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Updated 2026-08-19 20:01
Epic Games dismisses Apple's simplified EU App Store fees as 'junk'
Consumer group sees improvements on paper but warns the devil remains in the detail
Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate
CEO apologizes for police misuse as activists call for vandal action against license plate cameras
More than half of Americans now view AI negatively
Concern continues to climb for adults under 30, as people fear being replaced by AI
ISS spacewalkers discover there's no such thing as a quick antenna job
Astronauts removed broken hardware but will have to return for more orbital DIY
Comcast gives its Wi-Fi motion detector a security makeover
Rebranded feature promises household alerts without video, but mind the small print
Postgres pioneer credits Oracle with helping his database take over the world
Big Red's acquisition of MySQL sent users running toward the open source alternative, says Michael Stonebraker
GitHub blames 8-hour outage on autoscaling fail and VS Code retry storm
Load balancers buckled after a monitoring blind spot allowed traffic to spiral
Scotland's AI Growth Zone gets a wee £300M power-up
DataVita secures funding to expand datacenter capacity, while Dell brings some desks
SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims
Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle
Raspberry Pi gets jiggy with batch CM5 provisioning
Clamp, flash, repeat - no separate IO board or host computer required
UK taxman discovers low code doesn't mean low cost with £657M awards
Those legacy systems won't fix themselves
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon
As the latest Starship finds its way to an obscure part of Australia, for observations
Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues
It seems like Nvidia's not getting back into the Middle Kingdom anytime soon
Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator
Unknown parties know where you stayed last summer, down under, across 120 Quest properties
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance
Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack
OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security
Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive
Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments
Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again
Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data: Study
Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, dev survey shows
CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug
Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks
Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse
Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro
Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70
Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online
Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu
Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory
Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself
How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine
Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions
Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is
Passport out-of-control at French airport
Papers please. Windows is watching
Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment
Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails
Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact
AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find
Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data
UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7%
Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
If you're still talking about DirSync' or Active Directory' instead of Entra', and need to explain why, this is the site for you
Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains
Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore
Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations
Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration
Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks
Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit
An AI broke Snowflake's code. Then another AI agent exploited it
Don't worry, this one was via a bug bounty program
Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS
Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate
Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers
After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers
Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release
Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC
Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures
Initial 31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak
Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028
Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants
McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await
With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that
Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too
On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie
Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?
Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support
Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive
Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do
Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'
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