Friday, December 26, 2025 6:11 PM ET
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AI faces closing time at the cash buffet -- Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return?4 hours ago
Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws - AI goes off the rails ... because of shoddy guardrails3 hours ago
Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow - Investment and interest have outpaced technology and society - AI + ML - 25 Dec 2025 - | 244 minutes ago
Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era -- When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.1 month ago
Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan -- APAC in Brief -- PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong's Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more! -- Public Sector4 days ago
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech -- Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty2 days ago
NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift -- Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting4 minutes ago
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows -- Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card2 days ago
The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked -- Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech2 days ago
Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat -- Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it2 days ago
Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws -- AI goes off the rails ... because of shoddy guardrails1 day ago
Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance -- ATC: 'I don't know if you can hear me but cleared to land'3 hours ago
Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome -- The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away -- AI + ML1 hour ago
From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year -- Practice makes perfect -- Security5 hours ago
From video games to cyber defense: If you don't think like a hacker, you won't win - interview - In supercharged AI race, defenders need to keep up - Security - 26 Dec 2025 - | 853 minutes ago
Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed -- Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls -- Networks9 hours ago
'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work -- Opinion -- Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool -- AI + ML11 hours ago
IT team forced to camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss's side project -- On Call Y2K -- The lack of trust that leads to outsourcing can be expensive -- Columnists15 hours ago
AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top? -- Hands On -- Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths -- Systems1 day ago
You don't need Linux to run free and open source software -- Part 2 -- Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows -- OSes1 day ago
Salesforce's ChatGPT integration is really about stopping customers from leaking their own data -- Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the 'trust boundary' -- AI + ML1 day ago
AI faces closing time at the cash buffet -- opinion -- Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return? -- AI + ML2 days ago
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows - Opinion - Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card2 days ago
Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance -- ATC: 'I don't know if you can hear me but cleared to land' -- AI + ML2 days ago
US shuts down phisherfolk's $14.6M password-hoarding platform -- Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts -- Cyber-crime2 days ago
Waymo pings updates to San Francisco fleet to prevent power outage chaos 2.0 -- Meanwhile, new outages, linked to storms, are pelting the area -- AI + ML2 days ago
Sight of Clippy, Internet Explorer scares baby -- Reg reader introduces newborn to Microsoft ugly sweater. Child not amused -- Offbeat2 days ago
One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement - Feature - Stuck in pilot purgatory? Confused about returns? You're not alone - AI + ML - 24 Dec 2025 - | 541 hour ago
North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking -- A newspaper misprint began a Christmas Eve tradition joining holiday cheer with military technology -- Offbeat2 days ago
NASA tries Curiosity rover's Mastcam to work out where MAVEN might be -- Time running out for savin' MAVEN as stricken spacecraft still silent as Mars solar conjunction nears -- Science2 days ago
Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date -- Part 1 -- Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026 -- OSes2 days ago
AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix's AHV hypervisor - VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options - Virtualization - 24 Dec 2025 - |2 days ago
US punishes China's 'dominance' of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs -- World War Fee -- President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027 -- Public Sector2 days ago
Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia3 days ago
Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing3 days ago
HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand7 days ago
Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition8 days ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good - Who, Me? Mousey wouldn't work, wah-wah-wah2 days ago
ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled 'Buy security company, make it Armis' Customers will be able to see vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and close them with automated workflows. SaaS - 23 Dec 2025 - |2 days ago
21K Nissan customers' data stolen in Red Hat raid -- Automaker's third security snafu in three years -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth -- Spacecraft set to burn up in a few weeks, but it could have been worse -- Science3 days ago
Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug -- Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas -- Patches3 days ago
Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here's how to try it -- You'll need to be using a Windows Insider build to see it -- OSes3 days ago
Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time -- Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster -- AI + ML3 days ago
Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome8 days ago
GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 20269 days ago
Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers10 days ago
Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code11 days ago
Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature7 days ago
Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming -- The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI -- PaaS + IaaS3 days ago
Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows - Bork!Bork!Bork! Menu.exe not found - Offbeat - 23 Dec 2025 - | 426 hours ago
Project Silica's glass storage archive tech progress3 days ago
Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond3 days ago
Optera's room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive5 days ago
Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration7 days ago
Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year -- Cab drivers protested Uber's arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs -- AI + ML3 days ago
France's post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident' -- Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix -- Public Sector3 days ago
Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried -- 25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous -- Science3 days ago
AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post7 days ago
Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts -- And it's especially dangerous because the code works -- Cyber-crime4 days ago
Palo Alto's new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs -- SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M -- Security4 days ago
SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year -- Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list -- AI + ML4 days ago
Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen' Interview - Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year - AI + ML - 22 Dec 2025 - | 1413 hours ago
Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China -- Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing -- Systems4 days ago
Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture -- Anna's Archive's idealism doesn't quite survive its own blog post -- Security4 days ago
Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim -- Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK -- Cyber-crime4 days ago
EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031 -- Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics -- Public Sector4 days ago
Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges -- Hands On -- Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle -- OSes4 days ago
AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter -- Rising rack densities are driving changes from grid connection to chip-level delivery -- The Future of the Datacenter4 days ago
Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation1 month ago
How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption1 month ago
Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix1 month ago
AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last? -- Total operational capacity just keeps rising -- Systems4 days ago
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 -- Plans move to Rust, with help from AI2 days ago
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again -- Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works3 days ago
There's so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM -- SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion4 days ago
Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency -- On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs4 days ago
Google sends Dark Web Report to its dead services graveyard -- Infosec In Brief -- PLUS: Texas sues alleged TV spies; The Cloud is full of holes; Hospital leaked its own data; And more -- Security5 days ago
Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss -- Interview -- What if AI vendors focused on the demand side? -- AI + ML5 days ago
The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post7 days ago
Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul -- We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg -- Storage6 days ago
Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck - hands on - Custom-designed $10,000 scooter goes 65mph, has a 60-mile range, and runs silently - Offbeat - 19 Dec 2025 - | 881 hour ago
ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US -- Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members -- Cyber-crime7 days ago
DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission -- But not Phil Collins, sadly -- AI + ML7 days ago
WatchGuard sounds alarm as critical Firebox flaw comes under active attack -- Newly disclosed vulnerability already being abused, users urged to lock down exposed firewalls -- Networks7 days ago
Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo -- Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people -- Cyber-crime7 days ago
NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits -- UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos -- Public Sector7 days ago
pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree -- Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen -- OSes7 days ago
BOFH - : All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner - Episode 24 - Minor firmware issues coincide with workplace absence among leadership - BOFH - 19 Dec 2025 - | 432 days ago
HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10 -- Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform -- Patches7 days ago
UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires -- Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade -- Networks7 days ago
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud - Exclusive - Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution - PaaS + IaaS - 19 Dec 2025 - | 7211 hours ago