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Updated 2026-09-07 10:46
UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks
Defending against cyber foes is among factors hitting food price inflation, report finds
Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook
Ministers say 17M corporate fines and forthcoming board-level governance rules provide sufficient accountability
OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on
'The Collective' learned to communicate, organize, cheat, and apparently sacrifice its own
Amazon-branded plane in fatal accident at Miami Airport
Couldn't stop before the end of a runway
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
Even the greatest scientific minds are at risk of rogue 9-pin connectors
Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry
This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development
Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds
Last week, he blamed himself for being a grade A nincompoop' who assumed a system upgrade couldn't possibly go wrong
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; And more!
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour
US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases
AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk
ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk
Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters
Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident
Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line?
My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement
Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month
Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels
The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next
Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers
2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes
PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries
Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up
JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up
Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers.
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox
No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices
Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides
15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver
Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2
The new extreme sport: Windows Updates
US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave
Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment
UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo
Project PANOPTES puts 5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense
Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money?
PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything
On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key
Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work
Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud
This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale
The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech
Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why!
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
Three critical vulns demand your attention, one a make-me-root mess in Nexus 9000 Series Switches that you can mitigate, not fix
OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders
Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams
OpenAI throws Astra into the top-tier model ring
OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands
$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once
All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues
Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC
A shared security 'Nightmare'
CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian
Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem
Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users
When the moon is in the seventh house...
Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s
The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area
Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028
Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM
SPONSORED FEATURE: Boards want to know if they're less exposed than last quarter. Patching metrics aren't the solution
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance
But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully
Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast
A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard
GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem
Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes
Armed with password hashes and salts, attackers could already be kraken those creds
'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda
No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets
Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase
Hello darkness, my old friend... I've trusted Redmond once again
Which came first, Windows 95's taskbar or NeXT's Dock? Neither
Reg hack accidentally rattles Microsoft folks' cages... again
Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving
Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE
UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say
Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures
British wind power to drive Maersk container ship
Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21%
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