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Updated 2026-07-24 23:17
Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info
(Security) hole-ier than thou
AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI
Hey Claude, optimize this model for me
Europol flags 4,340 'horrific' URLs linked to The Com
Stop the spread (of online recruiting and propaganda)
Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI
Can you guess who didn't sign on to the group letter?
Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo
Git is aptly named: it isn't easy - but there are alternatives
ChatGPT wants access to your health records so it can be a better not-doctor
Feature launches a day after lawsuit alleges chatbot advice contributed to near-fatal embolism
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet met with ZTE to deepen cooperation in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI)
PARTNER CONTENT: Focusing on 5G deployment, AI integration, and ICT talent development to drive the nation's digital transformation
Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs
Two license plate readers torched in Georgia amid backlash against the surveillance network
Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents
Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal
SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no
Replacement Raptors head for liftoff without a static fire test
Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled
Policy targets online scammers, sextortionists, and potentially their immediate families
LG kills McAfee pop-up after Windows boss steps in
Advert gets the chop, but the silent app installation mechanism remains untouched
EU telcos ask: Huawei going to afford to replace Chinese equipment?
Proposed cybersecurity legislation may force a cull of high-risk network technology, costing tens of billions
Fujitsu joins £14.9B UK framework despite public sector bid freeze
Supplier says the Horizon-era pause only stops it chasing work from new government customers
Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs
Online marketplaces could find themselves buying the next round as the PM looks to tax ecommerce to save the local
Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter
The Reg was there as locals aired grievances over poor communication, noise, and light pollution at Waltham Cross facility
Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine
890 million slap - just 0.25% of revenue - for making itself the subject of search results, and hiding app store alternatives
Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it
Sleep doesn't pay
Intel knows it needs to ‘leapfrog’ ARM and AMD, says CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Chipzilla changes PC biz name to reflect belief edge and robots could be as valuable one day
Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn't mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be
Attack models gonna attack
Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs
Gatekeeper has one job and it's not doing it for some software
AMD and Cerebras join forces against Nvidia’s Groq LPUs
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will
ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap
Codeberg gives vibe-coded projects the toss, promotes human FLOSS
AI no longer welcome in human-focused community
AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's
Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper
Year-long Russian attacks infect users as soon as they look at an email
Phishing for dummies
Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past
Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog
Millions of California-bought cars can be hijacked via Bluetooth
Aftermarket dealer-installed KARR/SWDS security systems all use the same secure key, say UCSD researchers
Oracle drops 1,449 security patches like it's the new normal
Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads
GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team
Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters
Iran-linked crews are probing more flavors of US industrial kit
CISA widens alert beyond Rockwell controllers as intruders target internet-facing devices across critical infrastructure
Tesla burns through a billion as Musk bets the farm on chips and bots
Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat
One ChatGPT link could smuggle a rogue AI agent into your company
Researchers say OpenAI flaw let phishing bait create an autonomous corporate mole armed with employee access
If you get knocked on the head and get all your devices stolen and have amnesia, Google will let you back in with a selfie
You'll need to be able to move your head side to side to make sure you're not a deepfake
Swiss train maker tells ransomware crooks to get off at the next stop
Stadler refuses $12.3M demand after thieves swipe technical data through supplier platform
IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them
Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets
Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything
Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job
Stats watchdog prescribes stronger caveats for NHS Palantir claims
Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect
Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional
AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it
UK pumps £708 million into its future fighter jet
Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal
Britain isn't considering datacenters' thirst for water in its 'AI superpower' ambitions
Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast
Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room?
Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic
And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack
Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence
Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle demand for the G-Cloud
OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning
Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused
Google Cloud is killing it
It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display
ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow
As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner
Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
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