Tuesday, January 06, 2026 3:45 PM ET
11 hours ago
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching -- It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse23 hours ago
Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks -- Notebook updates and enterprise tools also inbound from IT giant6 hours ago
Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results -- Wanted: Chief Disinformation Officer to pollute company knowledge graphs1 hour ago
Lego crams an ASIC in a brick to keep kids interested -- Neat idea, but with no mention of a dev kit it's another sign of Lego's descent into designing nothing but fun on rails -- Offbeat2 hours ago
What if Linux ran Windows... and meant it? Meet Loss32 -- It's crazy, a million-to-one shot, but it might just work -- OSes3 hours ago
StockHistory function becomes StockMystery as Microsoft Excel bugs out -- New Year glitch leaves users staring at connection errors instead of market data -- Applications5 hours ago
No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric - AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house - Databases - 06 Jan 2026 - |4 hours ago
Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike -- Samsung and SK hynix readying another gouge as server silicon squeeze leaves PCs and phones out in the cold -- Systems6 hours ago
Fake Windows BSODs check in at Europe's hotels to con staff into running malware -- Phishers posing as Booking.com use panic-inducing blue screens to bypass security controls -- Research6 hours ago
Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one -- Also: The XPS brand is back -- Personal Tech6 hours ago
Congress ctrl-Zs bulk of proposed cuts to NASA science -- Fate of Shuttle Discovery remains conspicuously unaddressed in FY2026 agreement text -- Science6 hours ago
Crypto wallet shop Ledger confirms customer data lifted in Global-e snafu -- Order and contact details accessed via ecommerce partner, and phishing has begun -- Cyber-crime7 hours ago
UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow -- Campaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure -- PaaS + IaaS7 hours ago
Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results -- Wanted: Chief Disinformation Officer to pollute company knowledge graphs -- AI + ML9 hours ago
Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT -- Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton -- Cyber-crime9 hours ago
When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight - Want to survive the crash? Find another way to make money with GPUs2 hours ago
UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd -- Central government will supposedly be as secure as energy facilities and datacenters under new proposals -- Public Sector9 hours ago
AI's grand promise: Less drudgery, more complexity, same (or lower) pay -- Workers face new mental health pressures as they shift from doing tasks to babysitting agentic AI -- AI + ML11 hours ago
One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on -- Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials -- Cyber-crime13 hours ago
Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks -- Notebook updates and enterprise tools also inbound from IT giant -- Systems16 hours ago
AMD clocks in with higher CPU speeds, leaves architecture untouched -- New chips same as the old chips -- Systems13 hours ago
Intel unleashes Panther Lake CPUs, first built on 18A process -- Company claims its Ultra Series 3 processors will offer the best battery life yet -- Personal Tech21 hours ago
Nvidia says it's more than doubled the DGX Spark's performance since launch -- Just maybe not in the way you're thinking -- Systems21 hours ago
Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES -- Teasing the next generation earlier than usual -- Systems22 hours ago
Claude devs complain about surprise usage limits, Anthropic blames expiring bonus -- Holiday hangover? -- AI + ML22 hours ago
ServiceNow snags Microsoft vet to run legal amid M&A spree - Hossein Nowbar waged antitrust battles and created new legal policies around AI for Redmond - SaaS - 05 Jan 2026 - |23 hours ago
ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money -- One man's failing healthcare system is another man's opportunity -- AI + ML23 hours ago
AMD Contemplates And Engineers Yottascale AI Compute6 hours ago
Nvidia's Vera-Rubin Platform Obsoletes Current AI Iron Six Months Ahead Of Launch14 hours ago
Rebellions AI Puts Together An HBM And Arm Alliance To Take On Nvidia13 days ago
Liquid Cooling Means More Performance And Less Heat For Supercomputing14 days 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 1014 days ago
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention -- An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter -- PaaS + IaaS23 hours ago
Congrats, cybercrims: You just fell into a honeypot -- A subpoena has been issued, apparently -- Security23 hours ago
Playing Koi: Palo Alto isn't saying if it will buy security start-up - CEO Nikesh Arora's trip to Tel Aviv last month sparked rumors. Security - 05 Jan 2026 - |1 day ago
Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer -- With no hardware for sale and no local service agreement, SpaceX's move looks more like politics than philanthropy -- Off-Prem1 day ago
Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips -- Enterprises have been slow to adopt Arm laptops so far -- Systems1 day ago
EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them -- US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes -- Legal1 day ago
The last supported version of HP-UX is no more -- Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it does -- OSes1 day ago
Ruby 4.0 released – but its best new features are not production ready5 hours ago
Dramatic drop in Stack Overflow questions as devs look elsewhere for help1 day ago
Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome19 days ago
GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 202620 days ago
Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver - Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage - Sponsored Post4 hours ago
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching -- It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse -- Applications1 day ago
UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help -- Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps -- Public Sector1 day ago
Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes - Exclusive - Outsourcer promises customers a service with 'AI at its core.' They just want a website that works - Public Sector - 05 Jan 2026 - | 637 minutes ago
Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver4 hours ago
Storage Ticker – 6 January 20264 hours ago
Nvidia pushes AI inference context out to NVMe SSDs5 hours ago
Infinidat founder Moshe Yanai has bankruptcy issues1 day ago
New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack - Government 'incredibly' concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients - Cyber-crime - 05 Jan 2026 - | 67 minutes ago
Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it -- Opinion -- From buried settings to geopolitical risk, the business model is surveillance -- Edge + IoT1 day ago
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble -- Who, Me? -- Meet the 'Mean Avenger', the office anti-hero who steps in when managers don't defend their team -- Software1 day ago
Cisco XDR in 30: Turning Security Signals Into Confident Action - How network-led Cisco XDR helps teams see threats clearly and respond faster - Sponsored Post4 days ago
Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions -- infosec in brief -- Also, Korean Air hacked, EmEditor installer hijacked, a perfect 10 router RCE vuln, and more1 day ago
Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026's biggest insider threat -- interview -- Lock 'em down1 day ago
Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot -- Rust veteran Steve Klabnik is using an LLM to explore memory safety without garbage collection -- AI + ML3 days ago
Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it -- Repeat after me: Chatbots are not sentient and have no agency -- AI + ML3 days ago
Headset hype meets harsh reality as Apple and Meta VR shipments fizzle in 2025 -- But how about some smart glasses instead? -- Personal Tech3 days ago
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop -- Exec argues we need a new metaphor focused on AI as a lever rather than a job killer -- AI + ML3 days ago
Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release -- Netflix documentary part 2 in the works? -- Cyber-crime3 days ago
Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities -- For the bargain price of 6.5 bitcoin -- Cyber-crime4 days ago
Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage -- EU 'closely monitoring' along with NATO as state action suspected but not confirmed -- Networks4 days ago
Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars -- A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who'd rather skip AI assistants -- Applications4 days ago
Google snaps up datacenter power biz Intersect while xAI plans more capacity -- The AI era needs more juice -- Systems4 days ago
Brit lands invite-only Aussie visa after uncovering vuln in government systems -- Jacob Riggs is set to swap London for Sydney some time in the next year -- Security4 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 Nutanix2 months ago
Starlink to lower orbits of thousands of satellites over safety concerns -- Move will see spacecraft shift from 550 km to 480 km as collision risks rise -- Networks4 days ago
LockBit takedown architect gets New Year award from King Charles -- Gavin Webb orchestrated Operation Cronos as it pulled off the legendary disruption sting -- Cyber-crime4 days ago
Safe CEO: AI is an assistant, not a replacement -- Interview -- There is no automated substitute for experienced staff, and 'if there's one thing AI has a never-ending thirst for ... it's data' -- AI + ML4 days ago
The Y2K bug delayed my honeymoon ... by 17 years! -- ON CALL Y2K -- More tales of apocalypse avoided - including in an animal testing lab - and the hard work that made that possible -- Columnists4 days ago
Satellite radio transmissions are jamming telescopes and driving astronomers batty -- Interview -- 'What do we need to do better?' El Reg talks to comms boss about the problem -- Science4 days ago
Welcome to Wendy's! Before your order can be taken, you must first reset this kiosk -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Do you want bork with that? -- Offbeat5 days ago
How Microsoft gave customers what they wanted: An audience with Bill Gates - Well kinda... Your call will be transferred to the next available assistant - AI + ML - 01 Jan 2026 - | 517 hours 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 Feature18 days ago
Nvidia DMs TSMC: Please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s -- GPUzilla has reportedly received orders for more than two million units -- Systems4 days ago
US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots -- What, weekend warriors from Silicon Valley not good enough? -- Public Sector6 days ago
European Space Agency hit again as cybercrims claim 200 GB data up for sale -- As in past incidents, ESA says the impact was limited to external systems -- Cyber-crime6 days ago
IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world, but don't call it a failure - Feature - The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant - Networks - 31 Dec 2025 - | 23348 minutes ago
Everybody has a theory about why Nvidia dropped $20B on Groq - they're mostly wrong -- El Reg speculates about what GPUzilla really gets out of the deal -- Systems6 days ago
The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere - Opinion - From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear - Software - 31 Dec 2025 - | 2483 hours ago
Hong Kong's newest anti-scam technology is over-the-counter banking -- Funds in 'Money Safe' accounts are only available when customers appear for face-to-face verification -- Cyber-crime6 days ago
Cybersecurity pros admit to moonlighting as ransomware scum -- Pair became ALPHV affiliates to prey on US-based clients -- Cyber-crime6 days ago
New York's incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party -- Zohran Mamdani appears not to understand that smartphones can be used for evil -- Security6 days ago
ServiceNow lays out possible co-CEO structure, but says no change imminent -- The ITSM outfit would join Oracle, Comcast, and Netflix in installing bunk beds in the corner office -- CxO6 days ago
iPad kids are more anxious, less resilient, and slower decision makers -- The solution? Lock up the screens and read to your kids -- Science6 days ago
An early end to the holidays: 'Heartbleed of MongoDB' is now under active exploit -- You didn't think you'd get to enjoy your time off without a major cybersecurity incident, did you? -- Patches7 days ago