Wednesday, June 17, 2026 9:57 AM ET
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Python dev saved from disaster by intuition... and AI -- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't install that repo that will totally hose your system5 hours ago
Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback' -- Ships sans email, web, or socials, but with plenty of beige plastic19 hours ago
Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme -- Union says outsourcer will miss June 30 target after portal meltdown and mounting complaints21 hours ago
Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!' -- As Google continues crippling Chrome ad-blockers, it's a good time to try Firefox15 hours ago
AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created -- Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion15 hours ago
Security - Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory - Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though23 minutes ago
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft -- Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims23 minutes ago
Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers -- Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A55 minutes ago
OS PLaTFORMS - Windows devs rerolled old code to save precious bytes - There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB23 minutes ago
UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts -- What anonymized data taught me about B2B sales... and reliance on the private sector for statistical info1 hour ago
PERSONAL TECH - Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious - New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing2 hours ago
Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo -- Microsoft won the OLE vs OpenDoc wars. Now it's saying OLE dependencies don't matter3 hours ago
System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years -- Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything4 hours ago
Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks -- Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute4 hours ago
AI and ML - Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace - Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions – acceptance and innovation – are more useful7 hours ago
AI + ML -- The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess -- Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews23 minutes ago
Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers -- Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps17 hours ago
ON-PREM -- Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year13 hours ago
Security -- Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day5 days ago
SECURITY -- Every employee's password was stored in a single Excel file4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Logitech knows when to fold 'em3 days ago
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand -- The energy drink of frontier models -- Corey Quinn5 days ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't -- Rupert Goodwins5 days ago
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? -- Corey Quinn9 days ago
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies -- Mark Pesce27 days ago
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks -- Rupert Goodwins27 days ago
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols27 days ago
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof -- Rupert Goodwins27 days ago
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard - Corey Quinn5 days ago
There's no such thing as an agentic CPU -- AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other22 hours ago
Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges -- Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not!23 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven -- More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop3 hours ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NHS Palantir claims face scrutiny after data suggests uneven results -- Campaign group says FOI figures show some trusts carried out fewer procedures than before4 hours ago
NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment -- Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve1 day ago
Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play -- Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture1 day ago
DATABASES -- SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love -- Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight22 hours ago
AI AND ML -- ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss -- Look to AI agents and open source to escape the vendor-driven upgrade cycle22 hours ago
AI + ML -- A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI -- What's up, DocLang?23 hours 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 day ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs -- How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin1 day ago
Virtualization -- HPE offers VMware refugees a year off the meter -- Free VM Essentials license and cut-price Zerto dangled at customers eyeing a platform escape15 hours ago
Council of Europe hacked in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft heist -- Joins the ranks of Nottingham Uni and 100 other unnamed victims23 minutes ago
Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28 -- Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site -- Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability3 hours ago
SCIENCE -- NASA management wants a word and won't say why -- A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig -- Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling1 day ago
Security -- Microsoft site throwing warnings after someone forgot to renew cert -- Connectivity checker trips browser alarms thanks to lapsed security paperwork11 hours ago
AI and ML -- Salesforce reels in customer support AI specialist Fin for $3.6B -- Support bot maker claims its AI agents can resolve three-quarters of customer queries without human help1 day ago
RESEARCH -- PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year, snooping through Gmail and stealing data -- Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens17 hours ago
Security -- Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits -- Community repo freezes new accounts after attackers swamp it with poisoned package updates19 hours ago
AI AND ML -- US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive -- Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence1 day ago
SOFTWARE -- Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks -- Linux app packaging rethink could leave alternative-init distros in the cold21 hours ago
AI and ML -- UK AI hiring surges as firms seek people to babysit the bots -- PwC says AI hiring jumped 61 percent despite wider slowdown in vacancies, with employers increasingly looking for workers who can use AI rather than build it1 day ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK Treasury hunts CTO on salary that may not compute for top tech talent -- The pension may be cushy, but the looming headaches for £77K are not1 day ago
Public Sector -- Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion -- Experts welcome contract review after claims NHS England missed chance to grow UK health tech market1 day ago
Personal Tech -- Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media -- UK plans to go further than Australia, while also targeting stranger contact, livestreaming, and addictive platform features1 day ago
Ai and ml -- Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let's play Truth Or Consequences -- Hush. children, what's that sound? Has the flood gates' key been found?1 day ago
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities2 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!2 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter -- From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them23 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains -- MPs told that while concerns over handsets and social media grows, evidence they're changing children's brains is limited1 day ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?1 month ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well1 day ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend5 days ago
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition7 days ago
LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy7 days ago
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots12 days ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project22 days 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
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads1 month ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits1 month ago
Databases -- NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can -- Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal1 day ago
AI AND ML -- NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages -- AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers1 day ago
SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right? -- We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair4 days ago
Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure -- GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized3 days ago
MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd -- Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up4 days ago
Security -- Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district -- Iowan's scheme undone after misplacing trust in former coworker1 day ago
AI and ML -- KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations -- GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled2 days ago
Security -- Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod -- Clinical trial participant data stolen, but pharma giant says exposed records were pseudonymized1 day ago
Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year -- The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage5 days ago
Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet -- And it was Microsoft Copilot that unwittingly revealed the longstanding vulnerability1 day ago
Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops -- Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands1 day ago
AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created -- Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion15 hours ago
Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says -- Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market1 day ago
Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale -- Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box5 days ago
Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters -- Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill6 days ago
AI and ml -- Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked -- Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'3 days ago
Security -- Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe -- Authority admits mass message to home-schooling families revealed recipients' addresses, prompting ICO report and apology1 day ago
Public Sector -- UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy -- CEO of Mumsnet among the six-member team1 day ago
BOFH -- BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder -- Mission Control sends its regards1 day 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 economy3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude is ready for its corporate close-up -- IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss -- 'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits -- Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI5 days ago
Security -- ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day -- University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg2 days ago
Catch the Advanced Attacks Microsoft 365 Misses with Behavioral AI Security -- Microsoft 365 is the backbone of enterprise communication, and its native security filters out the known and the noisy.26 days ago
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Virtual Cyber Recovery Sim -- Step into the chaos of a live ransomware breach, test your response skills, and team up with other IT and security pros to outsmart cybercriminals29 days ago
Virtual Cyber Recovery Simulation -- Ransomware attacks aren't slowing down, and neither are we. Druva's hit event, Escape Ransomware, is now fully virtual.27 days ago
Zero Trust for the Agentic AI Era -- The identity and access models most organizations rely on were built for human users, not non-human identities operating independently.12 days ago
Zero Trust for the Agentic AI Era -- The identity and access models most organizations rely on were built for human users, not non-human identities operating independently.12 days ago
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AI AND ML -- Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation -- Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory5 days ago
Security -- Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day -- Another day, another Windows exploit code3 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' -- AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts -- iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android4 days ago
SECURITY -- VRChat says somebody faked a breach notice with the Maine AG's office -- 'We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised. We are in the process of contacting the Maine Attorney General's office to have this removed.'4 days ago
Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own -- Blending containers and VMs but some features half-baked5 days ago
Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks5 days ago
Applications - Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month23 minutes ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester -- As OpenAI courts investors and chases enterprise customers, Forrester says today's AI leader could become tomorrow's cautionary tale5 days ago
AI and ML -- Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it -- Project Headroom could save you big money, too13 days ago
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge -- Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak23 days ago
Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped -- Red Hat's free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend27 days ago
LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business -- Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in1 month ago
Tensordyne Converts AI Matrix Math To Logs To Crank Up Inference Oomph18 hours ago
QuEra's Libra Fault-Tolerant Quantum System Heading To Amazon Braket Service18 hours ago
More Power To You – And To The Datacenters1 day ago
While Oracle Will Rake In Big Bucks On AI, Profits Are Hard To Predict4 days ago
VAST Data and the evolving neoclouds22 hours ago
Lumi Loglake enables fast searches of unstructured log data1 day ago
IDC ranks Dell, NetApp, Everpure, Huawei and HPE in external storage systems market1 day ago
McObject's embedded eXtremeDB/rt database has hardware-free flash simulation support1 day ago
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation1 day ago
Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed7 days ago
Microsoft Build: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, Coreutils for Windows, air-gapped GitHub and more13 days ago
TypeScript devs no longer need to tangle with C# to use Aspire dev stack after Microsoft update13 days ago
Personal tech -- Met Police joins forces with Apple to choke London's stolen phone trade -- Intelligence-sharing pact tracks kit that comes back online after being nicked5 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day -- Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection4 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NS&I dangles £220K salary for CEO willing to straighten out £3B IT mess -- Comes with a corner office, government scrutiny, and the 'full-spectrum disaster' known as Project Rainbow5 days ago
Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack -- Crooks claim 40 GB haul as breach database pegs number of exposed email addresses at 455K4 days ago
UK Treasury still deciding whether to show up to £1.7B ERP program it agreed to fund -- Move from Oracle put back until December following delays to Workday rollout6 days ago
Every employee's password was stored in a single Excel file -- The CEO thought this was the best way to deal with some email issues4 days ago
Security -- Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate -- PRC eyes are watching you5 days ago
AI + ML -- Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear -- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly for enterprise applications5 days ago
AI AND ML -- It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts -- Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale5 days ago
Security -- Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day -- Revenge is a dish best served code5 days ago
ON-PREM -- GM gets datacenter fever, decides to build grid-scale sodium-ion batteries -- Detroit automaker partners with Peak Energy to try a saltier route to energy storage5 days ago
ZTE Day 2026 in Almaty Showcases Innovations Shaping Kazakhstan's Intelligent Telecom Future1 day ago
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation1 day ago
Europe's AI paralysis has a solution - and it starts with a semantic twin1 day ago
ZTE wins three Selular Award 2026 honors for AI-powered network innovation5 days ago
Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt5 days ago
ZTE Demonstrates Integrated AI, Connectivity and Digital Utility Technologies at TNB Energy Transition Conference8 days ago
ZTE showcases AI-driven project management innovations at the 14th IPMA Research Conference 202611 days ago
China Mobile Jiangsu and ZTE unveil intelligent complaint analysis agent to reshape core network O&M11 days ago
ZTE and partners nurture global ICT talent through 2026 engineering capacity building program14 days ago
AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis18 days ago
DON'T MISS -- Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation -- Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'1 month ago
ON-PREM -- Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030 -- Grid operators could struggle to support new bit barn construction5 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- macOS 27 beta boots Asahi Linux off Apple Silicon -- Partition's still there, but good luck seeing it and don't upgrade until fix lands, says team5 days ago
LEGAL -- Vercel escapes contempt rap after admitting it botched FBI warrant response -- Files sought by feds were sitting in a deletion queue, not gone for good6 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever -- Firefox is in, Snap and Flatpak are still out, but a default AI helper may raise eyebrows6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting' -- Productivity gains lost as staff spoon-feed AI and correct its cock-ups5 days ago
DevOps -- GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts -- Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors5 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal -- Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered6 days ago
Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes1 hour ago
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner19 days ago
Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working13 days ago
Systems - On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off - Lazy weekend of Grand Prix fun turned into a terrifying all-nighter1 month ago
On-Prem - Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client1 month ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave1 month ago
To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane1 month ago
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching1 month ago
AI AND ML - 'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says - The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO12 days ago
UK banks offered access to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic's Glasswing expansion -- 150 new organizations inducted to cyber's Soho House, including the first outside the US12 days ago
Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered -- Meanwhile, Anthropic adds 150 partners to Project Glasswing1 day ago
Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show26 days ago
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers28 days ago
Anthropic, now atop the AI bubble, files for its IPO -- First it tops OpenAI's valuation, then it beats Altman to the IPO punch15 days ago
Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine -- The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human2 days ago
Ivanti tells Sentry customers to patch now as critical bugs hit 10.0 and 9.9 -- Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets5 days ago
Brussels' datacenter efficiency scorecard may come with a credit warning -- Moody's says proposed A-to-G green grades for bit barns could affect financing7 days ago
Node4 CEO Neil Muller found dead at home after suspected stabbing -- MSP says it is 'absolutely devastated' as woman arrested on suspicion of murder7 days ago
SYSTEMS -- SpacemiT shows off usably quick RISC-V mini desktop -- Actual RVA23 hardware and useful performance – for a certain price23 minutes ago
BOOTNOTES -- France and Germany agree to disagree, ditch joint next-gen Euro fighter -- Aircraft at core of the Future Combat Air System canned as parties could not decide who leads on the work5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Logitech knows when to fold 'em -- Meet Mobi Fold - creased popster or clever portable mouse5 days ago
PATCHES -- AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again -- Unless you're an admin or vulnerability manager – then you're totally screwed5 days ago
SaaS -- Salesforce cuts staff amid acquisition spree and $50 billion share buyback -- The layoffs come after CEO Marc Benioff boasted of record revenue and 'incredible cashflow' two weeks ago6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- If your sex life is dead, you can blame Steve Jobs -- Economists find signs of a 'large and causal relationship between iPhones and fertility' in AT&T exclusivity-era data6 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos -- Company also changes data retention policy6 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source -- As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about5 days ago
SCIENCE -- MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer -- Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?6 days ago
Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder -- Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex8 days ago
Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds -- A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$23 hours ago
OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds -- Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb3 hours ago
Security - Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets - Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted13 days ago
Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k - Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act23 minutes ago
Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine -- 'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg9 days ago
All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields -- It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information10 days ago
Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state -- Those backup plans need backup testing11 days ago
Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more23 minutes ago
Helpdesk scammers are making house calls to make their lies feel more real2 hours ago
Cyberattack sees crops kept in the ground7 hours ago
Python dev saved from disaster by intuition... and AI5 hours ago
Three critical Fortinet sandbox bugs splattered by unknown attackers18 hours ago
Crooks found a new way to collaborate using Teams – by hiding command-and-control traffic23 hours ago
Cardiac monitor maker's security skips a beat as data thieves go for the jugular1 day ago
Scammers keep scoring: Brits fleeced for £1.3B as Americans lose $3.5B to impersonators1 day ago
Cisco SD-WAN make-me-root bug under attack1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple's iOS 27 goes all agentic on compromised passwords, promises to change them with one tap -- iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use5 days ago
Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway -- Pressure to deploy wins out over security as four in five orgs confess to breaches from vulnerable apps7 days ago
Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all' -- Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for censorship6 days ago
Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year -- Google paid researcher a tidy $55K bounty for its discovery6 days ago
France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack -- Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data6 days ago
Kyndryl showers execs with shares while staff ponder redundancy packages -- IBM spin-off's top brass bag six-figure stock awards6 days ago
Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks -- Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can7 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Qilin NHS breach tally grows as Essex trust confirms stolen records -- Two years on from ransomware attack, hospitals are still trying to identify and warn patients6 days ago
Public Sector -- UK.gov warned that digital transformation hype is no substitute for delivery -- Parliamentary committee says £45B savings claim risks undermining public sector tech reform rather than helping it7 days ago
AI and ML - Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic1 day ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure18 days 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 platforms22 days 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 hot27 days 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 outfit28 days ago
Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange -- LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost29 days ago
Baidu says the quiet part out loud – you can't build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in -- CFO says GPU rentals are 'structurally higher margin than CPU cloud'29 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 source3 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream19 days ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.20 days ago
DEVOPS -- Apple courts developers with privacy and context in AI comeback bid -- Apple Intelligence stumbled through 2024 and 2025. It's starting to look respectable7 days ago
Security -- Norks blast 250+ fake job offers to developers over 6 weeks to try and snarf creds and crypto -- When an unsolicited job offer sounds too good to be true ...6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Apple's Orwellian device controls for tots also mean more work for parents -- The new features ignore the argument that if parents wanted to spend more time on their kids, they wouldn't have supplied them with an iPad or iPhone in the first place7 days ago
AI + ML -- It's do or die for Apple AI -- WWDC announcements earned tempered praise from analysts, with an emphasis on the word 'if'7 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Ransomware crims got a month-long head start on Check Point VPN 0-day that now has a fix -- Scumbags, including a Qilin ransomware affiliate, began hitting this hole May 77 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era -- Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize7 days 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?8 days ago
Ransomware sends Illinois high school on an early summer vacation -- Meanwhile, 13 schools in Wales affected by separate attack7 days ago
AI AND ML -- NHS prescribes half a million Copilot licenses for its paperwork headache -- After a trial claimed chatbot saved staff 43 minutes a day, NHS England has decided it's time to supersize the experiment8 days ago
SECURITY -- GitHub nukes 70+ Microsoft repos, breaks CI/CD pipelines, following suspected worm infections -- Miasma worm shapeshifts, but cloud secret-scouting remains the goal6 days ago
DEVOPS -- Python JIT compiler project under threat after steering council says proper process wasn't followed -- No new features to be submitted to main branch, existing code removed in 6 months if new proposal not created and accepted7 days ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet2 days ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug9 days ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident16 days ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in23 days ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything30 days 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 leaving1 month ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch1 month ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild1 month ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it1 month ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe1 month ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference1 month ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo1 month ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble1 month ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract1 month ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction1 month ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell1 month ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead1 month ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office1 month ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server1 month ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam1 month ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key1 month ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause1 month ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble1 month ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good1 month ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming1 month ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work1 month ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books1 month ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people1 month ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere1 month ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver1 month ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'1 month ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware1 month ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice1 month ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company1 month ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it1 month ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe1 month ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery1 month ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'1 month ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league1 month ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA1 month ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it1 month ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results1 month ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off1 month ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady1 month ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server1 month ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo1 month ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production1 month ago
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time1 month ago
Junior sysadmin's first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company1 month ago
Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech13 days ago
Don't repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators13 days ago
The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company13 days ago
Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon14 days ago
AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking4 days ago
Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet8 days ago
Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class12 days ago
Satellite phone dreams orbit reality as direct-to-cell usage set to underwhelm15 days ago
Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen16 days ago
Jammin' on UK defence secretary's jet as Russia blamed for GPS interference19 days ago
SECURITY -- NSO Group back in Meta's crosshairs after alleged WhatsApp targeting -- Zuckercorp says surveillance-for-hire vendor was still running phishing operations after federal court told it to knock it off7 days ago
SCIENCE -- UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers -- Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US7 days ago
AI and ML -- Brit fraudsters using AI to doctor 'evidence' in motor insurance claims -- Policy-holders increasingly turn fender benders into much more by sprinkling in their favorite AI chatbots, Aviva says8 days ago
AI and ML -- Department of Work and Pensions' answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV -- Whitehall says Work Assistant will help jobseekers apply around the clock – provided employers don't mind machine-written applications8 days ago
OS Platforms -- History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system -- When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'7 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform -- It always has been, but Microsoft didn't realize it8 days ago
Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI -- Every show now is an AI show, and that included this year's Computex9 days ago
offbeat - Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships4 days ago
Public sector -- Home Office ditches legacy asylum database, keeps the spreadsheets -- Years into a major IT overhaul, MPs say the department still lacks reliable view of what is happening across the asylum system8 days ago
Personal Tech -- England's exam watchdog frets over smart specs turning GCSEs into Google searches -- Ofqual says smart glasses, hidden earpieces, and AI tools are creating a new generation of cheating headaches8 days ago
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach -- Totally different attack from the break-in last month. Oh so that's OK then8 days ago
Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY -- The bill awaits Gov. Hochul's signature after passing the state legislature11 days ago
Architecting the Future: Unlocking Enterprise Data Services for Kubernetes -- Join us to discover how to eliminate infrastructure silos and establish a standardized, enterprise-grade cloud-native platform.26 days ago
If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks -- When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider8 days ago
Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight -- Good luck, sys admins8 days ago
SCIENCE -- Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule -- Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired8 days ago
SCIENCE -- Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security -- DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research9 days ago
AI and ML -- Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode -- Most orgs remain trapped between flashy demos and real-world deployment, despite 75% saying adoption is racing ahead9 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 broadcasts1 day 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 rockets3 days ago
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs -- Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register4 days ago
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway -- A blast from the past greets commuters4 days 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 debut4 days ago
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans -- It's just not cricket5 days 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?5 days 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 19996 days ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft18 days 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 obligations19 days ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh20 days ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals20 days ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder21 days ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck22 days ago
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers -- A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign23 days ago
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship -- Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors24 days ago
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice -- AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh26 days ago
UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties -- Low-cost laser-guided rockets offer cheaper way to swat Shahed-style threats than firing pricey air-to-air missiles29 days ago
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller -- Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier29 days ago
UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order -- 72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine1 month ago
Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show -- Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony1 month ago
Dude... where's my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash -- AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files1 month ago
This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY -- Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans1 month ago
Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine -- Class A drugs loaded instead of A41 month ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu1 month ago
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue -- Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope1 month ago
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains -- Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.1 month ago
London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End1 month ago
Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard -- A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive1 month ago
Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price1 month ago
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen1 month ago
Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets -- Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?1 month ago
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested -- Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope1 month ago
UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones -- Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports1 month ago
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb -- GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them1 month ago
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to -- A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not1 month ago
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook -- Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time1 month ago
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags1 month ago
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop -- Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space1 month ago
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs -- PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge1 month ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely1 month ago
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway -- But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev1 month ago
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans -- Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready18 days ago
Science - Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry14 days ago
NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon -- Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base20 days ago
Science -- Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust -- Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit14 days ago
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job19 hours ago
NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment1 day ago
NASA management wants a word and won't say why1 day ago
Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket5 days ago
Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks -- What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?21 days ago
Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission -- Due on November 21, eleven months late - but on time to do science!22 days ago
Feds unwittingly leak pilots' pre-crash conversation -- Release of spectrogram of cockpit recorder audio allows conversation recovery with 'emerging' decades-old tech25 days ago
SpaceX scrubs Starship launch with seconds to go -- Not all bad news: Crypto billionaire signs up for a mission to Mars26 days ago
ESA boss tires of being dragged around by NASA mood swings -- Are we pilots or are we passengers? Aschbacher asks28 days ago
Space factories edge closer after experimental capsule survives hypersonic landing -- Varda hails success of autonomous touchdown tech and celebrates heat data haul28 days ago
Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS -- SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS11 days ago
World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families -- Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain8 days ago
SYSTEMS -- Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box -- Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?22 hours ago
Personal tech -- Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill -- Forecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply9 days ago
Saas -- Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals -- Cost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival9 days ago