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Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence -- Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared

8 hours ago

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome -- The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away

8 hours ago

Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025 -- The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase

8 hours ago

China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company - Asia In Brief - PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more

5 hours ago

Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words - 'General agents' to infuse Meta's products real soon now - AI + ML - 30 Dec 2025 - |

2 hours ago

Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer -- The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday -- Systems

4 hours ago

Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims -- There's more where that came from, CEO says -- Cyber-crime

5 hours ago

Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line -- There's a big salary up for grabs if you can handle a high-stress role with a track record of turnover -- AI + ML

8 hours ago

You don't need Linux to run free and open source software - Part 2 - Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows

8 hours ago

Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death -- BORK!BORK!BORK! -- Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD

10 hours ago

SSL Santa greets London Victoria visitors with a borked update -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Best not touch that screen, eh?

1 day ago

BOFH - : The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct - Episode 25 - After the boardroom is ransacked, it's straight into Arse Covering 101 - BOFH - 27 Dec 2025 - | 36

2 hours ago

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome -- The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away -- AI + ML

3 days ago

From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year -- Practice makes perfect -- Security

3 days ago

From video games to cyber defense: If you don't think like a hacker, you won't win - interview - In supercharged AI race, defenders need to keep up - Security - 26 Dec 2025 - | 21

3 hours ago

Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed -- Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls -- Networks

3 days ago

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work -- Opinion -- Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool -- AI + ML

3 days ago

IT team forced to camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss's side project -- On Call Y2K -- The lack of trust that leads to outsourcing can be expensive -- Columnists

3 days ago

Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow -- Investment and interest have outpaced technology and society -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia

6 days ago

Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing

7 days ago

HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand

10 days ago

Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition

11 days ago

Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date - Part 1 - Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 2026

8 hours ago

AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top? -- Hands On -- Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths -- Systems

4 days ago

Salesforce's ChatGPT integration is really about stopping customers from leaking their own data - Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the 'trust boundary' AI + ML - 24 Dec 2025 - | 6

3 days ago

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet -- opinion -- Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return? -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws -- AI goes off the rails ... because of shoddy guardrails -- Security

5 days ago

Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance -- ATC: 'I don't know if you can hear me but cleared to land' -- AI + ML

5 days ago

US shuts down phisherfolk's $14.6M password-hoarding platform -- Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts -- Cyber-crime

5 days ago

Waymo pings updates to San Francisco fleet to prevent power outage chaos 2.0 -- Meanwhile, new outages, linked to storms, are pelting the area -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

11 days ago

GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

12 days ago

Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

13 days ago

Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

14 days ago

Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature

10 days ago

Sight of Clippy, Internet Explorer scares baby -- Reg reader introduces newborn to Microsoft ugly sweater. Child not amused

5 days ago

One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement - Feature - Stuck in pilot purgatory? Confused about returns? You're not alone - AI + ML - 24 Dec 2025 - | 60

1 day ago

North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking -- A newspaper misprint began a Christmas Eve tradition joining holiday cheer with military technology

5 days ago

Project Silica's glass storage archive tech progress

6 days ago

Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond

6 days ago

Optera's room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive

8 days ago

Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

10 days ago

NASA tries Curiosity rover's Mastcam to work out where MAVEN might be -- Time running out for savin' MAVEN as stricken spacecraft still silent as Mars solar conjunction nears -- Science

5 days ago

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 -- Plans move to Rust, with help from AI -- Software

5 days ago

AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix's AHV hypervisor - VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options - Virtualization - 24 Dec 2025 - |

5 days ago

AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post

10 days ago

US punishes China's 'dominance' of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs - World War Fee - President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027 - Public Sector - 24 Dec 2025 - | 42

1 day ago

ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled 'Buy security company, make it Armis' Customers will be able to see vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and close them with automated workflows. SaaS - 23 Dec 2025 - |

6 days ago

21K Nissan customers' data stolen in Red Hat raid -- Automaker's third security snafu in three years -- Cyber-crime

6 days ago

Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth -- Spacecraft set to burn up in a few weeks, but it could have been worse -- Science

6 days ago

Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug -- Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas -- Patches

6 days ago

Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here's how to try it -- You'll need to be using a Windows Insider build to see it -- OSes

6 days ago

Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat - Opinion - Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it - Software - 23 Dec 2025 - | 153

8 hours ago

Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time -- Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster -- AI + ML

6 days ago

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again -- Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works -- Storage

6 days ago

Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming -- The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI -- PaaS + IaaS

6 days ago

Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows - Bork!Bork!Bork! Menu.exe not found - Offbeat - 23 Dec 2025 - | 43

2 days ago

Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year -- Cab drivers protested Uber's arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs -- AI + ML

6 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

France's post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident' -- Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried -- 25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous -- Science

7 days ago

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts -- And it's especially dangerous because the code works -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

Palo Alto's new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs -- SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M -- Security

7 days ago

Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence -- Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared

8 hours ago

Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025 -- The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase

8 hours ago

Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age -- Feature -- Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground

8 hours ago

China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more

8 hours ago

When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real -- On Call Y2K -- More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers

8 hours ago

How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems -- 20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly

8 hours ago

Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83 -- Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue's fortunes during the dotcom era

8 hours ago

Four tech trends from 2025 that will shape the future – because they have to -- Opinion -- Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try

8 hours ago

Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online -- Extortion group Lovely claims to have stolen 40 million pieces of info from publisher Conde Nast

1 hour ago

SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year -- Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list -- AI + ML

7 days ago

Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen' Interview - Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year - AI + ML - 22 Dec 2025 - | 14

3 days ago

Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China -- Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing -- Systems

7 days ago

The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post

10 days ago

Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture -- Anna's Archive's idealism doesn't quite survive its own blog post -- Security

7 days ago

Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim -- Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK -- Cyber-crime

7 days ago

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows - Opinion - Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card - OSes - 22 Dec 2025 - | 294

9 hours ago

EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031 -- Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics -- Public Sector

7 days ago

Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges -- Hands On -- Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle -- OSes

7 days ago

Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency -- On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs -- CSO

7 days ago

AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter -- Rising rack densities are driving changes from grid connection to chip-level delivery -- The Future of the Datacenter

7 days ago

Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech -- Feature -- Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty -- PaaS + IaaS

7 days ago

The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked -- Opinion -- Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech -- AI + ML

7 days ago

AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last? -- Total operational capacity just keeps rising -- Systems

7 days ago

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good -- Who, Me? -- Mousey wouldn't work, wah-wah-wah -- Columnists

7 days ago

There's so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM -- SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion -- Security

7 days ago