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BOFH: If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident - Episode 23 - Mid-career ennui leads to electrifying fallout

9 hours ago

Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability - Analysts say the shift offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure vendors keep control

9 hours ago

Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era - When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.

21 days ago

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't -- On Call -- Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up

17 hours ago

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA -- Exclusive -- Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu

17 hours ago

Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit -- Exploit hasn't been picked up by any malware detection engines, CEO tells The Reg -- Patches

10 hours ago

New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks -- And the earlier React2Shell patch is vulnerable -- Patches

13 hours ago

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger -- Executive order sidesteps Congress and sets up Litigation Task Force -- AI + ML

15 hours ago

Workday project at Washington University hits $266M -- Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems -- SaaS

16 hours ago

The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens -- It's getting crowded up there -- Science

18 hours ago

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns -- Bank sketches four scenarios in which monetization falters or demand swamps supply by 2030 -- The Future of the Datacenter

18 hours ago

Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program -- Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move -- Security

19 hours ago

Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims -- Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements -- Off-Prem

19 hours ago

Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing -- Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial -- SaaS

19 hours ago

UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout -- Rights groups say digital-only record is leaking data and courting trouble -- Public Sector

19 hours ago

Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation -- Wiz says React2Shell attacks accelerating, ranging from cryptominers to state-linked crews -- Cyber-crime

20 hours ago

BOFH - : If another meeting is scheduled, someone is going to have a scheduled accident - Episode 23 - Mid-career ennui leads to electrifying fallout - BOFH - 12 Dec 2025 - | 64

16 minutes ago

Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers - Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their elders

9 hours ago

Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability -- Analysts say the shift offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure vendors keep control -- AI + ML

22 hours ago

Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system -- Replacement rollout plagued by bad data and missing features, says watchdog -- Public Sector

23 hours ago

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - On Call - Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up - Storage - 12 Dec 2025 - | 159

16 minutes ago

Reddit sues Australia to exempt itself from kids social media ban -- Forum site says it's potentially more harmful to users who don't log in -- Legal

1 day ago

Crypto-crasher Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn UST bust -- Judge said his fraud was on 'epic, generational scale' -- Legal

1 day ago

Silicon photonics won't matter 'anytime soon' says Broadcom CEO -- Chips 'n' code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come -- Systems

1 day ago

AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says -- The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore's Law -- AI + ML

1 day ago

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA - Exclusive - Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu - Virtualization - 11 Dec 2025 - | 17

8 hours ago

Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images -- Begun, these AI wars have -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Russian hackers debut simple ransomware service, but store keys in plain text -- Operators accidentally left a way for you to get your data back -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger -- Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better -- Legal

1 day ago

Everybody But Nvidia And TSMC Has To Make It Up In Volume With AI

11 hours ago

Oracle Is Using OpenAI To Build A Platform For The Enterprise

1 day ago

Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant

2 days ago

IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy

4 days ago

Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work - Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss

9 hours ago

Space-power startup claims it can beam energy to solar farms -- So far, Overview Energy says it has only beamed power from a moving aircraft to standard solar panels -- Science

1 day ago

Google fixes super-secret 8th Chrome 0-day -- No details, no CVE, update your browser now -- Patches

1 day ago

LastPass hammered with £1.2M fine for 2022 breach fiasco -- UK data regulator says failures were unacceptable for a company managing the world's passwords -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads -- Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras -- OSes

1 day ago

Taikonauts inspect cracked Shenzhou-20 window during Tiangong spacewalk -- Eight-hour EVA was also first outing for new spacesuits -- Science

1 day ago

Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion -- DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia -- Science

1 day ago

Researcher claims Salt Typhoon spies attended Cisco training scheme -- Skills gained later fed Beijing's cyber operations, according to SentinelLabs expert -- Security

1 day ago

VS Code update brings agent overload, TypeScript 7 preview, and the end of IntelliCode

1 day ago

Research: AI can help or hinder software development, and old-style best practices make the difference

1 day ago

JetBrains abandons Fleet IDE, pins hopes on forthcoming Air agentic development tool

3 days ago

AWS shows Rust love at re:Invent: 10 times faster than Kotlin, one tenth the latency of Go

4 days ago

Protecting value at risk - the role of a risk operations center - Why should Keith Richards' fingers inform your approach to risk? Partner Content

2 days ago

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life -- Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection -- AI + ML

1 day ago

10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet -- Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets -- Research

1 day ago

Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030 - Exclusive - Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms - Databases - 11 Dec 2025 - | 16

16 hours ago

IDC storage tracker shows Pure and Huawei growing fastest

14 hours ago

Cohesity braces for rogue AI agents with identity and recovery controls

16 hours ago

Data integration market set for slower growth, says Gartner

16 hours ago

Storage news ticker – 12 December 2025

1 day ago

Users report chaos as Legal Aid Agency stumbles back online after cyberattack -- Exclusive -- Workers frustrated with security-first changes to workflows and teething issues -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

India's government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models - Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators - AI + ML - 11 Dec 2025 - | 7

1 day ago

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane -- VIDEO -- 'Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Intel Core Ultra Processors: Powering business-ready AI PCs - A one-stop hub of practical resources for IT teams exploring AI-enabled laptop refresh strategies - Sponsored Post

3 days ago

NASA loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter -- Didn't phone home as expected on December 6th and nobody knows why -- Science

2 days ago

Chinese tech giants Hygon and Sugon call off merger, say they're still besties -- Blame changed market conditions and attitudes, not the return of Nvidia's H200 to China -- Systems

2 days ago

Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors -- But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming -- Databases

2 days ago

Nvidia's unreleased infrastructure management service isn't for tracking GPUs, but it can - updated - If you opt in to the paid service that is - Systems - 10 Dec 2025 - | 2

1 day ago

700+ self-hosted Gits battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent -- More than half of internet-exposed instances already compromised -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains -- Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it's a worry -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers -- Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting -- AI + ML

2 days ago

US Navy pledges $448 million to test if Palantir is seaworthy -- Meet 'ShipOS' -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Qualcomm takes RISC on Arm alternative with Ventana acquisition -- California chipset giant says it'll develop Arm and RISC-V CPU cores in parallel -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

US extradites Ukrainian woman accused of hacking meat processing plant for Russia -- The digital intrusion allegedly caused thousands of pounds of meat to spoil and triggered an ammonia leak in the facility -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Microsoft won't fix .NET RCE bug affecting slew of enterprise apps, researchers say - Updated - Devs and users should know better, Microsoft tells watchTowr - Security - 10 Dec 2025 - | 48

8 hours ago

Welcome to America - now show us your last five years of social media posts -- Countries subject to newly proposed rule include supposed trusted friends like the UK, France, and Germany -- Public Sector

2 days ago

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

1 month ago

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

1 month ago

Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

1 month ago

Crisis in Icebergen: How NATO crafts stories to sharpen cyber skills -- feature -- 1,500 military digital defenders spent the past week cleaning up a series of cyberattacks on fictional island -- Security

2 days ago

Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds -- Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software -- Opinion -- They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Galactic Brain space datacenter coming in 2027, pledges startup Aetherflux -- Getting inferencing infrastructure into orbit may soon be cheaper than building it down here -- The Future of the Datacenter

3 days ago

Rocket Lab ready to send a Hungry Hippo into space -- Signoff for re-usable faring should help Neutron launcher get off the ground -- Science

3 days ago

Diversion to power datacenters earns Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport -- Adapts its engines to power bit barns, and lands cash to fund its takeoff roll -- Off-Prem

3 days ago

Letting Nvidia sell H200s to China is closing the door after the horse has bolted -- US export controls on AI accelerators have only succeeded in forcing China to develop its own tech -- Systems

3 days ago

Cutting through the noise on AI PCs with Intel Core Ultra - What changes for battery life, security, and real-world productivity when AI moves onto the laptop - Sponsored Post

3 days ago

Microsoft reports 7.8-rated zero day, plus 56 more in December Patch Tuesday - Updated - Plus critical critical Notepad++, Ivanti, and Fortinet updates, and one of these patches an under-attack security hole - Security - 09 Dec 2025 - | 19

16 hours ago

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work -- Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that's kind of enough -- Legal

3 days ago

How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking -- Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill -- A win for the contractors -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents -- An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car -- Satellite silence trips immobilizers, leaving owners stuck -- Security

3 days ago

Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13 -- Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build -- OSes

3 days ago

Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts -- Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say -- The Future of the Datacenter

3 days ago

Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight -- Brussels probes whether unpaid web and YouTube content – and rivals' lock-outs – amount to abuse of dominance -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Feds bust nefarious plot to ship Nvidia H200s to China and hurt US -- As Trump gives green light to ship Nvidia H200s to China and boost US -- Systems

3 days ago

As humanoid robots enter the mainstream, security pros flag the risk of botnets on legs - Interview - Have we learned nothing from sci-fi films and TV shows? Research - 09 Dec 2025 - | 43

3 hours ago

NASA nominee Isaacman moves to full Senate vote amid budget carnage -- Billionaire's bid progresses while agency braces for sweeping reductions and program uncertainty -- Science

3 days ago