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Updated 2026-08-26 09:45
Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose
Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces
Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown
French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model
India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets
A space station by 2035 is ISRO's new mission
Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over
Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through
Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action
Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud
Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough
Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful
Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis
The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal
Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you
Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now
McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'
Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat
EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters
State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits
You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack
Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert
Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing
Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade
Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop
OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots
US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor
Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineer's plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled
OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast
128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago
So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it
SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter
Rack-mount system intended for software porting, workload optimization, to bring open standard to the bitbarn
Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update
Summer in Redmond, Winter for everyone else
CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw
Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it's finally time for the USG to plug the gap
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor
Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck
Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads
Sponsored search results lead developers straight into a ClickFix malware trap
HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp
Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era
What is virtualization modernization?
SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio
Australia’s record industry won’t chart tunes recorded in the key of AI
This is basically a riff on You wouldn't steal a car' and means only the human league can have a hit
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
And fly significant scale' in 2028 - a claim that isn't entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently
Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere
Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds
Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services
You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine
Its own command language, 23 instructions - signs point to 'well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one'
Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks
Glassbox dev admits he had some help from Claude to build locally running tool
Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg
Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work
Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today
The version that started to bring all Microsoft's pieces together
YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs
Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant
No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg
Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds
Complaint: Peripheral maker did not want to unplug itself from higher prices and hand back cash to customers
Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks
Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot
The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble
Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles
At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 2027
Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain
Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side
ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach
Attackers took a look at an employee's identity dashboard, but security firm says that's as far as they got
Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric
Gartner reckons $1.6 trillion year is just the start, and don't expect a bust anytime soon
I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg
Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones
Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered
US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years
... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping
$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack
Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in
AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows
Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia's GPUs in the datacenter
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia
Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI
Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring
Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight
Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified launch requirements'
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