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Updated 2026-10-21 17:17
OpenBSD 8.0 beefs up virtual machines and gets a taste of Wine
Proposed port brings 64-bit Windows apps within reach
PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched
Websites down as precaution as exploits have already been published
Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision
Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters
OneDrive gives Macs a million things to keep in sync
October preview raises supported limit from 300,000 items, with general availability penciled in for June 2027
AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap
Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects
AI has 'potential' to turn script kiddies into sophisticated infrastructure attackers
Consider this the wake-up call
Nvidia <span data-lab-text_size_desktop="42" class="t42">picks OpenShell to </span>tame AI gents
Give your agents freedom to do useful work by locking them down
Nvidia's grand plan for speeding up datacenter deployments: AI trailer parks
GPUzilla boasts modular bit barns could speed up deployments from six months to just two weeks
EU wants Booking.com to check out of its scam problem
Commission opens DSA probe into fake listings and phishing on the platform, says its fraud defenses 'absolutely substandard'
Java crashes the departure board at Tyne and Wear Metro
Train times remain on show as an elderly Windows dialog demands attention
The spec is the new code, so brush up on your prose, says Kaseya CTO
Domain expertise and clear writing will matter more than syntax, and yes, that means documentation
Happiness is the next AI KPI if Oxford boffins have their way
Researchers say public subsidies for AI should be repaid in wellbeing, not just economic growth
MPs urge UK government to play venture capitalist with taxpayer-funded tech
Watchdog says Whitehall is too timid about taking stakes in British startups, leaving taxpayers at risk of missing out when they strike gold
Nervous ISPs replace Chrome as strange consumers of DNS resources
Some network operators like to wear belts and suspenders to keep their services up
Indian certification authority eMudhra’s private keys compromised – one of them was the number ‘4’
Massive clean-up job under way because this mess makes it possible to impersonate any website or service
Auto tech startup claims it traced hack attempt back to rival's IP address
IQ.Lvbs implies that rival Comma.ai isn't playing fair
Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure
And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model
Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June
Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries
Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability 'avalanche'
From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload
OneDrive loses bunch of Copilot shortcuts in File Explorer clear-out
Microsoft keeps 'Ask Copilot' as dedicated actions disappear between mid-November and early December
openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop
CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin
How going dual-native means VM/container co-existence and sovereign security in the AI era
SPONSORED FEATURE: Nutanix says running VMs and containers within the same operating environment shouldn't be a brake on AI ambitions
Enterprises blow nearly a third of software budgets on upgrades they never asked for
Keeping vendors happy is costing businesses millions, even when everything was working fine in the first place
HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon
Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end
'Password1' and a forgotten test account land Welsh outfits in hot water
ICO reprimands Ogi Networks and Data Cymru after ransomware breach exposes info of 3,300 people, mostly children
Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage
Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it - and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC
Bullhorn sees red after cyberattack knocks recruitment platform offline
Staffing software giant calls in CrowdStrike as customers face login headaches and questions remain over possible data theft
Microsoft admits that Always On VPN problems were not fixed in the October Security Update
Let they who are without sin throw a stone and miss the greenhouse entirely
Whitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open
Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive
UK finance watchdog wants firms to report AI failures and close calls
FCA seeks clear accountability as financial services embrace increasingly autonomous agents
Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted
Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now'
London’s mobile networks fall to bottom of Europe’s capital league
Rooftop rent cuts, planning refusals and congestion leave Ookla ranking the UK's capital last for speed and latency
Why cyber resilience is now a boardroom priority for UK public services
PARTNER CONTENT: What happens after the inflection point?
Sony updates the Walkman as a $5,900 gold-plated MP3 player
That price buys you an Android 16 device which can display an animated cassette
‘David Beckham’ was briefly the world’s second-worst manga pirate
Publishers call for better verification of domain name registrants, and ICANN is on the job with a new policy
ICANN testing tech to let law enforcement access non-public WHOIS info
Single sign-on to help address imminent threats to life, critical infrastructure, or kids
DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies
Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad
Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack forced US and European systems offline
Second security snafu in two years
Amazon makes vague commitment to unproven nuclear tech to power Indiana datacenters
Partner X-energy has not built a single working reactor yet
Maxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up
Finally, your hardware has its own agent
Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI
Terra finds sharp rise in GitHub security fixes reported broken within 90 days
Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs
Lies, lots of adverbs, and prosaic stories don't make for very machine-readable code, it turns out
Europe’s cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good
Report warns that sovereignty is being used to favor selected national providers and could stifle pan-Europe clouds
Red Hat helps teach about tech writing
But learns tough lessons about AI in the process
Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline
Black cab drivers accused ride-hailing giant of misleading London's transport regulator, but judge says they left it too late to sue
SAP's Signavio hit with function injunction in Germany
Vendor says patent ruling only restricts one specific process, not the whole product, after legal challenge from Celonis
Admin: 'I spent all weekend on my servers' after Microsoft breaks Exchange Server with October updates
OWA borked and lengthy email queues reported on busy servers after Microsoft tweaks a Server default
Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up
Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s
Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router
Chip giant knew about the flaw in 2018, researcher claims, but millions of devices may still be vulnerable
Dr Garry Hunt talks to us about the astonishing Voyager probes
Voyager imaging team member joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches light day's distance from Earth
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