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Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

The RAMpocalypse may be the precursor to the AIpocalypse

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

Bots, not people, are now the ones who use the internet the most

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools

OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday

Standalone experiment killed after less than 12 months as model maker redirects agentic ambitions towards workplace productivity

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin

Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head

ScrollPods is Mac-only, and you'll need compatible AirPods

Capita hears demand for pension scheme cleanup 'loud and clear' – but won't say yes

Outsourcer wants a commercial chinwag before agreeing to cover UK government's recovery costs

networks

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

IT department was not pleased, but was also easily fooled

Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days

Pulls AI-powered image tweaker after allowing free-for-all

Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed

PLUS: Canadian/Bhutanese datacenter for India; China re-uses a rocket; Australia signals AI intervention; And more!

Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package

Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool

PERSONAL TECH

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives

Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

Green groups want licenses frozen before a million satellites litter the exosphere

on-prem

AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

Firm faces quandary of wanting to help the environment, but also wanting to force AI on everyone

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

Brussels says Meta failed to properly assess or mitigate risks posed by infinite scroll, autoplay, and more

Fashion mart Miinto unzips breach details, warns shoppers to watch for phisherfolk

Copenhagen company ‘sorry’ after 'perpetrator' pops order management system

Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it

Next version of Linux Mint’s desktop has both kinds of display server

Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients' data

NHS Forth Valley is the latest health board to bungle basic email data protection principles

BOFH

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light

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on-prem

Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

Police wanted to call off a grudge game until tech support electrified fevered fans

OS PLATFORMS

Red Hat offers RHEL support ‘forever’ for those who need to lock in to legacy tech

Beware the golden screwdriver

Security

Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays

More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmond’s auto-patching tools

CYBER-CRIME

An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals

Leaked negotiations spill the tea

Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head

Show not tell makes a far finer script

Rupert Goodwins

Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest

Never get involved in a land war in Asia. Also, don't pick a contract fight with a monster of the art

Rupert Goodwins

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Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck

Corey Quinn

Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace

Mark Pesce

Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'

Corey Quinn

Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform

Rupert Goodwins

AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

Corey Quinn

EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project

Rupert Goodwins

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

Rupert Goodwins

AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

One in four long-form social media posts appear entirely AI-generated, with nearly half of those on Microsoft's and Elon's platforms involving AI in some form

ai and ml

AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter

Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project

SOFTWARE

OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up

Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs

software

SAP makes it easier for customers to shop for legacy product support, ending EU antitrust probe

Vendor drops reinstatement fees and caps back-maintenance charges ahead of the ECC support cliff

applications

Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature

Monospaced code snippets among the reported casualties

Security

EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short

Opponents won the count but missed the 360-seat threshold needed to stop the interim CSAM-scanning rule

os platforms

KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives

6.7 is now current, and in 6.8 you're getting Wayland whether you like it or not

AI and ML

Brown says AI make student brain no work good, teacher should help use it better

Take-home midterm row sharpens fears that the tools are dulling minds and easing cheating

public sector

UK.gov withholds £10M payment from Capita over pensions project fiasco, as dispute continues

After CEO promised 'flagship use-case' for AI, retired scheme members still struggling to make ends meet, MPs hear

security

Microsoft closes book on Nightmare Eclipse's RoguePlanet zero-day

Weeks after the exploit code dropped, Redmond has finally ships a fix for the Defender zero-day

devops

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

10X faster build times could force Slack developers back to their keyboards

OFF-PREM

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim

Applications

Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades

Nobody needs a simple web client for Exchange, do they?

Public sector

MPs tell NHS to start packing Palantir's bags ahead of 2027 contract break

Health committee calls out public mistrust, shaky evidence, and highlights alternatives

Cyber-crime

Accenture admits to 'isolated matter' after crook tries to flog alleged 35GB haul

Consulting giant says it has 'remediated ... source' after crook claims to offer source code, keys, and cloud creds for sale

os platforms

Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support – and gets Rustier

Even so, it has some issues with the Rust coreutils

PERSONAL TECH

Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best

If your name's not on the list, you're... probably not a setup program

science

Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space

There is a long-standing international treaty in place but we can't be the only ones side-eyeing world's current crop of politicos

Security

Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy

If people think you are doing a legitimate job, you can get away with anything

Science

New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation

Good luck getting your PC to do that after lunch

AI AND ML

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek thinks AI is going to pay off

Downer for doomers as conservative investor plans to lift portfolio exposure by 150 percent, and even more once it adds electrification ventures

off prem

Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products

Previously did it twice a year, so customers now have fewer chances to surf FX waves

AI and ML

OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter

With GPT-Live, talking, listening, and formulating answers all happen at once

ai and ml

The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

The newly renamed SpaceXAI wants you to believe little ol' Grok is all grown up

Security

Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers

Proofpoint researcher tells The Reg: 'We estimate the total volume of targets would be a few dozen'

ai and ml

Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks

Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7

ai and ML

Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding

As GitHub struggles to manage AI load, challengers take aim

ai and ml

OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs

What, did someone get some bad news during their IPO process or something?

security

GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code

More fun with AI jailbreaks, this time at the workflow level

Virtualization

Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out

CA and VMware both suing insurance giant

PERSONAL TECH

AI memory crunch takes a bite out of PC shipments

IDC warns smaller players may struggle as DRAM drought drags on

ai and ml

Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human

Startup insists it's not trying to help anyone cheat the system - honest!

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offbeat

Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car

Armed response and canine support called in for troublemaking duo ratted out by driverless car’s array of cameras

Security

Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die

'GhostApproval' problem highlights human-in-the-loop fails

Security

China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears

National vulnerability database claims monitoring mechanism can forward Chinese users' data to remote servers

SCIENCE

Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander

Jim Bridenstine says Artemis 'extraordinarily complicated' compared to the days of Apollo and the Saturn V

storage

Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design

Mystery of the disappearing storage solved (for some)

Networks

Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down

Telco says issues all sorted, but transport networks expected to be disrupted well into Thursday

paas and iaas

Tech divorce from Walmart cost Brit retail giant Asda £1.22B

Project which included new SAP system saw delays and costs rise from an £800m estimate while causing financial disruptions

NETWORKS

Clingy Virgin Media fined £28M for refusing to take the hint

Ofcom: Telco encouraged staff to drop calls and put customers on hold for no reason when they wanted to cancel

SOFTWARE

Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ditches SharePoint while Bavaria also mulls Microsoft alternatives

software

Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs

Coalition says ICO failed to act despite hundreds of complaints about bug-plagued digital immigration status scheme

PUBLIC SECTOR

NHS told to show its working on Palantir platform benefits

Campaigners say ministers repeated claims about FDP despite an admission that the data does not prove cause and effect

AI's biggest challenge is not compute - it's data storage

SPONSORED FEATURE: As AI evolves from novelty to autonomy, the real bottleneck isn't processing power—it's where to put all that data.

Features

A glowing microchip with EU stars sits on a circuit board in a dark technological scene.

Systems

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies

Security

Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data

Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

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AI and ML

AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top

Inference is become a commodity except for frontier models

networks

Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids

With the low latency of WebRTC and the scalability of DASH

OS PLATFORMS

Microsoft intros tech that rebuilds dead PCs without requiring local copies of Windows

No USB stick required if your Win 11 box has a pulse and a network driver

cyber-crime

Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect

Along with other telemetry, Windows GDID makes online activity more traceable

ai and ml

Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay

Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away

Security

GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

Per usual, there's no fix – or even any documentation – for GitLost

AI AND ML

South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI invades European datacenters

RNGD accelerators land in Equinix's Lisbon DCs

security

CAI cloud worm gives competitors' malware the boot, then steals secrets and mines for coin

Dog-eat-dog world for credential-stealing attackers

SCIENCE

NASA calls time on CAPSTONE after four years of lunar orbit lessons

Advanced Space's privately owned probe will keep flying, but the agency's role is over

A plush penguin toy holds a small cardboard sign that says HELP.

software

New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead

Fed up with forgetting flags? Let Instagui read --help output and build a browser GUI instead

Security

Predatorgate snoopfest victims launch €8M sueball at spyware maker

Greek lawsuit comes as rights campaigners lobby the EU to take firmer stance on spyware abuses

Software

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle

ValueLicensing celebrates while Redmond considers next steps

Systems

EXPLORE SYSTEMS

Windows Open Source FOSS Linux Virtualization Storage

HP laptop showing the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar on screen.

SYSTEMS

Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU

Everyone else must opt out manually if they don't fancy settings data shipped off-device

SECURITY

Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking

Majority report AI-related security incidents or vulnerabilities

personal tech

DRAM prices are killing the cheap smartphone

Now eats 60% of a sub-$400 handset's bill of materials and it's only getting worse

Cybercrime

Fake IT bods on Microsoft Teams coax workers into installing malware

Unit 42 says attackers are posing as helpdesk staff and persuading employees to hand over remote control before dropping EtherRAT trojan

SECURITY

Spain collars alleged pro-Russia hacktivist after FBI tip-off

Palencia man suspected of links to CARR, Z-Pentest, and NoName057(16), plus helping a Ukrainian hacker flee to Russia

Security

Government's cyber pledge lands 60 signatories, including M&S and, somehow, Capita

Whitehall's latest attempt to boost corporate cyber hygiene has already produced a curious roll call

ai and ml

MPs tell Brit government: Sort out your tech sovereignty or get left out in the cold

Committee says Anthropic's brief US export ban shows UK can't even trust its allies to keep the AI lights on

PUBLIC SECTOR

Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract

New procurement could be worth £851M after previous Fujitsu award was scrapped

ON-PREM

UK guts planning red tape so datacenters can bypass the neighbors faster

Overhaul of process could give NIMBYs one year less to complain

Brussels shows how to remove friction from collaboration

SPONSORED FEATURE: Flemish Government explores the radical notion that meeting rooms should just work

personal tech

Broadcom and Apple extend custom silicon pact to 2031

Probably an extension of long-running iThing innards arrangement, not a new custom AI accelerator deal

systems

Samsung’s profits jump 19x in a year and you don’t need AI to figure out why

Share price down sharply, apparently amid fears the bubble is getting bigger

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systems

IBM teases new rackable mainframes that ‘complete’ the z17 family

UPDATED: Big Blue happy for users to BYO rack and slot Z machines alongside other tech

AI AND ML

AI startup that’s never turned a profit say's it'll totally be around in 2047 to close its $19B lease

Model dev and AGI fearmonger Anthropic signs 20-year lease with TeraWulf

Science

Boffins bet on quantum computers, AI supers to solve fusion fuel dilemma

Department of Energy, Cleveland Clinic, and IBM simulate a soup of molten salts and techno babble in pursuit of tritium

AI and ML

Software engineers can still rake in big bucks by working for fast-growing companies

AI's impact on tech business is complicated

systems

Madlad builds homebrew GPU using 8,192 RISC-V chips

The next version will have 32,000 MCUs

DEVOPS

GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues

A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself

security

EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP

Campaigners demand investigation and long-delayed action on PEGA Committee recommendations

ON-PREM

Samsung floats 2028 launch for seaborne datacenter

Korean megacorp sets itself a target date to commercialize watery server farm concept

software

Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams

Despite sharing a similar form factor to Nvidia's DGX Spark, AMD has gone for a very different aesthetic.

AI and ML

AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo makes local AI look easy, but at $4K, easy doesn't come cheap

128 GB of memory! In this economy?

personal tech

Europe's new import rules are coming for your bargains

Good news if you're an OEM printer maker, EU retail biz, or a customs official... but hobbyists and others less pleased

ai and ml

Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

Oracle's down more than 40% this month, the BIS thinks AI could destroy the economy, and we've got the Kettle on for a chat about the whole mess

* FOSS

APPLICATIONS

Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up

Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default

Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form

Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK

Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'

More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too

France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well

Nextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another

Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS

Blocks & Files | STORAGE

DevClass | ENGINEERING

security

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

Up to 150 more stores to get the 'Orwellian' tech by year's end

Security

Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert

ShinyHunters leaks names, addresses, DOBs, and more after Christian college discloses cyberattack

OS PLATFORMS

Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool

Modula-based source code resurfaces after nearly four decades

columnists

Insert token to continue, says AI. Yeah, about that...

Barney Rubble points to bubble trouble

SOftware

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

Who wrote this rubbish? Oh ...

Science

Japan’s asteroid sample retriever rapidly buzzes remote space rock

Zipped just 800m past Asteroid Torifune as part of very extended mission - and sent back a pic, too

OS PLatforms

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

SCO's legal successor Xinuos asks legal brains to let it bite IBM over ancient license and copyright claims

legal

EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account

PLUS: India attacks Uber; South Korea warned AI boom is dangerous; Scuba-diving cyborg cockroach; and more!

Security

MFA-optional banks leave safe doors (and accounts) wide open for thieves to pillage

Financial institutions are putting their clients at risk in the name of convenience.

OFFBEAT

C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

Prepare to be befuddled and bamboozled – and probably bewitched

SECURITY

Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist

Attested TLS: the handshake that can't prove who's on the other end

science

NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year

There might also be a downside

Partner Content

Close-up of green RAM memory modules arranged in a pile

don't miss

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 components

personal tech

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets

NETWORKS

Amazon Leo constellation nears 400 satellites as broadband launch looms

Online emporium's Starlink rival says it will start service later this year as another 29 birds reach orbit

Security

AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data

Third-party contractor compromise exposed health information and insurance billing passwords

systems

Startup targets datacenters with 3D-printed nuclear reactor module

Fancy a thorium microreactor capable of delivering up to 30 MWe of juice for up to 30 years?

Security

NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet

Other residential proxy brands may rely on the same network

AI AND ML

AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

KPMG finds nearly a third of execs struggle to understand costs as companies rethink deployments

ON-PREM

EU appears to find datacenter emissions easier to offset than lobbyists

Report says proposed rewrite gives operators more freedom to shop around for a greener grade

On Call

Black-and-white portrait of a person in sunglasses with hands on their face against a plain background.

security

Security boss thought MFA would be too much security

Personal tech

Users claimed they'd never seen a spell checker and panicked at the sight of red squiggles

Personal Tech

This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

Offbeat

Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes

Bulletproof vests and armored vehicles were not in the job description

Networks

Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner

Software

Marketing demanded IT add website feature that was already working

Systems

On-call techie decided job was done and hit the bottle – just before his pager went off

On-Prem

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

AI Companies

AI AND ML

Google wants AI regulation, but on its own terms

Surely, we can have rules that allow us to continue doing what we're doing

Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker

The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack

Anthropic's Mythos mess just keeps getting more complicated

It sure seems like the Trump administration is just bullying Anthropic for not acquiescing to its every move, and it's the cybersecurity community who'll suffer for it

Google explains how it will infuse ads into AI answers

Just like in The Truman Show

Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy

Chocolate Factory readies always-on agents for searchers

Smelly config files will make your agents waste tokens, researchers warn

Researchers urge developers to see that less is more when it comes to instructions

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 paper

DATABASES

Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy

LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch

personal tech

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC

Maybe they were looking for Private Data

Software

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track

A final humiliation for Australia’s Securities Exchange and its attempts to run a bourse on distributed ledgers

OFF-PREM

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts

In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical

SPONSORED FEATURE: ZTE unveils 2025 milestones

Cybercrime

Dev says Google warned him about account hijack – then charged him $11,000 anyway

Left hand, meet right hand

LEGAL

Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage

MeetingTV wants to see the evidence

AI and ML

Nvidia floats double-dipping datacenter financing scheme

What's better than getting paid once? Getting paid twice of course

AI and ML

Companies that add more AI also add more people

But doing so doesn't necessarily meet business needs

Security

Smooth AI criminal drives 'first' end-to-end agentic ransomware attack

Don't count on the LLM to return your data - even if you pay up

ai and ml

SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training

Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building

software

Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery

Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard

Infosec

software

Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings

Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in

security

India’s central bank mandated use of .bank domains to enhance trust – but its registry leaked sensitive info

Open API could reveal everything an attacker needs to impersonate bank officials

AI and ML

Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection

If you want a picture of the future of LLM security, imagine Whac-a-Mole meets Groundhog Day

SECURITY

Four years into Ukraine invasion, Russia turns influence-ops back to US and Europe

Not today, Putin

Anonymous researcher drops 0-day 'exploitarium' repo

At least two vulnerabilities are already under attack

Explore Security

CISO Identity Authentication Zero Trust Governance Encryption End Point Protection Advanced persistent threat Incident Phishing Ransomware Malware Spyware Hijack Trojan Breach Password

security

AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidity

You don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy

SECURITY

Microsoft keeps Windows Server 2022 hotpatching alive into 2027

In the Azure Edition, of course

Security

Nissan says Oracle PeopleSoft break-in may have spilled payroll records, SSNs

Carmaker points finger at an 'unknown' flaw as customer fallout continues

MORE INFOSEC

AI AND ML

SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI

Enterprise software giant confirms it's 'applying discipline' when it comes to jobs and business trips as it tries to keep pace

security

Ctrl+Alt+Oops: FortiBleed criminal's logins stitch two gangs together

Researchers scoured logs, finding opsec fail for at least one person who was working with INC and Lynx simultaneously

security

Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list

Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers

security

Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health data

Company that also makes insulin pumps and other devices tells users what was exposed months after ShinyHunters attack

Security

India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears

Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators

cyber-crime

Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released

Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch

offbeat

Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer

Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error

ai and ml

UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse

Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues

Security

Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access

Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network

legal

Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore

Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house

AI AND ML

New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch

They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support

ai and ml

Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI

Off Prem

Off-PREM

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!

OFF-PREM

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 source

off prem

Google, Canonical team up to certify Ubuntu images for TPU VMs

Chocolate Factory shifts Tensor Processing Unit Ubuntu support back upstream

Arm moves into the heart of the cloud stack

SPONSORED POST: Hyperscaler adoption and AI workloads are accelerating multi-architecture infrastructure

off-Prem

Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators

Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.

Explore Off Prem

Systems Storage Networks HPC CPU GPU Compute Infrastructure

Off-prem

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 platforms

Off-Prem

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 hot

Off-Prem

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 outfit

MORE OFF PREM

CYBER-CRIME

EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought

It's a 'complete BEC operations environment,' Talos researcher says

DEVOPS

Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy

Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity

ai and ml

Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors

Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system

AI and ML

Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions

'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'

Security

Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied

'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg

science

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time

SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world

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AI AND ML

AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models

Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough

RESEARCH

Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding

People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust

offbeat

NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight

Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule

os platforms

Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form

Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait

AI + ML

Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages

Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...

personal tech

DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites

AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside

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Networks

NETWORKS

Rocket Lab buys its way into the satellite big league with $8B Iridium deal

SpaceX gains a vertically integrated rival as launch specialist adds global comms network

networks

Microsoft to assist European Commission in defense of EU-US data-sharing agreement

Networks

BT and Verizon spin off international networking arms into $4B joint venture

networks

End of era as the BBC switches off Radio 4 Long Wave service

networks

Malaysia ponders regulating management of IP addresses

Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills

But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back

NETWORKS

Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger

Liberty Global, Telefónica, and InfraVia have grand designs on the UK fiber market

PERSONAL TECH

Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price

Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets

Offbeat

Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands

It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix

public sector

UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies

Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls

os platforms

Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion

Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?

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AI and ML

Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care

We’ve learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let’s level that up with added AI, says minister

Legal

Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys

Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program

virtualization

T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out

ai and ml

Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out

Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist

SYSTEMS

Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM

With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall

AI and ML

Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show

SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings

security

Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools

29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are

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Security

Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe

Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'

offbeat

Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great

61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead

ai and ml

AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution

DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg

virtualization

Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows

Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications

Personal Tech

Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish

Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don’t want it

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Science

science

Large Hadron Collider goes offline to make room for its enhanced successor

The High-Luminosity LHC will be mostly the same machine, but it'll deliver 10 times the luminosity and just as little chance of destroying the universe - sorry, conspiracy theorists

SCIENCE

Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light

science

Trump-shuttered climate change site back online in nonprofit hands

Remove something from the internet? You can't stop the (climate change) signal, Mal

offbeat

They've read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

'Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them,' reads a scroll virtually unwrapped with the help of AI

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Memory makers are slaves to the boom-bust rollercoaster, and the AI boom is the wildest ride of all

It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls

AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful

OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head

Capita hears demand for pension scheme cleanup 'loud and clear' – but won't say yes

User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap

Meta admits its first ‘superintelligence’ was too stupid to survive for three days

Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed

Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told

AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

EU puts 'addictive' design of Facebook, Instagram under the DSA microscope

Fashion mart Miinto unzips breach details, warns shoppers to watch for phisherfolk

Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland – if you want it

Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients' data

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand

Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year

Red Hat offers RHEL support ‘forever’ for those who need to lock in to legacy tech

Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays

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Even banks and hyperscalers are now sounding the alarm about the AI bubble

C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability

Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle

GitHub AI agent leaks private repos when asked nicely

Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades

Columnists

Telling internet platforms where to stick public service media will serve nobody. Turn it on its head

Lessons from the VMwars – nothing virtual about the Broadcom vs Tesco slugfest

Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck

Developers build the best tools for developers – and are now defanging the AI menace

Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'

Yes! It's true! Windows 11 is an agentic platform

AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand

EU's digital sovereignty boo-boo may be the best thing to ever happen to the project

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

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AI slop writing has taken over the internet, particularly LinkedIn and X

AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter

OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up

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Outlook for Mac bug makes font choice a purely decorative feature

EU 'Chat Control' snoopfest returns after vote to kill it falls short

KDE Plasma users face a dire omen of change: 6.6.6 arrives

Brown says AI make student brain no work good, teacher should help use it better

UK.gov withholds £10M payment from Capita over pensions project fiasco, as dispute continues

Microsoft closes book on Nightmare Eclipse's RoguePlanet zero-day

Speedier type checks in TypeScript 7.0 as first stable Go release ships

Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

Microsoft to switch off OWA Light after nearly two decades

MPs tell NHS to start packing Palantir's bags ahead of 2027 contract break

Accenture admits to 'isolated matter' after crook tries to flog alleged 35GB haul

Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support – and gets Rustier

Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best

Scientist models way to make sure no one's violating the ban on nuclear weapons in space

Thief posed as Wi-Fi fixing hero, then stole priceless trophy

New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek thinks AI is going to pay off

Microsoft shifts to annual exchange rate price revision for cloudy products

OpenAI makes ChatGPT better at banter

The AI that spawned MechaHitler and deepfake porn puts on a suit to become legal advisor and Excel jockey

Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers

Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks

Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding

OpenAI job listing suggests ChatGPT could someday replace junior analysts at Goldman Sachs

GitHub Copilot: Sorry Dave, I can't do that harmful thing - unless you ask me in code

Allstate Insurance quits Broadcom, alleges vengeful license audit on the way out

AI memory crunch takes a bite out of PC shipments

Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human

Police intercept tipsy teens after Waymo snitches for shooting Orbeez out of the car

Bug in top AI coding agents shows that Unix-era security headaches never really die

China tells devs to ditch Claude Code over 'backdoor code' fears

Ex-NASA boss points out small flaw in Moon landing plan: No lander

Unexpected Windows bloat is due to bug, not by design

Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down