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Updated 2026-08-05 16:46
Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas
But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid
Microsoft tells engineers to curb their token-burning enthusiasm
Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures
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SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions
Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B
London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says
Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches
Cloud startup Volta claims $10B AI lab deal for Norway bit barn
Anthropic said to be the client wanting to secure rent-a-GPU company's compute resources
Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year
Carefully choreographed shutdown gives probe's three remaining instruments more time
UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack
Database backups likely stolen, potentially exposing donor, supporter, and service user details
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia
Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start
Double trouble for Microsoft as pre-owned software license claims converge
Tribunal to explore how 270 million reseller case intersects with multibillion-pound class action
New Boeing finally gets going, 15 years after debut
The 737-7 is the smallest of its type, yet it has the longest range
Adding an API to networking hardware doesn’t solve management challenges
This is why cloud-inspired networks win: virtual switches are all consistent
AI researchers let models off the leash – then watched as they tried to add malware to a FOSS project
Models used social engineering and collaborated among themselves to solve a security challenge
AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets
The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance - if the bubble doesn't pop first
Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller
Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent - What's not to like?
OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT
New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys
Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages
New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims
Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it
Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help
This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp …
What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas
Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit
Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains 'full administrative access to an N-central console'
NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs
Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says
AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday
Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports
Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges
Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough
Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras
Cops arrest budding politician for allegedly dealing with Flock's expansion the American way
CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages
Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline
UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware
Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers
NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck
Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts
Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home
Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k
China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits'
Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs
China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic
For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition
Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence
Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another
AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns
With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue
Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems
Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert
MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push
Taiwanese silicon biz believes it can take up to 20% of $80B market with upcoming ASIC chips, but analysts are sceptical
Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak
ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover
Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap
Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict
Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames 'grossly incompetent' governor of Minnesota instead
Google Earth's AI makeover survives one trip around the Sun
Turns out letting anyone rewrite the planet with a prompt had drawbacks
The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet
Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast
UK government investment arm cops to 40-hour leak of officials' contact details
Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public
Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft
LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril
As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK
Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it
'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind'
AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks
CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
Daddy, I typed a Unix command! Was it a bad one?
Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11
Redmond adds new items to its make-Windows-better list
Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister
PLUS: DeepSeek to double peak hour prices for new model; Australia hikes fines for Big Tech; Japan's next moonshot to ride local rocket; and more!
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online
Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in
Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it
88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity - this isn't your typical datacenter chip
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