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Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job -- Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions

3 hours ago

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist -- Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs

3 hours ago

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch -- New 'Datacenter Manager' manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters

1 day ago

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 ... to pay for more AI and security -- All those new features won't fund themselves

3 hours ago

And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is... -- Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be. Or not -- Offbeat

9 hours ago

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA -- Wanna know a secret? -- Security

9 hours ago

Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL -- Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC's copyleft enforcement push -- Legal

20 hours ago

Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams -- Proof of life? Or an active social media presence? -- Cyber-crime

21 hours ago

Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it -- Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed -- Applications

22 hours ago

Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG -- Who needs JavaScript? -- Research

22 hours ago

Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln -- Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says -- Security

22 hours ago

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception -- TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency -- Legal

1 day ago

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 ... to pay for more AI and security -- All those new features won't fund themselves -- SaaS

1 day ago

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist -- Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul - Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems - Cyber-crime - 05 Dec 2025 - |

1 day ago

Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns -- State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI - Re:Invent - AWS Chief Matt Garman lays out his vision bringing artificial intelligence to the enterprise

1 day ago

Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist -- With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up -- SaaS

1 day ago

Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it -- Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite -- OSes

1 day ago

Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown -- Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals -- Applications

1 day ago

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash -- Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance -- Security

1 day ago

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built -- Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process -- OSes

1 day ago

Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help -- Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance - Updated - The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts - Networks - 05 Dec 2025 - | 51

9 hours ago

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net? -- Opinion -- You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours -- On Call -- Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security -- Applications

1 day ago

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch -- New 'Datacenter Manager' manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters -- Virtualization

1 day ago

HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge -- Never mind, says jolly green giant, we're a networking-centric company now -- Systems

1 day ago

AWS Graviton5 Strikes A Different Balance For Server CPUs

1 day ago

With Celestial AI Buy, Marvell Scales Up The Datacenter And Itself

2 days ago

With Trainium4, AWS Will Crank Up Everything But The Clocks

2 days ago

HPE Gets The Lead Out On Juniper-Aruba Networking Integration

2 days ago

Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one - Opinion - We're getting it baked into Windows whether we like it or not

1 day ago

An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense -- Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency -- Security

1 day ago

Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU - re:invent - The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years - AWS Re:invent - 04 Dec 2025 - | 4

18 hours ago

PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years -- 'Dozens' of US orgs infected -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief -- 'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!' -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says -- He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem -- Security

1 day ago

Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases -- And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares -- Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again' -- Science

2 days ago

Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers

1 day ago

Bun JavaScript runtime acquired by Anthropic, tying its future to AI coding

3 days ago

AWS Transform revamp uses AI to shift applications from Microsoft's SQL Server

4 days ago

AWS debuts Lambda managed instances on EC2: more control, lower cost for high volume users

4 days ago

Modernizing hyperconverged infrastructure: how StorPool and Oracle are changing the game - Webinar Promo

1 day ago

Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike - Exclusive - Major OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite - Systems - 04 Dec 2025 - | 14

1 day ago

Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up -- $200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted '90%+' accuracy needs human oversight -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job -- Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions -- Networks

2 days ago

Rocketship Rubrik's revenues roar robustly to record

23 hours ago

HPE networking shines while servers dim and Alletra glistens

1 day ago

Storage news ticker – 4 December 2025

1 day ago

How to make your data AI-ready, using infrastructure you already own

2 days ago

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform -- OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative -- Nvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse -- Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files -- Patches

2 days ago

Escaping the squeeze: your strategy for a confident VMware-to-AWS migration - Make the transition with confidence in this focused webinar - Sponsored Post

3 days ago

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits -- Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices -- Software

2 days ago

Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL -- Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet -- Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power -- 3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze -- Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle -- Databases

2 days ago

Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals -- Exclusive -- One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they'll have to pass it on -- SaaS

2 days ago

Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail -- It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets -- Systems Approach -- Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear -- Networks

2 days ago

Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec -- Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability -- Software

2 days ago

India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform -- Minister wants to 'free drivers from dependency on private companies' -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches -- First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory? -- Storage

2 days ago

John Henry still leading the race vs AI in customer service -- Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI -- AI + ML

2 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.

15 days ago

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

25 days ago

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

29 days 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

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator -- Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg -- Legal

2 days ago

'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole -- Finish reading this, then patch -- Security

2 days ago

MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers -- Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue -- AI + ML

2 days ago

China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing -- An 'anomaly' meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage -- Science

3 days ago

Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption -- Talk about enshittification -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse -- LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits -- Science

3 days ago

Microsoft sharpens the blocking axe for Exchange Web Services -- Starting in March, Frontline Worker and Kiosk–only mailboxes lose EWS access -- SaaS

3 days ago

How to make your data AI-ready, using infrastructure you already own - Hammerspace maximizes your GPU usage using your existing NVMe storage - Partner content

4 days ago

HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware -- IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona -- Virtualization

3 days ago

ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado -- Russian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals -- Science

3 days ago

Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push -- Statcounter shows the gap narrowing as users cling to older hardware and familiar workflows -- OSes

3 days ago

Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report -- Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam -- Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASML -- Systems

3 days ago

Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS -- Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve -- OSes

3 days ago

Here's your worst nightmare: E-tailer can only resume partial sales 45 days after ransomware attack -- Japan's Askul still can't run all its sites, but at least the fax line held up OK -- Security

3 days ago

China using AI as 'precision instrument' of censorship and repression, at home and abroad -- Think tank ASPI says Beijing is even using it to steal fish from the ocean -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Indian government reveals GPS spoofing at eight major airports -- Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runway -- Security

3 days ago

AWS offers AI-in-a-box for enterprise datacenters -- re:invent -- If sovereignty or on-prem AI matters, the new AI Factories could be for you -- AWS Re:invent

3 days ago

AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em -- Re:Invent -- Autonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking security -- AWS Re:invent

3 days ago

Two Android 0-day bugs disclosed and fixed, plus 105 more to patch -- Christmas comes early for attackers this year -- Patches

4 days ago