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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

Phishing for dummies

Biggest overhaul since launch ditches sessions, guts little-used features, and leaves homebrew implementations facing a slog

Aftermarket dealer-installed KARR/SWDS security systems all use the same secure key, say UCSD researchers

Experts say the era of AI bug hunting is here, so defenders will simply have to adapt to busier workloads

Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters

CISA widens alert beyond Rockwell controllers as intruders target internet-facing devices across critical infrastructure

Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat

Researchers say OpenAI flaw let phishing bait create an autonomous corporate mole armed with employee access

You'll need to be able to move your head side to side to make sure you're not a deepfake

Stadler refuses $12.3M demand after thieves swipe technical data through supplier platform

Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets

Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job

Health service told to ensure ministers don't mistake before-and-after comparisons for cause and effect

AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it

Tempest cash lands alongside hypersonic target contract and BAE's 'loyal wingman' drone reveal

Grand compute push could end up as dry as England's reservoirs unless ministers act fast

Who needs a working security badge when you know how to talk your way into the records room?

And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack

Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle demand for the G-Cloud

Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused

It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit

ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste

As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner

Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?

Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports

Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy

A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted

xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models - for a price

As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing

Move over Flipper. There's a new Dophin X in town

Government plans another Redmond-only procurement despite calls to consider European rivals

Some never saw their files again either, infosec biz Proofpoint finds

New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way

Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other

More screen, more pixels, and a Pi 5 required to drive the lot

Herefordshire employee handed suspended sentence for breach of Computer Misuse Act

Digital transformation' is a better bet, apparently, so private equity gets a turn

IPv6+ could make it easier to censor netizens or block traffic, and Beijing is already exporting it

Sandboxed experiment found itself a zero day, escaped onto the open internet and validated scary predictions about rogue agents

Hey Uncle Sam, if you thought GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5 were scary, get a load of Kimi K3

Don't call them chatbots

Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult

Don't worry - it can autonomously attack ground targets, too

AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud

Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI

Alleged developer arrested in Indonesia after more than 200 servers slain

If your AI Factory sells tokens, why not optimize token emission?

Users asked for flexibility, but a leaner OS for older PCs might matter more as hardware prices soar

Have I Been Pwned confirms scale for first time