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Updated 2026-10-28 18:31
Amazon tells tokenmaxxing devs to slow their AI roll
Focus more on what matters, please, like creating useful software and accomplishing company goals
GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down
Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse
Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive roles
Artem Stryzhak joined both gangs, which targeted businesses and a hospital during the pandemic
How Google fumbled the frontend with Angular 2
All Things Open Talk provided lessons in how not to upgrade a software package
Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions
Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030
China's spaceplane bears striking resemblance to America's X-37B
Defense Intelligence Agency space report includes a rare orbital snap of the Chinese craft, and it looks rather familiar
Intel gets tax breaks while local authorities lose revenue, claims policy org
Report accuses corp of getting subsidies for its fabs from Oregon and New Mexico that deprive those states of vital funds
Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees
Project Quarry aims to provide a 'shared language' for evaluating agent behavior
123 Reg discloses 'AI cyberattack' on customer data, suspects China nexus
Company chiefs believe the attackers could be the same as those who used ARTEX to breach South Korea's financial giants
Open Cosmos steps up Europe's space sovereignty game, shows off ConnectedCosmos satellites
El Reg takes a tour of a satellite nursery for customers thinking about de-risking dependence
Man spends 35 years collecting corporate waffle, turns it into an app
Why waste time thinking of something useful to say when an app can leverage synergies for you?
Neocloud thinks AI agents - not meatbags - will be its main customers
Quake AI is developing APIs to let autonomous agents access its services more efficiently
Why roaming packages have become an anachronism in the age of app-first travel
PARTNER CONTENT: Connectivity at all times, abroad
SK Hynix says memory shortages to persist until 2030
Good for its bottom line, not great news for yours, or for the PC and smartphone markets
AI slows growth for Infosys and keeps it afloat at the same time
Predicts slower growth as savings from automation hit price of extended deals
Big Red gets cozy with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers
Oracle plans to add those chips alongside new Nvidia hardware and OpenAI services as businesses await AI payoffs
Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute
Meet CLAUDE_CODE_EVEN_MORE_DANGEROUSLY_SKIP_PERMISSIONS
AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours
One critical, three high-severity EPICS bugs could disrupt research experiments
Apple takes powerful M6 chip to the MacBook Pro, iMac
6th-gen M-series silicon promises more cores, faster memory, a fatter NPU, and better connectivity, now in more form factors
EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors
Noyb files five complaints in four member states over alleged tracking of workers on Scale AI's Outlier platform
ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux
Classic Platinum or lickable Mavericks-era Aqua - it's your choice
Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack
University hospitals once again accepting patients after initial ambulance diversion, but recovery to continue in phases
Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year
Revenue up, operating profit up, 30 million paid Copilot seats locked in, 88 DCs added, $43.8 billion returned to shareholders
CISA confirms PHP2Shell under attack as researchers clock successful exploits
Both critical PHP flaws land on the agency's exploited list as infosec pros confirm hackers are getting working shells
A whopping 3% of boardroom execs spy productivity and costs savings from AI
A load more are spending more than they expected and forecast to shell out even more in 2027
Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation
Admits a 'small number' of iPhone Duos have display problems, and no, you're not folding it wrong.
When file infrastructure becomes the bottleneck
Legacy NAS, VPNs, and file-sync workflows leave hidden costs in their wake. Is the way your organization manages files still fit for purpose?
Microsoft releases out-of-band Windows fixes with certificate updates
Did you hear the one about eMudhra and the power of 4? Time to get connected to certificate trust list updates
Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts
Alternative fur Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche
UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups
Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones
FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases
Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions
Year of Linux on the Beach confirmed
Don't forget to keep code up to date. Even with a cold beverage in hand
How everyday technology choices drive true workplace sustainability
SPONSORED FEATURE: Introducing certified, environmentally friendly meeting room solutions, such as Barco ClickShare, in a standardized way across the organization can make the difference between hitting sustainability goals or not
Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel
They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action
IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job
Promises to build IBM Z Atlas' tool that will tidy up messy big iron and enable AIOps
Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned
CEO admits service used for foreign exchange trading had holes company was slow to fix
Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists
It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all
OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra
Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price
Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search
Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China
But there's not much evidence this is anything more than echoes of unsanitized training data
LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key
A 'strong illustration of the risks associated with failing to rotate a potentially exposed key'
Microsoft offers parachutes to 60k employees if they jump by the end of the year
Voluntary exit offer extended to about one-quarter of existing Softies
Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug
Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw
Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Lego bricks
Every key is its own module, and its designer tells us the sky's the theoretical limit on the size of the frankenboard you can build
Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure
New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English
UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest
Jaydip Modhwadia beats challenge designed to test real-world exploitability of PHP2Shell in around 3 hours
Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing
Claude maker reveals financials and warns investors its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or go rogue
Last call for <span data-lab-italic_desktop="italic" class="italic m-italic">The Register</span>’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington
EVENT: The Register's Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA is this Thursday. The table is nearly set.
Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry
Atmospheric drag brings an extraordinarily long-lived mission to a close
Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big Tech
The Magnificent Seven are galloping off with the profits, while the rest of the S&P 500 see no benefit, claims Apollo
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