Wednesday, May 13, 2026 2:15 PM ET
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Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming -- Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem37 minutes ago
FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security -- Quietly extends waivers to 2029 after realizing it was about to leave millions of devices unpatched2 hours ago
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies -- That's fine when playing poker, but less useful when we trust LLMs with serious work like finding software flaws6 hours ago
dBase debased: Database titan fades to black after 47 years -- Blog post mourning decline appears to have helped knock what was left of the veteran app's online presence offline2 hours ago
Civil servants to protest outside Capita AGM over pension shambles -- Union demands government strips outsourcer of contract after delays, bereavement failures, and data breach2 hours ago
Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine -- Class A drugs loaded instead of A46 hours ago
AI + ML - Dissatisfied: Three-fourths of AI customer service rollouts are a letdown - AI rollback rates hit 81% at firms with mature guardrails, suggesting enterprises are struggling to manage the systems in production, says Sinch1 hour ago
Utah mega datacenter could dump 23 atomic bombs worth of energy per day -- Physicist warns proposed Stratos campus could seriously affect local environment1 hour ago
Rust stalks IBM mainframes, but only in nightly form -- Patch series would bring memory-safe code to Linux's s390 port, with compiler caveats attached1 hour ago
Royal Household seeks £3M finance system fit for a King -- One seeks contractor to manage millions in taxpayer cash, will provide generous 20% off Windsor biscuit tins and tea towels2 hours ago
OSes - Microsoft aims to speed Windows with 'leap forward' in WinUI 3 perf - Bittersweet post tells devs what they already knew: The framework is too slow4 hours ago
SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade? -- May 19 launch will put redesigned rocket, pad, and engines through their paces4 hours ago
Public Sector - Greater Manchester still says no to NHS data platform with Palantir at its heart - Public concern has only grown, says ICB, while evidence of benefits remains thin4 hours ago
Microsoft gives Windows Update a Ctrl-Z for bad drivers -- Cloud-powered undo will roll back dodgy code without users or hardware partners lifting a finger4 hours ago
London cops hail fixed facial recognition cams after suspects collared every 35 mins -- Croydon trial helped secure 173 arrests, though civil liberties groups remain unconvinced5 hours ago
Linux gains more critical Windows apps: 3D Movie Maker and Space Cadet Pinball -- Further demonstrating its role as industry default OS the versatility of modern porting tools5 hours ago
This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY -- Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans8 hours ago
AI + ML - SAP U-turn brings AI features to ECC and on-prem S/4HANA - CEO says there is 'no confusion at all' after cloud-only innovation plan drew flak8 hours ago
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back -- Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols6 days ago
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now -- AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in -- Rupert Goodwins6 days ago
QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different -- Bruce Davie7 days ago
The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out -- Mark Pesce6 days ago
What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC -- Rupert Goodwins7 days ago
Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for - Rupert Goodwins6 days ago
AI + ML -- Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less -- As suits say they're burning cash on brainboxes without seeing results4 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Google launches line of Android laptops festooned with Gemini AI -- If you're not a fan of having AI baked into your OS, look elsewhere5 hours ago
aI + ML -- Hollywood A-listers back proposed standard that would pay them when AI uses their likeness or work -- RSL Media expands machine-readable licensing rules to cover AI use of identities and creative works5 hours ago
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch -- Launch of Musk's monster rocket could be in May1 day ago
NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data -- Tech firm's employees can get an 'admin' role letting them into the National Data Integration Tenant... and its identifiable information1 day ago
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way -- Mozilla claims the Digital Markets Act delivered lasting bump, invites Britain to do similar1 day ago
Personal tech -- Microsoft makes Copilot easier to summon, harder to ignore in Office -- It looks like you're trying to get more Microsoft 365 users to engage with your assistant. Would you like help?14 hours ago
FleetWave outage takes another turn. Chevin confirms crooks accessed customer data -- A month after bringing systems back online, SaaS vendor tells customers attackers potentially walked off with operational data, contact details, and payroll numbers1 hour ago
Japan's PM orders cybersecurity review to stop Mythos going full CyberZilla -- Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed11 hours ago
GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI -- Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer1 day ago
Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter -- Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images1 day ago
Quit VMware and you'll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure -- Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration1 day ago
Security -- Double Canvas breach acknowledged as ShinyHunters sets new pay-or-leak deadline -- UPDATED: Sorry, kids, everything's back up so get to work on your new assignment - An essay on the ethics of paying ransoms, because it looks like that's what happened here37 minutes ago
Software -- Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line -- Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers1 day ago
aI + ML -- Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks -- An intern who failed this much would be shown the door20 hours ago
Security -- Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers -- New IElevator2 COM interface? No problem18 hours ago
AI + ML -- OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own1 day ago
oSes -- Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages -- Dull but important ... so, a bit like Debian itself, really1 day ago
Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator -- After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw20 hours ago
Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life -- Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth2 days ago
BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks -- Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk1 day ago
Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released -- JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector2 days ago
SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns -- Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them2 days ago
Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine -- Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years1 day ago
Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged -- Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack1 day ago
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration2 days ago
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos -- Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there2 days ago
Personal Tech -- Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug -- Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut1 day ago
AI + ML -- OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw -- A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform7 days ago
Security - Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security - Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money7 days ago
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows - Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course7 days ago
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads12 hours ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits2 days ago
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds7 days ago
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question7 days ago
UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk7 days ago
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future7 days ago
France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead7 days ago
OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'7 days ago
Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list7 days ago
Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'7 days ago
Security -- Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks -- That's not a radio. THIS is a radio1 day ago
AI + ML -- ASIA IN BRIEF: China's agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop -- PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!1 day ago
AI + ML -- Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain -- In The Register's Kettle podcast we discuss how Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease computing pain, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical1 day ago
OSes -- Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon -- Furores are fermenting in the forums1 day ago
PERSONAL TECH -- HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin -- It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?1 day ago
aI + mL -- Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device -- Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns1 day ago
Software -- macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel -- Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot1 day ago
Public Sector -- UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform -- Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up1 day ago
Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse -- Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?3 days ago
Datacenter to become Arm's biggest business 'soon' -- Someone other than Meta is buying $1bn of its new AGI chips6 days ago
Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway -- Initial phases of SpaceX's Terafab project in rural Texas are expected to cost about 1.25 Twitters6 days ago
Qualcomm teases 'dedicated CPU for agentic experiences' and 'agentic smartphones' -- Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler7 days ago
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over -- In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can 'contribute to global stability'7 days ago
Core Scientific accelerates crypto-to-AI pivot, converts Bitcoin mine to gigawatt-scale token farm -- They were doing it in Texas...7 days ago
Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores -- After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse7 days ago
AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers -- Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear7 days ago
Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet -- EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon7 days ago
SK Hynix's aspirations for 'Merica-made HBM inch closer to reality -- New site set to begin manufacturing and testing HBM memory just in time for Nvidia's Rubin-Ultra GPUs in 20287 days ago
AI + ML -- GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash -- It's not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too1 day ago
CxO -- Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift -- Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes1 day ago
Security -- Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control -- All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang1 day ago
Cyber Crime -- Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction -- Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations1 day ago
On-Prem -- Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs -- BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries1 day ago
Personal Tech -- Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug -- Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it1 day ago
Security -- 'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit -- Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE1 day ago
Columnists -- Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy -- In a word, 'Huh?'1 day ago
Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext -- After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again1 day ago
Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard -- A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive5 days ago
UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls - Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs1 day ago
Toxic Flows: When Your AI Agent Skill Becomes a Supply Chain Attack -- When a developer installs an AI agent skill – granting it access to secured IT resources and data – they make a significant trust decision.7 days ago
The Hardware Crunch: How Supply Chain Turbulence Is Forcing a New IT Playbook -- Infrastructure teams are facing a perfect storm: extended hardware lead times, rising costs driven by AI demand, and accelerated platform timelines.7 days ago
Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival -- Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.7 days ago
Identity Resilience: The New Mandate for Cyber Survival -- Join Druva experts for a compelling deep dive into what it takes to build an identity-first recovery strategy in this new threat landscape.7 days ago
Unfriendly Followers: The Black Market For Your Identity -- They'll reveal how attackers use your profile as intel and show you how to make yourself harder to target7 days ago
How Agents are Reshaping AI Security -- AI adoption is accelerating and with it comes a new security challenge.21 hours ago
How Agents are Reshaping AI Security -- AI adoption is accelerating and with it comes a new security challenge.21 hours ago
AI Found the Problem. Now What? -- AI is transforming the software development lifecycle, helping teams identify and remediate vulnerabilities before they reach production.4 days ago
Explore all of our events7 days ago
GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt -- Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site5 days ago
Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack -- ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security1 day ago
Meta fights Ofcom over how many billions count as billions -- Social media biz says watchdog's fine formula is 'disproportionate' and should stop counting global revenue1 day ago
Nothing says 'business continuity' like a dry wooden broom -- No sparks, no glory1 day ago
Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price5 days ago
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen5 days ago
Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client -- It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in2 days ago
Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren't AI enough -- Around 20 percent of staff get an 'In one hour, you might not work here anymore' email5 days ago
UPDATED - AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region1 hour ago
Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull -- Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference2 days ago
Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs -- The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams5 days ago
Personal Tech -- Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone -- Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives7 days ago
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it -- New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, too7 days ago
Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software1 day ago
Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager -- Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished7 days ago
HPE Throws VM Users A Lifeline, Unifying Containers And VM Management In Cloud Stack5 hours ago
OpenAI, Microsoft And Friends Build A Better, More Scalable Ethernet21 hours ago
Compute And Memory Price Hikes Drive IT Spending Way Higher2 days ago
Sometimes, Air Is The Only Way For AI Systems To Keep Their Cool5 days ago
NetApp claims faster backup and recovery for Red Hat OpenShift VMs37 minutes ago
Kioxia launches XG10 PCIe 5.0 client SSD37 minutes ago
HPE updates Alletras X and B10000, Zerto and Data Fabric in GreenLake private cloud update blast21 hours ago
The storage refresh that outlives the flash cycle1 day ago
C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply1 day ago
Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help1 day ago
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked1 day ago
Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool1 day ago
Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time -- Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies2 days ago
Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok' -- Security biz Adversa AI argues users of AI tools need clearer warnings2 days ago
60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour -- Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day?2 days ago
Cybercrime -- $250M crypto-robbing gang's dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars -- The then-teen was told to break in and steal what the keyboard warriors couldn't2 days ago
Personal Tech -- TomTom's route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion -- Users report disappearing favorites, blank route planners, and cloud sync failures amid outage5 days ago
C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply -- Language's popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations6 days ago
State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands -- Internet-facing PAN-OS firewalls are once again doing impressions of initial access brokers2 days ago
Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate -- Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware6 days ago
Systems -- AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises -- MI350P packs 144 GB of HBM3e and up to 4.6 petaFLOPS of FP4 grunt into a dual slot card3 days ago
Cyber-Crime -- Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe -- 20-year-old fessed up after investigators found video of crime in progress3 days ago
AI + ML -- EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash -- Brussels says it's simplification, critics may call it retreat5 days ago
ZTE advances intelligent network monetization strategy at AGC2026, empowering ISPs for sustainable growth9 hours ago
ZTE hosts 2026 Broadband User Congress in São Paulo, under the Theme "Monetize Your Intelligent Broadband"9 hours ago
ZTE and MediaTek unveil Tri-band Wi-Fi 7, targeting a relatively unexplored premium niche in Brazil9 hours ago
ZTE and Claro launch next-generation 4K Ultra HD IP STB in Brazil1 day ago
AI inference just plays by different rules6 days ago
How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot6 days ago
ZTE partners with China's National Clinical Research Center for Interventional Medicine to build a new paradigm of smart interventional medicine1 day ago
It's time to make agentic automation scalable6 days ago
ZTE and China Telecom win GSMA GLOMO "Best Private Network Solution" for EasyOn 5G-A-RobotNet7 days ago
China Unicom and ZTE release 5GAxI UniMAX ubiquitous deterministic connectivity solution to empower 5G-A+AI convergence7 days ago
DON'T MISS -- Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation -- Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'7 days ago
Software -- NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash -- Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default5 days ago
Security -- The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time -- Fortunately, it was a legit contractor who guessed it4 days ago
AI -- Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer -- You did remember to opt out of AI, didn't you?4 days ago
Public Sector -- Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking -- Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K5 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health -- £330M contract defended as value for money despite concerns over IP and lock-in6 days ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave20 hours ago
To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane7 days ago
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching5 days ago
Columnists - Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job - The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job20 hours ago
Columnists - Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled20 hours ago
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work20 hours ago
While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job?5 days ago
Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds5 days ago
Public Sector - Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred - Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it7 days ago
Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes -- AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them5 hours ago
Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now -- Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos7 days ago
Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines -- This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows6 days ago
Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts -- The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI7 days ago
It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well -- OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs7 days ago
Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter -- System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline7 days ago
AI -- Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs -- For AI agents, seeing is expensive6 days ago
AI + ML -- Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity -- Compute from Colossus leads to relaxed limits6 days ago
AI + mL -- Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI -- Cuts appear to hit sales, product, and marketing, accounting for under 10% of staff5 days ago
Security -- 1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials -- 13% say they've sold logins or know someone who has, survey suggests5 days ago
Science -- Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool -- All driller, no filler6 days ago
Site News -- We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to -- A new coat of paint6 days ago
Systems -- DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year -- Commercial PC demand expected to cushion broader slowdown6 days ago
Iran cybersnoops still LARPing as ransomware crooks in espionage ops -- MOIS-linked cyber outfit puts on a ransomware show to disguise the wide-open backdoor behind the scenes5 days ago
AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned -- Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for7 days ago
Ruby inventor Matz working on native compiler with AI help -- Matz gets together with Anthropic's Claude to create an experimental ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby – though with many limitations7 days ago
AI + ML -- Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree -- GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks1 day ago
Security -- Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt -- Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once7 days ago
Cyber-crime -- First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed -- Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand7 days ago
Security - OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that - Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked4 hours ago
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down - 313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming4 hours ago
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed -- Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year7 days ago
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools -- Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware7 days ago
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled -- KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start5 days ago
Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming1 hour ago
Malware crew TeamPCP open-sources its Shai-Hulud worm on GitHub10 hours ago
Doozy of a Patch Tuesday includes 30 critical Microsoft CVEs15 hours ago
Foxconn confirms cyberattack after ransomware crew claims it stole confidential Apple, Nvidia files19 hours ago
Congress investigates Canvas breach as company pays ransom1 day ago
AirBit crypto Ponzi victims can now claim slice of $400M asset haul1 day ago
US bank reports itself after slinging customer data at 'unauthorized AI app'1 day ago
Cache-poisoning caper turns TanStack npm packages toxic1 day ago
Apple, Google drag cross-platform texting into the encrypted age1 day ago
IBM tried to kill Tab navigation. Microsoft told it Bill Gates' mother wasn't interested -- Big Blue escalated the OS/2 keyboard squabble through seven layers of management. Redmond's answer? Nope1 day ago
UK age-gating plans risk breaking the internet, privacy groups warn -- Activists say ministers are targeting access rather than Big Tech's data-hungry business models5 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- It's game over for Copilot on Xbox -- Microsoft winds down console AI assistant as new boss says it no longer fits the plan6 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill -- Investigators spent weeks unravelling enthusiast's bedroom project5 days ago
Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads -- It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect7 days ago
GNOME may rule Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon, but X.org isn't roadkill yet -- Seven official flavors offer alternatives to the default Wayland-only desktop – and Xfce looks like the leanest7 days ago
Britain says Skyhammer drone interceptor passed Jordan tests with flying colors -- MoD eyes Middle East exports after desert trials of Cambridge Aerospace system7 days ago
SAAS -- Planning and land searches hit by IT problems in 3 councils following SaaS migration -- EXCLUSIVE: Searches go missing, house sales fall through, and a 5G mast erected by mistake6 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly -- Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper3 days ago
Security - India orders infosec red alert in case Mythos sparks crime spree1 day ago
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs -- Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it7 days ago
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 -- $227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts7 days ago
AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud -- When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job7 days ago
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs -- AI is driving more searches and ads7 days ago
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises -- Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand7 days ago
UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe -- CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms7 days ago
Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city -- Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shift7 days ago
Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews -- One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog7 days ago
Sovereign cloud is only possible if you're Chinese or American: Gartner -- Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent2 days ago
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power -- Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues6 days ago
Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis -- Former bitcoin miner plans to build an easier cloudy AI on ramp while remaining a friend to FOSS6 days ago
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 -- Haswell's had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away7 days ago
SaaS -- Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend -- Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecks7 days ago
AI + ML -- OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year -- If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the math7 days ago
AI + ML -- ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower -- ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflows6 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw -- Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn't sit idle for long6 days ago
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook -- Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same time7 days ago
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked -- Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future7 days ago
Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking -- Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats6 days ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch2 days ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving7 days ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch5 days ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild5 days ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it5 days ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe5 days ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference5 days ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo5 days ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble5 days ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract5 days ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction5 days ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell5 days ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead5 days ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office5 days ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server5 days ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam5 days ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key5 days ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause5 days ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble5 days ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good5 days ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming5 days ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work5 days ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books5 days ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people5 days ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere5 days ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver5 days ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'5 days ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware5 days ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice5 days ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company5 days ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it5 days ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe5 days ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery5 days ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'5 days ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league5 days ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA5 days ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it5 days ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results5 days ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off5 days ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady5 days ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server5 days ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo5 days ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production5 days ago
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time5 days ago
Junior sysadmin's first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company5 days ago
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown5 days ago
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules5 days ago
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe5 days ago
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter5 days ago
Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away5 days ago
Networks -- Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet -- Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs1 day ago
Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q17 days ago
Wind Telecom Dominican Republic and ZTE join forces to accelerate smart home innovation7 days ago
ZTE and XLSMART officially launch Innovation Center in Jakarta, accelerating 5G-advanced and AI readiness for Indonesia7 days ago
GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks7 days ago
FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security1 day ago
Lawsuit brought by former store operators missing from Vodafone results1 day ago
Britain pays Starlink millions despite Musk's calls to overthrow UK government1 day ago
Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v61 day ago
Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims4 days ago
HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi5 days ago
It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet7 days ago
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal7 days ago
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear7 days ago
Databases -- SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition -- ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integration7 days ago
PaaS + IaaS -- VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination -- Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shock7 days ago
Cyber-crime -- ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild -- Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched5 days ago
AI + ML -- Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more -- Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech6 days ago
Security -- Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday -- Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories6 days ago
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area -- Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bags7 days ago
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns -- Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change7 days ago
Columnists - Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release -- New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard7 days ago
Security -- Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation -- Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC7 days ago
Public Sector -- Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us' -- The Iran war has been great for business1 day ago
Personal Tech -- Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple's Mac Mini now starts at $799 -- The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer7 days ago
AI + ML -- Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work -- Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default7 days ago
Research -- Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache -- 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them7 days ago
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop -- Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space7 days ago
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port -- It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho7 days ago
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs -- 'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'7 days ago
Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner -- Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges6 days ago
If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked -- Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows6 days ago
OFF-PREM -- IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power5 days ago
AI + ML -- Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer4 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Taiwan cops say student's radio kit brought bullet trains to a standstill6 days ago
AI + ML -- Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more6 days ago
Security -- Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator13 hours ago
Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine -- Class A drugs loaded instead of A412 hours ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu1 day ago
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue -- Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope1 day ago
The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains -- Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.2 days ago
London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End4 days ago
Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets -- Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?6 days ago
UK puts £20.5M behind 'numberplate for the skies' to keep tabs on drones -- Remote ID system will log aircraft identity and location as ministers try to stop rogue flyers grounding airports7 days ago
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb -- GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them7 days ago
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to -- A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or not7 days ago
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs -- PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge7 days ago
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops -- Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves7 days ago
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages -- Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info7 days ago
Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute -- Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the show7 days ago
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges -- PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role7 days ago
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don't pay publishers -- Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home7 days ago
China blocks Zuck's acquisition of AI outfit Manus -- Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions7 days ago
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again -- No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend7 days ago
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis -- Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day7 days ago
BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy ... and it's comin' from a machine with executive privileges -- Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?7 days ago
Google Meet or Google Mute? Even CEOs get borked sometimes -- Video conferencing has tripped us all up. Now cloud chief Thomas Kurian gets his turn7 days ago
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess7 days ago
You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'7 days ago
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place7 days ago
NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown7 days ago
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission -- Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms7 days ago
Would you like fries with that terminal? -- Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't7 days ago
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars -- Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scam7 days ago
Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall -- Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles start7 days ago
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment -- Services giant's staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices7 days ago
Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many -- We've all been there7 days ago
Fission impossible: Uncle Sam wants nuclear reactors in space by 2031 -- Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds?7 days ago
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration -- SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely7 days ago
Science - SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway1 day ago
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again -- Despite looming science cuts, Isaacman finds resources to poke the planetary hornet nest7 days ago
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects -- DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects7 days ago
SpaceX sets date for Starship test that asks: Did we break anything in the upgrade?4 hours ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins1 day ago
SpaceX Starship completes Wet Dress Rehearsal, gets ready for launch1 day ago
NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle2 days ago
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' -- That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed7 days ago
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months -- Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team7 days ago
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why -- Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperate7 days ago
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope trumps Trump cuts, is launch-ready ahead of schedule -- Revolutionary telescope aiming for space after multiple near death experiences7 days ago
NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision7 days ago
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume7 days ago
BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them -- How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data?7 days ago
BOFH: Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now? -- Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics1 day ago
BOFH: What physics defines as impossible, sales calls a challenge -- The Boss imagineers a new laptop spec with help from AI1 day ago
BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely -- Oh. Well. Color us surprised1 day ago
BOFH: Loss adjuster discovers liability is a two-way street -- Insurance negotiations take a turn for the Thames1 day ago
BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough -- The Boss has been on a retreat, which means he needs a factory reset ASAP1 day ago
BOFH: Every computer system eventually serves ads -- Boss's bright idea enshittifies itself in record time1 day ago
BOFH: The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct -- After the boardroom is ransacked, it's straight into Arse Covering 1011 day ago
Personal Tech -- Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back -- Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades7 days ago
Security -- Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky -- Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada7 days ago