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Updated 2026-10-29 15:17
Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs
PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says about the road ahead
Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline
Officials confirm this week's tax deadlines extended to November as a result
Systemd adds support for Rust
What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!
Critical launch for Vulcan as ULA targets Friday the 13th
Hopefully without disintegrating SRB nozzles
Shortlist of age checks for the UK's under-16 social media ban is out, 'some' adults will need verifying
Some adults may not need to prove it, but many will
Attackers turn GitHub issues into supply chain campaign against 61 public repos in less than an hour
'The workflow automatically is triggered within a second, and if the workflow is indeed vulnerable, then the attack is executed successfully'
LibreOffice's 'no AI' stance meets LLM-assisted code
Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules
Traces of new Pi hardware spotted in GitHub
A new Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A seen lurking in the repository
Microsoft breaks New Outlook attachment opening with Edge Update
Attachments in New Outlook come undone thanks to Windows' fundamental interconnectedness of things
Matrix takes sovereign messaging into the realm of the tech giants
Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'
Admin dropped the F-bomb in a password to show hackers who was really 1337
Cursing in login credentials can help keep the bad guys out, but not when the rest of your security is BS
HPE puts storage to work on AI’s expensive memory problem
PARTNER CONTENT: HPE Alletra MP X10000 cache offload delivers up to 20* faster time to first token in testing validated by Kamiwaza. Apparently, remembering things beats calculating them again.
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon looks like a diamond in the rough
Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO
Boffin's software found a possible dwarf planet - a result so rare he thought it must be a bug
2026 ED138 is way out beyond Neptune and perhaps the smallest known object of its type
Tape is so not dead that Fujifilm will increase production capacity 5x
Because, sigh, AI
Google struggling to make AI Mode searches pay
That's a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud
Please state the nature of the medical emergency: Google is building a robot medic for NASA
The AI medical assistant is still being tested. Now the space boffins want to give it hands
Anthropic engineer declares the coding interview dead
Why give people tests that AI aces?
Oracle celebrates end of Cybersecurity Awareness Month with quadruple trouble
Attackers probe another EBS bug, and ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft 0-day turns out to involve three vulns
Amazon tells tokenmaxxing devs to slow their AI roll
Focus more on what matters, please, like creating useful software and accomplishing company goals
GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down
Re-architects site to cope with AI slop-pocalypse
Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive roles
Artem Stryzhak joined both gangs, which targeted businesses and a hospital during the pandemic
How Google fumbled the frontend with Angular 2
All Things Open Talk provided lessons in how not to upgrade a software package
Microsoft faces potential vote: Shareholders curious about its plans to tackle emissions
Greenhouse gas output has risen dramatically since the company promised to become carbon-negative by 2030
China's spaceplane bears striking resemblance to America's X-37B
Defense Intelligence Agency space report includes a rare orbital snap of the Chinese craft, and it looks rather familiar
Intel gets tax breaks while local authorities lose revenue, claims policy org
Report accuses corp of getting subsidies for its fabs from Oregon and New Mexico that deprive those states of vital funds
Cisco open sources tool for detecting AI agents on hacking sprees
Project Quarry aims to provide a 'shared language' for evaluating agent behavior
123 Reg discloses 'AI cyberattack' on customer data, suspects China nexus
Company chiefs believe the attackers could be the same as those who used ARTEX to breach South Korea's financial giants
Open Cosmos steps up Europe's space sovereignty game, shows off ConnectedCosmos satellites
El Reg takes a tour of a satellite nursery for customers thinking about de-risking dependence
Man spends 35 years collecting corporate waffle, turns it into an app
Why waste time thinking of something useful to say when an app can leverage synergies for you?
Neocloud thinks AI agents - not meatbags - will be its main customers
Quake AI is developing APIs to let autonomous agents access its services more efficiently
Why roaming packages have become an anachronism in the age of app-first travel
PARTNER CONTENT: Connectivity at all times, abroad
SK Hynix says memory shortages to persist until 2030
Good for its bottom line, not great news for yours, or for the PC and smartphone markets
AI slows growth for Infosys and keeps it afloat at the same time
Predicts slower growth as savings from automation hit price of extended deals
Big Red gets cozy with Google to offer TPUs to AI customers
Oracle plans to add those chips alongside new Nvidia hardware and OpenAI services as businesses await AI payoffs
Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute
Meet CLAUDE_CODE_EVEN_MORE_DANGEROUSLY_SKIP_PERMISSIONS
AI 'hacker' finds 4 severe bugs in popular industrial control software in under 4 hours
One critical, three high-severity EPICS bugs could disrupt research experiments
Apple takes powerful M6 chip to the MacBook Pro, iMac
6th-gen M-series silicon promises more cores, faster memory, a fatter NPU, and better connectivity, now in more form factors
EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors
Noyb files five complaints in four member states over alleged tracking of workers on Scale AI's Outlier platform
ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux
Classic Platinum or lickable Mavericks-era Aqua - it's your choice
Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack
University hospitals once again accepting patients after initial ambulance diversion, but recovery to continue in phases
Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year
Revenue up, operating profit up, 30 million paid Copilot seats locked in, 88 DCs added, $43.8 billion returned to shareholders
CISA confirms PHP2Shell under attack as researchers clock successful exploits
Both critical PHP flaws land on the agency's exploited list as infosec pros confirm hackers are getting working shells
A whopping 3% of boardroom execs spy productivity and costs savings from AI
A load more are spending more than they expected and forecast to shell out even more in 2027
Apple's foldable phone has a crease in its reputation
Admits a 'small number' of iPhone Duos have display problems, and no, you're not folding it wrong.
When file infrastructure becomes the bottleneck
Legacy NAS, VPNs, and file-sync workflows leave hidden costs in their wake. Is the way your organization manages files still fit for purpose?
Microsoft releases out-of-band Windows fixes with certificate updates
Did you hear the one about eMudhra and the power of 4? Time to get connected to certificate trust list updates
Attack on email hosting provider for German far right party AfD exposed 345k accounts
Alternative fur Deutschland swats away scandals as reporters swarm leaked email tranche
UK ministers had plenty of time for AI datacenter bosses, but none for environmental groups
Investigation finds businesses dominated govt meetings while communities were left out of decisions about AI Growth Zones
FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases
Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions
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