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Updated 2026-08-24 22:46
Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg
Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work
Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today
The version that started to bring all Microsoft's pieces together
YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs
Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant
No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg
Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds
Complaint: Peripheral maker did not want to unplug itself from higher prices and hand back cash to customers
Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks
Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot
The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one... or does he?
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble
Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles
At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 2027
Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain
Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side
ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach
Attackers took a look at an employee's identity dashboard, but security firm says that's as far as they got
Chipmakers laughing all the way to the vault as memory prices go stratospheric
Gartner reckons $1.6 trillion year is just the start, and don't expect a bust anytime soon
I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg
Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'
AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones
Sawtooth waves you can't hear still mess with your Bluetooth. Firefox and Brave say they've got you covered
US datacenters tripled their water footprint in 10 years
... and those are figures from the start of the AI boom. It can only be worse now. Silo-ed reporting isn't helping
$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack
Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in
AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows
Vendors are moving way beyond Nvidia's GPUs in the datacenter
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia
Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI
Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine
Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring
Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight
Chang'e 7 didn't meet unspecified launch requirements'
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?
AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries
SPONSORED FEATURE: Embedding AI at communication sites to empower energy optimization, power grid stability control and low-carbon development
Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave
Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing
How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings
S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf
Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust
If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will
Agents are also the new attack surface - cue defenders' existential angst
AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing
Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost
Casio decides it's about time the simple digital watch got a little smarter
F-B100W adds Bluetooth and step tracking while keeping a two-year battery
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice
Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough
Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble
Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power
Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says
Show us the money
AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC
Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature
Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it
Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf
Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch
Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches
SickKids children’s hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in
Toronto org says it wasn't the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability
Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials
Malicious updates turned routine builds into a delivery system for infostealer malware
AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand
Mercury Research blames costly memory and scarce GPUs for 20% processor shipment slide
'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up
CTO promises architectural overhaul following second outage of the month
$10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts
Seller's demos show a browser-in-the-middle attack adding credentials seconds after authentication
Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic
Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor
Microsoft sounds alarm as perfect-10 Entra ID flaw comes under attack
Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed, but isn't saying who exploited it or how widely
Wi-Fi 7's WPA3 protections come with a compatibility catch
CableLabs wants hardware makers to embrace a workaround that keeps legacy kit connected
Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing still
One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive
EE invites mobile users to live life in the 5G Fast Lane – for a price
Network slicing offers a prioritized experience for those prepared to pay for a premium monthly plan
Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it
After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job
Cisco bug severity warning reads like Olympic gymnastics scores: 10, 10, 9.9, 9.6, and 7.5.
Secure Workload Software has five nasty flaws and even SaaS users have updates to install
Alibaba Cloud plans to use fewer Western chips, to boost its already huge AI margins
Cloudy AI is Chinese giant's most certain' path to growth as e-commerce slows
Supermicro fired staff after probe into $2.5 billion GPUs-to-China smuggling operation
Policies and code of conduct breached
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