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Updated 2026-09-23 18:01
Thoughts return to forbidden RAM upgrades as Raspberry Pi OS gets fresh lick of paint
New dock and app launcher arrive while soaring memory prices revive scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware restriction
Academic publisher Elsevier hit by LAPSUS$ redirect attack
Customers got crime crew's calling card instead of access to journals
Closing the observability gap for the AI-ready enterprise
SPONSORED FEATURE: Why AI-driven operations need a data-rich view of the network
The more Americans hear about datacenters, the less they like them
Pew finds growing concern over their effects on energy bills, the environment, and nearby communities
A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
British regulator takes a hard look at Pornhub's Apple-powered age checks
Regulator wants to know whether parent Aylo did its homework before reopening the door to UK iPhone users
Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes
Another utility sees the light in putting existing telecoms infrastructure to work
Swedish celebs campaign for public rudeness ... to prevent cyber scams
The campaign follows a highly profitable year for crooks targeting the over-60s
Whisky merchant Master of Malt confirms customer data spilt
Attackers had four days to drink in names, addresses, emails and phone numbers
BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth
MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored
UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes
XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests
Why security belongs in the network
SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Merging security into the network makes enterprise protection more agile
Shut up and calculate: Jev's new AI primitives for coders
Developers test what they can build with TypeSafe's fast, typed decision model
In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols
Kids can learn why BGP matters in a semester, but that won't leave them ready to implement it
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
Meet superintelligence' and the globalist scheme' - probably a polite diplomatic letter - to control it
Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down
Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions
'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2
Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team
Not that there's anything wrong with it
ShinyHunters claims FBI hack: 'This is NOT financially motivated'
This time it's personal
ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline
FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM
NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past
BigDiskBuster leaves Microsoft's antivirus running but unable to install updates
Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode
China's AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws
Privacy group slams EU for changing the data rules to cater to AI
Schrems campaign raises specter of another legal challenge as legislators propose changes to GDPR
UK cops arrest 2 EvilTokens suspects, Microsoft seizes 50 phishing kit websites
Used by crims to compromise 12K+ email inboxes across 10K+ global orgs
Who signed off on that AI agent? Nobody? Thought so.
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI agents may be unpredictable. Who they are, what they can do, and who owns them shouldn't be.
Well-done hack flames 3.2M Burger King Russia users
HIBP confirms cybercrims stuck a straw into marketing reservoir, sucking up six-years of leaky Whopper secrets
EU datacenter green scorecard finally escapes Brussels
Long-delayed sustainability labels land as Commission eyes minimum efficiency standards
Register reader hit with surprise bill after Microsoft portals disagreed
Did Copilot write the synchronization code?
Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition
Campaigners tell Burnham not to trade away the UK's tech tax to please Trump
Letter lands ahead of the PM's first face-to-face meeting with the US president
NHS Trust IT blunder overwrites 11 years of maternity records
Human error sent reused instructions at the wrong database, taking historical access logs with it
Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'
Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications
Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival
Amix gains newer CPU support and a package manager as Open Look joins the retro comeback
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
Mike Bracken says the dash to adopt sovereign AI risks giving more control to a handful of tech suppliers
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
Gartner predicts 55% of enterprise VMware users will be investigating an exit by 2029
Chasing pack has its problems too, with maturity, cost, and complex licenses
California tightens datacenter rules on water and power
Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope
Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug
Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club
Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too
Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds
Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain
Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic
Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts
Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts
'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face
Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing
'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains
London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street
Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO
AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land
Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny
AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals
Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework
RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment
National cyber team confirms the breach, but not whether data was stolen or encrypted
Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty
Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game
Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door
Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey
Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site
Rival crew demands eight figures and threatens to expose companies that paid to keep quiet
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