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Updated 2026-09-25 20:31
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall
Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast
New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x
Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
Data theft and extortion biz, that is
Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah
Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 2028
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
Familiar fingerprints point to Kim's regime ... to the surprise of nobody
Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug
But was the update at fault? Microsoft isn't saying
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.
Raspberry Pi surfs memory crunch to record first half
A well-timed RAM stockpile helped keep boards shipping while rivals struggled for memory
Windows update leaves some virtual desktops staring into the void
Users may need to summon Explorer manually after signing in
Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels
Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire
Asahi fork embraces LLMs and lands Linux on the M4 Mac mini
Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks
Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory
High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch
BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting
Putting the 'om' in computing
Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked
Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers
DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!
Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation
Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.
UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters
Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames
Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud
PARTNER CONTENT: Huawei Cloud strengthens the silicon bedrock on the cloud
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it
Malicious compliance crosses cultural barriers
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’
The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent
2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop
Desktop AMIs designed to behave as much like Windows as possible' now available as an on ramp for new users
Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter
Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs
Operator's AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan
Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week
Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit
F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown
The Chocolate Factory is tightening the screws on Android sideloading, but the FOSS app market is rolling out a huge overhaul and planning for the future
Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real
With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length
Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing
'SalesBleed' security flaws 'lead to very unexpected consequences'
Meta's new AI fidget is a ... Tamagotchi?
We hope Zuck's Muse Charm doesn't die if you neglect it
Decades-old file security flaws found in Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows
Security researchers report that Microsoft considers the side-channel leak of file events to be by design
iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance
CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle
AI-assisted bug hunting is helping pile up vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them, so Canonical is picking up the pace
AI boom could wipe 230 million budget phones a year from the market
Sub-$200 shipments forecast to shrink 40% by 2030 as component costs climb
Someone went shopping in ASUS's eShop – for customer data
Contact details and order records accessed, but PC maker is keeping schtum on how many customers are affected
Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public
Matt Rosoff chairs a Register roundtable with HPE and NVIDIA on data sovereignty in the AIera, off the record, in Washington
Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze
A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem
DoJ: Uncle Sam bought forensics software from same Russian operation supplying FSB
Russian devs alleged to have built tools for US agencies as software from same op was sold to Moscow's security services
Google to critical infra orgs: Our AI scanners won't be evil, promise
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and Wiz's Red Agent team up to protect hospitals, public transit, and tech
City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues
Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger
Meta ads steered Polish Android users into a premium-rate billing trap
CERT Polska linked 852 promotions to 17 Google Play apps capable of sending costly texts or starting recurring subscriptions
HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app
Customers say the unannounced change also cut off web access that relied on mobile authentication
For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over
Its vector search is ready, but coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases, says the foundation's chairman
Experts question whether Salesforce demo breaches SAP API policy
For the German vendor, greater challenges may lie ahead, as rivals seek to control the user experience
Government contractor exposed path to immigration records
IT took a shortcut when the boss was away, and it led to danger!
Europe’s internet registry wants governance ‘correction’ because its ‘Executive Board’ is not the executive
RIPE NCC hopes members get aboard effort to tidy things up and give its CEO a vote
India’s outsourced software industry grows 9.5 percent to reach $239 billion
Software product development industry shrinks a little, but if AI has dented prospects, it's not in these numbers
OpenAI's Astra model went for a drive and no one died
First LLM to pass test did it in a parking lot at snail's pace, at considerable expense, but it still counts for something
OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’
Canberra is fuming after AI lab sent the news to a generic unattended email address
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