Monday, June 22, 2026 2:18 PM ET
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PERSONAL TECH - The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon - Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components2 hours ago
OS PLATFORMS - Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1 - Same core as 24H2 and 25H2 means an enablement package, while Search gets a little more forgiving4 hours ago
Security - Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance - VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually2 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit -- Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the ground3 days ago
SECURITY -- Major US carrier stored credit card info in the clear, employee learned on first day -- It happened at a major US telco in the early 2000s3 hours ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cyber offenses now account for around a third of all crime across Asia and South Pacific -- Latest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions5 hours ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls -- Why are you even reading this?! Rotate your passwords!!5 hours ago
Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more -- Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us2 days ago
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft -- Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims5 days ago
Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research -- Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant16 minutes ago
Intel-born networking tech resurfaces as InfiniBand alternative for DoE supers -- Omni-Path lights up Lawrence Livermore system at 400 Gbps5 days ago
AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job -- The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is4 days ago
Three critical Fortinet sandbox bugs splattered by unknown attackers -- All have patches, so make sure you upgrade to a fixed version3 days ago
Software -- Firefox 152 understands 'Sssh!' -- As Google continues crippling Chrome ad-blockers, it's a good time to try Firefox5 days ago
Cardiac monitor maker's security skips a beat as data thieves go for the jugular -- Attackers used social engineering to access third-party business apps and steal patient information4 days ago
Scammers keep scoring: Brits fleeced for £1.3B as Americans lose $3.5B to impersonators -- More reasons to love social media and AI4 days ago
AI AND ML - ERP users may soon get ahead by going headless, says Rimini Street boss16 minutes ago
HPE offers VMware refugees a year off the meter -- Free VM Essentials license and cut-price Zerto dangled at customers eyeing a platform escape6 days ago
Council of Europe hacked in ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft heist -- Joins the ranks of Nottingham Uni and 100 other unnamed victims5 days ago
Java's Project Valhalla finally lands a preview in JDK 28 -- Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release7 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA management wants a word and won't say why -- A mystery calendar event is certainly one way to find out about being selected for the Artemis III crew6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig -- Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling6 days ago
Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid2 hours ago
Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert4 hours ago
Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure -- GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized9 days ago
MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd -- Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up9 days ago
Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district -- Iowan's scheme undone after misplacing trust in former coworker6 days ago
Security -- Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod -- Clinical trial participant data stolen, but pharma giant says exposed records were pseudonymized6 days ago
ON-PREM -- Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year -- The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage7 days ago
OFFBEAT - Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,0004 days ago
AI and ml -- Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked -- Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'8 days ago
BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder -- Mission Control sends its regards7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Claude is ready for its corporate close-up -- IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss -- 'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs10 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits -- Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI10 days ago
SECURITY -- VRChat says somebody faked a breach notice with the Maine AG's office -- 'We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised. We are in the process of contacting the Maine Attorney General's office to have this removed.'9 days ago
AI and ML -- OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester -- As OpenAI courts investors and chases enterprise customers, Forrester says today's AI leader could become tomorrow's cautionary tale10 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack -- Crooks claim 40 GB haul as breach database pegs number of exposed email addresses at 455K10 days ago
SAAS -- UK Treasury still deciding whether to show up to £1.7B ERP program it agreed to fund -- Move from Oracle put back until December following delays to Workday rollout10 days ago
Every employee's password was stored in a single Excel file -- The CEO thought this was the best way to deal with some email issues9 days ago
Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate -- PRC eyes are watching you10 days ago
Security -- Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day -- Revenge is a dish best served code10 days ago
ON-PREM -- GM gets datacenter fever, decides to build grid-scale sodium-ion batteries -- Detroit automaker partners with Peak Energy to try a saltier route to energy storage11 days ago
Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day - IT thought a fake offer of extra time off for hard-pressed Canadian medical workers was the way to go2 hours ago
Microsoft accidentally kills epic Outlook email threads -- Redmond manages to break replying to an email on Outlook for macOS, one of the most basic functions5 hours ago
The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything -- 'Humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years,' product exec tells us2 hours ago
Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated - On - The Reg - 's latest podcast, Kettle, it seems like the Trump administration is bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community that'll suffer for it5 hours ago
Lessons from the VMwars – there's nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest -- Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick contract fights with a master of the art5 hours ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job! -- Rigid workplace cultures and youthful ambition do not mix3 hours ago
As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains -- Attempting to boost growth, efficiency, and sovereign tech proved too difficult. The next leader will face the same challenges... and temptations2 hours ago
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart -- TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had1 hour ago
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems -- One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here2 hours ago
Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon -- Neuraspace CEO floats lunar scrapyards as a cleaner way to handle hardware left behind7 hours ago
Small island nation tries bold tech education strategy -- Is the UK's social media ban for kids just reverse psychiatry?9 hours ago
EU won't force publishers to grant dead video games an afterlife -- Stop Killing Games campaign suffers setback as European Commission favors industry code of conduct over legal obligation2 days ago
Britain sending Ukraine an extra 30,000 drones – now 150,000 all up -- Missiles and radars also included in £752M aid package2 days ago
Tensordyne makes a big bet on log math to beat Nvidia -- Who needs compute-hungry multiplications when you can just add logarithms3 days ago
SECURITY -- Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher5 days ago
SCIENCE -- AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme5 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks3 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Massive password-stealing attack hits 75k Fortinet firewalls17 hours ago
Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform -- It always has been, but Microsoft didn't realize it -- Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand -- The energy drink of frontier models -- Corey Quinn10 days ago
Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't -- Rupert Goodwins10 days ago
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? -- Corey Quinn14 days ago
AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies -- Mark Pesce1 month ago
Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that's coming off the tracks -- Rupert Goodwins1 month ago
Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols1 month ago
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof - Rupert Goodwins4 days ago
Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release' -- More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too3 days ago
Waymo hits the brakes after robotaxis keep missing the signs for freeway construction zones -- Nearly 4,000 vehicles recalled for driving past closure warnings and between cones marking shut lanes3 days ago
DevOps -- Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport -- Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims3 hours ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Microsoft's latest Windows bug belongs in the Recycle Bin -- File deletion dialog swaps recognizable names for internal gibberish6 hours ago
AI AND ML -- Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help -- San Francisco plays host to hosting company's Localhost conference8 hours ago
Nutanix's Tech Day London 2026 offers infrastructure insights - SPONSORED POST: Come join this working afternoon for infrastructure teams3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Use of HMRC's taxing IR35 status tool drops 71% in two years -- Data suggests firms are turning away from CEST as critics say it fails to reflect recent court rulings19 hours ago
Personal tech -- Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles -- Techie couldn't help but be a little blunt when the support call came in – but has no regrets!3 days ago
On-PREM -- 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud -- You might say the system packs two kilapixels of compute11 hours ago
AI + ML -- Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light' -- The underlying technology is real...and borrowed from a partner the company failed to mention3 days ago
AI AND ML -- Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck -- Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger3 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Citrix now lets you run virtual desktops like a cost-conscious private equityeer -- Soaring PC prices make alternatives to hardware refreshes interesting3 days ago
OS platforms -- Canonical reveals Myna, its local speech-to-text app -- Bird-branded AI will ride on Stonking Stingray3 days ago
SCIENCE -- Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave -- Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast3 days ago
OS Platforms -- KDE Plasma 6.7 brings the X11 era to a close -- Plenty of new shiny in the service of improved usability3 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI nose uses 'Smell Language Model' to sniff out signs of disease -- Sampling patients' breath may save lives and emergency room resources3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam -- 2.3 million people sit test chasing 100,000 places, and country already canceled it once this year3 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI -- Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job3 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Transport for London keeps Capita behind wheel of road charging ops in £912M extension -- Replacement deal now expected in mid-2029 as body says safe transition will take at least five years3 days ago
Oracle support timelines for Fusion Middleware tighter than expected - Big Red drops ominous mention of 'Market Driven Support' beyond 2027 - but there's good news for AIX users3 days ago
Public sector -- UK Cabinet Office hiring AI and innovation 'influencer' to build 'AI-first culture' in civil service -- Every buzzword deployed in quest to transform into 'country that is equipped for an AI world'3 days ago
RoachFest London 2026: The database as competitive asset - SPONSORED POST: Operate without fear. Build with confidence. Adapt to the AI era3 days ago
AI + ML -- Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs -- I am not a number! I am a free agent (that just happens to have a number)4 days ago
DEVOPS -- Git good with Epic Games' new open source VCS, Lore -- Got big binaries? Tired of other version control systems that treat them like inferior files? Lore might be worth a look4 days ago
AI AND ML -- Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn -- Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions4 days ago
ON-PREM -- Only half of US datacenter capacity planned for 2026 is actually under construction -- Another fun example of AI hype and reality colliding4 days ago
Personal Tech -- Smartphone market to shrink 15 percent this year due to memory crisis -- Buyers put off by rising prices expected to turn to second-hand phones instead4 days ago
DEVOPS -- AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket -- Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Surface tension rises as Microsoft's latest kit starts at a pricey $1,499 -- Snapdragon X2 silicon and recycled aluminum are nice, the sticker shock less so4 days ago
Security -- Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory -- Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though8 hours ago
Security - Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data - Other than Instructure execs - maybe?1 month ago
France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well6 days ago
Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend11 days ago
Neo4j plots Palantir alternative with GraphAware acquisition13 days ago
LibreOffice brands Euro-Office a 'de facto ally' of Microsoft's lock-in strategy13 days ago
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots17 days ago
EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project27 days ago
Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors1 month ago
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own1 month ago
Vietnam to develop domestic cloud so it can ditch risky overseas operators for government workloads1 month ago
Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits1 month ago
Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers -- Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A5 days ago
OS PLaTFORMS -- Windows devs rerolled old code to save precious bytes -- There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB4 days ago
Public sector -- UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts -- What anonymized data taught me about B2B sales... and reliance on the private sector for statistical info4 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious -- New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing5 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Helpdesk scammers are making house calls to make their lies feel more real -- 15-year-old among six arrested after Dutch cops target suspected bank fraud call center3 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo -- Microsoft won the OLE vs OpenDoc wars. Now it's saying OLE dependencies don't matter5 days ago
Personal Tech -- System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years -- Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything4 days ago
VIRTUALIZATION -- Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks -- Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute3 days ago
AI and ML -- Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace -- Fear and even grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. The next reactions – acceptance and innovation – are more useful4 days ago
CYBER-CRIME -- Cyberattack sees crops kept in the ground -- Bitter harvest for Australia's Mackay Sugar, attacked in peak cane crushing season3 days ago
Uncle Sam bets $500M that Alphabet spinoff's AI can dig up new semiconductor materials -- AI drug discovery is so last year, even though it hasn't accomplished much yet5 days ago
AMD's Mext buy shows how AI could solve the RAM shortage it created -- Running low on memory, can't afford more? The House of Zen's latest acquisition puts an AI spin on flash-based memory expansion5 days ago
There's no such thing as an agentic CPU -- AI agents are a general-purpose workload no different from any other6 days ago
Microsoft faces down sueball, capacity problems in series of challenges -- Misleading statements about Copilot and AI? Surely not!6 days ago
Non-x86 servers now nearly half the market, IDC says -- Demand for AI systems plus the shortage of DRAM and NAND are shaping the global market6 days ago
SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right? -- We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair9 days ago
AI + ML -- The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess -- Goodbye, useful Spotlight; hello force-fed Apple intelligence bloatware that feels distressingly like Google AI Overviews5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Python dev saved from disaster by intuition... and AI -- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't install that repo that will totally hose your system3 days ago
Personal tech -- Commodore gets into the phone biz with Sailfish-powered retro 'Callback' -- Ships sans email, web, or socials, but with plenty of beige plastic5 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Crooks found a new way to collaborate using Teams – by hiding command-and-control traffic -- Custom malware routed communications through legitimate Microsoft services, making malicious activity look like routine corporate collaboration4 days ago
OS PLATFORMS -- Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven -- More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop5 days ago
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ShinyHunters: How to close the Credential Rotation Gap -- We'll cover the three failure points that make this attack repeatable across organizations of any size39 minutes ago
Agentic AI at Scale: From Pilot to Production -- Join us to learn how to unlock real ROI by driving adoption of AI at scale.1 month ago
Miro's Move: Detection Coverage for Claude Enterprise -- Discover how enhanced Claude visibility helps SecOps teams detect, investigate, and respond to AI activity and risks.3 days ago
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PUBLIC SECTOR -- NHS Palantir claims face scrutiny after data suggests uneven results -- Campaign group says FOI figures show some trusts carried out fewer procedures than before5 days ago
SCIENCE -- NASA said nyet to Roscosmos plan to cut into leaky ISS segment -- Crew sheltered in SpaceX Dragon as aging Zvezda segment's cracks continue to test orbital nerve5 days ago
Qualcomm said to be circling AI chip biz Tenstorrent in $10B RISC-V power play -- Potential takeover would represent significant commitment to the open instruction set architecture6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Capita is about to sail past deadline to fix civil service pensions scheme -- Union says outsourcer will miss June 30 target after portal meltdown and mounting complaints5 days ago
DATABASES -- SQL Server may be too lucrative for Microsoft to ditch, but too legacy to love -- Analysts say Redmond still has billions of reasons to keep backing its flagship DBMS, even as Azure, Postgres, and AI hog the spotlight6 days ago
AI + ML -- A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI -- What's up, DocLang?6 days ago
PATCHES -- Cisco SD-WAN make-me-root bug under attack -- Second Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw exploited as an 0-day this month5 days ago
OS Platforms -- History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system -- When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'13 days ago
Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it -- Project Headroom could save you big money, too4 days ago
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge -- Sixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak28 days ago
Fedora: Microsoft is all aboard, but Deepin is dumped -- Red Hat's free distro loses a desktop, but makes an important new friend1 month ago
HPE Rides The Agentic AI Wave Back Into The Datacenter3 hours ago
Everpure's AI Strategy Is Almost Purely Based On Nvidia3 days ago
The Server Boom Balances Price Increases Against Chip Shortages4 days ago
HPE's Datacenter Networking Picture Comes Into Clearer Focus4 days ago
Dell and data physics5 hours ago
Storage news ticker - 19 June 20263 days ago
Zilliz lays out vector database and lakebase differences3 days ago
VDURA adds multi-tenancy and faster S3 to PanFS3 days ago
Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own8 hours ago
GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts8 hours ago
Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway8 hours ago
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation6 days ago
SECURITY -- Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher -- According to the one person who actually read the research paper5 days ago
AI AND ML -- Anthropic reserves right to check ID for Claude subs -- How can I help you today? Present your papers to begin6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site -- Federal Data Center Enhancement Act (FDCEA) of 2023 covers standards including security and sustainability5 days ago
Security -- Microsoft site throwing warnings after someone forgot to renew cert -- Connectivity checker trips browser alarms thanks to lapsed security paperwork5 days ago
AI and ML -- Salesforce reels in customer support AI specialist Fin for $3.6B -- Support bot maker claims its AI agents can resolve three-quarters of customer queries without human help6 days ago
ZTE and China Telecom Guangdong advance cross‑vendor IP network simulation pilots, paving the way for intelligent network operations4 days ago
The AI tipping point: where enterprise AI runs at scale4 days ago
Digital sovereignty needs an operating model5 days ago
ZTE Day 2026 in Almaty Showcases Innovations Shaping Kazakhstan's Intelligent Telecom Future6 days ago
Inside the cloud's new agentic AI-ready, Arm-powered foundation6 days ago
Europe's AI paralysis has a solution - and it starts with a semantic twin7 days ago
ZTE wins three Selular Award 2026 honors for AI-powered network innovation11 days ago
Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt11 days ago
ZTE Demonstrates Integrated AI, Connectivity and Digital Utility Technologies at TNB Energy Transition Conference13 days ago
ZTE showcases AI-driven project management innovations at the 14th IPMA Research Conference 202616 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'1 month ago
RESEARCH -- PRC-linked spies hid inside medical and military networks for more than a year, snooping through Gmail and stealing data -- Google says the intruders were on the hunt for everything from drone tech to pathogens5 days ago
Security -- Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits -- Community repo freezes new accounts after attackers swamp it with poisoned package updates5 days ago
AI AND ML -- US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive -- Brussels says access curbs prove Europe needs greater technological independence6 days ago
SOFTWARE -- Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks -- Linux app packaging rethink could leave alternative-init distros in the cold6 days ago
AI and ML -- UK AI hiring surges as firms seek people to babysit the bots -- PwC says AI hiring jumped 61 percent despite wider slowdown in vacancies, with employers increasingly looking for workers who can use AI rather than build it6 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- UK Treasury hunts CTO on salary that may not compute for top tech talent -- The pension may be cushy, but the looming headaches for £77K are not6 days ago
Public Sector -- Palantir's NHS data deal called in for a second opinion -- Experts welcome contract review after claims NHS England missed chance to grow UK health tech market6 days ago
Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes5 days ago
Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner24 days ago
Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working18 days ago
Systems - On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off - Lazy weekend of Grand Prix fun turned into a terrifying all-nighter1 month ago
On-Prem - Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client1 month ago
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave1 month ago
To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane1 month ago
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching1 month ago
AI AND ML - Anthropic spins a Fable of a tamer, safer Mythos - Company also changes data retention policy12 days ago
Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic -- L'etat, c'est AI13 days ago
Department of Work and Pensions' answer to AI job fears is a bot to polish your CV -- Whitehall says Work Assistant will help jobseekers apply around the clock – provided employers don't mind machine-written applications14 days ago
Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers -- Just like in The Truman Show1 month ago
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy -- Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers1 month ago
'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says -- The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO17 days ago
UK banks offered access to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic's Glasswing expansion -- 150 new organizations inducted to cyber's Soho House, including the first outside the US17 days ago
Personal Tech -- Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media -- UK plans to go further than Australia, while also targeting stranger contact, livestreaming, and addictive platform features6 days ago
Ai and ml -- Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let's play Truth Or Consequences -- Hush. children, what's that sound? Has the flood gates' key been found?6 days ago
Fire burns Google Cloud India's network, which remains slow a week later -- PLUS: Japan's space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!7 days ago
US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses -- L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets8 days ago
AI AND ML -- AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter -- From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them6 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains -- MPs told that while concerns over handsets and social media grows, evidence they're changing children's brains is limited7 days ago
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs -- Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register9 days ago
NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can -- Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal9 days ago
GitHub pulls pin on npm's auto-run scripts -- Shai-Hulud worm exploited exactly this. Better late than never, says everyone except the malware authors10 days ago
Ivanti tells Sentry customers to patch now as critical bugs hit 10.0 and 9.9 -- Remote, unauthenticated RCE with root privileges is about as bad as it gets10 days ago
AI is making Patch Tuesday (kinda) fun again -- Unless you're an admin or vulnerability manager – then you're totally screwed10 days ago
cyber-crime - Miasma worms its way onto GitHub as attack kit goes open source - As if there weren't enough package poisonings to worry about13 days ago
Apple's iOS 27 goes all agentic on compromised passwords, promises to change them with one tap - iBiz might not win the AI race, but analysts say it's focusing on features people may actually use2 hours ago
Signal says UK plan to scan devices for nude images 'endangers us all' -- Encrypted messaging app warns device-level checks could be repurposed for censorship11 days ago
Chrome's zero-day Whac-A-Mole continues with fifth exploited bug of the year -- Google paid researcher a tidy $55K bounty for its discovery11 days ago
France probes compromise of gov messaging platform after account hijack -- Authorities say the breach only exposed public chat rooms, but alleged attacker claims to have accessed far more data11 days ago
Health board apologizes for phishing staff with with bogus vacation day6 hours ago
Gizmodo readers hit with ClickFix malware prompts after account compromise7 hours ago
Researchers drop checkm8-style BootROM exploit for A12 and A13 iPhones2 days ago
Everything's bigger and better in Texas – even data breaches3 days ago
Britain's privacy watchdog quits after 'poor judgment' admission3 days ago
Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate3 days ago
Google told researcher 'Nice catch!' Then denied bug bounty for flaw it still hasn't fixed4 days ago
AI AND ML -- NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages -- AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers6 days ago
AI and ML -- KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations -- GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled7 days ago
Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet -- And it was Microsoft Copilot that unwittingly revealed the longstanding vulnerability6 days ago
Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops -- Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands7 days ago
Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack - SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure24 days ago
Big Tech extracts retirement-scale wealth from UK internet users, research shows -- Britain's 'free' internet economy is powered by invisible data extraction that feeds advertisers, AI firms, and digital platforms27 days ago
Open Compute urges local government to bask in the warm glow of excess datacenter heat -- Org that represents Meta, Google and Microsoft plans more heat reuse guidelines as debate over bit barn social license burns red hot1 month ago
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage -- This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit1 month ago
Broadcom finds a VMware customer willing to stick around: London Stock Exchange -- LSEG signs up for five more years of Cloud Foundation, but keeps quiet on how much it'll cost1 month ago
Baidu says the quiet part out loud – you can't build AI infrastructure, so clouds can cash in -- CFO says GPU rentals are 'structurally higher margin than CPU cloud'1 month ago
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow -- Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source8 days ago
Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs -- Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream24 days ago
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators -- Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.25 days ago
Security -- Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe -- Authority admits mass message to home-schooling families revealed recipients' addresses, prompting ICO report and apology7 days ago
Public Sector -- UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy -- CEO of Mumsnet among the six-member team7 days ago
Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans -- It's just not cricket10 days ago
Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale -- Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box10 days ago
Personal Tech -- This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken -- Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy9 days ago
Security -- ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day -- University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg7 days ago
AI AND ML -- Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation -- Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory10 days ago
How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!9 hours ago
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet7 days ago
Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug14 days ago
Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident21 days ago
Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in28 days ago
Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything1 month ago
Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch1 month ago
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving1 month ago
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch1 month ago
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild1 month ago
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it1 month ago
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe1 month ago
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference1 month ago
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo1 month ago
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble1 month ago
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract1 month ago
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction1 month ago
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell1 month ago
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead1 month ago
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office1 month ago
Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server1 month ago
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam1 month ago
ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key1 month ago
Techie banned from client site for outage he didn't cause1 month ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble1 month ago
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good1 month ago
Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming1 month ago
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work1 month ago
Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books1 month ago
Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people1 month ago
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere1 month ago
Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver1 month ago
'ERP down for emergency maintenance' was code for 'You deleted what?'1 month ago
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware1 month ago
Company that made power systems for servers didn't know why its own machines ran out of juice1 month ago
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company1 month ago
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it1 month ago
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe1 month ago
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery1 month ago
After deleting a web server, I started checking what I typed before hitting 'Enter'1 month ago
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league1 month ago
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA1 month ago
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it1 month ago
Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results1 month ago
Pay attention, class: Today you'll learn the wrong way to turn things off1 month ago
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady1 month ago
Intern did exactly what he was told and turned off the wrong server1 month ago
Under-qualified sysadmin crashed Amazon.com for 3 hours with a typo1 month ago
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production1 month ago
Yes, I wrote a very expensive bug. In my defense I was only seven years old at the time1 month ago
Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class17 days ago
Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech18 days ago
Don't repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators19 days ago
The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company19 days ago
Telegram founder accuses Meta of sabotaging access in India with BGP hijacks3 days ago
Geopolitical jitters push Europe's internet registry away from cloud-first strategy3 days ago
Nvidia-backed optics vendor to boost wafer output by 4x to meet AI interconnect demand4 days ago
AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking9 days ago
Amazon Leo's satellite homework is late, but FCC won't flunk it just yet14 days ago
Marvell enters the AI network fray with 102.4 Tbps switch silicon20 days ago
Security -- Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day -- Another day, another Windows exploit code8 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' -- AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths10 days ago
PERSONAL TECH -- Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts -- iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android10 days ago
Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own -- Blending containers and VMs but some features half-baked11 days ago
Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket -- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks11 days ago
Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month -- The only solution is to buy an upgrade (or switch providers)10 days ago
PAAS AND IAAS -- Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters -- Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill5 days ago
Personal tech -- Met Police joins forces with Apple to choke London's stolen phone trade -- Intelligence-sharing pact tracks kit that comes back online after being nicked10 days ago
Cyber-crime -- Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day -- Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection9 days ago
PUBLIC SECTOR -- NS&I dangles £220K salary for CEO willing to straighten out £3B IT mess -- Comes with a corner office, government scrutiny, and the 'full-spectrum disaster' known as Project Rainbow10 days ago
Rockstar Games faces full hearing over alleged union busting -- Tribunal rejects bid to strike blacklisting claims, with proceedings due to conclude shortly before GTA VI launches3 days ago
Microsoft once used its own brand of 'Lego' to optimize Windows -- Making software feel snappier when you only have 12 MB RAM4 days ago
DARPA seeks swappable satellites to help with future star wars -- Worried that an unexpected strike could take out critical orbital systems, Pentagon researchers want to know how fast the industry thinks it could launch replacements6 days ago
The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build -- 26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts7 days ago
Munch Museum Windows display gives visitors something to scream about -- When art reflects modern realities7 days ago
XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway -- A blast from the past greets commuters9 days ago
Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers -- We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?11 days ago
Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR -- Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 199911 days ago
Next stop, C:\ ... Paris Metro screen goes off the tracks -- Prochain arrêt: Gare du Bork! French capital city train does the tech can-can13 days ago
NASA's Secret: Moon astronauts will be rocking Prada underwear -- What, you think any old liquid-cooled bodysuit would be acceptable to pair with such a fashionable outer layer?14 days ago
Brit maritime agency heralds fresh global rules for crewless cargo ships -- If you thought driverless cars were bad, imagine a 200,000 ton container ship15 days ago
Rocket exhibit at National Space Centre pulls off unintentional NASA SLS impression -- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... pfft23 days ago
FCC warns US broadcasters their licenses are a privilege, not a right -- TV and radio stations told to review current practices to align with public interest obligations24 days ago
FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship after another launch mishap -- IPO? More like IP-uh-oh25 days ago
Microsoft Excel champ proves he still has the formula -- Diarmuid Early dominates Amsterdam qualifier as competitive spreadsheeting sets sights on Vegas finals26 days ago
InPost locker caught shipping unactivated Windows -- Contactless collection meets Microsoft's licensing reminder26 days ago
Gothenburg's self-driving bus trammed on day one -- Autonomous shuttle's second passenger trip ends with rear-end collision and a tow truck27 days ago
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers -- A French engineer has declared war on AWS, Google and Microsoft using AI-generated sea shanties, satirical poetry, and a multilingual protest campaign28 days ago
No captain, my captain: Navantia floats crewless warship -- Spanish shipbuilder's 75-meter drone vessel comes with sensors, modular payloads, and no room for sailors29 days ago
Deus ex machina: Half of US Christians trust AI's spiritual advice -- AI sycophancy + spirituality = uh oh1 month ago
UK Typhoon jets fitted with bargain-bin drone busters for Middle East sorties -- Low-cost laser-guided rockets offer cheaper way to swat Shahed-style threats than firing pricey air-to-air missiles1 month ago
Yes, you can serve a website from a $1 microcontroller -- Well, page is more accurate, but the source code is available if you want to try doing something even crazier1 month ago
UK reloads artillery plans with £1B remote-control howitzer order -- 72 Boxer-mounted RCH 155s due from 2028 as Britain fills the gap left by AS-90s sent to Ukraine1 month ago
Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show -- Eric Park tells us he doesn't plan to wear his modified cap to commencement, but his code's available for anyone with no such qualms and an upcoming ceremony1 month ago
Dude... where's my password? Claude reunites forgetful stoner with $400k Bitcoin stash -- AI to the rescue as 11-year search for password turns up in old PC files1 month ago
This browser add-in doesn't just hide ads, it tells you to OBEY -- Chromium extension swaps promos for John Carpenter-style subliminal slogans1 month ago
Man jailed for packing printer with something more expensive than toner: Cocaine -- Class A drugs loaded instead of A41 month ago
US Army goes green-ish, wants soldiers munching on plant proteins -- Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu1 month ago
Windows update prompt joins the Post Office queue -- Customers left staring at restart plea with no keyboard, mouse, or hope1 month 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.1 month ago
London's BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool -- Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London's West End1 month 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 alive1 month ago
Lego throws its own Hail Mary -- Movie-inspired set ticks the clever Technic box, but at a price1 month ago
Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere -- Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen1 month 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?1 month 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 month 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 airports1 month ago
NASA names crew for Artemis III lunar lander rehearsal -- Whether any of the spacecraft will be ready in time for H2 2027 remains unanswered12 days ago
science - MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer6 days ago
UK boffin bait lands 18 international researchers -- Global Talent visa program aims to draw in dissatisfied scientists from countries including the US12 days ago
Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule -- Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired17 days ago
Humanity trashed Earth orbit – next stop the Moon7 hours ago
2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud3 days ago
Midjourney pivots from AI image generation to body scanning medical spa where patients bathe in 'golden light'3 days ago
NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit4 days ago
Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security -- DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research17 days ago
Blue Origin's New Glenn makes a crater-sized dent in Artemis plans -- Explosion wrecks rocket and pad, leaving NASA's lunar ambitions looking less than launch-ready23 days ago
Swift thinking buys NASA observatory a little more time before re-entry -- Rescue mission might have until the end of summer after science operations halted26 days ago
NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon -- Astronauts will get to self-assemble lunar base26 days ago
Bezos rocket fell short after cryogenic leak cut engine thrust -- Frozen hydraulic line blamed for leaving payload in the wrong orbit27 days ago
Starship shows it can deploy satellites, but Moon mission clock still ticks -- What's a tumbling Super Heavy and a skipped Raptor relight between friends?27 days ago
AI + ML -- Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear -- A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, particularly for enterprise applications11 days ago
AI AND ML -- It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts -- Hyper-vigilant safety classifiers turn Fable into cautionary tale11 days ago