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Updated 2026-07-20 18:31
The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash
OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly
Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign
Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home
Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain
Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory
EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month
Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who - or what - users are talking to
Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball
On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire - literally
Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online
HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details
Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs
With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all
UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme
One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities
Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red
Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action
Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?
Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings
Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector
High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required
Worries about prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node'
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work
AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner
Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker
Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!
Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius
Connect all the things and watch what happens
Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something
Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell
Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage
Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over
NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD
New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code
Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly
And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close
Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month
22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11
Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates
Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting
Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters
Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'
More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 - in Rust
Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room
Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026
Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content
You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned
Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order
Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts
SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit
Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort
Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester
Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz
No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place
Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN
A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages
Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge
Continuity support required after 336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year
How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality
SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution
Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem
We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
Telstra skipped a patch, didn't record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen
South Korea making its own security-centric AI model
Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief
Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom
OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'
Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid
Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project
Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel
Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100
Models demand trust without offering verification
TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan
Beware of fab makers bearing press releases
EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids
The Chocolate Factory is not amused
AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You
Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year
Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility
Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.
C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest
Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering
NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one
Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad
Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push
Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'
Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack
Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history
AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding
Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure
Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due
One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer
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