Feed the-register www.theregister.com - Articles

www.theregister.com - Articles

Link https://www.theregister.com/
Feed http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom
Updated 2026-08-27 22:16
Cyborg cockroaches may soon deliver life-saving drugs to disaster victims
Just what you want crawling through the rubble to rescue you: A swarm of remote-controlled cockroaches with syringe-shooting guns strapped to their backs
Police investigating possible forgery at AFRINIC election
The regional internet registry is also trying to make it easier to terminate members
AI girlfriend review site's secrets were exposed to the world for three weeks
Even testing and staging sites need protection from prying eyes
Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages
No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage
Omarchy distro gains serious backing
Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M
Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code
Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box
ATF responds to 'major' cybersecurity incident after ransomware gang's claims
US Justice Department investigating the breach
Schrödinger's backup: not actually recovered until you try to restore IT
SPONSORED FEATURE: Verify and survive: your backup isn't real 'til you test it
Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of)
Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee
Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more'
As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized
Cybercrooks jet off with Manchester Airports Group customer data
UK's largest airport operator believes 8.7 million customers affected
HP has a solution to expensive AI tokens: Buy a more expensive PC
Rising cloud AI costs are pushing workloads onto pricier PCs - which just happen to be better for PC maker's margins
Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities
Nuisance-call blocker fined £190k for being a nuisance caller
Elderly Aids made 758,000 unwanted calls a year selling gear to stop unwanted calls
Want to lead Whitehall's AI strategy? AI experience is not essential
Track record is merely desirable for the person tasked with shaping UK.gov's skills blueprint for 550,000 civil servants
AROS, the FOSS recreation of AmigaOS, comes to Raspberry Pi
Plus: new official Amiga-branded hardware is coming
Check out the width of that Debian display
Somebody might be aware, but does anyone care?
AI use among UK teachers doubles, but working hours still don't come down
F- for AI in test of reducing burden of teacher workload
You could own AI.slop, if applicant for new global top-level domains get their way
Resistance is futile: .borg is on the list, along with .itiswhatitis, .therapy, and.hype. If that's scary, might a cup of .tea help?
Nutanix built $20m AI cluster to reduce use of Copilot and Claude, expects ROI in a year
Also thinks Arm can give it a hand on the edge during RAMpocalypse
FBI seizes hacking tools it says China used to attack NASA, DOE, US Senate and other critical networks
Beijing's botnets busted.
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'
Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads
Faster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet
Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-dns, IPVS, and cgroup v1
K8s 1.37 also unsticks a Metrics API that has been lodged in beta status for nine years
Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount
Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'
GitHub Actions was down yet again
Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case
Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job
Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too
Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND
Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack
No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed
One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027
SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?
Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension
Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database
Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company
Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist
AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work
Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast
Plans to break ground in 2027, produce own propellent, power in 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 orbit
Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR
Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers
Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...
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
12345678910...