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Updated 2026-07-23 16:30
Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past
Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog
Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth
Aftermarket dealer-installed KARR/SWDS security systems all use the same secure key, say UCSD researchers
Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal
Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads
GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team
Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters
Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit
CISA widens alert beyond Rockwell controllers as intruders target internet-facing devices across critical infrastructure
Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots
Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat
One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company
Researchers say OpenAI flaw let phishing bait create an autonomous corporate mole armed with employee access
If you get knocked on the head and get all your devices stolen and have amnesia, Google will let you back in with a selfie
You'll need to be able to move your head side to side to make sure you're not a deepfake
Swiss train maker tells ransomware crooks to get off at the next stop
Stadler refuses $12.3M demand after thieves swipe technical data through supplier platform
IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them
Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets
Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything
Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job
Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims
Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect
Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional
AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet
Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal
Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions
Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast
Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room?
Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic
And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack
Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence
Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle demand for the G-Cloud
OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning
Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused
Google Cloud is killing it
It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display
ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow
As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner
Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days
Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter
Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor
A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted
Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own
xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models - for a price
OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents
As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing
Sneaky Windows stealer targets 300+ apps, gives crims an AI profiler to maximize profits
Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town
Ireland stalls €1B Microsoft tender amid digital sovereignty questions
Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals
Greedy ransomware crews return for seconds after victims cough up first extortion payments
Some never saw their files again either, infosec biz Proofpoint finds
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions
New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products
Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other
Raspberry Pi goes large with 10.1-inch Touch Display 2
More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot
Council worker spared prison after four-day data-snooping spree
Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act
Anyone with a shed, an extension cord, a couple of GPUs and an overdraft is building datacenters. Fujitsu just offloaded five
Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn
China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol
IPv6+ could make it easier to censor netizens or block traffic, and Beijing is already exporting it
OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face
Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents
The truth nobody wants to admit: Chinese or not, open models are competitive now
Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3
Cisco's open-weight bug busters take on Google and OpenAI
Don't call them chatbots
AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep
Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult
US Marines' latest anti-drone toy is an AI turret that uses regular machine guns
Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too
Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again
AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises
Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI
Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement
Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain
Nvidia shows off Vera Rubin platform for tokenmaxxing
If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?
Windows 11 Start menu changes trickle into Beta, movable taskbar still MIA
Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar
AI music platform Suno hits bum note as 55M users exposed in data breach, claims infosec expert
Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time
Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet
Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon
LG monitors are using Windows 11 feature to serve adware
Plug in your new display and get a McAfee pitch you never asked for
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