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Updated 2026-06-06 06:00
Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY
The bill awaits Gov. Hochul's signature after passing the state legislature
If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks
When 'Chatty Spider' morphs into tech services cosplay spider
Yet another Cisco SD-WAN 0-day under attack, and no patch in sight
Good luck, sys admins
Serious ISS air leak forces NASA astronauts to temporarily take shelter in Dragon capsule
Business is back to normal in the orbital station, but one of two newly discovered leaks is still unrepaired
Trump pumps federal funds into coal plants in the name of energy security
DoE wants to keep 13 coal-fired power generators going at the same time as funding nuclear research
ZTE showcases AI-driven project management innovations at the 14th IPMA Research Conference 2026
PARTNER CONTENT: Integrating AI into the iEPMS platform to achieve a 98% quality review accuracy rate and slash report generation times, leveraging experience from 240,000 global projects
China Mobile Jiangsu and ZTE unveil intelligent complaint analysis agent to reshape core network O&M
PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging multi-modal LLMs and agent technology to automate signaling analysis and shift core network O&M from experience to knowledge-driven
Agentic AI hype races ahead as enterprises remain stuck in pilot mode
Most orgs remain trapped between flashy demos and real-world deployment, despite 75% saying adoption is racing ahead
Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS
SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS
World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families
Those receiving aid in the famine-threatened, war-torn territory told support will remain
Gigabyte packs 40 Intel Lunar Lake PCs in a pizza box
Who needs one big CPU when you could have dozens of little ones?
Raspberry Pi's profits are up. So is its DRAM bill
Forecasts earnings well ahead of expectations, even as it taps credit facilities to lock in memory supply
Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals
Cost model designed to protect against low-cost bid bias, claims rival
Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder
Blue Badge holders exposed to each other after BCC function proves too complex
UK's top crime agency hamstrung by legacy IT, watchdog warns
Regulator says NCA's aging tech drags down productivity, forces officers to juggle hardware and do manual workarounds
Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class
Comms watchdog says up to 83% of tests fail the 'good performance' threshold
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
'It would be good for the world' to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says
The plea for caution comes the same week it beat AI archrival OpenAI to filing for an IPO
Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds
A familiar tactic popularized by chaotic crime crew Lapsus$
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots
Another ally questions reliance on American AI
OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds
Codex drops an HTTP/2 Bomb
AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons
Scientists and industry leaders push for mandatory DNA synthesis screening
Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault
Tech biz teaching AI to use computers by slurping staff activity
AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow
Intel still owns the room, but Epyc keeps nicking the furniture
'Please do not vibe f--- up this software': Broken backups spark AI coding row in rsync project
Users probe backup failures find Claude-assisted commits. Veteran engineer retorts: "I did not just vibe-code 'convert test suite to python'."
Intel's mysterious new datacenter GPU is what Nvidia's Rubin CPX nearly was
Nvidia's prefill accelerator was shelved, but Chipzilla's Crescent Island could fill the void
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records
Pips Accenture and NEC to bag decade-long deal for cops across England, Wales, and beyond
Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets
Cash-for-intel tradecraft continues to concern intelligence officials years after it was first spotted
Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k
Fresh penalties secured after initial prison, community service sentences for RAC double act
GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe
Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services
UK tax collector hands Capgemini £600M contact center deal, delays start of £2.4B CRM contract
Another monster tech contract in the works for one of the usual suspects
Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine
'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg
All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields
It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information
Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state
Those backup plans need backup testing
Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech
It's hard to stop a signal jammer if you can't locate the source, say Rice University researchers
Grep this: Microsoft grafts (most) Linux commands onto Windows
Coreutils serves over 75 Unix commands in Windows and PowerShell command lines
Ring gets buzzed by class action for collecting visitors' faces without consent
The latest in a series of raised eyebrows over Familiar Faces and other AI ventures
No longer just a Copilot, Microsoft's AI wants to take the wheel
Always-on agent promises to keep work moving, provided you trust it with practically everything
Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node
CFO Zinsner insists the troubled node was a one-off as 14A stays on track
Don’t repeat 5G mistakes with 6G, plead mobile operators
NGMN wants a clear migration path before next-gen network rollouts begin
The tech that could make Marvell the next trillion dollar company
CU later, rivals? That's if Broadzilla doesn't eat its lunch first
AI agents can now manipulate your organization. Are you ready?
SPONSORED POST: Agents with hands require a hands-on policy
Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures
Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse's footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks
Microsoft Build: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, Coreutils for Windows, air-gapped GitHub and more
Execution Containers provide safe environment for running AI agents, while Windows Developer Config aims to make Windows less unpleasant for developers
Listen up, England. The Health Secretary is going to be data controller for everyone's Single Patient Record
No, public bucket policy doesn't mean everyone gets a bucket for themselves. Please let Tech do it. Don't go into Settings... NOOOOOO!
Citation, please! UK regulator slaps Google with new publishing rules for search
Action follows Chocolate Factory's changes to AI search results
UK banks offered access to OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 amid exclusion from Anthropic’s Glasswing expansion
150 new organizations inducted to cyber's Soho House, including the first outside the US
ZTE and partners nurture global ICT talent through 2026 engineering capacity building program
Global ICT experts gather in Shenzhen to master cutting-edge engineering practices and foster international collaboration
Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls
Web publishing giant remains dominant, but 6 straight months of decline suggest era of uninterrupted growth may be over
UK lawmakers call on government to ditch Palantir NHS contract
Lock-in to a small number of suppliers holding up digital government plans, committee says
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