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Updated 2026-06-25 17:02
FOSS dev builds a BASIC compiler using LLVM
Not just any old BASIC, either: OS-9's BASIC09
Recovery has to keep up with AI
SPONSORED POST: Why an AI-era recovery architecture looks different, with Eon's Gonen Stein
Apple passes RAMpocalypse costs on to consumers
Fondleslab and Mac prices rise by hundreds; phones safe ... for now
Windows 11 can now turn back the clock when updates go bad
Point-in-time restore offers a 72-hour escape hatch for stricken PCs
Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency
SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'
Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure
Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge
European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status
Preliminary position calls for designation under the Digital Markets Act
Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up
Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling - plus integrated AI, though it's off by default
ZTE builds a TCO-optimal AI factory to fuel token economy
PARTNER CONTENT: Leveraging OEX architecture SuperPODs and multi-dimensional co-design to maximize tokens per second and lower total cost of ownership for scaled inference
Elastic stretches workforce 7% thinner as AI does more of the heavy lifting
CEO says automation is enabling leaner teams as engineering is split into three core areas
ZTE CDO Cui Li at MWC Shanghai 2026: unlocking value and embracing uncertainty in the AI era
PARTNER CONTENT: Embracing uncertainty with flexible architecture, ZTE drives full-stack AI value across telecom, enterprises, and smart homes at MWC Shanghai 2026
ZTE showcases full-stack AI capabilities at MWC Shanghai 2026, empowering new era of token operations
PARTNER CONTENT: Driving end-to-end synergy across AI factories, next-gen AIOS, and 6G-ready networks to maximize token efficiency and lower operational costs
IBM stacks up a sub-nanometer chip future
Big Blue shows off process node it claims can scale down to 1 Angstrom
Digital ID brain trust will meet behind closed doors as minister ducks cost questions
Minutes will not be published, and MPs still have no answer on the group's budget or how its members were chosen
Salyut 5 at 50: The Soviet space station that sickened one crew and nearly drowned another
The last inhabited Almaz outpost was short-lived, secretive, and remarkably accident-prone
The CPU's growing role in agentic AI infrastructure
PARTNER CONTENT: As agentic AI systems scale across cloud and datacenter environments, CPUs remain the control plane coordinating performance and efficiency.
UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found
And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field
Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software
Despite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs
Nation-state actors cracked critical Australian infrastructure to ‘cripple it at a time of their choosing’
To defuse another attack, Oz spies called foreign counterparts to tell them an op was a bust
Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years
Big buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits
Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen
93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI
The hits keep on coming for Cisco vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-20230 under exploitation, while an earlier SD-WAN 0-day looks even worse than we thought
Qualcomm claims it's not too late for Dragonfly to land in datacenters
Oh, Snap(dragon): DC chief says the mobile-chip giant sees bit barns as its next growth market
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
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