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How Google fumbled the frontend with Angular 2 -- All Things Open Talk provided lessons in how not to upgrade a software package

6 hours ago

Man spends 35 years collecting corporate waffle, turns it into an app -- Why waste time thinking of something useful to say when an app can leverage synergies for you?

9 hours ago

Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees - EXCLUSIVE - Project Quarry aims to provide a 'shared language' for evaluating agent behavior

7 hours ago

China's spaceplane bears striking resemblance to America's X-37B -- Defense Intelligence Agency space report includes a rare orbital snap of the Chinese craft, and it looks rather familiar

8 hours ago

Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions -- Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030

6 hours ago

123 Reg discloses 'AI cyberattack' on customer data, suspects China nexus - EXCLUSIVE - Company chiefs believe the attackers could be the same as those who used ARTEX to breach South Korea's financial giants

6 hours ago

Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead -- Why give people tests that AI aces?

58 minutes ago

Amazon tells tokenmaxxing devs to slow their AI roll -- Focus more on what matters, please, like creating useful software and accomplishing company goals

1 hour ago

ai and ml - GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down - Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse

58 minutes ago

Neocloud thinks AI agents - not meatbags - will be its main customers -- Quake AI is developing APIs to let autonomous agents access its services more efficiently

11 hours ago

Why roaming packages have become an anachronism in the age of app-first travel -- PARTNER CONTENT:

12 hours ago

SK Hynix says memory shortages to persist until 2030 -- Good for its bottom line, not great news for yours, or for the PC and smartphone markets

17 hours ago

channel - AI slows growth for Infosys and keeps it afloat at the same time - Predicts slower growth as savings from automation hit price of extended deals

19 hours ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Apple takes powerful M6 chip to the MacBook Pro, iMac -- 6th-gen M-series silicon promises more cores, faster memory, a fatter NPU, and better connectivity, now in more form factors

1 hour ago

Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute

18 hours ago

Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China

1 day ago

Microsoft offers parachutes to 60k employees if they jump by the end of the year

1 day ago

Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge

1 day ago

IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem

2 days ago

It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill -- New models arrive so fast, we already have more new tech than it's possible to understand in a career -- Mark Pesce

2 days ago

No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally -- Fancy a bit of fun? It's always DNS -- Corey Quinn

2 days ago

Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world -- Rupert Goodwins

2 days ago

EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

5 days ago

Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what -- Rupert Goodwins

6 days ago

OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian -- Corey Quinn

6 days ago

AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure -- Corey Quinn

13 days ago

Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage -- Rupert Goodwins

16 days ago

Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

20 days ago

In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols -- Bruce Davie

17 days ago

Your cloud survived everything except the real world -- Rupert Goodwins

21 days ago

Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

2 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux -- Classic Platinum or lickable Mavericks-era Aqua – it's your choice

4 hours ago

SAAS -- Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year -- Revenue up, operating profit up, 30 million paid Copilot seats locked in, 88 DCs added, $43.8 billion returned to shareholders

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- A whopping 3% of boardroom execs spy productivity and costs savings from AI -- A load more are spending more than they expected and forecast to shell out even more in 2027

1 day ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation -- Admits a 'small number' of iPhone Duos have display problems, and no, you're not folding it wrong.

1 day ago

storage - When file infrastructure becomes the bottleneck - EVENT - Legacy NAS, VPNs, and file-sync workflows leave hidden costs in their wake. Is the way your organization manages files still fit for purpose?

1 day ago

ON-PREM -- UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups -- Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones

1 day ago

OS PLATFORMS -- FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases -- Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions

12 hours ago

ON-PREM -- How everyday technology choices drive true workplace sustainability -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Introducing certified, environmentally friendly meeting room solutions, such as Barco ClickShare, in a standardized way across the organization can make the difference between hitting sustainability goals or not

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel -- They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action

1 day ago

IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job -- Promises to build 'IBM Z Atlas' tool that will tidy up messy big iron and enable AIOps

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists -- It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra -- Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

1 day ago

SECURITY -- Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail -- Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search

1 hour ago

AI AND ML -- Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China -- But there's not much evidence this is anything more than echoes of unsanitized training data

6 hours ago

LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key -- A 'strong illustration of the risks associated with failing to rotate a potentially exposed key'

8 hours ago

Microsoft offers parachutes to 60k employees if they jump by the end of the year -- Voluntary exit offer extended to about one-quarter of existing Softies

1 day ago

Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug - Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw

58 minutes ago

Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Lego bricks -- Every key is its own module, and its designer tells us the sky's the theoretical limit on the size of the frankenboard you can build

2 days ago

Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure -- New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English

2 days ago

UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest -- Jaydip Modhwadia beats challenge designed to test real-world exploitability of PHP2Shell in around 3 hours

19 hours ago

AI AND ML -- Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing -- Claude maker reveals financials and warns investors its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or go rogue

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Last call for The Register's data sovereignty dinner in Washington -- EVENT: The Register's Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA is this Thursday. The table is nearly set.

1 day ago

SCIENCE -- Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry -- Atmospheric drag brings an extraordinarily long-lived mission to a close

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big Tech -- The Magnificent Seven are galloping off with the profits, while the rest of the S&P 500 see no benefit, claims Apollo

2 days ago

security - We shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse, as the internet is built on sticks and glue - KETTLE - What better way to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month than warning that three-quarters of the web is about to be set on fire?

2 days ago

SECURITY -- UK Biobank back online soon, months after someone tried to sell 500k people's data on Alibaba -- Charity confirms slew of security improvements as it waits for UK.gov's go-ahead

2 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- iFixit dismantles Apple's Duo: 'You'd better baby that screen' -- Battery replacement gets the thumbs up, but it all hinges on dust. A conventional phone might be better bet for home repairers

1 day ago

SECURITY -- Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create -- Whitehall wants agents guarding critical infrastructure as part of a wider £600M spending spree

1 day ago

AI AND ML -- Euro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills -- Aiven hopes to do for LLMs what it does for databases

2 days ago

COLUMNISTS -- PHP2Shell is a warning shot for vulnerability disclosure -- Keeping secrets is difficult in an open world, but we've done it before and must do it again

2 days ago

SECURITY -- PHP2Shell: No login, no app code, no warning. What next? -- PARTNER CONTENT: Learn what the flaws are, how far exploitation has gone, and how to get to full coverage fast with Tanium

2 days ago

virtualization - Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge - Advertises for someone to 'own cost-effective alternative virtualisation platform'

2 days ago

ai and ml - After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling - asia in brief - PLUS: AI datacenter bubble wobbles in Australia; E-commerce app suggests it can detect diseases; India's top telco to IPO amid investor frenzy; and more!

2 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Want to build a UK datacenter? Please hold while Whitehall transfers you -- Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments

2 days ago

systems - Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors - FEATURE - Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

1 month ago

cyber-crime - 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 procurement

3 months ago

Open Cosmos steps up Europe's space sovereignty game, shows off ConnectedCosmos satellites

10 hours ago

EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors

1 day ago

Europe's cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good

9 days ago

Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work

12 days ago

US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B

14 days ago

Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative

21 days ago

Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop

1 month ago

Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain

1 month ago

Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public

1 month ago

GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in

1 month ago

SECURITY -- Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds -- Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval

1 day ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it -- Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby

2 days ago

AI AND ML -- OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa -- We've totally got things under control

2 days ago

SECURITY -- There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix -- Bad things (and software bugs?) come in threes

2 days ago

AI AND ML -- Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack -- Monitoring was only partial and was easily bypassed

2 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI models describe humans as a bunch of amoral sheep -- Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found

2 days ago

DEVOPS -- Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents -- Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack

2 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Arc browser on its way out as makers suggest an alternative -- No new accounts from now, and the end will come in December

2 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive -- Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux

2 days ago

PubKeep picks up where Microsoft Publisher signs off -- $99 replacement opens old .pub files on Windows and macOS, without a subscription

5 days ago

Musk disputes NASA safety panel's lunar launch estimates -- Watchdog also warns retiring Falcon and Dragon could leave US access to orbit short of a backup

5 days ago

Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches -- Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good

2 days ago

Intel gets tax breaks while local authorities lose revenue, claims policy org -- Report accuses corp of getting subsidies for its fabs from Oregon and New Mexico that deprive those states of vital funds

9 hours ago

Big Red gets cozy with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers -- Oracle plans to add those chips alongside new Nvidia hardware and OpenAI services as businesses await AI payoffs

1 day ago

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall -- SRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors

2 days ago

IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem -- 90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat

6 days ago

TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver -- Silicon giant budgets up to $64B for expansion while keeping an eye on construction progress and power supplies

13 days ago

New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs -- DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades

14 days ago

BOFH: I talked to Claude and he says you're an idiot -- You know what's really sick? Getting to the pub on time on a Friday

2 days ago

Beware the claw: Do you want to win the bunny or reboot Android? -- Classic arcade game put to shame by judgemental Bugdroid

5 days ago

AI AND ML -- Vendor-affiliated AI agent tech gets adopted by friendly, funded foundation -- Four projects for facilitating AI agents move under vendor-neutral governance

5 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Windows said modem worked fine. That unmistakable scorched electronics smell suggested otherwise -- Catching lightning in a tech support bottle

17 hours ago

SECURITY -- PHP2Shell exploit bypasses protections designed to stop remote code execution -- "Adversaries are clearly spending time (and tokens) on this bug," researcher says.

2 days ago

SCIENCE -- Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time -- Not to kill the human, of course – to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection

4 days ago

AI AND ML -- Backdoored robot tries its hand at finger chopping and cat cooking -- No actual digits or cats were harmed beyond the number crunching that went into this LLM poisoning experiment

5 days ago

SECURITY -- Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases -- Vendor 'strongly recommends' upgrading to a fixed version 'as soon as possible'

2 days ago

Disgraced Indian cert issuer leaves the cert issuing business -- We didn't want to issue SSL/TLS certs anyway, eMudhra suggests after one private key turns out to be the number 4

2 days ago

PHP2Shell puts dozens of UK government services out of service -- Ministers report 32 unavailable and four partly disrupted, but no confirmed compromise

2 days ago

Apple App Store review process hits a traffic jam -- Apple log jam? Apple fast lane pie-lup? We're here all week, on stage... sweeping it

6 days ago

Lessons from deploying high-performance & resilient AI fabrics at hyperscalers, frontier model builders and neo-clouds -- This session covers key AI data center trends, MRC/UEC architectures, customer requirements and how HPE Juniper Networking addresses those needs.

26 days ago

The Data Leadership Forum on AI -- Every organization is racing to deliver value from AI—yet most are hitting the same wall: the data.

14 days ago

A Flexible Path from VMware to Nutanix on Azure -- Nutanix experts discuss VMware customer challenges and key considerations for planning a migration to the public cloud.

1 month ago

AI Isn't the New Threat. It's the New Clock. -- In June, two compromised Azure service principals took 15 hours to map a tenant, then about seven minutes to delete most of its storage.

15 days ago

Agent Observability: Optimize Cost and Quality as Agents Scale -- Our leaders will explore why agent observability is becoming essential as organizations scale their AI.

1 day ago

The hidden cost of file friction: Why enterprise storage needs a rethink -- Join The Register and LucidLink to explore how organizations can rethink file access, storage, and active data for modern workflows.

13 days ago

We Found the Secrets. Now What? An Introduction to TruffleHog's Secrets Revocation Program -- TruffleHog Enterprise scans nearly 2 petabytes of public data every month, finding exposed API keys, tokens, and other credentials.

5 days ago

The Enterprise Platform for the AI Era: Unifying VMs, Kubernetes, and Agentic AI -- Join Nutanix experts to explore how NCI and NKP simplify operations, optimize GPU investments, and power AI across datacenter, cloud, and edge.

19 days ago

What it takes to make your life sciences data queryable, governed and ready to share -- The demand for life sciences data has never been higher, and neither has the bar for delivering it.

7 days ago

Fifty First Prompts: What to Do When Your LLM Suffers From Daily Amnesia -- Your LLM is encyclopedic about the world and blank about your organization.

15 days ago

Data Sovereignty in the AI Era -- As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .

1 month ago

Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World -- Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.

1 month ago

Explore all of our events

5 months ago

SECURITY -- When the attacker becomes the user: Rethinking account takeover -- SPONSORED FEATURE: AI makes phishing easier than ever

4 days ago

AI AND ML -- Nvidia's Huang: Don't mention the AI-pocalypse -- GPU chief doesn't want to hear about job losses or the end of human civilization

5 days ago

Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosure -- Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon spotted attackers trying their luck four days before patches landed

2 days ago

Microsoft says ConnectWise breach let Chinese spies loose on 2,250 cloud tenants -- AI agents did the dirty work, with hackers gaining privileged access in some environments in under three hours

3 days ago

Veteran ESA probe rolls out welcome mat for Japan's Phobos mission -- Mars Express could support MMX's 2027 arrival as another 'last ever' extension keeps old spacecraft in flight

6 days ago

SECURITY -- IT department and auditors at major pharmacy chain got into a rip-roaring fight about using 'password' on Cisco firewall -- Misaligned incentives led to an intractable argument

1 day ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK government hasn't the foggiest how much it's spending on digital transformation -- Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment

5 days ago

ai and ml - Vendors asking forward deployed engineers to make good on trillion-dollar AI bet

58 minutes ago

AI AND ML -- Why the immediate future of liquid cooling is hybrid -- PARTNER CONTENT: AI is driving liquid cooling adoption, but hybrid architectures will help operators balance density, flexibility, and operational realities

5 days ago

SECURITY -- Certification authority eMudhra defends its laughably weak private keys -- Says it passed audits and made just a minor mystery error

5 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS -- Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations

14 days ago

OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties -- Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious

20 days ago

Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text -- GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again

23 days ago

Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care -- All this, and angry NeoVim users

24 days ago

Intel's $2.3 Billion Bet on a Quantum Future is a Decade in the Making

4 hours ago

Oracle is Expanding the Accelerator Options in OCI for Enterprises

22 hours ago

Nvidia Simulates Its Way Into Google's Magic State Cultivation Party

2 days ago

Cadence, Nvidia Unveil New AI Models To Put EDA On Autopilot

2 days ago

SK Hynix: What shall we do with all the cash?

5 hours ago

Fujifilm getting it taped - quintupling production

5 hours ago

Commvault revenue plateau set to end

5 hours ago

Storage news ticker - 28 October

7 hours ago

Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers

1 day ago

Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

1 day ago

When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS

15 days ago

Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster

19 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Philippine government suspends top tech official for alleged misconduct -- Founder of offshore software development firm investigated for possibly giving his former outfit government contracts

6 days ago

AI AND ML -- To help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain -- Signs Samsung to build substrates, bolsters spend with other players

6 days ago

SECURITY -- PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk -- 'Coordinated vulnerability disclosure, unless there's evidence of active exploits in the wild,' Chainguard CEO tells The Reg

5 days ago

SECURITY -- LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets -- Plus a RAT for good measure - get threat hunting now

5 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself -- Forrester says only isolated wins are likely, while 'good enough' open-weight models soak up the tokens

6 days ago

SECURITY -- Signal bug could keep your mic - and camera - on after hangup -- Careful what you say after goodbye, or better yet, update your messaging app

6 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- OpenBSD 8.0 beefs up virtual machines and gets a taste of Wine -- Proposed port brings 64-bit Windows apps within reach

6 days ago

SECURITY -- PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched -- Websites down as precaution as exploits have already been published

6 days ago

AI AND ML -- Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision -- Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters

6 days ago

Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands -- $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note

1 month ago

OneDrive gives Macs a million things to keep in sync -- October preview raises supported limit from 300,000 items, with general availability penciled in for June 2027

7 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap -- Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects

6 days ago

SECURITY -- AI has 'potential' to turn script kiddies into sophisticated infrastructure attackers -- Consider this the wake-up call

6 days ago

AI AND ML -- Nvidia picks OpenShell to tame AI gents -- Give your agents freedom to do useful work by locking them down

6 days ago

Nvidia's grand plan for speeding up datacenter deployments: AI trailer parks -- GPUzilla boasts modular bit barns could speed up deployments from six months to just two weeks

7 days ago

EU wants Booking.com to check out of its scam problem -- Commission opens DSA probe into fake listings and phishing on the platform, says its fraud defenses 'absolutely substandard'

6 days ago

Java crashes the departure board at Tyne and Wear Metro -- Train times remain on show as an elderly Windows dialog demands attention

7 days ago

User refused to change her password because everyone already knew it

12 days ago

Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell

8 days ago

Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting

16 days ago

networks - Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it - Malicious compliance crosses cultural barriers

10 hours ago

networks - Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill

10 hours ago

ai and ml - Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters - Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents

12 days ago

$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust -- Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast

13 days ago

Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code -- When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo

14 days ago

There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero -- The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work

20 days ago

Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core -- Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website

28 days ago

Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing -- Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops

7 days ago

Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse -- Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter

2 days ago

The spec is the new code, so brush up on your prose, says Kaseya CTO -- Domain expertise and clear writing will matter more than syntax, and yes, that means documentation

7 days ago

Happiness is the next AI KPI if Oxford boffins have their way -- Researchers say public subsidies for AI should be repaid in wellbeing, not just economic growth

7 days ago

MPs urge UK government to play venture capitalist with taxpayer-funded tech - Watchdog says Whitehall is too timid about taking stakes in British startups, leaving taxpayers at risk of missing out when they strike gold

7 days ago

Indian certification authority eMudhra's private keys compromised – one of them was the number '4' -- Massive clean-up job under way because this mess makes it possible to impersonate any website or service

6 days ago

Auto tech startup claims it traced hack attempt back to rival's IP address -- IQ.Lvbs implies that rival Comma.ai isn't playing fair

6 days ago

Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, waiting for a failure -- And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model

5 days ago

Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June -- Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries

6 days ago

Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability 'avalanche' -- From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload

6 days ago

AI AND ML -- OneDrive loses bunch of Copilot shortcuts in File Explorer clear-out -- Microsoft keeps 'Ask Copilot' as dedicated actions disappear between mid-November and early December

8 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop -- CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin

3 days ago

AI AND ML -- How going dual-native means VM/container co-existence and sovereign security in the AI era -- SPONSORED FEATURE: Nutanix says running VMs and containers within the same operating environment shouldn't be a brake on AI ambitions

7 days ago

Networking problems after the October 2026 Windows update? NTLM might be to blame -- Legacy protocol is going to be axed, and enforcement by default will highlight how migration is going

3 days ago

Uncle Scam Wants You ... to cough up your cash and personal data, FBI warns ahead of midterms -- The inevitable election-themed cyberattacks are whirring again, as the feds issue PSA about the ones to watch out for

8 days ago

Attack on BAE-managed system disrupts US bankruptcy courts -- Legal eagles still plodding along with some operations, but paper and e-notices delayed until further notice

8 days ago

Thief snatches school snapper's SD cards in smash & grab -- UK school admits data protection bungle as children's data at risk

7 days ago

Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before French supermarkets got hit -- They tried to sound the alarm in August

9 days ago

Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse -- Israeli adtech outfit allegedly helped spyware vendors infect phones while enjoying Google's seal of approval

9 days ago

Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified -- CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today

9 days ago

X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms -- Platform points to Iran, Russia, and China but provides no public evidence for attribution

11 days ago

Oracle celebrates end of Cybersecurity Awareness Month with quadruple trouble

1 hour ago

Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive roles

4 hours ago

Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees

9 hours ago

123 Reg discloses 'AI cyberattack' on customer data, suspects China nexus

9 hours ago

AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours

1 day ago

Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack

1 day ago

CISA confirms PHP2Shell under attack as researchers clock successful exploits

1 day ago

Microsoft releases out-of-band Windows fixes with certificate updates

1 day ago

Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts

1 day ago

Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned

1 day ago

Enterprises blow nearly a third of software budgets on upgrades they never asked for - Keeping vendors happy is costing businesses millions, even when everything was working fine in the first place

6 days ago

HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon -- Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end

8 days ago

'Password1' and a forgotten test account land Welsh outfits in hot water -- ICO reprimands Ogi Networks and Data Cymru after ransomware breach exposes info of 3,300 people, mostly children

7 days ago

PAAS AND IAAS -- Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage -- Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC

7 days ago

SECURITY -- Bullhorn sees red after cyberattack knocks recruitment platform offline -- Staffing software giant calls in CrowdStrike as customers face login headaches and questions remain over possible data theft

7 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Microsoft admits that Always On VPN problems were not fixed in the October Security Update -- Let they who are without sin throw a stone and miss the greenhouse entirely

7 days ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Whitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open -- Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive

7 days ago

AI AND ML -- UK finance watchdog wants firms to report AI failures and close calls -- FCA seeks clear accountability as financial services embrace increasingly autonomous agents

7 days ago

PAAS AND IAAS -- Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted -- Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now'

7 days ago

Why cyber resilience is now a boardroom priority for UK public services -- PARTNER CONTENT:

8 days ago

Sony updates the Walkman as a $5,900 gold-plated MP3 player

58 minutes ago

Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter -- Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex

19 days ago

Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing -- Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen

21 days ago

AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs -- Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions

26 days ago

Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work -- If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...

26 days ago

Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services -- Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how

27 days ago

Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI -- First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition

1 month ago

Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them -- USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam

1 month ago

AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth -- Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap

1 month ago

AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users -- Improved signup experience for 'AI builders' hides complexity and includes spending cap

1 month ago

'David Beckham' was briefly the world's second-worst manga pirate -- Publishers call for better verification of domain name registrants, and ICANN is on the job with a new policy

8 days ago

DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies -- Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad

7 days ago

SECURITY -- Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack forced US and European systems offline -- Second security snafu in two years

7 days ago

AI AND ML -- Maxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up -- Finally, your hardware has its own agent

9 days ago

PATCHES -- Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI -- Terra finds sharp rise in GitHub security fixes reported broken within 90 days

8 days ago

AI AND ML -- Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs -- Lies, lots of adverbs, and prosaic stories don't make for very machine-readable code, it turns out

9 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Red Hat helps teach about tech writing -- But learns tough lessons about AI in the process

6 days ago

SAP's Signavio hit with function injunction in Germany - Vendor says patent ruling only restricts one specific process, not the whole product, after legal challenge from Celonis

9 days ago

'Let's just shove a bigger fan in there and see what happens'

2 days ago

Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk

9 days ago

To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work

16 days ago

Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed

23 days ago

Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data

1 month ago

Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on

1 month ago

Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button

1 month ago

Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner's PC almost set it on fire

1 month ago

Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up

1 month ago

Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory

2 months ago

Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard

2 months ago

Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn

2 months ago

IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day

2 months ago

Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data

3 months ago

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

3 months ago

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

3 months ago

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

3 months ago

Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess

3 months ago

How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!

4 months ago

Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet

4 months ago

Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug

4 months ago

Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident

4 months ago

Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in

5 months ago

Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything

5 months ago

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

5 months ago

Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

5 months ago

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

5 months ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

5 months ago

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

5 months ago

The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe

5 months ago

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference

5 months ago

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo

5 months ago

Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble

5 months ago

Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract

5 months ago

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

5 months ago

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

5 months ago

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead

5 months ago

Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office

5 months ago

Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server

5 months ago

Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam

5 months ago

ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key

5 months ago

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause

1 month ago

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

5 months ago

New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good

5 months ago

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

5 months ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work

3 months ago

Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books

5 months ago

Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people

5 months ago

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

5 months ago

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

5 months ago

Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users

15 days ago

Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's

16 days ago

HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years

17 days ago

SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier

19 days ago

Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up

2 days ago

UK threatens subsea cable saboteurs with 14 years behind bars

5 days ago

Nervous ISPs replace Chrome as strange consumers of DNS resources

7 days ago

London's mobile networks fall to bottom of Europe's capital league

8 days ago

ICANN testing tech to let law enforcement access non-public WHOIS info

8 days ago

Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router

9 days ago

ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency

9 days ago

Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug

9 days ago

Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable

14 days ago

SOFTWARE -- Admin: 'I spent all weekend on my servers' after Microsoft breaks Exchange Server with October updates -- OWA borked and lengthy email queues reported on busy servers after Microsoft tweaks a Server default

9 days ago

Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up -- Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s

9 days ago

In space, 'We've gone from exploration to exploitation,' says original Voyager team member -- Voyager imaging team member Dr. Garry Hunt joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches one light day's distance from Earth

9 days ago

Museum exhibit reveals the intricate workings of a knackered Dell -- When it should have been weaving tales of the Jacquard loom

9 days ago

Microsoft's second-hand licensing appeal gets the brush-off -- Court of Appeal refuses Redmond permission to take ValueLicensing fight to the Supreme Court, with a 'Known Adverse Document' still to come

9 days ago

COLUMNISTS -- AI's epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams -- The first technology created with a self-disrupt button... But why oh why didn't they call Claude clone Fauxtoshop?

9 days ago

AI AND ML -- AI inference is running into a memory bottleneck. Huawei wants to tackle it with OceanStor M900 -- SPONSORED FEATURE: The Context Memory Storage platform aims to improve the economics of large-scale AI inference

9 days ago

ConnectWise turns off its SaaS-y backup, security, and management services to probe security SNAFU -- Huntress alleges takeover of M365 accounts

8 days ago

Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking -- Party like it's CVE-2026-99999 – a 9.3-rated nasty called PwnEscape

8 days ago

Context engineering with hybrid search for agentic AI -- This white paper is designed for developers, data engineers, and AI practitioners who want to build smarter, more reliable agentic AI systems.

1 hour ago

Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance -- Pop quiz: somebody left a command shell logged in. What do you do?

10 days ago

Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems -- 'Hold my beer, have fun getting into your offices'

8 days ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you -- Would you like personalized shopping recommendations based on that conversation you just had?

9 days ago

SCIENCE -- Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission -- ClearSpace UK aims to be operational in 2029 with public's suggestion etched on the side of the spacecraft

9 days ago

AI AND ML -- Open-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets -- They handle 71.5% of Vercel gateway tokens and nearly a quarter of estimated spending

9 days ago

Please state the nature of the medical emergency: Google is building a robot medic for NASA -- The AI medical assistant is still being tested. Now the space boffins want to give it hands

58 minutes ago

China's spaceplane bears striking resemblance to America's X-37B -- Defense Intelligence Agency space report includes a rare orbital snap of the Chinese craft, and it looks rather familiar

8 hours ago

Man spends 35 years collecting corporate waffle, turns it into an app -- Why waste time thinking of something useful to say when an app can leverage synergies for you?

10 hours ago

Year of Linux on the Beach confirmed -- Don't forget to keep code up to date. Even with a cold beverage in hand

1 day ago

Reg readers land on 'Binface' as name for UK space cleanup mission -- Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?

3 days ago

Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too -- For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century

6 days ago

Amazon makes vague commitment to unproven nuclear tech to power Indiana datacenters -- Partner X-energy has not built a single working reactor yet

9 days ago

Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline -- Black cab drivers accused ride-hailing giant of misleading London's transport regulator, but judge says they left it too late to sue

9 days ago

Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub -- Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform

13 days ago

YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays -- Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today

13 days ago

Royal Navy goes fishing for suppliers to build its Type 93 robot submarine -- Preliminary notice seeks XLUUV builders, payload makers and AI developers, with Excalibur and Herne the obvious candidates

13 days ago

Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee -- Things got weird, but there's a lesson to be learned: Don't trust a bot to negotiate for you

14 days ago

Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007 -- Browser-based fun to remember a time before Apple's annual cash grab became a thing

14 days ago

Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno -- Tick, tick, tick, tick, ticket, ticket, tick tick

14 days ago

US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway -- Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year

19 days ago

NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors -- Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up

20 days ago

Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra -- What the f?

20 days ago

It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat -- The ALBATROSS has landed

20 days ago

Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing -- Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?

21 days ago

Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station -- No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety

22 days ago

Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw -- Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem

22 days ago

Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand -- Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply

23 days ago

Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40 -- The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today

24 days ago

Clever database, but can it run Doom? -- Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'

25 days ago

Flight delayed? So are these codec updates -- A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport

26 days ago

Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes -- So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda

27 days ago

YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator -- If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have

28 days ago

Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates -- A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption

28 days ago

Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time -- The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers

28 days ago

Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business -- Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well

29 days ago

Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short -- SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three

29 days ago

What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens? -- A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger

29 days ago

Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites -- Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats

1 month ago

Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective! -- Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation

1 month ago

iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink -- 3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance

1 month ago

Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology -- Discord users asked to prove they're adults get less intrusive options

1 month ago

Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper -- Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance

1 month ago

A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch -- Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?

1 month ago

BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth -- MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored

1 month ago

UK's uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes -- XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests

1 month ago

Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027 -- Carbon composite woes cause another delay for Peter Beck's Hungry Hippo

13 days ago

Leap seconds face judgment day as time lords prepare to vote -- Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries

14 days ago

Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips -- Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030

17 days ago

Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks' -- Understanding why our nearest star does what it does

20 days ago

Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry

2 days ago

Musk disputes NASA safety panel's lunar launch estimates

5 days ago

Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time

6 days ago

Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too

6 days ago

Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to -- Talking to an X-ray nanoprobe beamline is far better than talking to a toaster, we assume

20 days ago

Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb -- Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity

22 days ago

Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system -- Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all

22 days ago

AI AND ML -- arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide -- Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change

22 days ago

SCIENCE -- Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer' -- The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent

1 month ago

PUBLIC SECTOR -- Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up -- Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed

1 month ago

PERSONAL TECH -- Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price -- El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16

9 days ago

DEVOPS -- Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers -- You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup

9 days ago

AI AND ML -- Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training -- The future is private, the present is plunder

9 days ago

OS PLATFORMS -- Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel -- 26.10 is here, with not-quite-ready kernel 7.3 and speech-to-text recognition

9 days ago

AI AND ML -- New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered -- Bogus AI-generated citations keep turning up in court documents, but lawyers could at least run those docs through this legal citation checker

9 days ago