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You don't need Linux to run free and open source software -- Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows

4 hours ago

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 guardrails

3 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 - | 24

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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 Sector

4 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 sovereignty

2 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 upsetting

4 minutes ago

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows -- Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card

2 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 tech

2 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 it

2 days ago

Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws -- AI goes off the rails ... because of shoddy guardrails

1 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 + ML

1 hour ago

From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year -- Practice makes perfect -- Security

5 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 - | 8

53 minutes ago

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed -- Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls -- Networks

9 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 + ML

11 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 -- Columnists

15 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 -- Systems

1 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 -- OSes

1 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 + ML

1 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 + ML

2 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 card

2 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 + ML

2 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-crime

2 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 + ML

2 days ago

Sight of Clippy, Internet Explorer scares baby -- Reg reader introduces newborn to Microsoft ugly sweater. Child not amused -- Offbeat

2 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 - | 54

1 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 -- Offbeat

2 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 -- Science

2 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 -- OSes

2 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 Sector

2 days ago

Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia

3 days ago

Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing

3 days ago

HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand

7 days ago

Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition

8 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-wah

2 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-crime

3 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 -- Science

3 days ago

Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug -- Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas -- Patches

3 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 -- OSes

3 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 + ML

3 days ago

Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

8 days ago

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

9 days ago

Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

10 days ago

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

11 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 Feature

7 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 + IaaS

3 days ago

Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows - Bork!Bork!Bork! Menu.exe not found - Offbeat - 23 Dec 2025 - | 42

6 hours ago

Project Silica's glass storage archive tech progress

3 days ago

Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond

3 days ago

Optera's room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive

5 days ago

Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

7 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 + ML

3 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 Sector

3 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 -- Science

3 days ago

AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post

7 days ago

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts -- And it's especially dangerous because the code works -- Cyber-crime

4 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 -- Security

4 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 + ML

4 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 - | 14

13 hours ago

Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China -- Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing -- Systems

4 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 -- Security

4 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-crime

4 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 Sector

4 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 -- OSes

4 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 Datacenter

4 days ago

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

1 month ago

How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

1 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 Nutanix

1 month ago

AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last? -- Total operational capacity just keeps rising -- Systems

4 days ago

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 -- Plans move to Rust, with help from AI

2 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 ... works

3 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 billion

4 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 PCs

4 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 -- Security

5 days ago

Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss -- Interview -- What if AI vendors focused on the demand side? -- AI + ML

5 days ago

The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post

7 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 -- Storage

6 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 - | 88

1 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-crime

7 days ago

DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission -- But not Phil Collins, sadly -- AI + ML

7 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 -- Networks

7 days ago

Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo -- Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people -- Cyber-crime

7 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 Sector

7 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 -- OSes

7 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 - | 43

2 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 -- Patches

7 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 -- Networks

7 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 - | 72

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