'Free' VPN Hola is LITERALLY flogging access to users' devices
Selling something to you, or selling you to something?| theregister
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims| theregister
AI code boom drives production failures, higher spending
CloudBees survey exposes verification gap| theregister
Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak, says researcher
According to the one person who actually read the research paper| theregister
Technology news and analysis | The Register
The Register is an iconic enterprise technology news website read by millions of IT pros around the world| theregister
Big Tech has not enforced Australia’s social media ban
: Regulator ‘moving into an enforcement stance’ and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll| theregister
ShinyHunters claims Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day hit 100+ orgs
University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg| theregister
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage
This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit| theregister
Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audio
Limping Llama model needs a crutch made of surveillance tools| theregister
GitHub Copilot users threaten exit as metered billing kicks in
'16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'| theregister
Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks
An intern who failed this much would be shown the door| theregister
GOV.UK goes Dutch on payments as it dumps Stripe
Means residents can skip the credit card and use 'pay by bank' for local authorities and services| theregister
Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it
Project Headroom could save you big money, too| theregister
Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another Windows exploit dump
Six 0-days, three under active exploitation, more to come on July 14?| theregister
ICE awards Bi2 $25M contract for 1,570 biometric scanners
And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?| theregister
Dutch navy frigate tracked by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker
: Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse| theregister
Macron's bodyguards show his location by sharing Strava data
: It's not just the French president, Biden and Putin also reportedly trackable| theregister
Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods, warns Bellingcat
We tested it and found a naval officer's partner and kids - they're not kidding| theregister
NSA director appointment blocked over data privacy questions
Senator Ron Wyden puts his foot down – for as long as he can| theregister
How data brokers sell personal info of US military personnel
Health records, financial situations, religious leanings, it's all out there, or so this study says| theregister
US Pentagon scrambles after Strava base leaks. Here's a summary of the new rules: 'Secure that s***, Hudson!'
: What a Strava-palava| theregister
Troops’ phones leaked location data to foreign adversaries
Lawmakers push DoD to tighten smartphone controls after adversaries exploited commercial tracking data| theregister
Mythos sniffs out your bugs, can't fix your bloody idiots
Opinion: AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that| theregister
Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five| theregister
AI agents show they can create exploits, not just find vulns
Mythos and GPT-5.5 muscle out the competition| theregister
Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
AI flaw-finder still under lock and key for now while company figures out guardrails, but extends access to more users including governments| theregister
Don’t blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say
: US unemployment ticked up to 4.4%| theregister
Google reimburses Register sources who were victims of API fraud
But it's holding fast on auto-expanding customers' budgets| theregister
Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar
'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'| theregister
Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion
Plenty of time for bad actors to grab data or hit you with a giant bill| theregister
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives| theregister
Datacenters slurping juice help drive 75% jump in PJM power prices
BYO power for AI bit barns may be the best way to ease the problem, says energy watchdog| theregister
LLMs fail in 8 out of 10 early differential diagnosis cases
: 'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise| theregister
AI doctor's assistant swayed to change scrips - researchers
: Spread false medical info, supersize drug orders, and more!| theregister
OpenAI sees big opportunity in US health queries
: One man's failing healthcare system is another man's opportunity| theregister
Bad AI images a growing problem in biomedicine
: The case of the improbably well-endowed rat| theregister
Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say| theregister
Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer for serious work'
: Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere| theregister
Disgruntled researcher releases two more Microsoft zero-days
Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem| theregister
Using the datacenter as a dining room destroyed data
In the military facility, vermin sniffed out a destructive secret| theregister
Scientists find a common food dye makes skin transparent
: Do try this one at home, using a chicken breast and a recipe| theregister
AI and robots join forces to cook up proteins faster
Applications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration| theregister
US Army eyes alternative proteins for soldiers in the field
Powders, gels, and fermented nutrients could someday join the battlefield menu| theregister
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power
Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues| theregister
Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads
It's in Waterfox too, and there it does what you'd expect| theregister
Discord puts everyone in teen mode by default • The Register
: Although you might be able to wiggle out if its AI age-inference model decides you’re an adult| www.theregister.com
Charities warn Ofcom too soft on Online Safety Act violators • The Register
: Another blow for the legislation as Parliament continues to hear stakeholder views| www.theregister.com
Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache • The Register
: 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them| www.theregister.com
Fujitsu says quantum and AI will replace mainframes in 2035 • The Register
: In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’| www.theregister.com
AI-powered mainframe exits are a bubble set to pop • The Register
: Analysts reckon 70 percent of projects will fail, and 75 percent of vendors in the field will go away| www.theregister.com
IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes for AI support • The Register
: Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute| www.theregister.com
IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge • The Register
: Big Blue leaning on software smarts to modernize COBOL estates and cut costs| www.theregister.com
Moving to a mainframe can be cheaper than VMware: Gartner • The Register
: Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges| www.theregister.com
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone • The Register
: Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives| www.theregister.com
GitHub CLI begins collecting client-side user telemetry • The Register
: Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement| www.theregister.com
Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11 • The Register
: 'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues| www.theregister.com
Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer for serious work' • The Register
: Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere| www.theregister.com
IT blunder permanently erases 145,000 users' personal chats in KPMG's Microsoft Teams deployment – memo • The Register
'Microsoft has confirmed the Teams chat data is not recoverable'| www.theregister.com
Cybersecurity professional getting more work and less pay • The Register
: Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew| www.theregister.com
Microsoft throws spox under the bus in ICC email flap • The Register
Exclusive: Apologizes for 'inaccuracy'| www.theregister.com
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native • The Register
Opinion: Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you| www.theregister.com
Linus may vibe code, but that doesn't make it best practice • The Register
Opinion: For trivial projects, it's fine. For serious work, forget about it| www.theregister.com
Users scramble as critical open source project left to die • The Register
Opinion: Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome| www.theregister.com
Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market • The Register
Interview: 'We should be a public company,' Shuttleworth tells The Reg, just not 'with our trousers around our ankles'| www.theregister.com
The European Union Linux desktop • The Register
Opinion: True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop| www.theregister.com
Microsoft encourages chunk of experienced US staff to leave • The Register
: Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk| www.theregister.com
Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude with 'úpgrades' • The Register
: System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline| www.theregister.com
YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard • The Register
: What are you doing to solve the memory crisis?| www.theregister.com
Anthropic Mythos model can find and exploit 0-days • The Register
: Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way| www.theregister.com
AI agent hacked McKinsey chatbot for read-write access • The Register
: David and Goliath…but with AI agents| www.theregister.com
Manage attack infrastructure? AI agents can now help • The Register
interview: Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg| www.theregister.com
AWS would prefer to forget March in UAE region • The Register
: Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.| www.theregister.com
Meta staff protest surveillance software on work PCs • The Register
: Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI| www.theregister.com
AI-authored code needs more attention, contains worse bugs • The Register
: CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers| www.theregister.com
UK's corporate registry fixes data exposing technical error • The Register
: Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork| www.theregister.com
Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 • The Register
: Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software| www.theregister.com
Claude devs complain about surprise usage limits • The Register
: Holiday hangover?| www.theregister.com
FBI confirms Zodiac Killer's 340 cipher solved by trio of amateur math and software codebreakers • The Register
: Mysterious message, unread for 51 years, turns out to be a bit dull| www.theregister.com
AI agents can't pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks – yet • The Register
: Don't relax: This is a 'when, not if' scenario| www.theregister.com
EFF: California 3D printer bill threatens digital freedoms • The Register
: Proposed law could lock down open source tools and give vendors fresh reasons to inspect print files| www.theregister.com
Devs say Apple still flouting EU's DMA six months on • The Register
: Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling| www.theregister.com
AI-built app on Lovable exposed 18K users, researcher claims • The Register
: Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings?| www.theregister.com
Claude is getting worse, according to Claude • The Register
: Brief outage follows growing number of quality complaints| www.theregister.com
Apple update turns Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user • The Register
: Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode| www.theregister.com
CPUID hijacked to serve malware as HWMonitor downloads • The Register
: Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers| www.theregister.com
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI • The Register
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking| www.theregister.com
Smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers • The Register
: Open letter warns tech is shaping what audiences see while slipping past regulation| www.theregister.com
Godot maintainers struggle with 'demoralizing' AI slop PRs • The Register
: GitHub itself to blame for AI slop pull requests, say devs| www.theregister.com
Copilot swallows your browser. You're welcome • The Register
: Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in| www.theregister.com
Users fume at Outlook.com email 'carnage' • The Register
Updated: Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft| www.theregister.com
HR may have to cajolle employees to use AI: Gartner • The Register
: Employees need guidance and support if companies really want to commit to AI adoption| www.theregister.com
Chatbot data harvesting yields sensitive personal info • The Register
: AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details| www.theregister.com
Claude Code has become dumber, lazier: AMD director • The Register
: 'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket| www.theregister.com
Ruby Central seeks closure with RubyGems fracture report • The Register
: Board-backed account of maintainer ouster is unlikely to settle row over governance, control, and trust| www.theregister.com