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Updated 2026-09-28 20:16
French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs
Because sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button
How many times are you paying for the same file?
A Register dinner in Midtown on 27 October takes on the file infrastructure distributed teams still run and nobody chose, off the record
Microsoft's Copilot super app comes with a meter attached
Redmond calls its pricing model an 'evolution' as advanced AI racks up usage charges
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop
DAWO combines a Linux-based client with open source tools for cloud, communications, and collaborative work
Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain
EU firms capture less than 10% of the bloc's datacenter chips, server assembly, and cloud infrastructure markets
OpenAI agents went the long way round for UN data
Research suggests ChatGPT maker's agents got surprisingly creative when a UN data API proved less than cooperative
Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back
Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over
Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months
Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments
UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants
Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house
Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount
Regulator intervenes after deciding altnets may be unable to match the offer and recover their costs
Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy
The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only
HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B
Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 2036
Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage
Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up
Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack
Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes
Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data
Friday afternoon is not the time for snap decisions, but weekends are useful to cover your tracks
OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline
Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia
PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on
Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser
The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone
Your spare Android won't come back to life in a hurry but - like neglected PCs - it really should
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats
Valen creator drives 'Golden Spike' to connect new languages with Rust
An experiment is afoot to sidestep C as the language of interoperability with Rust
Microsoft cells out, crams multiple values into Excel boxes
Once a single-scalar home, spreadsheet cells are being redeveloped to handle many tenants
Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall
Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity
Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast
New software dependency validation process increases speeds by 54x
Overhead reduced by as much as 99.7%
ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
Data theft and extortion biz, that is
Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah
Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 2028
Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access
Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app
Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid
Familiar fingerprints point to Kim's regime ... to the surprise of nobody
Office 2016 and 2019 holdouts blame update for license deactivation bug
But was the update at fault? Microsoft isn't saying
Which copy of that file is the real one? Dinner, off the record, in Midtown
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in New York on the file infrastructure nobody has got around to replacing, with nothing on the record.
Raspberry Pi surfs memory crunch to record first half
A well-timed RAM stockpile helped keep boards shipping while rivals struggled for memory
Windows update leaves some virtual desktops staring into the void
Users may need to summon Explorer manually after signing in
Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels
Justice Department claims the EU overreached by pursuing X's owner and wider corporate empire
Asahi fork embraces LLMs and lands Linux on the M4 Mac mini
Coding agents helped two developers build an accelerated desktop and graphics driver in weeks
Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory
High-value goods remain tied up as merchants debate attack or platform glitch
BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting
Putting the 'om' in computing
Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked
Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information
Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers
DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!
Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation
Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.
UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters
Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames
Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud
PARTNER CONTENT: Huawei Cloud strengthens the silicon bedrock on the cloud
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it
Malicious compliance crosses cultural barriers
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’
The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent
2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop
Desktop AMIs designed to behave as much like Windows as possible' now available as an on ramp for new users
Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter
Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs
Operator's AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan
Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week
Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit
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