Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project
Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel| www.theregister.com - Articles
Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100
Models demand trust without offering verification| www.theregister.com - Articles
TSMC's $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan
Beware of fab makers bearing press releases| www.theregister.com - Articles
EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids
The Chocolate Factory is not amused| www.theregister.com - Articles
AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You
Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year| www.theregister.com - Articles
Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility
Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.| www.theregister.com - Articles
C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest
Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering| www.theregister.com - Articles
NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one
Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad| www.theregister.com - Articles
Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push
Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'| www.theregister.com - Articles
Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack
Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history| www.theregister.com - Articles
AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding
Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure| www.theregister.com - Articles
Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due
One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer| www.theregister.com - Articles
SpaceX open sources Grok Build in same week company was found beaming users' repos to the cloud
AI-and-X subsidiary now claims to offer ‘complete user privacy’ days after Elon Musk confirmed the data would be deleted| www.theregister.com - Articles
AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites
Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery| www.theregister.com - Articles
Telegram shortlinks knocked offline over sanctioned VPN connection
t.me borked for a day until platform proved it had no ties to service favored by cybercriminals| theregister
How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Why to do it, and what to watch out for| www.theregister.com - Articles
Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all
Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything| www.theregister.com - Articles
Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas
It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules| www.theregister.com - Articles
Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel
Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion| www.theregister.com - Articles
Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC
The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner’s systems go down| www.theregister.com - Articles
Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't: releases a frontier AI model that's actually open
Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs| www.theregister.com - Articles
Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design
One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations| www.theregister.com - Articles
Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2
Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown| www.theregister.com - Articles
Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists
Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra| www.theregister.com - Articles
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Offbeat stories and capers for like-minded technology professionals| theregister
Salesforce's Agentforce isn't winning over clients, KeyBanc analysts claim
Investment bank cites messy customer data and a product that 'just isn't there'; Salesforce counters by saying it the fastest-growing product in its history| www.theregister.com - Articles
Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off
Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'| www.theregister.com - Articles
Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report
Report finds regional differences, especially outside the EEA, but it's still a dark tale claiming user manipulation| www.theregister.com - Articles
CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws
Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices
Mega hardware vendor reports problems - but Windows maker isn't yet naming affected models| www.theregister.com - Articles
MPs fear Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall's £1.15B shared services push
'Do as we fund, not as we do' sends 'very poor reputational signal' says damning report| www.theregister.com - Articles
LegacyHive: 'Bone-shattering' zero-day from Microsoft's serial tormentor not the haymaker that was promised
Experts say it’s a useful post-compromise tool, for those with the brain cells required to put it together| www.theregister.com - Articles
AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges
Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push| www.theregister.com - Articles
EU lets wearables wriggle out of user-replaceable battery rules
Miniaturization means a professional's touch is needed| www.theregister.com - Articles
A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32
New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15| www.theregister.com - Articles
EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks
Truce over maintenance fees is a bargaining chip for ECC holdouts – just don't expect a stampede to third-party support| www.theregister.com - Articles
Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5
This elevator is headed for floor Bork| theregister
OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't sabotage – it was a message
Ex-contributor claims he wasn't a rogue admin, hadn't left the project, and never intended to harm the distro| www.theregister.com - Articles
The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web
'We don't serve their kind here' protects today's publishers, but won't help rebels destroy the monetization Death Stars built by Google and Meta| www.theregister.com - Articles
At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills
Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible| www.theregister.com - Articles
South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot
Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs| www.theregister.com - Articles
Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content
PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage| www.theregister.com - Articles
Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update
As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer| www.theregister.com - Articles
OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark
Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder| theregister
Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs
Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days| www.theregister.com - Articles
If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic
Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages| www.theregister.com - Articles
New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts
50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers| www.theregister.com - Articles
DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late
Industry, regulate thyself| www.theregister.com - Articles
Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a screen
Callum Dare encouraged others to carry out dangerous hoaxes, made mini-movies from the footage| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good
Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?| www.theregister.com - Articles
RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet
HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system| www.theregister.com - Articles
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly
Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan| theregister
India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch
Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit| theregister
Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower
The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that| theregister
Gobi X: Creating more energy for AI, not taking it from society
PARTNER CONTENT: How Envision is reversing the datacenter playbook by making computing chase abundant desert power, not the other way around| theregister
Lenovo denies using banned Chinese SSDs where they're not allowed
PLUS: Canadian/Bhutanese datacenter for India; China re-uses a rocket; Australia signals AI intervention; And more!| theregister
It's an AI web, and we're just rats in the walls
Bots, not people, are now the ones who use the internet the most| theregister
AI customers are coming around to the idea that small is beautiful
OpenAI and Anthropic have built AI Swiss Army Knives, but the future may be smaller built-for-purpose tools| theregister
Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin| theregister
Why your legacy storage is choking your expensive GPU
EXPLAINER GPUs idle? Blame your outdated storage, not the silicon sprinters.| theregister
Raspberry Pi OS gets a new kernel but apparently not a new version number
Linux 6.18 arrives with a few desktop tweaks, while the neglected x86 edition remains stuck on Debian 11| theregister
FreeBSD 15.1 lands, but desktop dabblers still have to draw their own GUI
Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job| theregister
.NET's long-term support is not long-term enough, dev complains
Three-year lifecycle leaves enterprises with barely a year to adopt each LTS release| theregister
Red Hat offers RHEL support ‘forever’ for those who need to lock in to legacy tech
Beware the golden screwdriver| theregister
DRAM prices are killing the cheap smartphone
Now eats 60% of a sub-$400 handset's bill of materials and it's only getting worse| theregister
Portuguese bank sign's storage is about to cash out
Time to switch back to paper and harvest that suddenly valuable RAM| theregister
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BOFH: Arrr, I smell piracy, me hearties
Episode 8: Hang on, can't we just turn off the internet?| theregister
BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards| theregister
BOFH: Vibe-coded solutions arrive for problems nobody has
The Boss gives common sense an AI wrapper| theregister
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Major US carrier stored credit card info in the clear, employee learned on first day
It happened at a major US telco in the early 2000s| theregister
Every employee's password was stored in a single Excel file
The CEO thought this was the best way to deal with some email issues| theregister
All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields
It was far too easy for a hacker to get the information| theregister
Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it
Also, missing school iPad resurfaced after coach’s kids uploaded video to YouTube| theregister
One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V
A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system| theregister
BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud| theregister
UK school’s network left wide open for invasion, student found
And the admin password was right in the Active Directory description field| theregister
'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
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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
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
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
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