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Updated 2026-07-27 20:45
Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack
The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems
Cassette simulator rewinds digital audio to a more analog time in hiss-tory
Is there a simulator for the wail when you realize your precious one-off bootleg has just been chewed up?
AI has changed data architecture, but storage hasn't caught up
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI's hunger for data outstrips storage smarts, leaving GPUs famished
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update
One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems
Tech sector pours $1T into AI and sends customers the bill
History's biggest infrastructure build-out is pushing up hardware and software prices, analyst says
British Army finds a new eye in the sky after Watchkeeper woes
Tekever AR5 drone regarded as more up-to-date answer to provide battlefield surveillance for soldiers
OpenAI's Hugging Face debacle makes a great case for open models
If you think OpenAI and Anthropic are the only ones with these capabilities, think again
Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle
270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal
Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much
Trump's unpredictability is pushing governments and businesses toward open source while Britain remains glued to US tech
The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails
Would you like an error with your terror?
FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another
Word up
Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy
So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike's plans for consistent names across the industry
Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data
Never believe a suit who says they're handy with tech
SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13
Super Heavy booster had a super heavy landing, but other reusability tech did the trick
Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcrfra for workloads including AI
PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!
Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills
Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement
The last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago
So, how are those commercial replacements working out for you, NASA?
How AI drove Shopify back to clean code
Turns out, agents just want the same things as humans: easily-readable code, explicit contracts, and helpful feedback
Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else
Building bot-free alternatives may require lefties, libertarians, and culture warriors to share code
BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
But so does this customer
Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling
And as a bonus, it doesn't require data retention
Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info
(Security) hole-ier than thou
AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI
Hey Claude, optimize this model for me
Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com
Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)
Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI
Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?
Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo
Git is aptly named: it isn't easy - but there are alternatives
ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor
Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet met with ZTE to deepen cooperation in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI)
PARTNER CONTENT: Focusing on 5G deployment, AI integration, and ICT talent development to drive the nation's digital transformation
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs
Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network
Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents
Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal
SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no
Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test
Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled
Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families
LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in
Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?
Proposed cybersecurity legislation may force a cull of high-risk network technology, costing tens of billions
Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze
Supplier says the Horizon-era pause only stops it chasing work from new government customers
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs
Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local
Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter
The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility
Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine
890 million slap - just 0.25% of revenue - for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it
Sleep doesn't pay
Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be
Attack models gonna attack
Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs
Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software
AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will
ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap
Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS
AI no longer welcome in human-focused community
AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's
Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper
Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email
Phishing for dummies
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
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