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AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit
CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November
Which AI infrastructure option actually holds a boundary?
Just over two weeks before The Register's Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture.
Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot
'Learn More' shortcut to local setup reportedly patched server-side, leaving users with more involved workarounds
Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline
Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal
UCLA settles Oracle ERP dispute with $3.1M in credits and $1.31M wiped off the bill
University alleged cloud software couldn't meet its needs after years of delays to financial systems overhaul
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition
Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah...
London cabbies want Sadiq Khan to slam the brakes on robotaxis
Union urges Mayor to halt driverless taxi rollout as City Hall report raises questions about safety, congestion, and who's actually in charge
Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's
25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid
Imagine there's no Shiny Hunters – AI could make human hacking crews obsolete
This week on The Kettle, we discuss some arrests and how Mythos' mathematical expertise has led to a second exploited bug that no human would have found
When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS
How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint.
Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world
Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are
Raspberry Pi Desktop catches up with Debian 13 after 4-year wait
Want a lightweight GUI OS for an old PC? Try this first
To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work
While three bosses looked on, our hero made a very expensive mistake
AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'
HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years
And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions
Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips
Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup withElement, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents - handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders
Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage
What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers
Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters
SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties.
Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world
Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in
Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand
Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring
US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway
Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year
Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch
No word on exploitation status, but a 9.5 severity score suggests time is of the essence
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference
Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill
Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired as separate Marketplace charges piled up
BOFH: Smells like team spirit
In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses
Whose roadmap is your software estate running on?
SPONSORED POST: Vendor roadmaps set the pace of change in most enterprise software estates. Origina argues the business should.
Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell
Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage - and invaluable case studies - in his incompetent wake
So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes
Octocats claim 35x write improvement
India’s tech giants shrug off changes to USA’s skilled visa program
As Microsoft denies alleged fraud and abuse' that sparked the tweaks
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI
Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in
Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero
The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up
High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers
The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47483
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal
Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster
If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE
Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise
Credential-stealing malware detected within minutes of npm release, but impact remains unknown
Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms
Researchers corroborate parts of Silent Ransom Group dump detailing crypto payouts, cash brokers, and recruitment
Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive
Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness
Fighting GenAI with GenAI: The New Email Security Landscape
SPONSORED FEATURE: Old attack, new protections
Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90
Her team's code kept Apollo 11's landing on course when the guidance computer became overloaded
Rust upstart reveals 'reimplementation' of Microsoft Office – with Claude on coding duty
ArtCraft adds Word, Excel, and PowerPoint lookalikes to its open source lineup, but they're not ready for production
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