting efficient video codecs in hardware, which to be fair will also help punters -- Networks

6 days ago

Is GitHub a social network that endangers children? Australia wants to know -- As ban on under-16s using some sites looms, cyber-safety regulator sends Microsoft's code locker a letter -- Legal

6 days ago

Intel reportedly courting ex-flame Apple to become its next investor -- Chipzilla can't say it's changed much, but could be a handy backup to TSMC -- Systems

6 days ago

Tree-hugging hippie datacenter runs entirely on green hydrogen and wastes zero water -- Lambda's latest innovation with bit barn builder ECL only supports a handful of Nvidia racks, but it's a start -- Systems

7 days ago

iPhone 17 Scratchgate is real, iFixit warns - buy a case for your fancy phone - Video - In good news, battery replacement is a lot easier than earlier models - Personal Tech - 24 Sep 2025 - | 15

4 days ago

PC memory costs to climb as fabs chase filthy lucre in servers and HBM -- TrendForce warns of Q4 hikes as suppliers squeeze consumer markets -- Systems

6 days ago

US Navy: I can't quit you, Azure -- AWS, Google, and Oracle admitted they can't support current setup -- PaaS + IaaS

7 days ago

AI hype train may jump the tracks over $2T infrastructure bill, warns Bain -- Industry looks like it's going to come up short – by about $800B -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Workers: Yes, RTO makes sense. No, we're not going to do it -- Report uncovers widespread clock blocking, coffee badging -- On-Prem

7 days ago

Campaigners urge UK PM Starmer to dump digital ID wheeze before it's announced -- Labour accused of sneaking in plans it denied before the general election -- Security

7 days ago

Europe's largest city council delays fix to disastrous Oracle system once more -- System meant to go live in 2021 costing £20M awaits reimplementation with new £170M price tag -- Databases

7 days ago

UK justice minister pressed as court system bug raises fears of hidden case files -- HMCTS expands investigation into IT flaw after whistleblowers draw Horizon comparisons -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Solar flair: Logitech's K980 Signature Slim keyboard runs on rays - HANDS ON - Not one to keep in the dark, and light on features as a result - Personal Tech - 24 Sep 2025 - | 37

5 days ago

The first rule of liquid cooling is 'Don't wet the chip.' Microsoft disagrees -- Redmond suggests 'Microfluidics' – hair-thin channels etched on silicon to let coolants flow -- Systems

7 days ago

Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone usage ordinance -- Symbolic gesture aims to help citizens sleep. Next: Doing something about people who walk while using their phones -- Legal

7 days ago

Micron close to selling all the high-bandwidth memory it will make in 2026 - High demand and DRAM shortages send margins soaring - Systems - 24 Sep 2025 - |

7 days ago

India's IT minister moves to Zoho's spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise -- Watch out, Microsoft and Google -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Feds put finger on H-1B lottery scale to favor higher earners -- The higher the wage level, the more entries they'll get in the draw -- Public Sector

8 days ago

OnePlus leaves researchers on read over Android bug that exposes texts - Updated - Rapid7 warns flaw could let any app peek at your SMS, but smartphone vendor won't pick up - Security - 23 Sep 2025 - | 11

6 days ago

MX Linux 25 reaches beta testing – complete with systemd -- Fancy a taste? The version based on Debian 'Trixie' is nearly ready, but not all the changes may be entirely welcome -- OSes

8 days ago

SIM city: Feds say 100,000-card farms could have killed cell towers in NYC -- Secret Service seizes 300-server network allegedly tied to nation-state hackers -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

Oracle gets to store US users' TikTok data, says Trump -- President to announce details on Big Red's storage and security deal for Chinese social media phenomenon later this week -- PaaS + IaaS

8 days ago

Workers fear for their jobs as JLR's latest shutdown extended -- With no idea when engines restart, families gear down on spending ahead of Christmas -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

Slow Wi-Fi? Add houseplants to the list of suspects -- Pass the tinfoil hat -- Offbeat

8 days ago

UK.gov ditching 'Red' risk data sharing project after slashing £0.5B budget in half -- Meanwhile Lotus Notes still lurks in some Office of National Statistics systems, for now -- Public Sector

8 days ago

UK chancellor Putin the blame on Russia for cyber chaos, but evidence says otherwise -- Reeves points finger at Moscow in interview when authorities reckon it's local lads -- Cyber-crime

8 days ago

Node4's £45M Tisski takeover ends in tears – and £2.4M in damages -- Messy ruling details a perfect storm of NAO, MoD, and Aquila contract failures -- Public Sector

8 days ago

How I learned to stop worrying and love the datacenter - Comment - Stargates or black holes? Risks and rewards from the B(r)itbarn boom - On-Prem - 23 Sep 2025 - | 24

1 day ago

China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to stop emoting online -- Cracks down on malicious pessimism and expressions of ennui -- Public Sector

8 days ago

One of TikTok's network boffins says it causes 'massive data wastage' -- China-funded research suggests video app's new American operators might byte off 40 percent more traffic than they can chew -- Networks

8 days ago

Two heads better than one? Oracle gives the co-CEO model another shot -- Cloud and apps chiefs step up as Safra Catz moves upstairs. Larry remains Larry -- CxO

9 days ago

Don't despair. iFixit says you can still repair that iPhone Air -- Thinnest yet still fixable, though not without effort -- Personal Tech

9 days ago

Windows 11 update leaves Blu-ray and TV apps stuttering -- Protected content in some Blu-ray and DVD applications broken -- OSes

9 days ago

Linux has the lineage to out-evolve the deadliest of cyber threats, given the right push - Opinion - Darwin would understand microkernels. We need microkernels that understand Darwin. OSes - 22 Sep 2025 - | 26

7 days ago

'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service' -- Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls -- Databases

9 days ago

Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs -- The Register looks forward to learning more about a possible Dell hyperscale sovereign social SaaS platform -- Public Sector

9 days ago

Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won't bother Beijing - Asia In Brief - PLUS: India ponders tax breaks for datacenters; Samsung plans hiring spree; Taliban bans fiber internet; and more - AI + ML - 22 Sep 2025 - | 7

8 days ago

Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls -- Optus was unaware network changes caused a problem, and ignored some customer complaints -- Networks

10 days ago

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact -- Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment -- Public Sector

11 days ago

Sorry, but DeepSeek didn't really train its flagship model for $294,000 -- Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation -- AI + ML

12 days ago

Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees - Comment - Latest marketing blitz for a solution seeking a problem... and a killer app - AI + ML - 19 Sep 2025 - | 92

6 days ago

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants -- Judge rules there's no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out -- Science

12 days ago

One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant -- Until Microsoft lobbed it into a virtual volcano -- Security

12 days ago

Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators -- Another blow for the legislation as Parliament continues to hear stakeholder views -- Legal

12 days ago

MI6 reveals 'Silent Courier' dark web portal upgrade it hopes will help it recruit new spies -- YouTube vids explain digital tradecraft to reach spooks over Tor or VPN without blowing your cover -- Security

12 days ago

Pigs will fly: Uber Eats to trial drone delivery -- Teams with UAV operator Flytrex for service that moves meals in minutes -- Personal Tech

12 days ago

Intel and Nvidia sitting in a tree, NVLink-I-N-G -- But still no hero customer for Chipzilla's Foundry biz -- Systems

13 days ago

Crims bust through SonicWall to grab sensitive config data -- Vendor pulls plug on cloud backup feature, urges admins to reset passwords and re-secure devices -- Cyber-crime

13 days ago

The Notepad that knew too much: Humble text editor gets unnecessary AI infusion -- Copilot+ PC users can run the AI models locally. Others may need a subscription. -- Software

13 days ago

Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder -- Dashboard loop caused API outage that was hard to troubleshoot -- Networks

13 days ago

Panda-monium: China-backed cyber crew spoof Congressman to dig for dirt on US trade talks -- Proofpoint spots efforts to spy on US economic policy nerds -- Security

13 days ago