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Updated 2026-10-14 11:17
Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno
Tick, tick, tick, tick, ticket, ticket, tick tick
KPMG tech and data boss tells staff facing the boot he's getting promoted
Paul Henninger shares news of his move up via email as around 200 colleagues prepare for redundancy
OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper
FBI alleges covert recorder was plugged into a TV, with a second device later discovered in the employee's bag
The AI math isn't mathing as infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue
Analyst predicts 80% of neoclouds will disappear as standalone businesses by 2030
UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns
Whitehall's digital staffing falls short of its own target as ministers leave the skills gap unresolved
It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill
New models arrive so fast, we already have more new tech than it's possible to understand in a career
Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff'
37% of ransomware attacks involve psychological or physical threats, global survey found
Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code
When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo
CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many
Nick Andersen wants to work with private industry on security, but the Trump admin has taken an axe to such efforts.
OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt
Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions
Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks
The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices
Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing
Anthropic took more than two months to alert cops
Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter
Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset'
Jefferies wonders if LLMs will ever beprofitable during the 'ongoing collapse in token pricing'
Microsoft celebrates end of Office 2021 LTSC with MS 365 outage
So how's that cloud migration working out for German and UK users?
NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS
Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations
Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks
96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 2027
AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns
Financial watchdog fears AI spending bust could rattle markets, with mounting debt and cyberattacks adding to the headache
Cyberattacks crank French supermarket refrigeration systems up to 50°C
Stock spoiled at hundreds of stores as manufacturer says affected equipment ran outdated firmware
'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people
Local media reports three weakly protected accounts at small IT biz whose access to national register was abused
European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene
Moody's forecasts server farms could consume 17% of Dutch electricity and 30% of Ireland's by 2035
Owner of fashion brands Hobbs and Whistles joins autumn pwned collection
Several IT systems remain offline and orders face delays as TFG London becomes latest retailer to suffer cyberattack
UK Cabinet Office takes £7.8M hit to kill off recruitment system
Department told to ditch it to get back in line with Shared Services Strategy, plus faces 8.9M fine for IR35 shambles
Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users
Customers report connectivity strangeness in the Intel Connectivity Performance Suite
Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks
Ministers promised faster decisions, but campaigners say the technology is making mistakes while asylum processing times are getting worse
VMware is pushing so many patches, it thinks users need new tools to manage the flood
It's 2026 and Virtzilla reckons it's OK to pay for MFA
Microsoft blames a configuration change for Exchange Admin Center tumble
Rollback fixed things, but stop us if you've heard this before
Chatbot refuseniks edge out users in the US, and they’re not for turning
Pew Research Center finds 51% of Americans say no, cite lack of interest - not know-how - as the top reason
No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally
Fancy a bit of fun? It's always DNS
AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit
CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November
Which AI infrastructure option actually holds a boundary?
Just over two weeks before The Register's Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture.
Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot
'Learn More' shortcut to local setup reportedly patched server-side, leaving users with more involved workarounds
Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline
Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal
UCLA settles Oracle ERP dispute with $3.1M in credits and $1.31M wiped off the bill
University alleged cloud software couldn't meet its needs after years of delays to financial systems overhaul
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition
Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah...
London cabbies want Sadiq Khan to slam the brakes on robotaxis
Union urges Mayor to halt driverless taxi rollout as City Hall report raises questions about safety, congestion, and who's actually in charge
Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's
25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid
Imagine there's no Shiny Hunters – AI could make human hacking crews obsolete
This week on The Kettle, we discuss some arrests and how Mythos' mathematical expertise has led to a second exploited bug that no human would have found
When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS
How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint.
Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world
Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are
Raspberry Pi Desktop catches up with Debian 13 after 4-year wait
Want a lightweight GUI OS for an old PC? Try this first
To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work
While three bosses looked on, our hero made a very expensive mistake
AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'
HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years
And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions
Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips
Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup withElement, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents - handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders
Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
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