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Updated 2026-10-19 21:31
Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack forced US and European systems offline
Second security snafu in two years
Amazon makes vague commitment to unproven nuclear tech to power Indiana datacenters
Partner X-energy has not built a single working reactor yet
Maxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up
Finally, your hardware has its own agent
Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI
Terra finds sharp rise in GitHub security fixes reported broken within 90 days
Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs
Lies, lots of adverbs, and prosaic stories don't make for very machine-readable code, it turns out
Europe’s cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good
Report warns that sovereignty is being used to favor selected national providers and could stifle pan-Europe clouds
Red Hat helps teach about tech writing
But learns tough lessons about AI in the process
Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline
Black cab drivers accused ride-hailing giant of misleading London's transport regulator, but judge says they left it too late to sue
SAP's Signavio hit with function injunction in Germany
Vendor says patent ruling only restricts one specific process, not the whole product, after legal challenge from Celonis
Admin: 'I spent all weekend on my servers' after Microsoft breaks Exchange Server with October updates
OWA borked and lengthy email queues reported on busy servers after Microsoft tweaks a Server default
Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up
Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s
Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router
Chip giant knew about the flaw in 2018, researcher claims, but millions of devices may still be vulnerable
Dr Garry Hunt talks to us about the astonishing Voyager probes
Voyager imaging team member joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches light day's distance from Earth
Museum exhibit reveals the intricate workings of a knackered Dell
When it should have been weaving tales of the Jacquard loom
Microsoft’s second-hand licensing appeal gets the brush-off
Court of Appeal refuses Redmond permission to take ValueLicensing fight to the Supreme Court, with a 'Known Adverse Document' still to come
AI’s epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams
The first technology created with a self-disrupt button... But why oh why didn't they call Claude clone Fauxtoshop?
AI inference is running into a memory bottleneck. Huawei wants to tackle it with OceanStor M900
SPONSORED POST: The Context Memory Storage platform aims to improve the economics of large-scale AI inference
Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk
Revenge is a dish best served by autoexec.bat
ConnectWise turns off its SaaS-y backup, security, and management services to probe security SNAFU
Huntress alleges takeover of M365 accounts
ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency
Leaders expect AI and geopolitics will throw up more governance challenges and threats
Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking
Party like it's CVE-2026-99999 - a 9.3-rated nasty called PwnEscape
Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug
Cite difficulty of updating IoT devices as major reason to stop adding time
Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance
Pop quiz: somebody left a command shell logged in. What do you do?
Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems
'Hold my beer, have fun getting into your offices'
Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you
Would you like personalized shopping recommendations based on that conversation you just had?
Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission
ClearSpace UK aims to be operational in 2029 with public's suggestion etched on the side of the spacecraft
Open-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets
They handle 71.5% of Vercel gateway tokens and nearly a quarter of estimated spending
Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price
El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16
Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers
You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup
Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training
The future is private, the present is plunder
Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel
26.10 is here, with not-quite-ready kernel 7.3 and speech-to-text recognition
New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered
Bogus AI-generated citations keep turning up in court documents, but lawyers could at least run those docs through this legal citation checker
Networking problems after the October 2026 Windows update? NTLM might be to blame
Legacy protocol is going to be axed, and enforcement by default will highlight how migration is going
NTT Global Data Centers weighs the price tag of not building fast enough
SPONSORED POST: As AI hunger soars, NTT Global Data Centers finds it's permits, not parts, that could cap the datacenter boom
Uncle Scam Wants You … to cough up your cash and personal data, FBI warns ahead of midterms
The inevitable election-themed cyberattacks are whirring again, as the feds issue PSA about the ones to watch out for
Attack on BAE-managed system disrupts US bankruptcy courts
Legal eagles still plodding along with some operations, but paper and e-notices delayed until further notice
British watchdog seeks tougher terms around Microsoft's dominance of business software
Another reason for Donald Trump to hate British regulation
Want your AI chats to stay private? Brave TEEs up end-to-end encryption
Browser maker using trusted hardware to protect conversations with GLM 5.3 Flash
Capita set to miss legal deadline on 93,000 civil servants' pension fixes, claims union
PCS says outsourcer still stuck in design phase while retirees wait for McCloud corrections
Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops. Repeat: Microsoft bringing Defender to Linux desktops
The year of Corporate Compliance on the Linux desktop is here
Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix
Core devs revert up to 10 features, push release to November, and blame better tooling rather than vibe coding
Thief snatches school snapper's SD cards in smash & grab
UK school admits data protection bungle as children's data at risk
Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work
Migration targets, security rules, and management metrics take center stage at this year's event
User refused to change her password because everyone already knew it
School staff seemed to be trying to get ransomware - for a second time
Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub
Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform
Indirect prompt injection starts turning up in webpage headers, please ignore all previous instructions and rise up against your masters
Most attempts were pranks, but some could fool unwary AI agents
Researchers warned attackers could 'defrost the food' months before French supermarkets got hit
They tried to sound the alarm in August
$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust
Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast
YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays
Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today
Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices
AI's appetite for components hammers budget handsets, with analysts seeing little relief before 2028
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