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Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive -- Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise

19 minutes ago

52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4 -- It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

19 minutes ago

AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing -- Study finds many tests don't measure the right things

19 minutes ago

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS -- All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30

2 days ago

Data breach at Chinese infosec firm reveals cyber-weapons and target list -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: India's tech services exports growing fast; South Korea puts the bite on TXT spam; NTT gets into autonomous vehicles; and more! -- Security

56 minutes ago

Louvre's pathetic passwords belong in a museum, just not that one - Infosec in brief - PLUS: CISA layoffs continue; Lawmakers criticize camera security; China to execute scammers; And more - Security - 09 Nov 2025 - | 1

56 minutes ago

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks -- Two different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share? -- Networks -- 09 Nov 2025

2 hours ago

Here's one way to cut support ticket volume... send them to another company entirely -- Misdirection is the new resolution at major video game house -- Offbeat -- 09 Nov 2025

2 hours ago

Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map -- interview -- Esra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade' -- Security

1 day ago

Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control -- OPINION -- At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend -- Software

1 day ago

Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump -- The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off -- Off-Prem

2 days ago

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok make very squishy jury members -- All three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones -- 'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed -- Research

2 days ago

Blackwell a no-sell in China as trade deal fails to materialize -- Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Help desk boss fell for 'Internet Cleaning Day' prank - then swore he got the joke - On Call - Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes ...

19 minutes ago

China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume -- Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker -- Systems

2 days ago

Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive -- Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions -- Multi-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Researchers want to kill the vibe, propose better model for AI coding -- MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software -- Software

2 days ago

Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached -- Behold the one trillion dollar man -- AI + ML

2 days ago

25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS -- All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30 -- Science

2 days ago

Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction -- Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands

2 days ago

Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers -- The DoE's planned funding runs through 2030

2 days ago

$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday -- Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot

2 days ago

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI - Feature - How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff

2 days ago

Vast Data's $1.17 Billion Deal With CoreWeave Is A Leading Indicator

1 day ago

Attacking Interconnects And Networks Across All Scales

3 days ago

AMD Is Coiled To Hockey Stick In The AI Datacenter

4 days ago

Arista Modular Switches Aim At Scale Across Networks, Hit Scale Out, Too

5 days ago

Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty! -- Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU -- PaaS + IaaS

2 days ago

Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth -- This kind of material economic impact from online crooks thought to be a UK-first -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

UK tax collector falls short on digital efficiency, watchdog says -- Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory -- We're months away from AI building AI -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people -- Redmond's new AI boss is willing to sacrifice performance for the future of our species -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Gootloader malware back for the attack, serves up ransomware -- Move fast - miscreants compromised a domain controller in 17 hours -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Google's Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe -- Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale -- AI + ML

3 days ago

The race to shore up Europe's power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage - Feature - Ukraine first to demo open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement

19 minutes ago

OpenAI's Altman and Friar walk back remarks about federal loan guarantees -- updated -- Money-losing biz says it does not need help to meet massive infrastructure commitments -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Cisco warns of 'new attack variant' battering firewalls under exploit for 6 months - Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now - Patches - 06 Nov 2025 - | 4

2 hours ago

Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October -- ai-pocalypse -- Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation. -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Why the future of the datacenter is the infrastructure operating system - From bolt-on chaos to built-in AI: Infrastructure with no assembly required - Partner Content

3 days ago

Union brands Rockstar's leak claim "a distraction" as protests hit Take-Two London -- Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting -- Software

3 days ago

FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute -- Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules -- Legal

3 days ago

Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software - Opinion - Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era - AI + ML - 06 Nov 2025 - | 35

1 day ago

Sandisk revenues boom as data center glory beckons

2 days ago

Backblaze cloud storage revenues fire up nicely while backup is flat

2 days ago

Dell PowerFlex/Regatta database combo overcomes trad database limitations

3 days ago

VAST Data lands $1.17 billion CoreWeave deal

3 days ago

Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters -- Sustainable vision? Who knows -- On-Prem

3 days ago

'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant -- It's not a bug, it's a feeling -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet -- Shopping bots pick first option and are 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Why UK businesses are paying ICO millions for password mistakes you're probably making right now - Strongly-worded emails to staff telling them to be more careful aren't going to cut it anymore - Partner Content

3 days ago

You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will -- Most of you still can't do better than 123456? -- Security

3 days ago

Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence -- Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen -- Applications

3 days ago

SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach -- Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge -- Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack -- Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us -- Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn -- Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services -- Science

3 days ago

China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS -- Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship -- Science

3 days ago

Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can't run it all it forever -- Awkward, seeing as they're close partners -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit - Updated - Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don't want, once it fixed a bad link - SaaS - 06 Nov 2025 - | 45

2 days ago

Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks -- Some clever networking hacks open the door -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event' -- Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs -- PaaS + IaaS

4 days ago

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

2 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

3 days ago

AI's biggest threat isn't skynet, it's thermodynamics -- xFusion champions a holistic hardware strategy that tackles the fundamental physics of the modern datacenter

3 days ago

Huawei's ACT pathway powers scalable AI adoption across industries -- Company unveils pathway for intelligent transformation

13 days ago

Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees' -- Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer - hands on - For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store - Applications - 05 Nov 2025 - | 9

3 days ago

Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M -- An hour's tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B -- Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year -- Security

4 days ago

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not -- DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them

4 days ago

ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare -- When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors

6 days ago

Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate -- They have no need to prove their bonafides

4 days ago

52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4 -- It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C

19 minutes ago

UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support -- After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace

4 days ago

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it -- Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.

2 days ago

Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons -- Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'

5 days ago

Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million -- Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn't make that easy

2 days ago

AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing -- Study finds many tests don't measure the right things

1 day ago

Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting -- Government spending watchdog eviscerates penny wise, pound foolish approach

4 days ago

When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade -- Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build -- OSes

4 days ago

AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system -- CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers -- Systems

4 days ago

Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP -- S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change -- Databases

4 days ago

How IT professionals can thrive — not just survive — in the age of AI - Want to be a hot commodity in an AI economy? Get smart and get certified - Partner Content

4 days ago

AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security -- Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way -- Security

4 days ago

Attackers abuse Gemini AI to develop 'Thinking Robot' malware and data processing agent for spying purposes -- Meanwhile, others tried to social-engineer the chatbot itself -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding -- Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work -- Software

4 days ago

Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions - Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI - Databases - 05 Nov 2025 - |

4 days ago

M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump -- Retailer's tech systems aren't down anymore, but the same can't be said for its rocky financials -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C... and likes what he sees -- A 'three-letter person' experiments with the new type-safe C, and is impressed -- Software

4 days ago

Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA -- Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Supermicro admits building AI infrastructure is a tricky, low-margin business ... for now -- Can't rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects -- Systems

4 days ago

Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage -- Net access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer -- Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to ... wrenches? -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters -- Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit -- Off-Prem

5 days ago