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Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found

Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack

No new accounts from now, and the end will come in December

Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux

$99 replacement opens old .pub files on Windows and macOS, without a subscription

Watchdog also warns retiring Falcon and Dragon could leave US access to orbit short of a backup

Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good

You know what's really sick? Getting to the pub on time on a Friday

Whitehall wants tougher penalties and new powers over telecoms operators as Russian activity raises alarm

Classic arcade game put to shame by judgemental Bugdroid

Four projects for facilitating AI agents move under vendor-neutral governance

Catching lightning in a tech support bottle

Adversaries are clearly spending time (and tokens) on this bug," researcher says.

Not to kill the human, of course - to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection

No actual digits or cats were harmed beyond the number crunching that went into this LLM poisoning experiment

Vendor 'strongly recommends' upgrading to a fixed version 'as soon as possible'

We didn't want to issue SSL/TLS certs anyway, Indian firm suggests after one private key turns out to be the number 4

Ministers report 32 unavailable and four partly disrupted, but no confirmed compromise

Apple log jam? Apple fast lane pie-lup? We're here all week, on stage... sweeping it

SPONSORED FEATURE: AI makes phishing easier than ever

For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century

GPU chief doesn't want to hear about job losses or the end of human civilization

Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon spotted attackers trying their luck four days before patches landed

AI agents did the dirty work, with hackers gaining privileged access in some environments in under three hours

Mars Express could support MMX's 2027 arrival as another 'last ever' extension keeps old spacecraft in flight

Misaligned incentives led to an intractable argument

Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment

They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs

PARTNER CONTENT: AI is driving liquid cooling adoption, but hybrid architectures will help operators balance density, flexibility, and operational realities

Says it passed audits and made just a minor mystery error

90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat

Founder of offshore software development firm investigated for possibly giving his former outfit government contracts

Signs Samsung to build substrates, bolsters spend with other players

'Coordinated vulnerability disclosure, unless there's evidence of active exploits in the wild,' Chainguard CEO tells The Reg

Good thing it's somebody else's money

Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it

New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows

Plus a RAT for good measure - get threat hunting now

Forrester says only isolated wins are likely, while 'good enough' open-weight models soak up the tokens

Careful what you say after goodbye, or better yet, update your messaging app

Proposed port brings 64-bit Windows apps within reach

Websites down as precaution as exploits have already been published

Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters

October preview raises supported limit from 300,000 items, with general availability penciled in for June 2027

Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects

Consider this the wake-up call

Give your agents freedom to do useful work by locking them down

GPUzilla boasts modular bit barns could speed up deployments from six months to just two weeks

Commission opens DSA probe into fake listings and phishing on the platform, says its fraud defenses 'absolutely substandard'

Train times remain on show as an elderly Windows dialog demands attention