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Updated 2026-07-02 12:45
India gives WhatsApp three days to defend username rollout amid security fears
Government of the messenger's largest market demands a pause while Meta explains how it plans to stop impersonators
Oracle E-Business Suite was under attack via critical flaw before the public exploit code was even released
Attackers appear to have reverse-engineered Big Red's patch
Connect, disconnect, or just have a lovely beer
Seeking a deeper meaning to a network error
UN warns of need for global governance to avoid an AI-pocalypse
Capabilities are racing ahead of rules to ensure tech is used safely and responsibly, Scientific Panel argues
Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access
Fortunately, they were professional red teamers. Unfortunately, they pwned the network
Trouble keeps finding Supermicro as strange server shipments attract police attention in Taiwan and Singapore
Alleged illicit GPU movements lead to seizure of $42 million house
New humanoid robots from China look like creepy pop star action figures – complete with slightly dodgy lip-synch
They're 90 percent human in some ways, can provide daily companionship psychological support
Oracle outlines all the ways it could lose the farm it bet on AI
Risk factors galore
EvilTokens device-code phishing kit totally more evil than we all thought
It's a 'complete BEC operations environment,' Talos researcher says
Claude Sonnet 5.0 heads straight down the middle of the road to dodge controversy
Safer, cheaper, and nothing to do with cybersecurity
Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors
Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system
Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions
'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'
Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied
'The original incomplete DeepSeek sample can be transformed into a fully functional attack with minimal effort,' Check Point researcher tells The Reg
An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time
SpudCell can feed, divide, and even outcompete its siblings. It's not truly alive, its creator tells us, but it could still transform the bioengineering world
AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models
Penance payments to websites for failing to forward traffic aren't enough
Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding
People trust their AI assistants and it's easy to abuse this trust
NASA unsure Boeing Starliner will ever be certified for human flight
Inspector General's report says time is running out for the Calamity Capsule
When backups aren't enough: the case for real disaster recovery
PARTNER CONTENT: The gap between having a backup and actually recovering from a disaster is wider than most IT teams realize
Microsoft lets Azure Linux 4 out of the cloud in downloadable ISO form
Fedora-derived server distro is ready for local testing, but production deployments should wait
Cloudflare to block cynical search-and-scrape bots from ad-supported web pages
Some crawlers gather data for both search and AI training, so when publishers block them to protect content they risk disappearning from search results ...
DRAM it! Cheap PCs being priced out of existence as memory cost bites
AI server gold rush leaves budget laptops starving for chips as sub-$500 machines down nearly a fifth stateside
Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills
But also claims XenServer 9 is great in the DaaS niche it retreated to a decade back
Brit competition cops fast-track £2B borging of Netomnia into Openreach challenger
Liberty Global, Telefonica, and InfraVia have grand designs on the UK fiber market
Purism launches supersized 16-inch laptop for buyers who put privacy before price
Kill switches, Coreboot, and PureOS target the security-conscious with deep pockets
Boffins peg narcissistic leadership as the real driver behind 'return to office' demands
It's not about productivity; it's about bosses missing their daily ego fix
ZTE honored with two GeSI DWP Global Awards for Signal Reach Program in Africa
How the tech giant's "Rural Ecosystem" initiative is bridging the digital divide across 20+ nations with green connectivity and inclusive services
UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies
Home Office deals with Deloitte and PA Consulting raise questions over Cabinet Office spending controls
Portuguese restaurant kiosk software gives Windows indigestion
Can't verify the publisher's identity? Maybe stick a fried egg on it?
Japan wants 10 million more robots by 2040, some providing medical care
We've learned so much cleaning up after Fukushima, let's level that up with added AI, says minister
Former Indonesian minister and startup hero jailed for Chromebook buys
Nadiem Makarim vows to appeal sentence given he was found not to have profited from $600 million laptops-for-schools program
T-Mobile appears to be quitting VMware – and fighting a very familiar battle for support rights on the way out
303,000 cores that power internal networks headed out the door
Claude Code users complain their chat records are being mysteriously wiped out
Got important chats older than 30 days? You'd better be sure the transcripts still exist
Qualcomm's proposed solution to catch up in AI infra: Bury the compute under the DRAM
With its next-gen AI accelerators, the SoC vendor aims to fly high above the memory wall
Changing AI math could reduce the hardware burden, researchers show
SEMQ promises an abstraction layer for separating semantics from embeddings
Infosec professionals sour on automated pentesting tools
29% of security pros were open to fully autonomous pentesting last year; now only 9% are
Huntress CEO says threat hunter used 'poor judgment' in alerting ransomware crim about law enforcement probe
Ex-employee claims this 'meets the definition of an insider threat'
Meta's non-surgical mind reading machine improves on prior projects, but still isn't great
61% word accuracy is progress, but the system still relies on users typing and can't yet support real-time communication. Implanted BCIs remain well ahead
AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution
DB wrangling tech needs to meet demands of AI agents, Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball tells El Reg
Microsoft previews Linux containers that run in Windows
Linux container CLI and API for Windows applications
What the OCI MSA didn't solve for AI scaling
PARTNER CONTENT: The OCI MSA settled the architecture for optical scale-up. How fast bandwidth scales is a manufacturing question, not an architectural one
Arm64 on the desktop? It’s spendy and it’s sluggish
Even with lots of RAM, GPU, and fast disks, you probably don't want it
UK regulator wants Apple and Google to let devs steer clear of app store fees
Proposals could open cheaper routes for purchases made through third parties
Former Microsoft engineer shrinks Notepad down to size
Rolling back the years and the bloat for veteran text editor
Where there's a will, AI still has work to do
Probate lawyer finds generated document looked the part but missed many of the questions that matter
Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number
Linux 6.18 arrives with a few desktop tweaks, while the neglected x86 edition remains stuck on Debian 11
No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle
Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support
HS2's latest reset ditches autonomous train tech to get project back on track
Britain's most expensive train set loses some of its best toys in bid to actually leave the station
Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals
After several delays in development, Atlas went live without functionality Home Office case manager needed, inspectors say
Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings
Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in
South Korea’s hot new sensation is 3S+1F – a quadrillion-Won AI plan, not a band
Seoul plans to spend about $900 billion to become K-semiconductor powerhouse
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