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Updated 2026-10-01 14:15
MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies
Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law
CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch
Replacing letters with symbols still doesn't make it good.
Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access
Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April
Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data
Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures
England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents
Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is
UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ
The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control
Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal
Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP
Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry
Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they'll get pregnant, says survey
Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes
So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda
The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away
What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents
Singapore’s government creates a dating app
Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking
RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices
Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come
Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn't sure how
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners
Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.
YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator
If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China
The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding
Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents
16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows
It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?
Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon
Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed
Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us
Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains
Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call
MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment
Ex-NCA officer who worked on Silk Road operation ordered to repay £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin
Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.0
Where does your AI data actually live?
The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.
OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian
By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion
Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*
Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin
7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028
Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise
Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates
A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption
America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness
KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited
Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6
UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police's six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries
Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans
Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is Kubernetes for agents'
Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations
Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
It's a worm attack, AI-style
OpenAI tries disarming AI angst with cute graphics and always-on agents
It's not OpenClaw. It's dots
Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core
Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website
FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you'
Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills'
Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputation
New business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai
Close the observability gap with agentic observability
SPONSORED POST: How agentic AI, real-time visibility, and stronger governance can help enterprises protect critical services and manage increasingly complex IT environments.
AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified
Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap
Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services
Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?
Open source tool distills Jev so you can run it locally
Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream
Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business
Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well
Microsoft sends PDFs to strange new worlds instead of SharePoint
Use SharePoint Online? Keen on PDFs? Then you won't be keen on the latest Word bug
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work
Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment
Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself
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