Monday, July 13, 2026 3:59 PM ET
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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 days1 hour ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological7 hours ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap -- IT department was not pleased, but was also easily fooled7 hours ago
HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST -- New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable7 hours ago
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 winter3 hours ago
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 once5 hours ago
AI and ML - The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs - Cheap can be expensive33 minutes ago
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 galaxy2 hours ago
Philips to replace bricked Hue Bridge Pro devices -- Company releases a fresh firmware update. Go on, install it, we dare you...3 hours ago
SREs to AI agents: Prove yourself before you touch production -- SPONSORED FEATURE: 696 experts find co-pilot welcome, autopilot not so much4 hours ago
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 Earth4 hours ago
Backup and running? Not this digital sign -- Nagware goes large on the mean streets of Derby9 hours ago
Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling -- Time for the Clone Wars remake10 hours 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 scrutiny11 hours 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-all16 hours 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!33 minutes 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 AIpocalypse1 day 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 most2 hours 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 tools3 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble5 days ago
OFFBEAT -- C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle4 days ago
Security -- GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely2 days ago
APPLICATIONS -- Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades1 day ago
Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head -- Show not tell makes a far finer script -- Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest -- Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick a contract fight with a monster of the art -- Rupert Goodwins10 days ago
Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck -- Corey Quinn4 days ago
Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace -- Mark Pesce7 days ago
Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' -- Corey Quinn7 days ago
Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform -- Rupert Goodwins10 days ago
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand -- Corey Quinn7 days ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't - Rupert Goodwins4 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 Dublin4 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head -- ScrollPods is Mac-only, and you'll need compatible AirPods4 hours 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 drives6 hours ago
On-Prem -- Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told -- Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere6 hours 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 productivity7 hours ago
ON-PREM -- 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 everyone8 hours 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 more9 hours 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 costs5 hours 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 server10 hours ago
BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand -- Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light3 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 fans3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Red Hat offers RHEL support 'forever' for those who need to lock in to legacy tech -- Beware the golden screwdriver16 hours 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 form2 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 project2 days ago
SOFTWARE -- 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 installs2 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 cliff4 days ago
Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature -- Monospaced code snippets among the reported casualties4 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 not3 days ago
AI and ML -- Brown says AI make student brain no work good, teacher should help use it better -- Take-home midterm row sharpens fears that the tools are dulling minds and easing cheating3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK.gov withholds £10M payment from Capita over pensions project fiasco, as dispute continues -- After CEO promised 'flagship use-case' for AI, retired scheme members still struggling to make ends meet, MPs hear3 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-day33 minutes ago
Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships -- 10X faster build times could force Slack developers back to their keyboards4 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 claim4 days ago
Applications -- Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades -- Nobody needs a simple web client for Exchange, do they?3 days ago
Public sector -- MPs tell NHS to start packing Palantir's bags ahead of 2027 contract break -- Health committee calls out public mistrust, shaky evidence, and highlights alternatives3 days ago
Cyber-crime -- 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 sale4 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support – and gets Rustier -- Even so, it has some issues with the Rust coreutils3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best -- If your name's not on the list, you're... probably not a setup program3 days ago
SCIENCE -- 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 politicos3 days ago
Security -- 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 anything7 hours ago
Science -- New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation -- Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek thinks AI is going to pay off -- Downer for doomers as conservative investor plans to lift portfolio exposure by 150 percent, and even more once it adds electrification ventures4 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter -- With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once4 days ago
AI AND ML -- The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey -- The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up4 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'9 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks -- Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.74 days ago
ai and ML -- Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding -- As GitHub struggles to manage AI load, challengers take aim4 days ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?1 month 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 procurement9 days ago
Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road5 days ago
Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist5 days ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well27 days 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
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors1 month ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own1 month ago
AI AND ML -- OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs -- What, did someone get some bad news during their IPO process or something?4 days ago
SECURITY -- 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 days ago
Virtualization -- Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out -- CA and VMware both suing insurance giant4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- AI memory crunch takes a bite out of PC shipments -- IDC warns smaller players may struggle as DRAM drought drags on4 days 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!3 days ago
Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die -- 'GhostApproval' problem highlights human-in-the-loop fails3 days ago
China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears -- National vulnerability database claims monitoring mechanism can forward Chinese users' data to remote servers3 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 V5 days ago
STORAGE -- Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design -- Mystery of the disappearing storage solved (for some)4 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B -- Project which included new SAP system saw delays and costs rise from an £800m estimate while causing financial disruptions4 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 bigger6 days ago
IBM teases new rackable mainframes that 'complete' the z17 family -- UPDATED: Big Blue happy for users to BYO rack and slot Z machines alongside other tech5 days ago
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM -- With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall12 days ago
Zuck saves Meta bucks by reusing memory from old servers with a custom CXL ASIC -- In production on millions of boxes and the payoff is a 25% reduction in machines needed for some inference workloads14 days ago
Engineer accused of insider trading tied to Microsoft's reboot of Three Mile Island nuclear plant -- SEC claims former Constellation employee made $1.4M trading options before the restart deal was announced17 days ago
IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future -- Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom18 days ago
Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years -- Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits18 days ago
Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs -- Coalition says ICO failed to act despite hundreds of complaints about bug-plagued digital immigration status scheme5 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits -- Campaigners say ministers repeated claims about FDP despite an admission that the data does not prove cause and effect4 days ago
AI's biggest challenge is not compute - it's data storage - SPONSORED FEATURE: As AI evolves from novelty to autonomy, the real bottleneck isn't processing power—it's where to put all that data.4 days ago
AI and ML -- AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top -- Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows -- No USB stick required if your Win 11 box has a pulse and a network driver5 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect -- Along with other telemetry, Windows GDID makes online activity more traceable3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay -- Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away5 days ago
Security -- GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely -- Per usual, there's no fix – or even any documentation – for GitLost4 days ago
AI AND ML -- South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters -- RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs5 days ago
Accelerate your innovation -- This is your technical deep-dive into the practical tools and techniques that define the next generation of resilient Dev and IT operations.1 month ago
ShinyHunters: How to close the Credential Rotation Gap -- We'll cover the three failure points that make this attack repeatable across organizations of any size21 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 complexity13 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.6 days ago
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CAI cloud worm gives competitors' malware the boot, then steals secrets and mines for coin -- Dog-eat-dog world for credential-stealing attackers4 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 over6 days ago
New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead -- Fed up with forgetting flags? Let Instagui read --help output and build a browser GUI instead6 days ago
Predatorgate snoopfest victims launch €8M sueball at spyware maker -- Greek lawsuit comes as rights campaigners lobby the EU to take firmer stance on spyware abuses4 days ago
Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle -- ValueLicensing celebrates while Redmond considers next steps4 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-device6 days ago
SECURITY -- Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking -- Majority report AI-related security incidents or vulnerabilities4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- DRAM prices are killing the cheap smartphone -- Now eats 60% of a sub-$400 handset's bill of materials and it's only getting worse5 days ago
Cybercrime - Fake IT bods on Microsoft Teams coax workers into installing malware33 minutes ago
SECURITY -- Spain collars alleged pro-Russia hacktivist after FBI tip-off -- Palencia man suspected of links to CARR, Z-Pentest, and NoName057(16), plus helping a Ukrainian hacker flee to Russia5 days ago
Security -- Government's cyber pledge lands 60 signatories, including M&S and, somehow, Capita -- Whitehall's latest attempt to boost corporate cyber hygiene has already produced a curious roll call5 days ago
AI AND ML -- MPs tell Brit government: Sort out your tech sovereignty or get left out in the cold -- Committee says Anthropic's brief US export ban shows UK can't even trust its allies to keep the AI lights on5 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 default17 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 GTK20 days ago
Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release' -- More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too24 days ago
The Aspirations Of HPE And Dell In The Quantum-Classical HPC Datacenter1 hour ago
Why AI-Ready Data Is The Real Advantage5 days ago
QuiX Quantum Shows Off A Photonic Architecture For HPC Datacenters6 days ago
As Goes AI Compute, So Goes Ethernet Networking7 days ago
Behind Modern's operating system for data1 hour ago
Dell pushes AI factory, knocks rivals6 hours ago
Sandisk sets up flash chip supply agreement with Meta6 hours ago
Aston Martin's Aramco Formula One Team, CoreWeave, NetApp, and the race to gain a competitive storage advantage8 hours ago
Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships3 days ago
GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues5 days ago
.NET's long term support is not long term enough, dev complains10 days ago
Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency17 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract -- New procurement could be worth £851M after previous Fujitsu award was scrapped5 days ago
ON-PREM -- UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster -- Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain5 days ago
Brussels shows how to remove friction from collaboration - SPONSORED FEATURE: Flemish Government explores the radical notion that meeting rooms should just work5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Broadcom and Apple extend custom silicon pact to 2031 -- Probably an extension of long-running iThing innards arrangement, not a new custom AI accelerator deal6 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI startup that's never turned a profit say's it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease -- Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf6 days ago
Science -- 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 tritium6 days ago
AI and ML -- Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies -- AI's impact on tech business is complicated6 days ago
Madlad builds homebrew GPU using 8,192 RISC-V chips -- The next version will have 32,000 MCUs7 days ago
GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues -- A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself5 days ago
EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP -- Campaigners demand investigation and long-delayed action on PEGA Committee recommendations5 days ago
AI needs a home, not a hotel11 hours ago
Canonical Managed Kubeflow lands on Azure4 days ago
Put all your data and AI to work and get it out of silos and lakehouses6 days ago
In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical10 days ago
When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery12 days ago
What the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling13 days ago
The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure18 days ago
The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale25 days ago
Digital sovereignty needs an operating model26 days ago
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation27 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 components17 days ago
ON-PREM -- Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter -- Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams -- Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability6 days ago
AI and ML -- AMD's Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap -- 128 GB of memory! In this economy?6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains -- Good news if you're an OEM printer maker, EU retail biz, or a customs official... but hobbyists and others less pleased6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble -- Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess5 days ago
SECURITY -- Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters -- Up to 150 more stores to get the 'Orwellian' tech by year's end5 days ago
Security -- Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert -- ShinyHunters leaks names, addresses, DOBs, and more after Christian college discloses cyberattack5 days ago
SECURITY -- Security boss thought MFA would be too much security4 days ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles17 days ago
Personal Tech -- This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken1 month ago
Networks - Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner4 days 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 off1 month ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client1 month ago
AI AND ML - Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms - Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing16 days ago
Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker -- The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack19 days ago
Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated -- It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it6 days ago
Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show1 month ago
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers1 month ago
Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn -- Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions25 days ago
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher -- According to the one person who actually read the research paper26 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool -- Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades5 days ago
COLUMNISTS -- Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that... -- Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble6 days ago
Science -- 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, too6 days ago
OS PLatforms -- Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again -- SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims6 days ago
LEGAL -- EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister's bank account -- PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!6 days ago
MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage -- Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience.6 days ago
C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability -- Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched8 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year -- There might also be a downside7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82 -- Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones... and duvets7 days ago
Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools -- 29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are11 days ago
Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe -- Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'11 days ago
Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings -- Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in4 days ago
security - India's central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info - Open API could reveal everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials13 days ago
Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection - If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day4 hours ago
Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe -- Not today, Putin11 days ago
Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo -- At least two vulnerabilities are already under attack11 days ago
AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity -- You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy11 days ago
German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks2 hours ago
EU and UK officially blame Russian spies for cyberattack on Poland's power grid4 hours ago
World Cup grudge attackers may have scored Argentine FA access via year-old infostealer infection6 hours ago
Progress orders emergency ShareFile server shutdown over mystery security threat8 hours ago
Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package2 days ago
Fashion mart Miinto unzips breach details, warns shoppers to watch for phisherfolk3 days ago
Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients' data3 days ago
Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays3 days ago
An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals3 days ago
EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short4 days ago
AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data -- Third-party contractor compromise exposed health information and insurance billing passwords6 days ago
Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module -- Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?10 days ago
NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet -- Other residential proxy brands may rely on the same network6 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing -- KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments7 days ago
ON-PREM -- EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists -- Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade7 days ago
DATABASES -- Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy -- LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch7 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC -- Maybe they were looking for Private Data6 days ago
Software -- Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track -- A final humiliation for Australia's Securities Exchange and its attempts to run a bourse on distributed ledgers7 days ago
Cybercrime - Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway - Left hand, meet right hand10 days ago
LEGAL -- Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage4 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure1 month ago
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows -- Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms1 month ago
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat -- Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot1 month ago
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage -- This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit1 month 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 waves4 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 accounts10 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!28 days 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 source29 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream1 month ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.1 month ago
AI and ML -- Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme -- What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course7 days ago
AI and ML -- Companies that add more AI also add more people -- But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs8 days ago
Security -- Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack -- Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up7 days ago
AI AND ML -- SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training -- Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building10 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery -- Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard10 days ago
AI AND ML -- SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI -- Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to jobs and business trips as it tries to keep pace7 days ago
Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together -- Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously7 days ago
Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list -- Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers7 days ago
Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data -- Company that also makes insulin pumps and other devices tells users what was exposed months after ShinyHunters attack8 days ago
India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears -- Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators9 days ago
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released -- Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch10 days ago
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer -- Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error11 days ago
User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap13 hours ago
Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code7 days ago
Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess14 days ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!21 days ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet28 days 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 everything1 month ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch1 month 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 work9 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
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server2 months ago
Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement14 days ago
BT and Verizon spin off international networking arms into $4B joint venture14 days ago
End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service14 days ago
Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses14 days ago
Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down5 days ago
Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint5 days ago
Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids5 days ago
Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms10 days ago
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger12 days ago
Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal14 days ago
AI AND ML -- UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse -- Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues10 days ago
Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access -- Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network7 days ago
Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore -- Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house11 days ago
AI AND ML -- New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch -- They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI -- Risk factors galore10 days ago
EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought -- It's a 'complete BEC operations environment,' Talos researcher says8 days ago
DEVOPS -- Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy -- Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors -- Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system10 days ago
AI and ML - Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions5 days ago
Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied -- 'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg10 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 world12 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models -- Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough11 days ago
RESEARCH -- Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding -- People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust11 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form -- Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait11 days ago
AI + ML -- Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages -- Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...11 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites -- AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside11 days ago
Virtualization -- Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills -- But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back11 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 price6 hours ago
Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains -- Solar boss reckons challenges are regulatory, not technological10 hours 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 cameras5 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 Capsule12 days ago
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands -- It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix12 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 station13 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 ambitious14 days ago
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out -- Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM15 days ago
US auto regulators want to kill robotaxi brake pedals -- Requiring driverless vehicles to keep human brake controls impedes innovation, the NHTSA says17 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 opening17 days ago
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia -- A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest19 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 satellite20 days ago
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage -- Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen20 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 had21 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 here21 days ago
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?21 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 obligation23 days ago
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package23 days 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 lanes24 days 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 launches24 days ago
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM25 days 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 replacements27 days 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 broadcasts28 days ago
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities28 days 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 rockets29 days 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
Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes -- Bulletproof vests and armored vehicles were not in the job description1 month ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft1 month ago
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right -- TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations1 month ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh1 month ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals1 month ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder1 month ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck1 month 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 ahead13 days ago
science - Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor6 days ago
Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light -- Tastes great. Less filling. It's a floor wax. It's a dessert topping. Light shaping. Light sending. Why not both?14 days ago
Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands -- Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal15 days ago
Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though)3 hours ago
Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test5 hours ago
Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space4 days ago
New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation4 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 AI16 days ago
Perseverance rover finds even more signs of extinct life on Mars -- Scientists remain skeptical, plead for someone to bring the rocks home18 days ago
Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another -- The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone18 days ago
SCIENCE -- Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon -- Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind20 days ago
On-PREM -- 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud -- You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute21 days ago
AI AND ML -- Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' -- The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention19 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price -- Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets11 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies -- Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls11 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion -- Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?11 days ago