Saturday, September 19, 2026 12:06 AM ET
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Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century1 minute ago
Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks1 minute ago
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel1 minute ago
Judge orders Microsoft to spill internal docs and scour execs' comms in secondhand licensing case1 minute ago
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts - Agentic exploits for the win (again)8 hours ago
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 hours 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 wallets8 hours ago
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 economists7 hours 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 protections7 hours ago
Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly -- Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting8 hours ago
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K -- The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM6 hours ago
ai and ml - Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec - Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache6 hours ago
Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode -- Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years11 hours ago
KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal -- Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user12 hours ago
databases - The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO - Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear15 hours ago
Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point -- US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'15 hours ago
channel - KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting - AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing teams caught in latest reshaping of Big Four consultancy's Advisory arm17 hours 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 overseas18 hours ago
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed18 hours ago
AI risks make some insurers wary of corporate liability -- RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included21 hours 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 it1 day 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 Kingdom1 day ago
The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten -- Hacking education to thrive in the AI world is the first and best step in keeping control -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's -- AWS keeps customer costs down in part through networking advances -- Corey Quinn21 hours ago
Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols7 days ago
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring -- Rupert Goodwins8 days ago
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice -- Corey Quinn9 days ago
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols15 days ago
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await -- Rupert Goodwins16 days ago
Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas -- Mark Pesce22 days ago
Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic - Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
DoE seeking fault-tolerant quantum computer ... by 2028 -- Entrants get $250K upfront to deliver a demo within a year, which sounds totally feasible given quantum computing's track record8 hours 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?12 hours ago
SAAS -- Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank -- Validation? Apparently that comes after deployment14 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine -- QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms15 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues -- Machine Identity Isolation policies can reject valid credentials unless controllers meet the Server 2025 functional level17 hours ago
AI AND ML -- AI model watermarking changes agent behavior -- Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals17 hours ago
AI AND ML -- 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 scrutiny21 hours ago
Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics -- DHH's Arch-based desktop becomes the latest front in FOSS's culture wars1 day 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 debt7 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Government Digital Service move 'grinds gears' in UK's e-government -- As team responsible for tech strategy shunted to third department in three years, experts fear exodus of talent1 day ago
LEGAL -- Judge orders Microsoft to spill internal docs and scour execs' comms in secondhand licensing case -- Yes, the 'Secondhand Software Presentation' does sound like it might be an adverse document...8 hours ago
Fujitsu ready to sell its custom 'Monaka' Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers -- Clouds, the sovereign-sensitive, and the inferencing-interested are also about to get sales calls1 day ago
Swift 6.4 unifies building across Linux, macOS, Windows -- Swift Build is now the default engine for the Swift Package Manager1 day ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times -- Startup says it's learned from these mistakes and that they shouldn't happen again ... which is just what Zuck has said about 100 times1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots -- 'Intern 2' offers an isolated environment and cloudy inference to automate your world1 day ago
AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so -- This is a test - it is only a test11 hours ago
Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues -- GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns2 days ago
CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore - Agency's shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 286 hours ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things -- Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?1 day ago
SECURITY -- Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks -- CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch1 day 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 to2 days ago
Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century -- Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 511 day ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22 -- Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific2 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack -- Data protection chiefs call for 'immediate review' of data protection models1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy -- It looks like you're trying to write some code. Perhaps a shortcut is in order?1 day ago
Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files -- Sensitive personal data was involved, but there is no evidence it was shared with third parties1 day ago
Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage -- As thousands attend annual conference in San Francisco, customers get 'severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access services'2 days ago
AI AND ML -- Bring on the AI swarms. They're the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free -- Frontier-level AI runs everywhere, so attacks will never stop1 day ago
SECURITY -- Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze -- Gartner sees huge amounts of technical debt paid down, and better scanning that could make software safer sooner1 day ago
DEVOPS -- Java 27 grows up, makes better choices -- Improvements in JDK garbage collection, header sizes, data security and quantum key support all should minimize developer friction2 days ago
AI AND ML -- TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom -- 'Jev' doesn't chat. It produces typed probabilistic decisions2 days ago
SECURITY -- The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches -- September Patch Tuesday part 2?1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS -- Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!2 days ago
SECURITY -- Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors -- Security firm Infoblox shines light on malicious infrastructure lurking beneath illegal gambling sites1 day ago
SYSTEMS -- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors -- Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies1 day ago
cyber-crime - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?1 day 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
Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers8 days ago
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech14 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 much1 month 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 Forrester2 months ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road2 months ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist2 months ago
Iranian spies hit Windows machines with Chosen Brick data-stealing malware -- 'Enemies of the regime' on notice1 day 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 – eventually3 days ago
America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them -- Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources3 days ago
SECURITY -- Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email -- Attackers already exploiting the critical flaw, and Cisco warns they may be able to cover their tracks once they're in2 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again -- Nitter's repository archived as of September 11, 202617 hours ago
SECURITY -- Who's governing your AI? A trust framework for enterprise agents and models -- SPONSORED FEATURE: DigiCert wants to hand every agent a passport, an expiry date and a named human owner17 hours ago
CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information -- Forum post claims 7.49 million files up for grabs as Texas utility investigates breach2 days ago
September's Windows 11 patch needs an emergency patch of its own -- Microsoft fixes RDP and Hyper-V fallout, but some USB audio stays silent3 days ago
Swiss court sentences 52-year-old Ukrainian ransomware dev to nearly 13 years in the cooler -- The man allegedly wrote the code that powered the Lockergoga, MegaCortex, and Nefilim operations2 days ago
AI AND ML -- 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 dominance2 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft account refuseniks have another way of installing Windows -- Has the good bork fairy paid a visit to Redmond?2 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 protections7 hours ago
Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows -- Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services2 days ago
AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink -- Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack3 days ago
Higher prices can't crimp server sales as AI drives demand -- Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree7 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Gov.uk still struggling with IT contractor tax rules -- IR35 rules not getting easier for government departments2 days ago
DATABASES -- PostgreSQL 19 graph queries fail the 'would you ship this?' test -- SQL/PGQ gets bounced over unresolved bugs as concurrent REPACK promises fewer midnight calls for DBAs2 days ago
Give Xfce a Mac or Unity-style makeover -- The existing layouts are fun, but there's much more we can do3 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 matter3 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 Gartner3 days ago
DEVOPS -- Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds -- Cupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage3 days ago
AI AND ML -- The latest AI doomsayer is China's intelligence boss -- Beijing's response is to 'firmly grasp technological sovereignty' and broad regulations2 days ago
AI AND ML -- COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it -- Australia Taxation Office sees footling with Copilot as a way to develop 'muscles' for real AI work3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input -- Redmond outlines 'aspirational' goals for model behavior, but gives itself a pass if it gets things wrong3 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- HBO Max Reddit account compromised to serve ClickFix attacks -- Part of a 'massive 48-hour malvertising blitz' targeting macOS and Windows machines with malware2 days ago
DATABASES -- Oracle celebrates banner quarter with another round of layoffs -- Congratulations on helping Larry Ellison's AI cloud boom. Now please pack your bags and go3 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.1 month ago
Operationalizing AI with visibility, control, and multitenancy -- In this webinar, explore how an AI factory approach can help organizations build a scalable, secure and repeatable foundation for AI.17 days ago
The Attacker's View of a Leaked AWS Key -- Join Product Manager Jim Freely in this session to learn why AWS access resists inspection, and how to see what a leaked credential really reaches.11 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.10 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.4 days ago
Data sovereignty without compromise -- Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.9 days ago
Building a Unified AI Data Platform with Qumulo and Databricks -- As AI and analytics initiatives expand, organizations need governed access to distributed enterprise data — without the cost and complexity.15 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 hours 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 hours 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 .1 day ago
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New hardware device can RAM into encrypted memory, expose your data -- Attackers would need physical access to the server to pull off the DDR5 trick2 days ago
OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems -- Ruby are you ok? Ruby are you ok? Are you ok Ruby?2 days ago
Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder -- Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing4 days ago
AI AND ML -- 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, accountable3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu Noble's likely last point release lands, then loses its desktop download -- Installer bug crashes extended setups while Stonking Stingray circles ahead of October debut1 day ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cyberattack sends International Meteor Organization crashing back to Earth -- Attack dealt a 'critical blow' to aging infrastructure, with several weeks of disruption expected3 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 award4 days ago
Perfect-10 GitLab bug under attack days after patch lands -- CISA confirms active exploitation as watchTowr spots miscreants probing internet-facing servers3 days ago
ai and ml - Teravolt looks to cannibalize older industries to meet AI power demand6 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste -- Redmond's quality drive takes another detour through the known issues list1 day ago
AI AND ML -- MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation -- Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux -- Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin10 days ago
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels -- The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next14 days ago
Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s -- The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot15 days ago
Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast -- A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone15 days ago
Bull Beats Out HPE For Next-Gen Lumi AI Supercomputer1 day ago
Infleqtion And Nvidia Reduce Physical-to-Logical Qubit Ratio in Quantum Computers2 days ago
How To Smash The Memory Wall Plaguing High Performance Systems2 days ago
Operationalize AI At Scale With HPE And Nvidia3 days ago
Storage News Ticker - 18 September10 hours ago
SK Hynix considering US Solidigm fab11 hours ago
Huawei's OceanStor KV cache storage for hyper-scale AI data centers14 hours ago
Starburst supports GPUs for faster distributed data analysis14 hours ago
Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds1 day ago
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up13 days ago
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v122 days ago
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings25 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data -- Passports, selfies, transaction histories exposed as self-proclaimed culprits demand 10,000 Bitcoin1 day ago
DEVOPS -- CPython eases Rust requirements as assimilation continues3 days ago
AI AND ML -- 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 you3 days ago
UK.gov begins killing off passwords for 23 million users -- Passkeys promise fewer phishing headaches – and £600 a day off Whitehall's SMS bill3 days ago
Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten -- Patchy compliance is an argument for stronger enforcement, not abandoning the project4 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner -- Model-makers move too fast and don't care when they break things1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it 'Pace the frontier' -- Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created4 days ago
Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow -- RIP, you won't be mourned3 days ago
How to make Xfce look like almost any desktop you want -- Panel Profiles handles the heavy lifting, once you've installed the plugins it expects5 days ago
Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late -- Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required6 days ago
DON't MISS -- Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days -- Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports1 month ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Dell's 52-inch enormo-monitor is a tsunami of impractical fun -- You probably don't need it, but as an example of the possible it impresses4 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money -- Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life1 day ago
SECURITY -- More JFrog Artifactory bugs under attack, and all 3 have patches -- If you're waiting for a sign to upgrade to a fixed version: this is it3 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 structures7 days ago
Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm -- Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades7 days ago
AT&T store worker gets 16 months inside for SIM-swap side hustle -- Phone shop staffer claimed he was paid less than $4k for in his part attacks leading to combined intended losses of $600,0003 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key18 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Exec couldn't identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call18 hours ago
SOFTWARE -- Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it9 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-nighter2 days ago
software - Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees1 month ago
SOFTWARE -- Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered1 month ago
SOFTWARE -- Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it18 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem1 month ago
ai and ml - Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you - Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases14 days ago
True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once -- All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues15 days ago
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance -- But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully15 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)16 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
Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say -- Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'11 days ago
Anthropic hires architect of UK AI policy as MPs warn of 'clear conflict of interest' -- Matt Clifford plans to keep role as ARIA chair while leading the LLM maker's dealings with governments outside North America16 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Britain's technology brief is now everyone's job and nobody's responsibility -- Whitehall has scattered science, AI, and digital government across a thicket of competing ministerial portfolios4 days ago
Ukrainian lawyer's second career as a Conti coder earns him 4 years behind bars - Swapping legal work for malware development ended in extradition and a guilty plea6 hours ago
SECURITY -- EU's Cyber Resilience Act starts the 24-hour vulnerability clock -- Manufacturers must now disclose actively exploited flaws and severe security incidents through ENISA's new reporting platform1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Union body tells UK government workers must get a say before AI clocks in -- TUC warns against letting algorithms call the shots in the workplace4 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux -- A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland4 days ago
BOFH -- BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation -- How could such a terrible tragedy have occurred?5 days ago
AI AND ML -- DeepSeek's new model sets a template for powerful LLMs that run lean -- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash proves that just because you build a bigger model doesn't mean you need more GPUs to serve it1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix -- There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer18 hours ago
DEVOPS -- Microsoft anoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language -- Redmond's coders get the tool to help them scrub memory bugs off Windows5 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Oracle says AI will save it from the SaaSpocalypse, not bring it on -- It's a better interface, can speed installations, and drives IaaS sales too5 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI arms devs with AI conversation tool that can talk and listen at the same time -- GPT-Live-1 makes speaking to AI models more fluid18 hours ago
Boston Scientific left nursing its bottom line after cyberattack -- Medical device giant warns August intrusion will hit Q3 and full-year sales and earnings as recovery drags on8 days ago
LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection -- Claims follow scrutiny over monitors installing adware without user consent8 days ago
BigBear phishing crew nets thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials -- Researchers got inside the crooks' admin panel and found 5,137 stolen records tied to 461 organizations8 days ago
research - Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns - Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'10 days ago
Britain reboots its space strategy with £7.8B already on the launchpad - Cross-government plan combines civil ambitions with an increasingly military view of orbit6 hours ago
Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register -- Nothing says 'For internal use only' quite like emailing it to the press9 days ago
Hackers drain $320M in Bitcoin from Liquid Network, claim they're the good guys -- Self-described white hats promise to return 'most' of the 4,000 BTC once the vulnerability is fixed9 days ago
Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff -- NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago9 days ago
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts8 hours ago
North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices10 hours ago
FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B11 hours ago
USA's Venezuela takeover comes with bonus exposure to Chinese AI surveillance tech23 hours ago
AI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom1 day ago
Researchers find way to listen in on headphones from afar1 day ago
China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware1 day ago
London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes1 day ago
Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 101 day ago
Test environment let anyone access live customer data1 day ago
Latest Anthropic horror story chills with tales of kamikaze drone swarms and bioweapons research - Everyone from ShinyHunters to Russian freelancers is in on the illicit model fun14 hours ago
Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent -- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance4 days 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'8 days ago
SECURITY -- Hundreds of AI agents helped PaperCut attacker hit 395+ orgs, and some went off script -- Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!4 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought -- New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button -- Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 – at a premium7 days ago
AI AND ML -- NASA and IBM open source lunar mapping tools -- Can help you pick the perfect spot for your future evil lair, or boffins make discoveries about Earth's satellite7 days ago
DATABASES -- Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution -- Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor7 days ago
ON-PREM -- Nscale swallows lion's share of UK datacenter investment -- Tracxn credits one AI infrastructure outfit with $3.7B of sector's $5.7B haul7 days ago
ShinyHunters expose 6.4M in attack on medical supplier McKesson -- Have I Been Pwned logs leaked records spanning patients, staff, and providers4 days ago
d-Matrix drinks the Nvidia Kool-Aid with NVLink Fusion and MGX rack designs -- AI infrastructure startup joins Qualcomm, Arm, Marvell, Amazon, Fujitsu, and MediaTek as NVLink true believers8 days ago
Ministers rejected NATS reimbursement plan before 2,000 UK flights were cancelled6 hours 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 more11 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 practices14 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 hyperscale14 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 faff17 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 salt24 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 slows28 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 inland29 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 deal30 days ago
AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap23 hours 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 inaccessible2 days ago
Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips -- Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute10 days ago
Trezor, BitBox users targeted in newsletter phishing spree -- Attackers exploit legitimate mailing channels to demand crypto wallet backups6 hours ago
AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web - Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills17 hours ago
German optics giant ditches greenfield SAP migration -- 'Realigned' project plan aims to move existing landscape to new platform to 'achieve faster progress'8 days ago
SECURITY -- Dental contractor set up secret account with access to 4,000 patient records then left the company -- Toothless security5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM -- Puts a whole new spin on 'Cheap as chips'8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter -- Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI8 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals -- Says license was never about moving VMs7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI -- Claude's Felony Bench rap sheet is now as long as OpenAI's7 days ago
RESEARCH -- Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits -- Mind the patch gap, please and thank you7 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI models don't kill people – people kill people -- AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve8 days ago
Apple hawks $2k folding fondleslab - Another new form factor for devs to adapt to14 hours ago
Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button19 hours ago
Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire19 hours ago
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory25 days 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 data1 month ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 month 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 mess2 months 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 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 in3 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 cause19 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
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it4 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe4 months ago
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving15 days ago
Next-gen AI networks may hinge on the telephone switchboard's return16 days ago
London Tube closes the 5G gap with streets above16 days ago
Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up19 hours ago
Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill19 hours ago
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs2 days ago
UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below2 days ago
Huawei pitches near-packaged optics as co-packaged costs bite4 days ago
Virgin Media offloads email services to third-party provider9 days ago
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release15 days ago
SYSTEMS -- Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain -- Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory1 day ago
Serial Microsoft 0-day hunter drops yet another Defender exploit -- A bypass of a bypass of a bypass7 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 crowded9 days ago
ON-PREM -- Google takes the nuclear option for €13B Finland expansion -- 22-year power deal covers up to half of Loviisa plant's capacity, with wind and battery projects alongside8 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK government says Fujitsu won't use framework places to chase new customers -- Procurement officials promise to police the scandal-hit supplier's voluntary bidding moratorium8 days ago
Cryptocrook ringleader, 22, who met crew on Minecraft admits role in $245M heist -- Stolen funds bought mansions, private jets, and supercars – now he faces up to 20 years7 days ago
WeChat worm could pwn a friend before they even answered the call -- Calif says AI helped turn a VoIP memory bug into cross-platform RCE before Tencent shut it down8 days ago
Microsoft closes the book on Publisher and unplugs Project Online -- Office 2021 joins the October retirement list as customers weigh pricier alternatives9 days ago
cyber-crime - Security boffin claims airport group left API keys in client-side JavaScript for four years3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Huawei Watch D3 pumps up its health-monitoring credentials -- Inflatable wrist cuff delivers 24-hour blood pressure readings, though the design remains chunky17 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365 -- Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push8 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Another Microsoft team admits it's struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code -- Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments8 days ago
WHITEPAPERS -- 5 Kubernetes Backup Best Practices -- Kubernetes has emerged as the de‑facto container orchestration platform. In this white paper, learn how to address its unique data management needs to13 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing -- Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month8 days ago
AI AND ML -- US claims Chinese AI companies' core AI strategy is distilling American models -- Spooks and CISA point to 'industrial-scale distillation' by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players9 days ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge -- Adobe also brought goodies to the patch party and they deserve immediate attention8 days ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic -- Vend it like Altman9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas -- See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad17 hours ago
US confirms it has weapons in spaaaaaace -- Mutually Assured Kessler Syndrome, anyone?3 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 booze3 days ago
The improbable music of the ZX Spectrum's one-bit speaker -- Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware5 days ago
The aircraft might not be flying, but the certificate has gone on vacation -- Information is not forthcoming from this screen6 days ago
Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer -- Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project10 days ago
US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification -- Wheels turning on the road and in government11 days ago
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2 -- The new extreme sport: Windows Updates14 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 defense14 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 markets15 days ago
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship -- Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%15 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 friend16 days ago
Next bus to Altrincham delayed by Windows Defender -- Or possibly "AI", it's hard to tell behind the firewall warning17 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 paper18 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 vehicle20 days ago
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range -- At last, somewhere comfy to sit while your PlayStation 5 game loads20 days ago
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? -- Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense21 days ago
Check out the width of that Debian display -- Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?22 days ago
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers -- Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...23 days 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 it24 days ago
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor -- Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck24 days 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 202725 days 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 dust26 days ago
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs -- Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost27 days ago
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch -- Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches28 days ago
China marches towards re-usable rockets with successful first-stage landing -- Red alert for rivals as LandSpace nails it after December disaster29 days 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 DIY30 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 observations30 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 buyers1 month ago
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments -- Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change1 month ago
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine -- Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices1 month ago
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine -- Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons1 month ago
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age -- Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology1 month ago
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon -- Turns out this space thing really is hard1 month ago
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph -- Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books1 month 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 work1 month ago
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows -- Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad1 month ago
We don't serve pies, but we do like a Pi -- What would be your tip for this stricken device?1 month ago
Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers -- Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either1 month ago
Azure CTO pastes Doom into Paint one frame at a time -- It computes nothing, renders everything, and even has sound1 month ago
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia -- Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start1 month 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 hour12 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 approaches11 days ago
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area -- Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 202815 days ago
NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science -- Instruments reactivated for a final hurrah before reentry16 days ago
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up19 hours ago
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool1 day ago
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 222 days ago
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract4 days ago
ESA's Cluster quartet prepares for its final Tango -- Two-year mission bows out after 26 thanks to some heroic engineering17 days ago
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters -- How come that super-smart AI of yours didn't figure this out, frontier labs?21 days 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 backs22 days 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 orbit23 days ago
India's crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets -- A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission23 days ago
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight -- Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified 'launch requirements'25 days ago
SECURITY -- OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack -- Researchers disclosed the cross-account trick the same day rogue agents exploited another zero-day for admin access16 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads -- No defense against the dark arts Microsoft is practicing on your wallpaper9 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle -- DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check9 days ago