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Updated 2026-07-21 22:45
Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI
Don't call them chatbots
AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep
Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too
Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises
Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI
Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement
Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain
Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing
If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?
Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA
Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar
AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert
Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon
LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware
Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for
UK.gov's tech department gets the chop after two years
RIP DSIT: Digital transformation duties shuffle off to reborn DCMS, with GDS along for the ride
Valve's Steam Frame pushes Arch Linux toward official Arm64 support
Collabora's Holo Core port lays the groundwork for running SteamOS 3 natively on the headset
Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago
And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't
Scalding hot AI accelerators have put datacenters in hot water. Two-phase cooling could chill them out
Startup Accelsius claims it can achieve up to 14 C cooler GPU temps by by converting a liquid-cooled Dell PowerEdge to run on refrigerants
Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party
SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Orebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
Judgment day looms for UK's £8.35B Skynet military satellite comms upgrade
Supplier stumbles and MoD staffing shortages earn the program a red delivery rating
Europe slaps AliExpress with €550 million fine for selling dodgy goods
Biggest-ever DSA fine shows Brussels wants to bust the biz model behind China's cheap e-commerce champs
Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
Single datacenter and just three services taken down by upstream' power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming
OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape hypervisor bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn't seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime
Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief
Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake
AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical
An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy
Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents
Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged
The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash
OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly
Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign
Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home
Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain
Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory
EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month
Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who - or what - users are talking to
Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball
On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire - literally
Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online
HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details
Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs
With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all
UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme
One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities
Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red
Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?
Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings
Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector
High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required
Worries about prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node'
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work
AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner
Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker
Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!
Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius
Connect all the things and watch what happens
Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something
Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell
Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage
Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over
NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD
New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code
Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly
And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close
Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month
22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting
Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters
Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'
More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 - in Rust
Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room
Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026
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