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Updated 2026-10-27 14:48
CISA confirms PHP2Shell under attack as researchers clock successful exploits
Both critical PHP flaws land on the agency's exploited list as infosec pros confirm hackers are getting working shells
A whopping 3% of boardroom execs spy productivity and costs savings from AI
A load more are spending more than they expected and forecast to shell out even more in 2027
Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation
Admits a 'small number' of iPhone Duos have display problems, and no, you're not folding it wrong.
When file infrastructure becomes the bottleneck
Legacy NAS, VPNs, and file-sync workflows leave hidden costs in their wake. Is the way your organization manages files still fit for purpose?
Microsoft releases out-of-band Windows fixes with certificate updates
Did you hear the one about eMudhra and the power of 4? Time to get connected to certificate trust list updates
Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts
Alternative fur Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche
UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups
Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones
FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases
Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions
Year of Linux on the Beach confirmed
Don't forget to keep code up to date. Even with a cold beverage in hand
How everyday technology choices drive true workplace sustainability
SPONSORED FEATURE: Introducing certified, environmentally friendly meeting room solutions, such as Barco ClickShare, in a standardized way across the organization can make the difference between hitting sustainability goals or not
Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel
They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action
IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job
Promises to build IBM Z Atlas' tool that will tidy up messy big iron and enable AIOps
Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned
CEO admits service used for foreign exchange trading had holes company was slow to fix
Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists
It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all
OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra
Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price
Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search
Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China
But there's not much evidence this is anything more than echoes of unsanitized training data
LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key
A 'strong illustration of the risks associated with failing to rotate a potentially exposed key'
Microsoft offers parachutes to 60k employees if they jump by the end of the year
Voluntary exit offer extended to about one-quarter of existing Softies
Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug
Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw
Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Lego bricks
Every key is its own module, and its designer tells us the sky's the theoretical limit on the size of the frankenboard you can build
Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure
New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English
UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest
Jaydip Modhwadia beats challenge designed to test real-world exploitability of PHP2Shell in around 3 hours
Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing
Claude maker reveals financials and warns investors its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or go rogue
Last call for <span data-lab-italic_desktop="italic" class="italic m-italic">The Register</span>’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington
EVENT: The Register's Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA is this Thursday. The table is nearly set.
Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry
Atmospheric drag brings an extraordinarily long-lived mission to a close
Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big Tech
The Magnificent Seven are galloping off with the profits, while the rest of the S&P 500 see no benefit, claims Apollo
We shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse, as the internet is built on sticks and glue
What better way to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month than warning that three-quarters of the web is about to be set on fire?
UK Biobank back online soon, months after someone tried to sell 500k people's data on Alibaba
Charity confirms slew of security improvements as it waits for UK.gov's go-ahead
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall
SRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors
iFixit dismantles Apple's Duo: 'You'd better baby that screen'
Battery replacement gets the thumbs up, but it all hinges on dust. A conventional phone might be better bet for home repairers
Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create
Whitehall wants agents guarding critical infrastructure as part of a wider 600M spending spree
Euro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills
Aiven hopes to do for LLMs what it does for databases
PHP2Shell is a warning shot for vulnerability disclosure
Keeping secrets is difficult in an open world, but we've done it before and must do it again
'Let's just shove a bigger fan in there and see what happens'
Techies tiptoed around server to keep it working as company sank
Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge
Advertises for someone to own cost-effective alternative virtualisation platform'
Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up
PLUS: Regional internet registry reform nears; Trustworthy-sounding domains attract scammers
After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling
PLUS: AI datacenter bubble wobbles in Australia; E-commerce app suggests it can detect diseases; India's top telco to IPO amid investor frenzy; and more!
Want to build a UK datacenter? Please hold while Whitehall transfers you
Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments
<span data-lab-italic_desktop="italic" class="italic m-italic">Reg</span> readers land on 'Binface' as name for UK space cleanup mission
Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?
Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds
Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval
Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it
Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby
OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa
We've totally got things under control
There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix
Bad things (and software bugs?) come in threes
Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack
Monitoring was only partial and was easily bypassed
AI models describe humans as a bunch of amoral sheep
Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found
Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents
Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack
Arc browser on its way out as makers suggest an alternative
No new accounts from now, and the end will come in December
SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive
Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux
PubKeep picks up where Microsoft Publisher signs off
$99 replacement opens old .pub files on Windows and macOS, without a subscription
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