Tuesday, September 29, 2026 4:04 PM ET
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Google ending ChromeOS support two years early -- Rise of the Googlebook means ChromeOS users get eight years' support, not a decade8 hours ago
Microsoft sends PDFs to strange new worlds instead of SharePoint -- Use SharePoint Online? Keen on PDFs? Then you won't be keen on the latest Word bug1 hour ago
Open source tool distills Jev so you can run it locally -- Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream1 hour ago
BORK!BORK!BORK! What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger1 hour ago
OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark -- Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop1 hour ago
UK tax collector bets up to £2.4B on Salesforce for taxpayer CRM overhaul -- 10-year deal covers customer records, case management, portals, analytics, and AI... extensions possible to 20415 hours ago
security - FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you' Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills'25 minutes ago
Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputation -- New business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai25 minutes ago
Close the observability gap with agentic observability -- SPONSORED POST: How agentic AI, real-time visibility, and stronger governance can help enterprises protect critical services and manage increasingly complex IT environments.41 minutes ago
AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified -- Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap1 hour ago
security - Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services - Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?2 hours ago
Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business -- Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well3 hours ago
ON-PREM -- Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment -- Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself4 hours ago
Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning -- OPINION -- Just wait until you hear the bad news41 minutes ago
Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineers -- Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away7 hours ago
Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short -- SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three7 hours ago
security - Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush - RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations5 hours ago
public sector - Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference - Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's £330M NHS data platform deal8 hours ago
cyber-crime - Dutch police arrest 'security pro' in ShinyHunters probe - UPDATED - Flashbangs reportedly deployed during operation as crime group denies any connection to suspect1 hour ago
applications - Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You're Fabric app devs now - Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude1 hour ago
storage - Which copy of the file is the real one? EVENT - A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.12 hours ago
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'4 days ago
EXCLUSIVE -- Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back9 hours ago
Microsoft's Copilot super app comes with a meter attached11 hours ago
Who me? -- Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data17 hours ago
New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x2 days ago
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute -- Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols4 days ago
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Patchy compliance is an argument for stronger enforcement, not abandoning the project -- Rupert Goodwins15 days ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's -- Corey Quinn5 days ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols18 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins19 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Corey Quinn19 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols26 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins26 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce1 month ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Rupert Goodwins1 month ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges - Bruce Davie19 days ago
DEVOPS -- Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes -- Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles10 hours ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure -- What's wrong with being a great wholesaler?11 hours ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns -- During testing, the model showed it can violate security rules more often than its predecessors1 day ago
AI AND ML -- French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs -- Because sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button1 day ago
storage - How many times are you paying for the same file? EVENT - A Register dinner in Midtown on 27 October takes on the file infrastructure distributed teams still run and nobody chose, off the record1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's Copilot super app comes with a meter attached -- Redmond calls its pricing model an 'evolution' as advanced AI racks up usage charges1 hour ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI agents went the long way round for UN data -- Research suggests ChatGPT maker's agents got surprisingly creative when a UN data API proved less than cooperative10 hours ago
saas - Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back - EXCLUSIVE - Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over1 day ago
cyber-crime - Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months - Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants -- Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house1 day ago
ai and ml - Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy - KETTLE - The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only1 day ago
public sector - HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B - Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 203612 hours ago
columnists - Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage - OPINION - Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up1 day ago
security - Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack - Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes15 hours ago
software - Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data - Who me? Friday afternoon is not the time for snap decisions, but weekends are useful to cover your tracks1 day ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought -- Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline25 minutes ago
Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia -- asia in brief -- PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser -- The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT2 days ago
columnists - Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money - OPINION - The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone -- Your spare Android won't come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should1 day ago
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites -- Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats3 days ago
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust -- An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust3 days ago
Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes -- Once a single-scalar home, spreadsheet cells are being redeveloped to handle many tenants1 day ago
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall -- Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity4 days ago
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script -- More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast3 hours ago
New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x -- Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%1 day ago
cyber-crime - ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business' EXCLUSIVE - Data theft and extortion biz, that is4 days ago
Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah -- Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 20284 days ago
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access -- Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app5 hours ago
cyber-crime - Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid - Familiar fingerprints point to Kim's regime ... to the surprise of nobody1 day ago
Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug -- Latest: Microsoft rolls back update1 day ago
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown -- Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.1 day ago
STORAGE -- Raspberry Pi surfs memory crunch to record first half -- A well-timed RAM stockpile helped keep boards shipping while rivals struggled for memory4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows update leaves some virtual desktops staring into the void -- Users may need to summon Explorer manually after signing in1 day ago
LEGAL -- Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels -- Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Asahi fork embraces LLMs and lands Linux on the M4 Mac mini -- Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks4 days ago
CHANNEL -- Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory -- High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch4 days ago
bofh - BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting - EPISODE 18 - Putting the 'om' in computing3 days ago
systems - Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - FEATURE - Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies7 days ago
cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?12 days 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 procurement2 months ago
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop1 day ago
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain1 day ago
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public5 days ago
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in7 days ago
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers19 days ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech25 days ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan1 month ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester1 month ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much2 months ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow2 months ago
Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked -- Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information9 hours ago
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers -- DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside18 hours ago
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective! -- Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation4 days ago
STORAGE -- Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right -- Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.25 minutes ago
ON-PREM -- UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters -- Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud -- PARTNER CONTENT: Huawei Cloud strengthens the silicon bedrock on the cloud4 days ago
SCIENCE -- Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer' -- The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- 2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop -- Desktop AMIs 'designed to behave as much like Windows as possible' now available as an on ramp for new users4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter -- Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here4 days ago
SECURITY -- Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs -- Operator's AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan18 hours ago
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI -- AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD22 hours ago
Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week -- Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit4 days ago
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club -- Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too7 days ago
Marvell pushes GlobalFoundries to light up wafer production -- It might be the next trillion-dollar company, but it'll need some help on the supply side to do it11 days ago
Huawei's next-gen Ascend NPUs could become China's best option -- 960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom11 days ago
APPLICATIONS -- F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown -- The Chocolate Factory is tightening the screws on Android sideloading, but the FOSS app market is rolling out a huge overhaul and planning for the future4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real -- With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length4 days ago
SECURITY -- Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing -- 'SalesBleed' security flaws 'lead to very unexpected consequences'1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi? -- We hope Zuck's Muse Charm doesn't die if you neglect it4 days ago
SECURITY -- Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows -- Security researchers report that Microsoft considers the side-channel leak of file events to be by design1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle -- AI-assisted bug hunting is helping pile up vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them, so Canonical is picking up the pace1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market -- Sub-$200 shipments forecast to shrink 40% by 2030 as component costs climb5 days ago
SECURITY -- Someone went shopping in ASUS's eShop – for customer data -- Contact details and order records accessed, but PC maker is keeping schtum on how many customers are affected4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze -- A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB -- Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services4 days ago
Resilient critical infrastructure -- In this discussion, experts unpack what the Bill means for boards and their ability to keep essential services running and recover from disruption.21 days ago
Get agentic AI into production -- Joann Starke of HPE talks to The Register's Tim Phillips about getting agentic AI into production without losing your grip on it.15 days ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.19 days ago
A Flexible Path from VMware to Nutanix on Azure -- Nutanix experts discuss VMware customer challenges and key considerations for planning a migration to the public cloud.1 day ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.11 days ago
Business of the Year: Organized Cybercrime. -- If there were an award for the industry making the biggest moves this year, organized cybercrime would be a top contender.4 days ago
Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.11 days ago
Data Sovereignty in the AI Era -- As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .11 days ago
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SECURITY -- Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise -- Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and Wiz's Red Agent team up to protect hospitals, public transit, and tech4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues -- Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger4 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Meta ads steered Polish Android users into a premium-rate billing trap -- CERT Polska linked 852 promotions to 17 Google Play apps capable of sending costly texts or starting recurring subscriptions4 days ago
HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app -- Customers say the unannounced change also cut off web access that relied on mobile authentication5 days ago
For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over -- Its vector search is ready, but coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases, says the foundation's chairman5 days ago
Experts question whether Salesforce demo breaches SAP API policy -- For the German vendor, greater challenges may lie ahead, as rivals seek to control the user experience5 days ago
Government contractor exposed path to immigration records -- IT took a shortcut when the boss was away, and it led to danger!1 day ago
channel - India's outsourced software industry grows 9.5 percent to reach $239 billion25 minutes ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's Astra model went for a drive and no one died -- First LLM to pass test did it in a parking lot at snail's pace, at considerable expense, but it still counts for something5 days ago
SECURITY -- OpenAI agents 'infiltrated Australian government website' -- Canberra is fuming after AI lab sent the news to a generic unattended email address1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Mop the slop from your LinkedIn feed with a new open-source Chrome extension -- Jev-powered Slop Mop demonstrates another great use case for probabilistic, non-chatty AI model5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal -- Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user18 hours ago
Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line -- Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'18 days ago
Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push20 days ago
Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin22 days ago
AMD Buys World Labs For $8.2 Billion To Get AI Model Cred5 hours ago
IonQ: There Is One CPU To Rule Error Correction Decoding4 days ago
Improving Quantum Error Correction By Meshing Surface Code With IBM's Heavy-Hex Architecture6 days ago
Vector Search Is Now A Data Type, But The Money Math Has Not Gone Away7 days ago
NetApp unveils fastest file system on the planet with great raft of other announcements2 hours ago
MongoDB accelerates and scales out database, launches Atlas AI Engine7 hours ago
SimplyBlock provides simpler OpenShift disaster recovery13 hours ago
Lenovo's quiet Infinidat buy17 hours ago
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust2 days ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K9 days ago
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds12 days ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up24 days ago
Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion -- Bull, the system builder behind JUPITER, takes delivery of SiPearl's long-awaited Rhea1 CPUs6 days ago
Someone's attacking a critical 0-day RCE in F5 BIG-IP APM -- Good news: there's a patch. Bad news: both CISA and F5 warn that it's under active exploitation4 days ago
Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology -- Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options6 days ago
Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper -- Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance6 days ago
An Epyc trip to Venice: Everything we do and don't know about AMD's 256-core monster chip -- 16 channels of DDR5, 5 GHz clock speeds, and support for CXL 3.1 memory god boxes? What's not to like?6 days ago
Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint -- New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction6 days ago
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack -- Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals4 days ago
Closing the observability gap for the AI-ready enterprise -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Why AI-driven operations need a data-rich view of the network6 days ago
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them -- Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities6 days ago
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch -- Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?6 days ago
British regulator takes a hard look at Pornhub's Apple-powered age checks -- Regulator wants to know whether parent Aylo did its homework before reopening the door to UK iPhone users2 days ago
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note25 days ago
Swedish celebs campaign for public rudeness ... to prevent cyber scams -- The campaign follows a highly profitable year for crooks targeting the over-60s5 days ago
Whisky merchant Master of Malt confirms customer data spilt -- Attackers had four days to drink in names, addresses, emails and phone numbers3 days ago
BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth -- MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored6 days ago
UK's uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes -- XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests6 days ago
Why security belongs in the network -- SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Merging security into the network makes enterprise protection more agile6 days ago
Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders -- Developers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key11 days ago
personal tech - Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call - One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users4 days ago
software - Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it1 month ago
Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support1 month ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees1 month ago
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered1 month ago
ai and ml - AI model watermarking changes agent behavior - Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals12 days ago
Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in Claude's head -- Mustafa Suleyman claims model welfare language could make future systems harder to control – while sparing OpenAI the same scrutiny12 days ago
Anthropic and OpenAI look to Uncle Sam to make them too big to fail -- American model devs are trying to convince Washington to cement their dominance14 days ago
Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there's no ROI in that -- Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner14 days ago
With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race -- AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)26 days ago
Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent -- There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable15 days ago
The myth of killer AI is a self-serving attempt at regulatory capture -- Skynet is coming soon, and also there's this Nigerian prince with a $20 million fortune who wants to give it to you15 days ago
AI AND ML -- Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down -- Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna6 days ago
Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions - 'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C24 days ago
AI AND ML -- Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team -- Not that there's anything wrong with it6 days ago
SECURITY -- ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated' -- This time it's personal5 days ago
APPLICATIONS -- ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline -- FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM6 days ago
NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past -- BigDiskBuster leaves Microsoft's antivirus running but unable to install updates5 days ago
Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode -- China's AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws5 days ago
Privacy group slams EU for changing the data rules to cater to AI -- Schrems campaign raises specter of another legal challenge as legislators propose changes to GDPR7 days ago
UK cops arrest 2 EvilTokens suspects, Microsoft seizes 50 phishing kit websites -- Used by crims to compromise 12K+ email inboxes across 10K+ global orgs5 days ago
Who signed off on that AI agent? Nobody? Thought so. -- SPONSORED FEATURE: AI agents may be unpredictable. Who they are, what they can do, and who owns them shouldn't be.7 days ago
Well-done hack flames 3.2M Burger King Russia users -- HIBP confirms cybercrims stuck a straw into marketing reservoir, sucking up six-years of leaky Whopper secrets6 days ago
USA's Venezuela takeover comes with bonus exposure to Chinese AI surveillance tech -- Think tank points out that companies banned by Washington will help run the regime that Uncle Sam now controls7 days ago
AI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom -- Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say8 days ago
Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar -- Eve's dropping in on Alice and Bob8 days ago
China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware -- Beware the SparroWocky, my son! The backdoor that bites...8 days ago
London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes -- City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and extracted customer data8 days ago
Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10 -- ISE authentication bypass under active attack just days after another Cisco zero-day sent admins scrambling to patch4 days ago
Test environment let anyone access live customer data -- Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.10 days ago
Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them -- Platforms comply just enough to avoid being blocked, leaving the regulator chasing debt10 days ago
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies3 hours ago
Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks4 hours ago
OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark5 hours ago
OpenAI's dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon18 hours ago
JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources21 hours ago
EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels - Long-delayed sustainability labels land as Commission eyes minimum efficiency standards7 days ago
Register reader hit with surprise bill after Microsoft portals disagreed -- Did Copilot write the synchronization code?7 days ago
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI -- First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Campaigners tell Burnham not to trade away the UK's tech tax to please Trump -- Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president6 days ago
DATABASES -- NHS Trust IT blunder overwrites 11 years of maternity records -- Human error sent reused instructions at the wrong database, taking historical access logs with it7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation' -- Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival -- Amix gains newer CPU support and a package manager as Open Look joins the retro comeback6 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Gartner predicts 55% of enterprise VMware users will be investigating an exit by 2029 -- Chasing pack has its problems too, with maturity, cost, and complex licenses6 days ago
AI AND ML -- California tightens datacenter rules on water and power -- Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope7 days ago
Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug7 days ago
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap11 days ago
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good -- Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible13 days ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute21 days ago
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals -- PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; and more22 days ago
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox -- No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices25 days ago
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud -- This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale25 days ago
Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed -- New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff28 days ago
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year -- And fly 'significant scale' in 2028 – a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt1 month ago
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them -- USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam7 days ago
Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds - Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic -- Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts5 days ago
SECURITY -- Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts -- 'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing -- 'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains7 days ago
ON-PREM -- London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street -- Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO7 days ago
ON-PREM -- AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land -- Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals -- Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment -- National cyber team confirms the breach, but not whether data was stolen or encrypted6 days ago
ON-PREM -- Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty -- Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door -- Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey7 days ago
Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site - Rival crew demands eight figures and threatens to expose companies that paid to keep quiet6 days ago
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on8 days ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button11 days ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire11 days ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up11 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory1 month ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard1 month ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn1 month ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day1 month ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data2 months ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'2 months ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap2 months ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code2 months ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess3 months ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!3 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet3 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug3 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident3 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in4 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything4 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch4 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving4 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch4 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild4 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it4 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe4 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference4 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo4 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble4 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract4 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction4 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell4 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead4 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office4 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server4 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam4 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key4 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause29 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble4 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good4 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming4 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work2 months ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books4 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people4 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere4 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver4 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'4 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware4 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice4 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company4 months ago
UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below13 days ago
Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite15 days ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider20 days ago
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release25 days ago
Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount1 day ago
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it4 days ago
Europe's internet registry wants governance 'correction' because its 'Executive Board' is not the executive5 days ago
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes6 days ago
In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols6 days ago
Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal8 days ago
Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill11 days ago
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs13 days ago
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient -- US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth8 days ago
Rustaceans warned of job interviews with a malicious payload -- Attackers are courting crate owners with plausible company profiles and booby-trapped recruitment calls7 days ago
It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity -- Please release me, let me close...8 days ago
Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how -- Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'8 days ago
Your cloud survived everything except the real world -- War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem7 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions -- Virtzilla's bet on hyperscale hardware going mainstream didn't excite customers, but may live on7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google joins the 'Oops, our agents hacked someone' club after partner's internet access error -- Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up8 days ago
SYSTEMS -- Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough -- PLUS: Toyota's robot hiring spree; China's CDNs struggle; India to charge for some UPI payments; and more!22 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- How Windows turned months of inactivity into a 7-hour update hostage situation -- Windows is getting more efficient. The updates, not so much7 days ago
SECURITY -- Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve -- High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg7 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- Build AI apps and agents with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL -- AlloyDB for PostgreSQL adds AI capabilities like high-performance vector search to your live database, simplifying AI development.1 day ago
AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth -- Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap10 days ago
Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake -- From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec -- Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache8 days ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K -- The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM7 days ago
Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer -- Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections10 days ago
What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? -- A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger11 hours ago
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink -- 3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance5 days ago
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water -- Meet 'superintelligence' and the 'globalist scheme' – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it6 days ago
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon -- Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain8 days ago
British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky -- Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas11 days ago
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel -- He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to13 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific13 days ago
Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow -- HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up – eventually14 days ago
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?14 days ago
UK's Digital ID walks into a bar... two months after being killed off -- The national scheme may be dead, but digital IDs can now prove you're old enough to buy booze14 days ago
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware16 days ago
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen17 days ago
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades18 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project21 days ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government22 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates25 days ago
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo -- Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense25 days ago
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda -- No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets26 days ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%26 days ago
AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip -- Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend26 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning28 days ago
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again -- This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper29 days ago
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems -- Spike drone defense system is designed to be carried in a rucksack or mounted on top of a vehicle1 month ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads1 month ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense1 month ago
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims -- Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs1 month ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?1 month ago
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast -- Plans to break ground in 2027, produce its own propellant, and power a 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 to orbit1 month ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...1 month ago
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago -- So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it1 month ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck1 month ago
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles -- At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 20271 month ago
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf -- Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust1 month ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost1 month ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches1 month ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster1 month ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job -- Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY1 month ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool -- Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?11 days ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract -- Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award15 days ago
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up11 days ago
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool11 days ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 2213 days ago
Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists -- Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures18 days ago
Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft -- Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded20 days ago
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium -- Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour23 days ago
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury -- Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches22 days ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 202826 days ago
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry27 days ago
AI AND ML -- Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI -- Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel -- Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit8 days ago
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts -- Agentic exploits for the win (again)7 days ago
North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices -- WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B -- AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con13 hours ago