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Updated 2026-10-16 10:16
Thief snatches school snapper's SD cards in smash & grab
UK school admits data protection bungle as children's data at risk
Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work
Migration targets, security rules, and management metrics take center stage at this year's event
User refused to change her password because everyone already knew it
School staff seemed to be trying to get ransomware - for a second time
Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub
Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform
Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters
Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents
Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before French supermarkets got hit
They tried to sound the alarm in August
$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust
Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast
YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays
Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today
Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices
AI's appetite for components hammers budget handsets, with analysts seeing little relief before 2028
Workday wants a slice of customers' labour budget that its AI agents could replace
CEO eyes usage-based billing as automation pushes HR software vendor beyond traditional IT spending
TinyLittleOffice, where the link is the document
For those times when a full-fat editor is overkill
KDE hits 30, decides it's time to move out of the X11 era
Wayland-only Plasma 6.8 heads for Kubuntu 'Tenacious T-Rex' early next year
When faster supercomputers aren’t enough
PARTNER CONTENT: A million reasons why advanced computing matters for genomics
Spyware vendors found a way to make targeted ads even worse
Israeli adtech outfit allegedly helped spyware vendors infect phones while enjoying Google's seal of approval
Bank of America had to bring in 1,000 contractors to patch all the bugs Mythos identified
CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today
TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver
Silicon giant budgets up to $64B for expansion while keeping an eye on construction progress and power supplies
X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms
Platform points to Iran, Russia, and China but provides no public evidence for attribution
Rocket Lab pushes back first Neutron launch to 2027
Carbon composite woes cause another delay for Peter Beck's Hungry Hippo
OpenAI claims 100-plus secret files followed ex-employee back to Apple
ChatGPT maker turns tables in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, claiming confidential hardware plans made their way back to Cupertino
Legal Aid Agency hackers made off with records dating back to 1978
Nearly 50 years of data caught up in breach, with probation service records also among the haul
US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions
The term military intelligence seems like an oxymoron in this case
Japanese consortium bets on building bobbing bit barns
Four firms believe server farms on barges in ports will help solve the problem of finding suitable sites
UK keeps AI safeguards in the maybe pile for Cyber Security BIll
Officials say amendments remain under consideration despite minister's pledge to act
Royal Navy goes fishing for suppliers to build its Type 93 robot submarine
Preliminary notice seeks XLUUV builders, payload makers and AI developers, with Excalibur and Herne the obvious candidates
Metropolitan Police's unchecked use of shoplifting platform lands force in trouble with data watchdog
Officers unlawfully uploaded 179 people's details to Auror without required privacy checks or corporate approval
Jev and other decision models can still be tricked with prompt injection
Never making type errors does not mean never making errors
Cisco make-me-root email bug exploited as a 0-day by unknown crims
Both Switchzilla and CISA sound the alarm
Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee
Things got weird, but there's a lesson to be learned: Don't trust a bot to negotiate for you
Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usage
Torvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use
Security researchers spent 6 days doing their Chromework, built 1B user exploit
Xbow earned a $250K bug bounty and all the AI model got was a lousy t-shirt
Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day after researchers confirm in-the-wild attacks
Vendor promises fix for separate privilege-escalation flaw in the coming weeks
Leap seconds face judgment day as time lords prepare to vote
Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries
Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking
What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet
Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007
Browser-based fun to remember a time before Apple's annual cash grab became a thing
New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs
DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades
Tiny11 puts Windows 11 on a diet without the PowerShell workout
New desktop app simplifies stripping out bundled software, with heavier cuts carrying security and support risks
Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable
If you thought 1.6 Tbps was fast, just wait, Cisco's USFP targets 12.8 Tbps in a single optical pluggable
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans
Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support
Decades of cross-platform character corruption finally comes to an end for Windows coders
Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno
Tick, tick, tick, tick, ticket, ticket, tick tick
KPMG tech and data boss tells staff facing the boot he's getting promoted
Paul Henninger shares news of his move up via email as around 200 colleagues prepare for redundancy
OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper
FBI alleges covert recorder was plugged into a TV, with a second device later discovered in the employee's bag
The AI math isn't mathing as infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue
Analyst predicts 80% of neoclouds will disappear as standalone businesses by 2030
UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns
Whitehall's digital staffing falls short of its own target as ministers leave the skills gap unresolved
It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill
New models arrive so fast, we already have more new tech than it's possible to understand in a career
Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff'
37% of ransomware attacks involve psychological or physical threats, global survey found
Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code
When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo
CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many
Nick Andersen wants to work with private industry on security, but the Trump admin has taken an axe to such efforts.
OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt
Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions
Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks
The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices
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