Tuesday, July 21, 2026 10:58 PM ET
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os platforms - Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA - Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar12 hours ago
LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware -- Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for13 hours ago
Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support - Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset14 hours ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents -- Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged1 minute ago
APPLICATIONS -- The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash -- OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly5 hours ago
SECURITY -- Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign -- Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home5 hours ago
Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room -- Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 20264 days ago
SCIENCE -- SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit -- Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort1 day ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake' -- Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid1 day ago
AI AND ML -- Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project -- Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel4 days ago
AI and ML -- Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100 -- Models demand trust without offering verification1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids -- The Chocolate Factory is not amused2 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one -- Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad4 days ago
Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out -- Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14° C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants16 hours ago
Security -- Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection -- t.me borked for a day until platform proved it had no ties to service favored by cybercriminals4 days ago
LEGAL -- Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel -- Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion4 days ago
LegacyHive: 'Bone-shattering' zero-day from Microsoft's serial tormentor not the haymaker that was promised -- Experts say it's a useful post-compromise tool, for those with the brain cells required to put it together4 days ago
AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges -- Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push6 days ago
Personal Tech - EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules1 minute ago
OS PLATFORMS -- 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 12.155 days ago
RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet -- HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system7 days ago
SCIENCE -- India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch -- Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit6 days ago
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider -- Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company7 days ago
Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop' -- The port took just 11 days and about $165,000 at API pricing8 days ago
OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face1 minute ago
AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert12 hours ago
Security -- World Cup grudge attackers may have scored Argentine FA access via year-old infostealer infection -- Footie fans? Overreacting? There's a first time for everything6 days ago
DevOps - HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST3 days ago
Progress orders emergency ShareFile server shutdown over mystery security threat -- Vendor insists there's no evidence of unauthorized access, but it's asking customers to take one of the most drastic precautions available6 days ago
Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing its core tech secrets -- Lawsuit alleges job-swappers took secrets with them, helped by coaching on how to avoid scrutiny8 days ago
AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year -- Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone11 days ago
security - Fashion mart Miinto unzips breach details, warns shoppers to watch for phisherfolk5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it -- Next version of Linux Mint's desktop has both kinds of display server8 days ago
Security -- Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients' data -- NHS Forth Valley is the latest health board to bungle basic email data protection principles7 days ago
Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year -- Police wanted to call off a grudge game until tech support electrified fevered fans11 days ago
Security -- Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays -- More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmond's auto-patching tools7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals -- Leaked negotiations spill the tea7 days ago
NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons -- Advanced Space's privately owned probe will keep flying, but the agency's role is over14 days ago
OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up -- Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs12 days ago
EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short -- Opponents won the count but missed the 360-seat threshold needed to stop the interim CSAM-scanning rule7 days ago
The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now - Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K33 hours ago
AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep -- Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult3 hours ago
Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises -- Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI8 hours ago
Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party -- SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal14 hours ago
Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI -- Don't call them chatbots3 hours ago
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too6 hours ago
Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for burning more tokens -- If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?3 hours ago
Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again -- AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud8 hours ago
UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years -- RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride14 hours ago
And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't14 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR - Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade - Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating18 hours ago
Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods - Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China's cheap e-commerce champs1 hour ago
COLUMNISTS -- Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical10 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'1 day ago
OFF-PREM -- AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical8 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 hour ago
Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that... -- Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols1 day ago
Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest -- Rupert Goodwins8 days ago
Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck -- Corey Quinn12 days ago
Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace -- Mark Pesce15 days ago
Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' -- Corey Quinn15 days ago
Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform - Rupert Goodwins1 day ago
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical -- An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral1 day ago
AI AND ML -- EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month -- Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who – or what – users are talking to14 hours ago
ai and Ml -- Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball -- On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally14 hours ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online -- HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details6 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs -- With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all16 hours ago
Public Sector -- UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme -- One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities16 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red -- Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action17 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings -- Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector18 hours ago
High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required -- Worries about 'prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node'1 day ago
AI AND ML -- AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner -- Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker23 hours ago
AI and ML -- Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check -- PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!10 hours ago
AI and ML -- Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius -- Connect all the things and watch what happens13 hours ago
AI and ML -- Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something -- Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell1 day ago
DEVOPS -- Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage -- Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD -- New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly -- And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month -- 22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 111 day ago
SECURITY -- AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting -- Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters13 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer' -- More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust1 day ago
Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content -- You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned4 days ago
Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order -- Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts21 hours ago
Cyber-crime -- Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz -- No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place1 day ago
Security -- 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 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge -- Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year1 day ago
How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality - SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution1 day 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 days2 days ago
AI AND ML -- South Korea making its own security-centric AI model -- Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos1 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
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?2 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 procurement17 days ago
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical1 day ago
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester4 days ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road13 days ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist13 days ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well1 month ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend1 month ago
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition1 month ago
LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy1 month ago
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots1 month ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project1 month ago
AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You -- Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year5 days ago
Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility -- Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.5 days ago
C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest -- Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering1 day ago
PaaS and IaaS -- Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push -- Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'4 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack -- Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history2 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding -- Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due -- One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer2 days ago
Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing -- If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?11 hours ago
Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain -- Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory1 day ago
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief -- Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom5 days ago
TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan -- Beware of fab makers bearing press releases5 days ago
Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower -- The last proprietary minicomputer, now in 'deskside' form if you fancy that7 days ago
Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU -- Everyone else must opt out manually if they don't fancy settings data shipped off-device14 days ago
Samsung's profits jump 19x in a year and you don't need AI to figure out why -- Share price down sharply, apparently amid fears the bubble is getting bigger14 days ago
AI AND ML -- SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud -- AI-and-X subsidiary now claims to offer 'complete user privacy' days after Elon Musk confirmed the data would be deleted4 days ago
How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher -- Why to do it, and what to watch out for5 days ago
Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all -- Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything4 days ago
Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas -- It's possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules4 days ago
Security -- Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC -- The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner's systems go down4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't, releases a frontier AI model that's actually open -- Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design -- One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations5 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 -- Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown5 days ago
DEVOPS -- Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists -- Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra5 days ago
From Pilots to AI Factories: How Enterprises Are Really Scaling Agentic AI and Agent Gateways -- AI is shifting from simple chatbots to autonomous "coworkers," and most enterprises are now constrained less by models than by the complexity22 days ago
Know Your Adversary: Counter Operations that Wreck Global Cybercrime -- When Silk Typhoon launched a campaign against Microsoft, it looked like another case of a state-backed hacking group getting away again.14 days ago
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SAAS -- Salesforce's Agentforce isn't winning over clients, KeyBanc analysts claim -- Investment bank cites messy customer data and a product that 'just isn't there'; Salesforce counters by saying it the fastest-growing product in its history5 days ago
AI and ML -- Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off -- Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report -- Report finds regional differences, especially outside the EEA, but it's still a dark tale claiming user manipulation5 days ago
Security -- CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws -- Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices -- Mega hardware vendor reports problems - but Windows maker isn't yet naming affected models5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- MPs fear Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall's £1.15B shared services push -- 'Do as we fund, not as we do' sends 'very poor reputational signal' says damning report5 days ago
DATABASES -- EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks -- Truce over maintenance fees is a bargaining chip for ECC holdouts – just don't expect a stampede to third-party support5 days ago
APPLICATIONS -- Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up -- Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default25 days ago
Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form -- Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK28 days ago
Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release' -- More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too1 month ago
GenAI Hardware Investments Are Way Ahead Of Model And Platform Revenues6 hours ago
Microsoft Taps AMD For At Scale AI CPU And GPU Clusters1 day ago
Google Uses AI Reinforcement Learning For Quantum Error Correction1 day ago
Marvell Brings Radix, Low Latency, And Bandwidth To Bear With Teralynx T1004 days ago
Druva spreading AI agent cyber-resilience wings with Claude and Copilot co-operation8 hours ago
ExaGrid replaces record number of Dell Data Domain appliances8 hours ago
WEKA's big beast AI storage products8 hours ago
Tokens, vectors, contexts and costs1 day ago
Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop'6 days ago
HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST7 days ago
Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships11 days ago
GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues14 days ago
OS Platforms -- OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage – it was a message -- Ex-contributor claims he wasn't a rogue admin, hadn't left the project, and never intended to harm the distro5 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web -- 'We don't serve their kind here' protects today's publishers, but won't help rebels destroy the monetization Death Stars built by Google and Meta5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills -- Gartner thinks we're headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot -- Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop 'theft' of content -- PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage6 days ago
Virtualization -- Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update -- As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer6 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark -- Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder6 days ago
SECURITY -- Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs -- Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days5 days ago
AI and ML -- If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic -- Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages6 days ago
AI AND ML -- New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts -- 50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers6 days ago
AI AND ML -- DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late -- Industry, regulate thyself6 days ago
Security -- Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a screen -- Callum Dare encouraged others to carry out dangerous hoaxes, made mini-movies from the footage5 days ago
DON'T MISS -- The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon -- Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components25 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good -- Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?6 days ago
IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value -- CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'7 days ago
Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy -- Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble7 days ago
AI and ml -- Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud -- Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them5 days ago
RESEARCH -- '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%5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC6 days ago
SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security13 days ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles26 days ago
Personal Tech - This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken - Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy6 days ago
Offbeat - Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes1 month ago
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner1 month ago
Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working1 month ago
On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off2 months ago
Security - Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die - 'GhostApproval' problem highlights human-in-the-loop fails13 days ago
AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top -- Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models13 days ago
AI startup that's never turned a profit says it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease -- Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf1 day ago
Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway -- Left hand, meet right hand14 days ago
Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show2 months ago
Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies -- AI's impact on tech business is complicated15 days ago
Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy -- Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity19 days 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 worldwide5 days ago
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly -- Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan6 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- How do you solve a problem like Capita? -- Bringing troubled contracts in-house requires skills Whitehall is already struggling to recruit7 days ago
Personal Tech -- Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year -- Boffins confirm: taking away teens' phone makes them act like humans again7 days ago
AI and ML -- Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing -- Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored7 days 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 outdoors8 days ago
Microsoft closes book on Nightmare Eclipse's RoguePlanet zero-day -- Weeks after the exploit code dropped, Redmond has finally ships a fix for the Defender zero-day8 days ago
Accenture admits to 'isolated matter' after crook tries to flog alleged 35GB haul -- Consulting giant says it has 'remediated ... source' after crook claims to offer source code, keys, and cloud creds for sale1 day ago
Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy -- If people think you are doing a legitimate job, you can get away with anything8 days ago
Security - Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers - Proofpoint researcher tells The Reg: 'We estimate the total volume of targets would be a few dozen'13 days ago
GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code - More fun with AI jailbreaks, this time at the workflow level3 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human -- Startup insists it's not trying to help anyone cheat the system - honest!11 days ago
Security -- China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears -- National vulnerability database claims monitoring mechanism can forward Chinese users' data to remote servers6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect -- Along with other telemetry, Windows GDID makes online activity more traceable12 days ago
Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI3 hours ago
AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep5 hours ago
Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement10 hours ago
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet13 hours ago
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy20 hours ago
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief1 day ago
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims1 day ago
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid1 day ago
AI and ML -- The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs -- Cheap can be expensive7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP -- Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks -- ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option5 days ago
SCIENCE -- Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though) -- First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy7 days ago
EDGE AND IOT -- Philips to replace bricked Hue Bridge Pro devices -- Company releases a fresh firmware update. Go on, install it, we dare you...7 days ago
Security -- EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid -- Sweeping sanctions and condemnation follow op that could have left half a million without power in the depths of winter6 days ago
SREs to AI agents: Prove yourself before you touch production - SPONSORED FEATURE: 696 experts find co-pilot welcome, autopilot not so much7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing -- This week on The Reg's Kettle podcast, we wonder whether tokenminning is going to bring the industry back down to Earth7 days ago
OS platforms -- Microsoft emails Windows 10 holdouts: Fine, keep your old PC another year -- Consumer security updates now run to October 2027, and Redmond doesn't mention Windows 11 once7 days ago
Fire burns Google Cloud India's network, which remains slow a week later -- PLUS: Japan's space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!1 month ago
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow -- Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source1 month ago
OFF PREM -- Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream14 hours ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure1 month ago
off-Prem -- Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.5 hours ago
Google Cloud outage shows it's still hard to understand hyperscalers' real resilience regimes -- Single datacenter and just three services taken down by 'upstream' power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming21 hours ago
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates -- Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug4 days ago
AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites -- Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery5 days ago
India's tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business -- Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed8 days ago
Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk -- 24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim12 days ago
Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products -- Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves13 days ago
Amazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it -- Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts19 days ago
Backup and running? Not this digital sign -- Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby8 days ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological8 days ago
Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling -- Time for the Clone Wars remake8 days ago
AI AND ML -- Meta admits its first 'superintelligence' was too stupid to survive for three days -- Pulls AI-powered image tweaker after allowing free-for-all8 days ago
Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed - PLUS: Canadian/Bhutanese datacenter for India; China re-uses a rocket; Australia signals AI intervention; And more!8 days ago
AI + ML -- Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all -- The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse8 days ago
AI AND ML -- It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls -- Bots, not people, are now the ones who use the internet the most8 days ago
AI + ML -- AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful -- OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools8 days ago
ON-PREM -- Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity -- Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin8 days ago
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'1 day ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap8 days ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code15 days ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess22 days ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!29 days ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet1 month ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug1 month ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident1 month ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in1 month ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything2 months ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch2 months ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving2 months ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch2 months ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild2 months ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it2 months ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe2 months ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference2 months ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo2 months ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble2 months ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract2 months ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction2 months ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell2 months ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead2 months ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office2 months ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server2 months ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam2 months ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key2 months ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause2 months ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble2 months ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good2 months ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming2 months ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work18 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books2 months ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people2 months ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere2 months ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver2 months ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'2 months ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware2 months ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice2 months ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company2 months ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it2 months ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe2 months ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery2 months ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'2 months ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league2 months ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA2 months ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it2 months ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results2 months ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off2 months ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady2 months ago
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint13 days ago
Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms18 days ago
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger20 days ago
Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal22 days ago
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage4 days ago
Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers7 days ago
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down13 days ago
Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids13 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head -- ScrollPods is Mac-only, and you'll need compatible AirPods8 days ago
SECURITY -- Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package -- Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic -- Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives8 days ago
On-Prem -- Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told -- Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere8 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday -- Standalone experiment killed after less than 12 months as model maker redirects agentic ambitions towards workplace productivity8 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope -- Brussels says Meta failed to properly assess or mitigate risks posed by infinite scroll, autoplay, and more8 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita hears demand for pension scheme cleanup 'loud and clear' – but won't say yes -- Outsourcer wants a commercial chinwag before agreeing to cover UK government's recovery costs8 days ago
BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand -- Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light11 days ago
The identity trust delusion -- Join Rubrik's Mark Grant as he shares lessons from real recoveries, common mistakes, product evolution, and building long-term identity resilience.1 day ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Red Hat offers RHEL support 'forever' for those who need to lock in to legacy tech -- Beware the golden screwdriver8 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X -- One in four long-form social media posts appear entirely AI-generated, with nearly half of those on Microsoft's and Elon's platforms involving AI in some form10 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter -- Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project10 days ago
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns -- Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too7 hours 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'4 days ago
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5 -- This elevator is headed for floor Bork6 days ago
Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole -- 'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'7 days 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 price8 days 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 cameras13 days ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched16 days ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error19 days ago
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight -- Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule20 days ago
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track -- Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station21 days ago
Blue Origin insists New Glenn will rise from the ashes this year after explosion deleted launchpad -- CEO says reconstruction has begun, though the timetable looks ambitious22 days ago
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM23 days ago
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says25 days ago
Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit -- Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening25 days ago
They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius -- 'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI24 days ago
Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars -- Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home26 days ago
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia -- A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest27 days ago
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch -- Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite28 days ago
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage -- Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen28 days ago
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart -- TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had29 days ago
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems -- One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here29 days ago
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?29 days ago
EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife -- Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation1 month ago
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package1 month ago
Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones -- Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes1 month ago
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting -- Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches1 month ago
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM1 month ago
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars -- Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements1 month ago
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build -- 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts1 month ago
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities1 month ago
US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses -- L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets1 month ago
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs -- Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register1 month ago
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway -- A blast from the past greets commuters1 month ago
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000 -- Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut1 month ago
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans -- It's just not cricket1 month ago
Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers -- We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?1 month ago
Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR -- Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 19991 month ago
Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks -- Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can1 month ago
NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear -- What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?1 month ago
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships -- If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship1 month ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft1 month ago
Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space -- There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos12 days ago
Science - New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation6 days ago
Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander -- Jim Bridenstine says Artemis 'extraordinarily complicated' compared to the days of Apollo and the Saturn V13 days ago
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SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit4 days ago
NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one5 days ago
AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding5 days ago
Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma -- Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium15 days ago
Japan's asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock -- Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission - and sent back a pic, too15 days ago
NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year -- There might also be a downside17 days 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 world20 days ago
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great -- 61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead21 days ago
Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor -- The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists22 days ago
SAP makes it easier for customers to shop for legacy product support, ending EU antitrust probe -- Vendor drops reinstatement fees and caps back-maintenance charges ahead of the ECC support cliff12 days ago
Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature -- Monospaced code snippets among the reported casualties12 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives -- 6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not11 days ago