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

8 hours ago

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

8 hours ago

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

8 hours 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

8 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 - | 1

27 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 hour ago

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

6 hours 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

6 hours 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 -- 11 Dec 2025

9 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 -- Virtualization

10 hours ago

Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images -- Begun, these AI wars have -- AI + ML -- 11 Dec 2025

10 hours 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 -- 11 Dec 2025

10 hours 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

12 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

14 hours ago

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

15 hours 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

15 hours ago

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA - Wanna know a secret?

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

17 hours ago

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

17 hours 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

19 hours ago

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

19 hours ago

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

19 hours ago

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

19 hours 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 - | 10

27 minutes 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

22 hours 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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Oracle Is Using OpenAI To Build A Platform For The Enterprise

11 hours ago

Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant

1 day ago

IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy

3 days ago

AWS Graviton5 Strikes A Different Balance For Server CPUs

7 days ago

Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours - On Call - Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security

3 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

1 day ago

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

1 day 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

6 hours 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

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

17 hours ago

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

20 hours ago

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

2 days ago

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

3 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

1 day 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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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

1 day ago

Storage news ticker – 12 December 2025

15 hours ago

The nature of the VAST Data beast

16 hours ago

A2A and AAIF emerge as rival blueprints for getting AI agents to talk to each other

14 hours ago

Lenovo leans into SAN, hypervisor multiplicity, Azure Local and AI hyperconvergence

1 day 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

1 day 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 - 10 Dec 2025 - | 6

15 hours 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

1 day 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

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 - 10 Dec 2025 - | 125

5 hours 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

1 day 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

2 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

2 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

2 days ago

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

2 days 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

2 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

2 days ago

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

2 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

2 days ago

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

2 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

2 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.

20 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

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

2 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

2 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

2 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 - | 41

23 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

2 days ago

AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first -- Analysts say demand keeps rising despite constraints, shaky returns, and mounting investor nerves -- The Future of the Datacenter

2 days ago

SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics - February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration - Databases - 09 Dec 2025 - |

2 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

2 days ago

UK to Europe: The time to counter Russia's information war machine is now -- Foreign secretary set to address senior diplomats later today -- Security

2 days 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 -- Offbeat

2 days ago

IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol -- Digital native? Cloud native? No, we need to be AI native, says Riyadh Air -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records -- UK data watchdog demands public sector improves subject access request processing -- Legal

2 days ago

UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act -- As Portugal gives researchers a pass under cybersecurity law -- Security

2 days ago

Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost -- Officials insist OBR relied on 'early estimate' and real figure won't emerge until next year -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks -- Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people -- Virtualization

3 days ago

Intel to explore making chips with mega-corp Tata in India's first fab -- Chipzilla doesn't need 28nm product, so maybe this is about landing another outsourced packaging partner -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut -- Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix -- 'User Alignment Critic' will review agentic actions so bots don't do things like emptying your bank account -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Bezos-backed Unconventional AI aims to make datacenter power problems go away - Interview - Startup wagers the path to sustainable AI might be found in nature's most amazing design - the brain - The Future of the Datacenter - 08 Dec 2025 - | 27

1 day ago

Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level -- The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic -- AI + ML

3 days ago