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Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it

1 day ago

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping -- Change is glacial, but the direction is clear

17 hours ago

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs -- Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI

17 hours ago

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan -- Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone

17 hours ago

Kubernetes explains the release that kills Ingress NGINX with Japanese poetry and art -- Release team sets new standard for release notes by linking between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa -- Software

1 hour ago

Another npm supply chain worm is tearing through dev environments -- Plus, the payload references 'TeamPCP/LiteLLM method' -- Cyber-crime

7 hours ago

Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger -- Hackpocalypse deferred -- Security

7 hours 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 2028 -- Systems

9 hours ago

OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot -- Make your model smarter through self-surveillance -- AI + ML

9 hours ago

GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not -- Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement -- Devops

11 hours ago

Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor -- Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers -- Public Sector

11 hours ago

Datacenter boom keeps dirty coal plants alive in the US -- Happy Earth Day! -- Systems

12 hours ago

Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran -- Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees -- SaaS

13 hours ago

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive -- Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice -- Applications

13 hours ago

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too -- 'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination -- OSes

14 hours 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 decision -- Science

15 hours ago

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match - Review - An $899 CPU? In this economy?

14 hours ago

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad - Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet - Devops - 22 Apr 2026 - |

15 hours ago

Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 - Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery - Personal Tech - 22 Apr 2026 - | 15

4 hours ago

Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl - Google Cloud Next - As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the way - AI + ML - 22 Apr 2026 - | 3

10 hours ago

Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies -- Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos -- Security

17 hours ago

Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win -- x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores -- AI + ML

17 hours ago

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records -- Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population -- Cyber-crime

18 hours ago

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges -- Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws -- Security

16 hours ago

UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial -- Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure -- PaaS + IaaS

18 hours ago

Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs -- Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption -- Databases

19 hours ago

Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects -- Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators -- AI + ML

20 hours ago

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock -- Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment -- On-Prem

21 hours ago

The Second Time Will Be The IPO Charm For Cerebras

11 hours ago

Imagine An Army Of AI Minions Handling Incident Response

1 day ago

AI Will Soon Drive A Third Of TSMC's Business

2 days ago

Bechtolsheim & Friends Breathe Life Into Pluggable Optics One Last Time

5 days ago

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet - Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law

14 hours ago

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn't spot -- Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security -- Software

23 hours ago

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs -- Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan -- Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone -- Software

1 day ago

Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI - OPINION - John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been - On-Prem - 21 Apr 2026 - | 21

10 hours ago

Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor -- NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace -- Security

1 day ago

Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears -- Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint -- OSes

1 day ago

Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide -- Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot' -- Security

1 day ago

Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks

15 hours ago

Google previews Android CLI for new world of agentic development

1 day ago

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

5 days ago

Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work

6 days ago

Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure - Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure - Partner Content

1 day ago

More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks -- CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch -- Patches

1 day ago

Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months -- Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall -- Networks

1 day ago

macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets -- Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks -- Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes -- Software

1 day ago

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping -- Change is glacial, but the direction is clear -- Databases

1 day ago

Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords -- Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

NeuBird plans a bright future for incident response - Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes - Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

Google's cloud storage gets faster and smarter for AI

16 hours ago

Dell turns up PowerMax dial to 11

15 hours ago

WD's chief product bod peers into the AI data system future

20 hours ago

Wasabi gets quarter billion credit facility

1 day 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 resume -- Science

1 day ago

AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account - CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |

1 day ago

Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies -- Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters -- No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little -- Security

1 day ago

England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one -- 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it -- Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee -- OSes

1 day ago

Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul - Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |

1 day ago

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture -- Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment -- Security

1 day ago

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it -- Security

1 day 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 mess -- Science

2 days ago

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch -- Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us. -- Devops

2 days ago

Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus - UPDATED - A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports - Security - 20 Apr 2026 - | 22

16 hours ago

Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises

5 days ago

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI -- Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

26 days ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

1 month ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

1 month ago

Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again -- The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions -- On-Prem

2 days ago

World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home -- Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple -- Systems

2 days ago

Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter -- Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software -- OSes

2 days ago

Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US -- Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currency -- Cyber-crime

2 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' -- Science

2 days ago

Schmoozebots: Study finds flattery will get AI everywhere -- Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage - Those that don't have one thing in common - Sponsored Feature

2 days ago

One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all - Updated - US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders - PaaS + IaaS - 20 Apr 2026 - | 33

11 hours ago

New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans -- Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball -- Software

2 days ago

Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes -- Out-of-band or out of control? -- OSes

2 days ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London -- Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts -- On-Prem

2 days ago

UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite -- Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects -- AI + ML

2 days ago

HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life -- Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown -- Personal Tech

2 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 place -- Science

2 days ago

Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break -- £330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform -- PaaS + IaaS

1 day ago

Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing -- Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use -- On-Prem

2 days ago

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in -- Opinion -- We've been here before. This time, we may not get out -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise -- Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident -- Security

2 days ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild -- Who, Me? -- You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom -- Bootnotes

2 days ago