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One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they'll have to pass it on Exclusive SaaS-y accounting outfit Xero has advised developers who integrate their products with its services that they'll soon have to pay for the privilege in a new way....

It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices Availability of energy will determine the prices charged by datacenter operators, who won't be viable unless they generate some of their own juice....

Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear Systems Approach As we neared the finish line for our network security book, I received a piece of feedback from Brad Karp that my explanation of forward secrecy in the chapter on TLS (Transport Layer Security) was not quite right....

Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability Memory-safe Rust code can now be more broadly applied in devices that require electronic system safety, at least as measured by International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards....

Minister wants to free drivers from dependency on private companies' India's government is set to launch a rideshare platform and app that charges no commission and is intended to make life harder for Uber and its ilk....

First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory? The lure of AI spending was too much for Micron to ignore. On Wednesday, the US chipmaker announced it's abandoning its Crucial memory and storage lineup to bolster its supply of enterprise-focused chips, including those used in AI systems....

Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI The world's smallest digital violin is playing for AI chatbots, which are having a hard time elbowing out their human counterparts for jobs in customer service, according to a Gartner study....

Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg You don't have to be smarter than a fifth grader (or even a first grader) to commit potential copyright infringement using AI tools. One IP attorney watched over the weekend as his young son built a bedtime story generator that used copyrighted characters without permission....

Finish reading this, then patch A maximum-severity flaw in the widely used JavaScript library React, and several React-based frameworks including Next.js allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances. The flaw is easy to abuse, and mass exploitation is "imminent," according to security researchers....

Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and the White House to stop protecting Big Tech against copyright claims....

An anomaly' meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage There's good news and bad news for the Chinese commercial launch industry. The good news is that LandSpace's ZhuQue-3 launched successfully on its maiden flight. The bad news is that a hoped-for recovery of the first stage ended in a fireball....

Talk about enshittification No, this isn't a joke: Kohler's poop-scanning toilet attachment, which the company claims is ... uh ... end-to-end encrypted, appears to be anything butt....

LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits Nearly all images from some space telescopes in low Earth orbit could be affected by light from man-made satellites as the number of communication spacecraft surges, new research led by NASA has found....

Starting in March, Frontline Worker and Kiosk-only mailboxes lose EWS access Microsoft is getting serious about the end of Exchange Web Services (EWS) and has announced that, starting in March 2026, it will begin blocking EWS access to mailboxes without license rights....

IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona HPE is laying out its enterprise stall with enhancements to its GreenLake hybrid cloud portfolio, while converging its Aruba and Juniper networking to offer customers AIOps across both, plus high-speed connectivity for AI processing....

Russian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals NASA confirmed this week that for the first time, all eight of the International Space Station's docking ports are currently occupied - four by Russian vehicles....

Statcounter shows the gap narrowing as users cling to older hardware and familiar workflows Windows 11 has not significantly widened its market share lead over Windows 10, despite support for many versions of the latter ending almost two months ago....

Awarded a 239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members Updated Pension scheme members are facing a string of errors and malfunctions as they try to log into and retrieve account details from the UK's civil service portal the government is paying Capita 239 million ($318 million) to build and run....

Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASML The US Department of Commerce has signed a preliminary letter of intent to provide up to $150 million to xLight, a Palo Alto-based startup led by former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger, that is working on extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography....

Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve The last new kernel release of 2025 is here, and it's looking likely this will be the new LTS kernel release....

Japan's Askul still can't run all its sites, but at least the fax line held up OK Japanese e-tailer Askul has resumed online sales, 45 days after a ransomware attack....

Think tank ASPI says Beijing is even using it to steal fish from the ocean China has embraced AI to help it censor and surveil its citizens and is exporting its techniques to the world, according to a new report by think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)....

Extra infosec investments are taxiing towards the runway India's Civil Aviation Minister has revealed that local authorities have detected GPS spoofing and jamming at eight major airports....

AWS Chief Matt Garman lays out his vision bringing artificial intelligence to the enterprise Re:Invent Amazon wants to make AI meaningful to enterprises, and it's building yet another walled garden disguised as an easy button to do it....

If sovereignty or on-prem AI matters, the new AI Factories could be for you re:invent Many businesses and government agencies require that all sensitive data stay on-premises for legal or security reasons. If those orgs want to work with AI, they can't rely on regular public clouds, but now they can let AWS build and manage AI hardware and software in their datacenters....

Autonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking security Re:Invent Amazon is all-in on agentic AI when it comes to software development, and it sincerely hopes you are too, based on Tuesday's AWS re:Invent keynote....

Christmas comes early for attackers this year Two high-severity Android bugs were exploited as zero-days before Google issued a fix, according to its December Android security bulletin....

Isaacman backs Texas relocation amid warnings that costs could top $150M US President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is "committed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston," according to the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)....

Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day The University of Pennsylvania has become the latest victim of Clop's smash-and-grab spree against Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS) customers, with the Ivy League school now warning more than a thousand individuals that their personal data was siphoned from its systems....

Dreams of a virtual world linger on in Teams As of December 1, mixed reality collaboration platform Microsoft Mesh is no more, and Redmond has directed customers to immersive events in Teams....

Hardware bundle ties next-gen accelerators to an Ethernet fabric arriving in 2026 HPE is throwing its weight behind AMD's Helios rack-scale architecture and will offer this as part of its AI portfolio next year, including a purpose-built Juniper Networks scale-up switch....

Amar Subramanya spent mere months at Microsoft before replacing John Giannandrea Apple's failure to deliver advanced AI capabilities has triggered a changing of the guard. AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down in favor of a new leader to steady the Siri ship....

CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival system At the risk of protesting too much in the shifting database landscape, NoSQL-based MongoDB has attempted to trash the competition by claiming PostgreSQL systems lack scalability to keep up with the demands of AI workloads....

Lineup spans 3B to 14B parameters, from edge devices to multi-GPU rigs Mistral AI has released a suite of open source models under the Mistral 3 banner, aiming to scale from a mobile device or drone up to multi-GPU datacenter beasts....

Operation Olympia pulls Swiss servers offline and scoops up 12TB of data in latest crime infrastructure crackdown Law enforcement agencies in Germany and Switzerland have shut down cryptocurrency laundering platform Cryptomixer in Europe's latest pushback against cybercrime infrastructure....

Preview tool promises quicker reviews and faster flaw-finding for cloud apps Re:Invent AI agents are key to launching applications more quickly - and making them more secure from the start, Amazon says....

Meanwhile, Trainium3 makes its debut promising million-chip training clusters Re:Invent Amazon says that its next generation of homegrown silicon will deliver 6x higher performance thanks to a little help from its buddy Nvidia....

Borough says attackers copied 'historical' info as three-council cyber woes drag on Kensington and Chelsea Council has admitted that data was quietly lifted from its systems during last week's cyber meltdown, confirming that the outage was not just an IT faceplant but a bona fide data breach....

Assembly report urges clearer planning as soaring AI power demands strain capital's network The Future of the Datacenter Access to electricity has become a major source of delay for housebuilding in London, and datacenters are inevitably tied up in this, leading to calls for greater oversight of energy and construction planning so that they keep pace with demand....

Regulator says Illuminate ignored years of warnings, stored kids' data in plain text, and kept districts in the dark US edtech provider Illuminate Education just got dinged by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly failing to keep an attacker from pilfering data on 10 million students....

Passenger recounts chaotic scene after robotaxi runs over small dog Self-driving car company Waymo has confirmed that one of its vehicles ran over a dog in San Francisco on Sunday....

2025 Xmas knitware nightmare could be yours if you make us smile: When was peak Microsoft? Free Wear It's that time of year again when Microsoft dispatches its latest Ugly Sweater to The Register, and we spoil a lucky reader that makes us smile by sending you the garment in time for Christmas....

We're getting it baked into Windows whether we like it or not Opinion Making software would be the perfect job if it wasn't for those darn users. Windows head honcho Pavan Davuluri would be forgiven for feeling this of late as his happy online paean about Windows becoming an "agentic OS" was met by massive dissent in the comments. "Agentic schmentic, we want reliability, usability, and stability" was the gist....

Brit astro Tim Peake's much-vaunted mission to the ISS a distant memory Nearly ten years after Brit astronaut Tim Peake visited the International Space Station (ISS), the UK has slipped behind Spain in European Space Agency funding rankings....

Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops....

Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed its 312 million Windows 10 laptop refresh was, in fact, followed by a Windows 11 upgrade after an earlier letter to Parliament misstated the department's operating system timeline....

Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome Opinion There were lots of announcements about Kubernetes at KubeCon North America in Atlanta. I should know, I was there from beginning to end. But the biggest Kubernetes story of all didn't get much attention. Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller. Ingress NGINX goes to that big bit farm in the sky in March 2026. After that, "there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered."...

Buyers get a one-time discount on screen repairs, which hardly screams we nailed this three-screen thing' Samsung has revealed its first tri-fold phone, and it runs the Korean giant's DeX desktop environment without the need for an external monitor....

Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace....

'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security India's government has issued a directive that requires all smartphone manufacturers to install a government app on every handset in the country and has given them 90 days to get the job done - and to ensure users can't remove the code....