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Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow -- It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much

11 hours ago

Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better -- Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up

20 hours ago

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief -- No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore

14 hours ago

Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session -- Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible

11 hours ago

Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China cars from military bases -- Dell, however, is welcome to help build a local-language LLM -- Security

22 minutes ago

Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk -- IT services companies are largely immune to AIpocalypse, although the outlook is not good for entry-level jobs -- AI + ML

4 hours ago

Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years -- It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper -- Storage

5 hours ago

Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant -- 'Potential data protection incident' at an 'independent licensing partner,' we're told -- Cyber-crime

6 hours ago

As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered -- HPE and Cisco are adjusting terms and conditions -- Channel

7 hours ago

Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator -- Who needs to express themselves through music when a bot will do it for you with nothing but a prompt? -- AI + ML

8 hours ago

ShinyHunters allegedly drove off with 1.7M CarGurus records -- Latest in a rash of grab-and-leak data incidents -- Cyber-crime

9 hours ago

Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal -- Plants expected to begin operations as early as 2028 pending approval by state government -- Systems

10 hours ago

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read -- Data Loss Prevention? Yeah, about that... -- AI + ML

10 hours ago

DARPA's autonomous missile-firing missile advances toward flight tests -- Yo dawg, we heard you like missiles, so we put some missiles in your missile so you can boom while you zoom -- Science

11 hours ago

Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say -- 'First time we have detected a crime using this method,' cops say -- Cyber-crime

11 hours ago

Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives -- Musical instrument digital interface protocol leaves preview for bright lights of General Availability -- OSes

12 hours ago

Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead - Who, Me? 02:00 AM is not the time to ignore procedures and rely on a shortcut to do a tricky job

11 hours ago

Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities -- State disputes the company's claim that its routers are made in Vietnam -- Security

12 hours ago

Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes -- National rail bookings and timetables disrupted for nearly 24 hours -- Cyber-crime

12 hours ago

6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom -- Survey says 80% of firms see no gains from the tech -- AI + ML

14 hours ago

Tesla drops 'Autopilot' branding in California after DMV order -- EV maker avoids 30-day license suspension after state ruling on self-driving claims -- AI + ML

16 hours ago

Cabinet Office probes digital ID minister over think tank's journalist investigation -- Starmer orders inquiry after Labour Together commissioned dossier on reporters -- Public Sector

16 hours ago

Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions -- GitHub itself to blame for AI slop pull requests, say devs -- AI + ML

16 hours ago

Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable' -- Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans -- Security

16 hours ago

Windows 11 Start menu makes unscheduled stop in Saint Moritz - Bork!Bork!Bork! Passenger info display takes scenic detour via desktop and pending updates - Offbeat - 18 Feb 2026 - | 4

7 hours ago

Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia -- Report warns delayed rollouts could widen capability gap as new standards emerge -- Networks

18 hours ago

Some Game Theory On That Nvidia-Meta Platforms Partnership

8 hours ago

AI Eats The World, And Most Of Its Flash Storage

1 day ago

The Current AI Networking Wave Will Be A Tsunami Of Money By 2027

5 days ago

The Memory Crunch Pinches Cisco's Profits

6 days ago

Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ - Infosec in Brief - PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more

11 hours ago

HackerOne 'updating' Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they're training AI -- CEO lauds security researchers, insists they're not 'inputs' -- Security

18 hours ago

Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC email kerfuffle - Exclusive - Apologizes for 'inaccuracy' SaaS - 18 Feb 2026 - | 43

4 hours ago

Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session -- Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible -- OSes

11 hours ago

Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone 'patent tax' case -- Consumer group Which? brought the case and now plans to bail after court indicated it would lose -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Palo Alto CEO says AI isn't great for business, yet -- Sees little enterprise AI adoption other than coding assistants, buys Koi for what comes next -- Security

1 day ago

Indian conglomerate Adani plans very slow $100 billion AI datacenter build -- PM Modi tells citizens AI will lift them up, not take their jobs -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Anthropic's latest Sonnet gets better at using computers, amid bouts of existential angst -- Version 4.6 can also be 'warm, honest, prosocial, and at times funny' -- AI + ML

1 day ago

React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components

8 hours ago

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

1 day ago

Anthropic updates to hide Claude's AI actions, devs hate it

1 day ago

Microsoft's sudden deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks leaves users fuming

4 days ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality - Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock - Sponsored Feature

14 hours ago

Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow -- It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Flamethrower from Backblaze to fire up startup cloud storage

15 hours ago

Quantum results show green shoots as tape sales double

15 hours ago

Platters: WD new disk drive tech hits lucky 14

18 hours ago

Court dismisses NetApp complaint against ex-CTO now at VAST, but NetApp is appealing

20 hours ago

Infosys bows to its master, signs deal with Anthropic -- After a selloff fueled by fears AI could upend the outsourcing model -- AI + ML

1 day ago

GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale -- CPU adoption is part of deeper partnership between the Social Network and Nvidia which will see millions of GPUs deployed over next few years -- Systems

1 day ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise - When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix - Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD -- Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance home -- Storage

1 day ago

AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas -- Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they can -- Systems

1 day ago

Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing the right sounds -- Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads? -- Science

1 day ago

React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components -- Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser -- Devops

1 day ago

European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools -- Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated? -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Flush with potential? Activist investor insists Japanese toilet giant is an AI sleeper -- Palliser Capital says Toto is sitting on hidden semiconductor value – and wants the company to lift the lid -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Dear Oracle, we need to talk about the future of MySQL -- Faithful pen open letter proposing independent foundation with or without Big Red's participation -- Databases

1 day ago

£111M later, frictionless post-Brexit border dream 'brought to early closure' -- With no staff, no funding, and the contract closed, it looks a lot like limbo -- Public Sector

1 day ago

All the world's a stage – except this deputy federal CIO job -- $200K role promises authority, mission, and 'zero patience for theater' -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Polish cops nab 47-year-old man in Phobos ransomware raid -- Police say seized kit contained logins, passwords, and server IP addresses -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence

9 days ago

Why high-performance Java is becoming a business imperative -- A new generation of JVM technologies is reshaping how businesses build, deploy, and scale mission-critical Java applications.

12 days ago

AI is coming to solve your system outages -- The first five minutes is panic. What if it didn't have to be?

14 days ago

What exactly makes an AI PC fit for the enterprise? -- Do TOPS trump everything else?

14 days ago

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people -- Social media platform's legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries -- AI + ML

1 day ago

UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open -- Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards

22 hours ago

US lawyers fire up privacy class action accusing Lenovo of bulk data transfers to China -- Keep behavioral tracking American? PC giant says the claim is 'false'

18 hours ago

Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware -- Repo mirrors now open for business

18 hours ago

You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief -- No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore

10 hours ago

Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel better -- Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up

12 hours ago

China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using 'ghost NICs' to avoid detection -- Full scale of infections remains 'unknown'

12 hours ago

Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way -- Seemingly complex strings are actually highly predictable, crackable within hours

6 hours ago

CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off – or pay the price -- Boards demand measurable ROI as budgets, bonuses, and jobs hang in the balance

16 hours ago

China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down' -- Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year

12 hours ago

Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog -- Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays

15 hours ago

GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept -- Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk' -- Devops

1 day ago

MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost -- Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles...and Red Hat -- Offbeat

1 day ago

Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors -- To advance the 'ambient internet of things' – no batteries required -- Networks

2 days ago

The metrics that matter: a platform engineer's guide to proving value - The clock is ticking for you to demonstrate platform value - Partner Content

7 days ago

AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances -- Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC -- Virtualization

2 days ago

Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news -- Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricks -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake -- Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks -- Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset -- Databases

2 days ago

You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised -- Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options -- Security

2 days ago

KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI -- AI-pocalypse -- Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fine -- AI + ML

11 hours ago

X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load -- 'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise -- Off-Prem

2 days ago

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security -- fosdem 2026 -- Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money -- Security

2 days ago

Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch -- Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation - opinion - The subtractive bias we're ignoring - AI + ML - 16 Feb 2026 - | 100

8 hours ago

FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line -- Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results -- Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was off -- Science

2 days ago