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Updated 2026-06-24 20:15
Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop
Prompting less and automating more comes with a price
OpenAI gets chippy with Broadcom
Jalapeno is the latest announcement that attempts to portray OpenAI as more than a race-to-the-bottom model maker
Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit
200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down
Windows 11 turns five, leaving some important lessons for Microsoft
Maybe sometimes users know best
Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update
Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications
Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'
Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound
Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them
Did you read all the documents you signed last time you had a medical test?
British Home Office seeks techie to herd nearly 1,000 engineers looking after 600 systems
120k ... but you must take ultimate responsibility for functionality of e-gates, passports and more
UK government wants 'trusted' news sources promoted above the social media noise
That's public service media such as the BBC, according to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
AI coding agents could soon cost more than the developers using them
Consumption-based pricing and scant cost controls are sending monthly bills into five figures, Gartner warns
London cops bring live facial recognition to West End
'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics
Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them
Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition
Database vendors pitch themselves as the cure for runaway AI costs
Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads
Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC
Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project
Ordering a trip back to 2009, with a side of nostalgia
A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest
Explainer: Why your legacy storage is choking your expensive GPU
THE REGISTER EXPLAINER: GPUs idle? Blame your outdated storage, not the silicon sprinters.
Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled
Unexplained GSM-R failure at Deutsche Bahn caused confusion and delay
You have got to be KDDI-ng – Japanese telco exposes 14.2 million managed email credentials
Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate
Chinese supercomputer using local processors heads TOP500 list
Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn't broken away from the world
OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions
Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost
Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker
The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack
Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era
Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP
Space Force goes to (pretend) orbital war following record-fast Rocket Lab launch
Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite
O2 joins UK 2G switch-off with summer 2029 start date
It's not just old phones - many smart meters and telecare alarms still use the ancient technology
Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze
Alternatively, you can install SteamOS 3.8 on your own AMD-powered hardware
21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI
Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion
Bold move, Cotton: Trump administration tells US techies it expects American quantum computer by 2028
Ahem. National effort required to kick-start the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery and keep America ahead of the game
Microsoft Access finally breaks free of its 22-inch form limit
CRT-era restriction dragged into the widescreen age after 34 years
AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime
Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task
Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form
Retro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK
Brits still reckon Big Tech isn't paying enough tax
Poll finds two-thirds support squeeze on Silicon Valley despite US pressure
Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges
Floating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites
Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage
Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen
Five Eyes spooks warn AI means infosec incidents can become ‘major operational and financial crises’
Bosses told to step up and get cybersecurity right
India and China are home to 2.9 billion people – and together they bought just 13 million PCs in Q1
PLUS: Indian telco ponders broadband satellites; Samsung goes all-in on OpenAI; Vietnam centrally plans ten tech giants; and more!
Sniff out stale AI override advice with this open source CLI
Package dependencies can create vulnerabilities that are fiendishly hard to find and stamp out
OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too!
A plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge
Texas lassoes massive Microsoft datacenter - and 20 years of gas turbine emissions
The air turns brown when bit barns come to town ... deep in the heart of Texas
Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors
Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens
Security shops among the 'hundreds' of Klue hack victims
As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations
Nvidia gets all agentic about supercomputing for scientific research
Tireless AI agents could help scientists do research humans alone can't, says GPU giant
The database that refused to die: How Postgres survived its own creators
From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate
Ukraine puts its Russian war trophies online for allies to pick apart
TrophyLab bad for Vlad as battlefield losses spill the secrets they had
Inspired by musical greeting cards, DARPA demands tiny, cheap, self-modifying systems
One can't help but see a very clear instance of the triple constraint problem in action here
The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon
Some hardware firms redesigning products to use older DDR2 and DDR3 components
The new database world according to Google: Inexact queries and AI in everything
'Humans are not going to be using data platforms in the next three to five years,' product exec tells us
Canadian utility fesses up to data breach, but key details remain off-grid
London Hydro says names, addresses, account details may have been exposed, but much about the intrusion is unknown
Microsoft tells Windows users to get ready for 26H2 – unless they're on 26H1
Same core as 24H2 and 25H2 means an enablement package, while Search gets a little more forgiving
As another UK prime minister bites the dust, a contradictory tech legacy remains
Attempting to boost growth, efficiency, and sovereign tech proved too difficult. The next leader will face the same challenges... and temptations
Brazil probes emergency warning system after nationwide rogue alert
Severe weather event alert platform buzzed devices across the country with the word 'misanthropy'
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