Monday, December 29, 2025 10:16 PM ET
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Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome -- The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away8 hours ago
Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025 -- The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase8 hours ago
China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company - Asia In Brief - PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more5 hours ago
Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words - 'General agents' to infuse Meta's products real soon now - AI + ML - 30 Dec 2025 - |2 hours ago
Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer -- The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday -- Systems4 hours ago
Indian cops cuff ex-Coinbase rep over selling customer info to crims -- There's more where that came from, CEO says -- Cyber-crime5 hours ago
Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line -- There's a big salary up for grabs if you can handle a high-stress role with a track record of turnover -- AI + ML8 hours ago
You don't need Linux to run free and open source software - Part 2 - Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows8 hours ago
Seville: Famed for blue skies and now Blue Screens of Death -- BORK!BORK!BORK! -- Hotel guests get a blast from the past courtesy of classic Windows BSOD10 hours ago
SSL Santa greets London Victoria visitors with a borked update -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Best not touch that screen, eh?1 day ago
BOFH - : The Christmas spirit has run dry – time to show some chiller instinct - Episode 25 - After the boardroom is ransacked, it's straight into Arse Covering 101 - BOFH - 27 Dec 2025 - | 362 hours ago
Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome -- The most popular desktop browser is festooned with Google AI, but you can make at least some of it go away -- AI + ML3 days ago
From AI to analog, cybersecurity tabletop exercises look a little different this year -- Practice makes perfect -- Security3 days ago
From video games to cyber defense: If you don't think like a hacker, you won't win - interview - In supercharged AI race, defenders need to keep up - Security - 26 Dec 2025 - | 213 hours ago
Coming Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed -- Smarter access-point handoffs, better scheduling, fewer stalls -- Networks3 days ago
'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work -- Opinion -- Everything you hated about text adventure games is now being sold as a productivity tool -- AI + ML3 days ago
IT team forced to camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss's side project -- On Call Y2K -- The lack of trust that leads to outsourcing can be expensive -- Columnists3 days ago
Humanoid robots are still novelty acts, but investment is surging to make them real tomorrow -- Investment and interest have outpaced technology and society -- AI + ML4 days ago
Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia6 days ago
Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing7 days ago
HBM Supply Curve Gets Steeper, But Still Can't Meet Demand10 days ago
Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition11 days ago
Keeping Windows and macOS alive past their sell-by date - Part 1 - Practical steps to make an aging operating system usable into 20268 hours ago
AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top? -- Hands On -- Two tiny boxes, 128 GB apiece – but very different strengths -- Systems4 days ago
Salesforce's ChatGPT integration is really about stopping customers from leaking their own data - Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the 'trust boundary' AI + ML - 24 Dec 2025 - | 63 days ago
AI faces closing time at the cash buffet -- opinion -- Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return? -- AI + ML5 days ago
Pen testers accused of 'blackmail' after reporting Eurostar chatbot flaws -- AI goes off the rails ... because of shoddy guardrails -- Security5 days ago
Garmin autopilot lands small aircraft without human assistance -- ATC: 'I don't know if you can hear me but cleared to land' -- AI + ML5 days ago
US shuts down phisherfolk's $14.6M password-hoarding platform -- Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts -- Cyber-crime5 days ago
Waymo pings updates to San Francisco fleet to prevent power outage chaos 2.0 -- Meanwhile, new outages, linked to storms, are pelting the area -- AI + ML5 days ago
Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome11 days ago
GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 202612 days ago
Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers13 days ago
Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code14 days ago
Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature10 days ago
Sight of Clippy, Internet Explorer scares baby -- Reg reader introduces newborn to Microsoft ugly sweater. Child not amused5 days ago
One real reason AI isn't delivering: Meatbags in manglement - Feature - Stuck in pilot purgatory? Confused about returns? You're not alone - AI + ML - 24 Dec 2025 - | 601 day ago
North American air defense troops ready for 70th year of Santa tracking -- A newspaper misprint began a Christmas Eve tradition joining holiday cheer with military technology5 days ago
Project Silica's glass storage archive tech progress6 days ago
Osmium storage analysts look ahead to 2026 and beyond6 days ago
Optera's room-temperature spectral hole optical storage archive8 days ago
Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration10 days ago
NASA tries Curiosity rover's Mastcam to work out where MAVEN might be -- Time running out for savin' MAVEN as stricken spacecraft still silent as Mars solar conjunction nears -- Science5 days ago
Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 -- Plans move to Rust, with help from AI -- Software5 days ago
AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix's AHV hypervisor - VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options - Virtualization - 24 Dec 2025 - |5 days ago
AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post10 days ago
US punishes China's 'dominance' of legacy chips with zero percent tariffs - World War Fee - President Trump previously threatened 100 percent tariffs, administration now plans something else starting in 2027 - Public Sector - 24 Dec 2025 - | 421 day ago
ServiceNow opens $7.7B ticket titled 'Buy security company, make it Armis' Customers will be able to see vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and close them with automated workflows. SaaS - 23 Dec 2025 - |6 days ago
21K Nissan customers' data stolen in Red Hat raid -- Automaker's third security snafu in three years -- Cyber-crime6 days ago
Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth -- Spacecraft set to burn up in a few weeks, but it could have been worse -- Science6 days ago
Microsoft rushes an out-of-band update for Message Queuing bug -- Redmond gets in early for the twelve whoopsies of Christmas -- Patches6 days ago
Windows is testing a new, wider Run dialog box. Here's how to try it -- You'll need to be using a Windows Insider build to see it -- OSes6 days ago
Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat - Opinion - Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it - Software - 23 Dec 2025 - | 1538 hours ago
Like a Virgin Airways bot, planning for the very first time -- Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster -- AI + ML6 days ago
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again -- Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works -- Storage6 days ago
Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming -- The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI -- PaaS + IaaS6 days ago
Pizza restaurant signage caught serving raw Windows - Bork!Bork!Bork! Menu.exe not found - Offbeat - 23 Dec 2025 - | 432 days ago
Uber and Lyft rolling Baidu robotaxis into London next year -- Cab drivers protested Uber's arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs -- AI + ML6 days 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.1 month ago
Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation1 month ago
How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption1 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 Nutanix1 month ago
France's post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident' -- Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix -- Public Sector7 days ago
Japan loses another H3 launcher, plus the satnav bird it carried -- 25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous -- Science7 days ago
Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts -- And it's especially dangerous because the code works -- Cyber-crime7 days ago
Palo Alto's new Google Cloud deal boosts AI integration, could save on cloud costs -- SEC filings show the outfit cut projected 2027 cloud purchase commitments by $114M -- Security7 days ago
Accused data thief threw MacBook into a river to destroy evidence -- Former staffer of Korean e-tailer Coupang accessed 33 million records but may have done less damage than feared8 hours ago
Death, torture, and amputation: How cybercrime shook the world in 2025 -- The human harms of cyberattacks piled up this year, and violence expected to increase8 hours ago
Europe's cloud challenge: Building an Airbus for the digital age -- Feature -- Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground8 hours ago
China wants to ban making yourself into an AI to keep aged relatives company -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Australia buys air-gapped Google Cloud; Huawei triples use of home-built components; JAXA blames low pressure for rocket crash; And more8 hours ago
When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real -- On Call Y2K -- More millennial tech support tales from your fellow readers8 hours ago
How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems -- 20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly8 hours ago
Former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner passes, aged 83 -- Oversaw a significant resurgence in Big Blue's fortunes during the dotcom era8 hours ago
Four tech trends from 2025 that will shape the future – because they have to -- Opinion -- Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try8 hours ago
Crims disconnect Wired subscribers from their privacy, publish deets online -- Extortion group Lovely claims to have stolen 40 million pieces of info from publisher Conde Nast1 hour ago
SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year -- Masayoshi Son better hope he made Santa's nice list -- AI + ML7 days ago
Spy turned startup CEO: 'The WannaCry of AI will happen' Interview - Ah, the good old days when 0-day development took a year - AI + ML - 22 Dec 2025 - | 143 days ago
Nvidia wasting no time to flog H200s in China -- Shipments still waiting on approval from Beijing -- Systems7 days ago
The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post10 days ago
Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture -- Anna's Archive's idealism doesn't quite survive its own blog post -- Security7 days ago
Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim -- Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK -- Cyber-crime7 days ago
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows - Opinion - Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card - OSes - 22 Dec 2025 - | 2949 hours ago
EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031 -- Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics -- Public Sector7 days ago
Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges -- Hands On -- Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle -- OSes7 days ago
Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency -- On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs -- CSO7 days ago
AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter -- Rising rack densities are driving changes from grid connection to chip-level delivery -- The Future of the Datacenter7 days ago
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech -- Feature -- Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty -- PaaS + IaaS7 days ago
The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked -- Opinion -- Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech -- AI + ML7 days ago
AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last? -- Total operational capacity just keeps rising -- Systems7 days ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good -- Who, Me? -- Mousey wouldn't work, wah-wah-wah -- Columnists7 days ago
There's so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM -- SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion -- Security7 days ago