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Updated 2026-09-29 18:31
Open source tool distills Jev so you can run it locally
Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream
Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business
Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well
Microsoft sends PDFs to strange new worlds instead of SharePoint
Use SharePoint Online? Keen on PDFs? Then you won't be keen on the latest Word bug
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work
Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment
Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself
Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks
Meta-spotted flaw could hand attackers arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file
OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark
Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop
Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning
Just wait until you hear the bad news
Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineers
Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains - while warning that markets can get carried away
Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short
SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three
Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush
RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations
Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference
Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's 330M NHS data platform deal
Dutch police arrest 'security pro' in ShinyHunters probe
Flashbangs reportedly deployed during operation as crime group denies any connection to suspect
Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You’re Fabric app devs now
Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude
What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens?
A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger
HMRC bets up to £2.4B on Salesforce for taxpayer CRM overhaul
Ten-year deal covers customer records, case management, portals, analytics, and AI, with extensions possible to 2041
Which copy of the file is the real one?
A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.
Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes
Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
Rise of the Googlebook means ChromeOS users get eight years' support, not a decade
OpenAI’s dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon
Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD
AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure
What's wrong with being a great wholesaler?
JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources
Smells like more agentic ransomware, Redmond warns
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns
During testing, the model showed it can violate security rules more often than its predecessors
French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs
Because sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button
How many times are you paying for the same file?
A Register dinner in Midtown on 27 October takes on the file infrastructure distributed teams still run and nobody chose, off the record
Microsoft's Copilot super app comes with a meter attached
Redmond calls its pricing model an 'evolution' as advanced AI racks up usage charges
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop
DAWO combines a Linux-based client with open source tools for cloud, communications, and collaborative work
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain
EU firms capture less than 10% of the bloc's datacenter chips, server assembly, and cloud infrastructure markets
OpenAI agents went the long way round for UN data
Research suggests ChatGPT maker's agents got surprisingly creative when a UN data API proved less than cooperative
Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back
Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over
Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months
Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments
UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants
Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house
Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount
Regulator intervenes after deciding altnets may be unable to match the offer and recover their costs
Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy
The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only
HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B
Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 2036
Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage
Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up
Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack
Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes
Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data
Friday afternoon is not the time for snap decisions, but weekends are useful to cover your tracks
OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline
Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia
PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on
Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser
The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone
Your spare Android won't come back to life in a hurry but - like neglected PCs - it really should
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust
An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust
Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes
Once a single-scalar home, spreadsheet cells are being redeveloped to handle many tenants
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall
Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast
New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x
Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%
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