Monday, August 24, 2026 8:29 PM ET
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What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble -- Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators6 hours ago
You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine -- Its own command language, 23 instructions - signs point to 'well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one'51 minutes ago
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot -- The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?51 minutes ago
Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain -- Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side51 minutes ago
YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs -- Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry6 hours ago
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia -- Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 20268 hours ago
ai and ml - Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds - Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services21 minutes ago
Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg -- Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work3 hours ago
Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today -- The version that started to bring all Microsoft's pieces together51 minutes ago
Security - Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant - No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg7 hours ago
Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds -- Complaint: Peripheral maker did not want to unplug itself from higher prices and hand back cash to customers7 hours ago
AI AND ML - Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks - Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop8 hours 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 20279 hours ago
Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric -- Gartner reckons $1.6 trillion year is just the start, and don't expect a bust anytime soon10 hours ago
I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime... or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg -- Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'8 hours ago
ON-PREM - US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years - ... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping12 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows -- Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia's GPUs in the datacenter2 hours ago
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI -- Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine14 hours ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement15 hours ago
SAAS -- Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says10 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it19 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter8 hours ago
DEVOPS -- How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings8 hours ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories -- Mark Pesce8 hours ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic -- Just add smart humans – and a pinch of dog -- Rupert Goodwins3 days ago
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it -- Rupert Goodwins3 days ago
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney -- Corey Quinn7 days ago
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another -- Rupert Goodwins11 days ago
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 - Corey Quinn8 hours ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'16 hours ago
AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries - SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development7 hours ago
Ancient 'Who owns Linux?' case now has one foot very deep in the grave -- Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing1 day ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings -- S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work8 hours 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 day ago
ai and ML -- AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing -- Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity10 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter -- F-B100W adds Bluetooth and step tracking while keeping a two-year battery8 hours ago
SAAS -- Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says -- Show us the money10 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC -- Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature12 hours ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches3 days ago
SickKids children's hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in -- Toronto org says it wasn't the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability2 hours ago
Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials -- Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware3 hours ago
AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand -- Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide3 days ago
'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up -- CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month3 days ago
$10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts -- Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication7 hours ago
Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic -- Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor3 days ago
Microsoft sounds alarm over perfect-10 Entra ID flaw -- Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed10 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still -- One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive1 day ago
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it -- After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job3 days ago
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins -- Cloudy AI is Chinese giant's 'most certain' path to growth as e-commerce slows3 days ago
Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation - Policies and code of conduct breached3 days ago
Security -- Russian snoops add OAuth abuse to targeted phishing campaigns -- Don't click on that State Department meeting invite12 hours ago
AI and ML -- Google tethers Antigravity to enterprise controls amid AI shakeup -- Corporate customers can look forward to easier management of agents in Google Cloud3 days ago
DEVOPS -- Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords -- v 1.27 expands generics to support methods3 days ago
ai and ML -- OpenAI chases Anthropic's biz customers with zero data retention pledge -- With Private Safety Processing, AI biz promises discreet, automated prompt surveillance3 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla -- 5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency3 days ago
SECURITY -- US Bank investigates LockBit's claims as ransomware crims set pay-or-leak deadline -- Follow the money14 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads -- Per-process NPU metrics arrive as one more venerable Windows utility risks feature bloat3 days ago
Researcher tricks Apple's Find My into sharing location data with Linux -- Clever protocol wrangling gets iBiz-only people tracking working on a non-iGadget2 days ago
Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat -- Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot4 days ago
Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September -- Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill4 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ransomware crook poses as recovery firm to steal payments from fellow extortionists -- Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- NetBSD 11 lands with RISC-V support and lightning-fast VM boots -- Venerable Unix-like remains reassuringly old-school, if you're willing to put in the work3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- £37M SAP overhaul could extend Capgemini's run with UK tax collector to 28 years -- HMRC insists latest deal followed fair and competitive procurement3 days ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 month ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?3 months ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits - Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement1 month ago
European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan18 days ago
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester24 days ago
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much28 days ago
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow1 month ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical1 month ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester1 month ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road1 month ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist1 month ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well2 months ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend2 months ago
AI AND ML -- Grok chat duped into swallowing injected instructions -- A spoonful of encryption helps the malware go down3 days ago
Security -- French tax authority says break-in exposed data of 600K, including some private messages -- Stolen details range from contact information to household finances and withholding rates3 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI glitch locks out vetted cyber researchers – and some can't get back in -- Affected users say support cannot restore their previous approval or override the new decision3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft probes reports of games taking exception to Windows 11's August update -- Affected titles crash, freeze, or restart PCs while Redmond works out whether it is to blame3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Software development and tech services in the cross-hairs as AI marches on -- Analysts warn of disruption to long-established tech activity3 days ago
SCIENCE -- No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue -- LINK will attempt a rendezvous, but its failed reaction wheels rule out grabbing and boosting the observatory4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- SparkyLinux 8.4 rekindles support for 32-bit PCs -- Debian 13 derivative offers minimal x86 images and lets CDE ride again4 days ago
SECURITY -- AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice -- Fortunately, the company had a policy of checking source code on GitHub first3 days ago
IBM says super-chill boxes that connect through 'cryogenic tunnels' will get quantum computers scaling -- Absolute zero inside is much cooler than Intel inside4 days ago
Microsoft ends one of the last ways to buy VMware without big bundles -- Broadcom's VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure4 days ago
AMD inches closer to its goal of making AI suck less ... energy -- House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago5 days ago
YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs -- Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry7 hours ago
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble -- Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators6 hours ago
Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble -- Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power3 days ago
Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to 'supply chain' issues -- It seems like Nvidia's not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon5 days ago
'Not a theoretical risk,' feds warn as attackers use AI-made code to hack critical infrastructure controllers -- 'It is an active threat'3 days ago
SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs -- Remote functions bring type-safe remote procedure calls right into Web page components4 days ago
Google pits Marvell against Broadcom as it chases AI crown - And Marvell just offered the Chocolate Factory a $12.2B stake to sweeten the deal4 days ago
AI and ML -- Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS -- Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?4 days ago
SECURITY -- ICE boss to agents: Leave the Meta spy glasses at home -- 'Personally owned body-worn cameras are prohibited,' ICE tells The Reg. Because the last thing DHS needs is more proof of misconduct3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Epic Games dismisses Apple's simplified EU App Store fees as 'junk' -- Consumer group sees improvements on paper but warns the devil remains in the detail4 days ago
Security -- Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate -- CEO apologizes for police misuse as activists call for vandal action against license plate cameras3 days ago
AI AND ML -- More than half of Americans now view AI negatively -- Concern continues to climb for adults under 30, as people fear being replaced by AI4 days ago
Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover -- Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print4 days ago
Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world -- Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker5 days ago
GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm -- Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral4 days ago
F5 and Scality: Enhanced AI data delivery at scale -- As AI and analytics workloads scale up, organizations face challenges with storage inefficiencies, inconsistent performance, and more.19 days ago
Taming Hybrid Cloud Chaos: Secure and Efficient Kubernetes Across Clouds -- Extending containerized applications to hybrid cloud and edge infrastructure often doubles operational overhead before delivering real agility.25 days ago
Unlocking AI edge performance with precision liquid cooling -- The world needs more compute power – and it needs it closer to where data is being created. But there's a snag.51 minutes ago
How to prepare for the coming wave of autonomous attacks -- AI has handed attackers a capability most security programmes were never built to face: finding architectural flaws, at machine speed.13 days ago
AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap -- This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption.10 days ago
The Leverage Economy: Inside the Economics of Cyber Extortion -- Learn why outcomes are harder to forecast, which organizations are most exposed, and how prepared companies can respond with clarity.24 days ago
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ON-PREM -- Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up -- DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims -- Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle4 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning -- Clamp, flash, repeat – no separate IO board or host computer required4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards -- Those legacy systems won't fix themselves4 days ago
Australian hotel chain leaks guests' PII after breach at third-party database operator -- Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties4 days ago
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance -- Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack6 days ago
ai and ml - OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security21 minutes ago
SECURITY -- Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments -- Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Study finds Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data -- Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, survey shows5 days ago
Security -- CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug -- Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks4 days ago
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions -- New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way1 month ago
A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32 -- New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.151 month ago
Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites -- Flaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide1 month ago
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan1 month ago
IBM Pushes System Design To Reach Ultra-Cold Temperatures For Quantum5 days ago
Cerebras Overclocks WSE-3 Waferscale Engine To Boost Inference Oomph In "Nexus" CS-45 days ago
Quantum Startup Qarakal Takes Lessons From Classical Systems With Pangaea Architecture6 days ago
Cisco Can Finally Sell Lots Of Supercomputers And Their Networks7 days ago
Storage News Ticker - 24 August 20263 hours ago
Gartner weaves enterprise storage magic spells - again10 hours ago
Forrester's object storage wave leaves out Cloudian, MinIO and many others13 hours ago
Storage News Ticker - 21 August3 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings10 hours ago
Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords3 days ago
SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs4 days ago
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore6 days ago
Security -- Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse -- Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70 -- Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online5 days ago
OS PLatforms -- Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu -- Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory5 days ago
Security -- Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself -- How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions -- Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Passport out-of-control at French airport -- Papers please. Windows is watching5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment -- Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails -- Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact5 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find -- Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data5 days ago
CXO -- UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7% -- Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills5 days ago
AI and ml -- Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI -- $10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced -- If you're still talking about 'DirSync' or 'Active Directory' instead of 'Entra', and need to explain why, this is the site for you5 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports24 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains -- Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards5 days ago
DEVOPS -- Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore -- Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations5 days ago
AI and ml -- Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales -- AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration6 days ago
ON-PREM -- Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks -- Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit6 days ago
Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS -- Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads7 days ago
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate -- Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience6 days ago
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers -- After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers7 days ago
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees4 days ago
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered4 days ago
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it4 days ago
personal tech - Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem - We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days1 month ago
OFFBEAT - Backup and running? Not this digital sign1 month ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC1 month ago
SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security1 month ago
Ai and ML - Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU - EU rules cited as reason for effort to trace AI output ancestry13 days ago
Claude Code puts auto mode in the driver's seat -- Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive2 days ago
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default -- Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools3 days ago
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN -- A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages1 month ago
'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes -- Human did 10% of the job,AI did 90%1 month ago
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash -- Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI3 days ago
'Asimov was right' about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director -- Humans will get the AI models they deserve16 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release -- Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures -- Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak6 days ago
AI AND ml -- Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028 -- Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns6 days ago
SECURITY -- Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants -- McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials5 days ago
AI and Ml -- Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin -- Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone6 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over6 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that5 days ago
Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too -- On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI5 days ago
OS Platforms -- Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says 'new normal' means he had to do it now ... or never? -- Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support6 days ago
AI + ML -- Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again -- Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can't say when it will arrive -- Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service5 days ago
Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in -- Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes10 days ago
Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak -- Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated11 days ago
Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor -- Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode11 days ago
SECURITY - Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground - Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine12 days ago
Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you're actually chatting with the right person - One big caveat, though: You need your contact's phone number2 hours ago
421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one -- Sysadmins, welcome to your new norm11 days ago
DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi -- This is why we can't have nice things, people12 days ago
Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers -- Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent12 days ago
You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine51 minutes ago
Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks3 hours ago
ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach10 hours ago
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones11 hours ago
$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack12 hours ago
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia13 hours ago
If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will2 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice3 days ago
Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it3 days ago
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI -- PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!5 days ago
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do -- Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'6 days ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change8 days ago
SECURITY -- ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses -- Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words -- 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it7 days ago
AI and ML -- DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in -- Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- 1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack -- Another one bites the dust6 days ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology10 days ago
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records -- Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage6 days ago
OFFBEAT - Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon3 days ago
Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal -- Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 202713 days ago
OVH Cloud warns of 87% price hikes to help it cover RAMpocalypse costs -- Gaming servers get the steepest rises but sticker shock is also coming to conventional instances running on old and new boxes13 days ago
LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity -- Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved14 days ago
Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn -- Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources19 days ago
Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges -- Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough20 days ago
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing -- Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating23 days ago
The majority of corporate IT is now off premises for the first time -- Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time25 days ago
US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations -- Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland4 days ago
CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B -- Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending12 days ago
SECURITY -- Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure -- Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down -- Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education7 days ago
CHANNEL -- TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant -- 70,000 customers will join the collective, whose name and leader remain unknown7 days ago
Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers' details exposed in logistics breach -- Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down7 days ago
BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime -- Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza8 days ago
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed -- Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected7 days ago
AI and ML -- Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you -- Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support -- Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter7 days ago
SECURITY -- New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs -- Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online7 days ago
Ai and ML -- OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging -- 'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories7 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Give Google the boot by building your own search engine -- Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity -- Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop9 days ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory16 hours ago
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard7 days ago
Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn14 days ago
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day21 days ago
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data28 days ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap1 month ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code1 month ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess1 month ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!2 months ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet2 months ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug2 months ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident2 months ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in2 months ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything3 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch3 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving3 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch3 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild3 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it3 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe3 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference3 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo3 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble3 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract3 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction3 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell3 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead3 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office3 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server3 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam3 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key3 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause3 months ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble3 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good3 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming3 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work1 month ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books3 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people3 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere3 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver3 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'3 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware3 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice3 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company3 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it3 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe3 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery3 months ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'3 months ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league3 months ago
N-able God mode flaw: Vendor confirms attackers reached customer networks as second hotfix lands17 days ago
'Humans will be a rounding error on the internet' says Cloudflare exec17 days ago
Chinese router vendor denies its firmware contains backdoors – but pauses downloads to fix security issues anyway18 days ago
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner24 days ago
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch3 days ago
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price3 days ago
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.3 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job5 days ago
I've gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it15 days ago
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn't solve management challenges19 days ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books11 days ago
Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back -- Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M7 days ago
The backup Microsoft never promised you -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check11 days ago
Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals -- Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender8 days ago
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan -- Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat11 days ago
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data -- CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form9 days ago
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop -- Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work11 days ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad11 days ago
SECURITY - Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results4 days ago
networks - Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit - CEO says buyers are moving fast and shuffling budgets to replace old boxen11 days ago
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53B hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads - Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term10 days ago
SECURITY -- Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find -- Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM10 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns -- ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you10 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- How State and Local Agencies Can Build FOIA-Proof Archives -- State and local governments are facing a wave of FOIA and public records requests. Without the right tools, it's easy to fall behind.1 day ago
Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous -- And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there12 days ago
'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency -- Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm10 days ago
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages -- Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset survived months of hunting and required a new logging tool to identify11 days ago
Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare -- Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure12 days ago
Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible -- Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution10 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost2 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster4 days ago
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon -- As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations5 days ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices9 days ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons10 days ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?12 days ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either14 days ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound18 days ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start19 days ago
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut -- The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range19 days ago
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online -- Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web22 days ago
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in -- Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key23 days ago
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene -- Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police24 days ago
30 years ago, AT&T gave Internet Explorer the default advantage -- Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold25 days ago
Brighton gig screen goes One Step Beyond with an update pop-up -- Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun25 days ago
Big vacuum is watching as robo-cleaners put humans behind the wheel -- Like a Waymo mated with a Roomba26 days ago
AI digs through 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life, finds method in the madness -- Researchers uncover patterns in how sleeping minds recombine memories, people, and places26 days ago
Airbus keeps an A350 flying for 24 hours -- Ultra long range edition should enable 22-hour nonstop Australia-to-Europe flights next year26 days ago
Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory -- Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?28 days ago
British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes -- Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers28 days ago
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails -- Would you like an error with your terror?28 days ago
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs -- Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network1 month ago
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs -- Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local1 month ago
Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots -- Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat1 month ago
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet -- Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal1 month ago
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display -- ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste1 month ago
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor -- A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted1 month ago
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can attack ground targets, too1 month ago
Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity -- Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'1 month ago
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8 GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork26 days ago
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole -- 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'1 month ago
Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street -- Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors1 month ago
Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test -- Hopefully, the rocket won't go in the same direction as the company's share price1 month ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological1 month ago
Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car -- Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car's array of cameras1 month ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched1 month ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error1 month ago
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time -- SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world1 month ago
How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget -- Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 197711 days ago
science - Japan kind-of completes its sovereign satnav constellation6 days ago
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact -- Before and after shots of Elon's ejecta snapped by Danuri16 days ago
Brit boffins boast of beating barriers to building fusion power -- MAST Upgrade installation hit highest pressure ever achieved without the super-hot plasma destabilizing17 days ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight16 hours ago
No lift for Swift as NASA abandons orbital rescue4 days ago
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job5 days ago
Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures7 days ago
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs -- IAEA initiative tackles the rules for floating reactors and atom-powered civilian ships18 days ago
Next step for LINK spacecraft – a software update that won't make things worse. Are you listening, Microsoft? -- Spin slows as orbital rescue mission creeps forward18 days ago
Blue Origin blames New Glenn fireball on engine oxygen valve -- Small modifications under way as Bezos's rocket biz races to rebuild pad and fly again this year18 days ago
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year -- Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time19 days ago
NASA puts astronauts' lives in the hands of Tesla's flaky Cybertruck -- Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts20 days ago
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover -- Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap21 days ago
AI AND ML -- Nvidia's latest solution to soaring enterprise AI costs is...a router? -- NeMo Switchyard brings GPT-5-style model routing to the mainstream11 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows -- Exploit Wednesday's back, baby10 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models -- Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions11 days ago
Smooth-talking fraudsters clone contactless cards, authorize payments in just 13 minutes -- Social engineering and malware combine to enable financial fraud before banks have time to act10 days ago