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Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw

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

New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English

Jaydip Modhwadia beats challenge designed to test real-world exploitability of PHP2Shell in around 3 hours

Claude maker reveals financials and warns investors its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or go rogue

EVENT: The Register's Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA is this Thursday. The table is nearly set.

Atmospheric drag brings an extraordinarily long-lived mission to a close

The Magnificent Seven are galloping off with the profits, while the rest of the S&P 500 see no benefit, claims Apollo

What better way to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month than warning that three-quarters of the web is about to be set on fire?

Charity confirms slew of security improvements as it waits for UK.gov's go-ahead

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

Battery replacement gets the thumbs up, but it all hinges on dust. A conventional phone might be better bet for home repairers

Whitehall wants agents guarding critical infrastructure as part of a wider 600M spending spree

Aiven hopes to do for LLMs what it does for databases

Keeping secrets is difficult in an open world, but we've done it before and must do it again

Techies tiptoed around server to keep it working as company sank

Advertises for someone to own cost-effective alternative virtualisation platform'

PLUS: Regional internet registry reform nears; Trustworthy-sounding domains attract scammers

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!

Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments

Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?

Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval

Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby

We've totally got things under control

Bad things (and software bugs?) come in threes

Monitoring was only partial and was easily bypassed

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

Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack

No new accounts from now, and the end will come in December

Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux

$99 replacement opens old .pub files on Windows and macOS, without a subscription

Watchdog also warns retiring Falcon and Dragon could leave US access to orbit short of a backup

Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good

You know what's really sick? Getting to the pub on time on a Friday

Whitehall wants tougher penalties and new powers over telecoms operators as Russian activity raises alarm

Classic arcade game put to shame by judgemental Bugdroid

Four projects for facilitating AI agents move under vendor-neutral governance

Catching lightning in a tech support bottle

Adversaries are clearly spending time (and tokens) on this bug," researcher says.

Not to kill the human, of course - to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection

No actual digits or cats were harmed beyond the number crunching that went into this LLM poisoning experiment

Vendor 'strongly recommends' upgrading to a fixed version 'as soon as possible'

We didn't want to issue SSL/TLS certs anyway, Indian firm suggests after one private key turns out to be the number 4

Ministers report 32 unavailable and four partly disrupted, but no confirmed compromise

Apple log jam? Apple fast lane pie-lup? We're here all week, on stage... sweeping it

SPONSORED FEATURE: AI makes phishing easier than ever

For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century

GPU chief doesn't want to hear about job losses or the end of human civilization

Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon spotted attackers trying their luck four days before patches landed

AI agents did the dirty work, with hackers gaining privileged access in some environments in under three hours