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Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner -- Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things

8 hours ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work - Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss

11 hours ago

Amazon's Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia's mold -- From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now

1 hour ago

Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era -- Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops

1 hour ago

ICE-tracking app developer sues Trump admin after Apple spikes the software -- Suit argues forcing Apple to remove app, and threatening dev with legal action is a First Amendment violation -- Legal

12 minutes ago

193 CYBERCRIMS ARRESTED, ACCUSED OF PLOTTING 'VIOLENCE-AS-A-SERVICE' -- Minors groomed to kill and intimidate victims -- Cyber-crime

2 hours ago

Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft's agentic future -- Native MCP support lands in Insider Dev and Beta builds -- OSes

4 hours ago

Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered -- Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone? -- OSes

4 hours ago

Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years -- Analysts reckon only a handful of manufacturers will push ahead as the rest hit the brakes -- AI + ML

5 hours ago

IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse -- Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates -- Databases

5 hours ago

IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions -- Big Blue's latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up -- Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance -- Networks

8 hours ago

Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute -- Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections -- The Future of the Datacenter

4 hours ago

X shuts down European Commission ad account after €120M fine announcement -- Brussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video -- Personal Tech

8 hours ago

Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests -- Japanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones -- Networks

9 hours ago

Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes -- Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement -- Security

9 hours ago

Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours - On Call - Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security

7 hours ago

Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data -- Body confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul -- Cyber-crime

10 hours ago

UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact -- Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants -- Public Sector

11 hours ago

Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era -- Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops -- Software

11 hours ago

Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas -- Can't take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out -- Software

11 hours ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work -- Who, Me? -- Ignorance really can be bliss -- On-Prem

14 hours ago

Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner -- Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things -- AI + ML

15 hours ago

China's first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: South Korea to strengthen security standards; Canon closes Chinese printer plant; APAC datacenter capacity to triple by 2029; And more -- Networks

20 hours ago

Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool - Infosec in Brief - PLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more! Security - 08 Dec 2025 - | 6

8 hours ago

Amazon's Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia's mold -- From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now -- The Future of the Datacenter

1 day ago

And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is... -- Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be. Or not -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA -- Wanna know a secret? -- Security

2 days ago

IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy

55 minutes ago

AWS Graviton5 Strikes A Different Balance For Server CPUs

3 days ago

With Celestial AI Buy, Marvell Scales Up The Datacenter And Itself

4 days ago

With Trainium4, AWS Will Crank Up Everything But The Clocks

4 days ago

Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling - Opinion - Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome

7 hours ago

Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL -- Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC's copyleft enforcement push -- Legal

2 days ago

Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams -- Proof of life? Or an active social media presence? -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it -- Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed -- Applications

2 days ago

Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG -- Who needs JavaScript? -- Research

3 days ago

Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln -- Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says -- Security

3 days ago

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception -- TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency -- Legal

3 days ago

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 ... to pay for more AI and security -- All those new features won't fund themselves -- SaaS

3 days ago

AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go

3 hours ago

Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers

3 days ago

Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding

5 days ago

AWS Transform revamp uses AI to shift applications from Microsoft's SQL Server

6 days ago

Modernizing hyperconverged infrastructure: how StorPool and Oracle are changing the game - Webinar Promo

3 days ago

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist -- Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul -- Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns -- State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

FADU cools on CXL and dampens High Bandwidth Flash idea

55 minutes ago

IBM snaps up Confluent in $11B all-cash deal

6 hours ago

Rocketship Rubrik's revenues roar robustly to record

3 days ago

HPE networking shines while servers dim and Alletra glistens

3 days ago

Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist -- With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up -- SaaS

3 days ago

Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it -- Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite -- OSes

3 days ago

Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown -- Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals -- Applications

3 days ago

Escaping the squeeze: your strategy for a confident VMware-to-AWS migration - Make the transition with confidence in this focused webinar - Sponsored Post

5 days ago

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash -- Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance -- Security

3 days ago

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built -- Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process -- OSes

3 days ago

Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help -- Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance - Updated - The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts - Networks - 05 Dec 2025 - | 55

8 hours ago

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net? Opinion - You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks - AI + ML - 05 Dec 2025 - | 58

5 hours ago

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch -- New 'Datacenter Manager' manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters -- Virtualization

3 days ago

HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge -- Never mind, says jolly green giant, we're a networking-centric company now -- Systems

3 days ago

An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense -- Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency -- Security

3 days ago

Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU - re:invent - The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years - AWS Re:invent - 04 Dec 2025 - | 5

18 hours ago

PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years -- 'Dozens' of US orgs infected -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief -- 'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!' -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says -- He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem -- Security

4 days ago

Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era -- When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.

17 days ago

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

27 days ago

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

1 month ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

1 month ago

Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases -- And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares -- Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again' -- Science

4 days ago

Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike - Exclusive - Major OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite - Systems - 04 Dec 2025 - | 14

3 days ago

Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up -- $200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted '90%+' accuracy needs human oversight -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job -- Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions -- Networks

4 days ago

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform -- OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative -- Nvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally -- The Future of the Datacenter

4 days ago

How to make your data AI-ready, using infrastructure you already own - Hammerspace maximizes your GPU usage using your existing NVMe storage - Partner content

6 days ago

Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse -- Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files -- Patches

4 days ago

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits -- Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices -- Software

4 days ago

Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL -- Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself -- Offbeat

4 days ago

Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet -- Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power -- 3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove -- The Future of the Datacenter

4 days ago

UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze -- Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle -- Databases

4 days ago

Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals - Exclusive - One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they'll have to pass it on - SaaS - 04 Dec 2025 - | 27

1 day ago

Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail -- It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices -- The Future of the Datacenter

4 days ago

TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets - Systems Approach - Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear - Networks - 04 Dec 2025 - | 1

4 days ago

Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec -- Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability -- Software

4 days ago

India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform -- Minister wants to 'free drivers from dependency on private companies' -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches -- First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory? -- Storage

4 days ago