Self-driving cars, drones hijacked by custom road signs • The Register
: AI vision systems can be very literal readers| 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
AWS cooks up Euro cloud outfit to soothe sovereignty nerves • The Register
: Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025| www.theregister.com
Perplexity's Comet browser faced prompt injection vuln • The Register
updated: Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched| www.theregister.com
CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns • The Register
interview: Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead| www.theregister.com
Google to foist Gemini pane on Chrome users • The Register
: The world’s most popular browser has gained a dedicated sidebar for AI browsing| www.theregister.com
Cursor is better at marketing than coding • The Register
Opinion: Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter| www.theregister.com
JavaScript developer screws over own popular npm packages • The Register
Faker.js and colors.js sabotaged by maker| www.theregister.com
Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack • The Register
Opinion: Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that| www.theregister.com
Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking • The Register
: Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox| www.theregister.com
Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try • The Register
: Four completely non-AI-related trends that will shape the future| www.theregister.com
Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech • The Register
Opinion: It's not just you – things really are getting worse| www.theregister.com
Just the Browser Is just the beginning • The Register
Opinion: Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web| www.theregister.com
Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45% • The Register
: Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide| www.theregister.com
Asus supplier hacked by Everest gang, loses 1 TB of data • The Register
: Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems| www.theregister.com
Mozilla to Apple: we don't care about iOS • The Register
Let us run Gecko or we'll go home| www.theregister.com
Bad Apple Safari update breaks IndexedDB JavaScript API, upsets web apps • The Register
Developers fed up with iGiant neglecting non-native software| www.theregister.com
After six months of stonewalling by Apple, app dev goes public with macOS privacy protection bypass • The Register
So much for preventing malicious software from peeking at sensitive files| www.theregister.com
Apple Safari browser might become the new Internet Explorer • The Register
WebKit engine is well behind the competition| www.theregister.com
Europe gets serious about cutting US digital umbilical cord • The Register
Feature: Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty| www.theregister.com
Don't underestimate pro-Russia hacktivists, warns UK NCSC • The Register
: They’re not the most sophisticated, but even simple attacks can lead to costly consequences| www.theregister.com
Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board • The Register
: Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster| www.theregister.com
Kensington and Chelsea Council confirms data breach • The Register
: Borough says attackers copied 'historical' info as three-council cyber woes drag on| www.theregister.com
Scottish council still reeling from 2023 ransomware attack • The Register
: Audit sympathetic toward Comhairle nan Eilean Siar as staff stretched to capacity trying to recover| www.theregister.com
London councils probe incident hitting shared IT systems • The Register
: Three boroughs confirm investigation amid service outages, disrupted phone lines, and limited online access| www.theregister.com
Glasgow council yanks services offline amid attack cleanup • The Register
: Nothing confirmed but authority is operating under the assumption that data has been stolen| www.theregister.com
Attack on Oxford City Council exposes 21 years of staff data • The Register
: Services coming back online after legacy systems compromised| www.theregister.com
Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data • The Register
: Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected| www.theregister.com
London boroughs limping back online months after cyberattack • The Register
: Direct debits? Maybe February. Birth certificates? Dream on. Council tax bills? Oh, those are coming| www.theregister.com
UK finally vows to look at 35-year-old Computer Misuse Act • The Register
: As Portugal gives researchers a pass under cybersecurity law| www.theregister.com
Makers slam Qualcomm for tightening the clamps on Arduino • The Register
Updated: But the Wiring folks were disenchanted even before Qualcomm swallowed Arduino| www.theregister.com
Official abuse of state security hits code red • The Register
Opinion: UK holds onto oversight by a whisker, but it's utterly barefaced on the other side of the pond| www.theregister.com
Windows boss defends AI push as users plead for reliability • The Register
: Microsoft claims it listens to feedback while complaints mount over everyday usability| www.theregister.com
AI music has beaten hat-act humans, but it's not a victory • The Register
Opinion: Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry| www.theregister.com
Tech's Control Grab Fuels Flight to Open Source • The Register
Opinion: AI slop, Trump tantrums, and zero humans answering phones| www.theregister.com
Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world • The Register
Opinion: Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed| www.theregister.com
Analysis: How Bill Gates discovered the Web • The Register
Two and a half years ago Bill went surfing, and told his execs about the Internet Tidal Wave| www.theregister.com
Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats • The Register
: The force-feeding will continue until morale improves| www.theregister.com
Linus Torvalds: Vibe coding is fine, but not for production • The Register
: Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers| www.theregister.com
AI coding assistants don't save much time: Software engineer • The Register
Feature: 'Stay in control and think for yourself'| www.theregister.com
AI companies keep publishing private API keys to GitHub • The Register
: Security biz Wiz says 65% of top AI businesses leak keys and tokens| www.theregister.com
Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it • The Register
Opinion: From buried settings to geopolitical risk, the business model is surveillance| www.theregister.com
Sony shares bias-busting benchmark for AI vision models • The Register
: Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent| www.theregister.com
New data shows tape is still not dead • The Register
: 176.5 Exabytes of the stuff shipped in 2024, another double-digit jump| www.theregister.com
Tech layoffs continue with cuts at Sony Interactive, Expedia • The Register
Game over for 900 staff as PlayStation London office and more shuttered| www.theregister.com
Sony wants to sell Bravia TVs to China's TCL • The Register
: Hasn't said why, but low share in a slow-growing market suggests it can't be bothered| www.theregister.com
Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge • The Register
: PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings| www.theregister.com
Chap claims Atari 2600 beat ChatGPT at chess • The Register
: 1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs – can you do better with your retro-tech?| www.theregister.com
Tencent Cloud says it's mass producing custom video chips • The Register
Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs| www.theregister.com
EC files objections to Broadcom's VMware deal • The Register
Strangling competition won't fly here, says Brussels| www.theregister.com
Beijing lists the stuff it wants generative AI to censor • The Register
If it reflects 'core values of socialism' it'll be fine. No pressure, then, given that chatbots make many mistakes| www.theregister.com
Nvidia gives long-haul InfiniBand systems a 400G boost • The Register
The platform launches alongside new frameworks for AI preprocessing at the edge| www.theregister.com
Nvidia reveals Hopper-based H100 GPU: Speeds, feeds, systems • The Register
Performance boost promised, power stakes raised by 300 Watts| www.theregister.com
Chips demand evaporates as chipmakers plot new fabs • The Register
Leave it to the economy to throw another wrench into the semiconductor supply chain| www.theregister.com
Why you should start paying attention to CXL now • The Register
The next server you buy will support it, but what's it good for?| www.theregister.com
Juniper sees growing demand for 400G network kit • The Register
Hopefully 80-week lead times a thing of the past| www.theregister.com
Arista makes $4.3b bet on components amid supplies drought • The Register
Component suppliers are cancelling orders on the same week they are due, says CEO| www.theregister.com
Spirent test kit targets 400 and 800Gbps Ethernet • The Register
Expansion of 5G plus 4k and 8k video help drive ever-higher networking tech speeds| www.theregister.com
400Gbps is the new normal for business networks • The Register
Switching demand high as new speeds filter down faster than expected| www.theregister.com
AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them • The Register
exclusive: Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power| www.theregister.com
Patch Tuesday update makes Windows PCs refuse to shut down • The Register
: Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug| www.theregister.com
Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check • The Register
: That went well| www.theregister.com
Google's ghost busters: We can scare off Spectre haunting Chrome tabs • The Register
Site Isolation keeps pages fully separate on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS| www.theregister.com
LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tasks • The Register
: 6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks| www.theregister.com
AI coding tools make developers slower, study finds • The Register
: Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag| www.theregister.com
Oracle, SAP suspend business in Russia amid invasion • The Register
As Moscow tries to retain IT talent with military exemption, a three-year tax suspension for biz| www.theregister.com
Hull City Council launches procurement for £6m ERP system • The Register
Big Red product to become more unstable, unreliable, and less secure after 20 years' use| www.theregister.com
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age • The Register
Opinion: Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware| www.theregister.com
FCC proposes undoing Biden-era broadband benchmarks • The Register
: No more consideration of affordability or 1 Gbps speed goal if Chairman Carr gets his way| www.theregister.com
HP to forge x86 Integrity and Superdome servers • The Register
HP-UX Unix not making the x86 Odyssey| www.theregister.com
Ellison drops iceberg in front of HP's unsinkable Itanic • The Register
Oracle users rush for the lifeboats| www.theregister.com
IBM's Transitive buy presents interesting server options • The Register
Emulation is the sincerest form of fattening| www.theregister.com
Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD info • The Register
: No naming that tune and no album covers| www.theregister.com
Should the UK cyber resilience bill cover the public sector? • The Register
ANALYSIS: Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation| www.theregister.com
Curl project, swamped with AI slop, finds not all AI is bad • The Register
: Artificial intelligence works when humans use it wisely| www.theregister.com
US equalities agency: Workday AI may qualify as job agency • The Register
Judge to hear software vendor's effort to dismiss discrimination case next month| www.theregister.com
Former SAP exec accuses company of age discrimination • The Register
Claims exec was moved to 'retire in place' role are now settled| www.theregister.com
NYT responds to OpenAI's allegations of ChatGPT manipulation • The Register
Media giant's counterfiling accuses AI darling of 'spin' in copyright infringement case| www.theregister.com
Ex-IBM staff ask Supreme Court to hear discrimination case • The Register
Clock is ticking, in more ways than one| www.theregister.com
75% of software engineers face whistleblowing retaliation • The Register
Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more| www.theregister.com
Comedian, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping books • The Register
Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models| www.theregister.com
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than its workers • The Register
At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like| www.theregister.com
Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite • The Register
Clippy 2.0 to help us 'reconnect with the soul of our work' ... just don't mention that lawsuit| www.theregister.com
Study: OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4 'memorized' these books • The Register
: This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit| www.theregister.com
Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI want Copilot case dismissed • The Register
We're not the bad guys in this, Azure empire says with a straight face| www.theregister.com
Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' • The Register
High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans| www.theregister.com
GitHub's Copilot faces first open source copyright lawsuit • The Register
It won't be the last| www.theregister.com
OpenAI, Microsoft, and GitHub hit with lawsuit over Copilot • The Register
Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more| www.theregister.com
GitHub Copilot may steer Microsoft into a copyright lawsuit • The Register
AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one| www.theregister.com
NASA seeks new ideas for Mars Sample Return mission • The Register
: Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks| www.theregister.com
Voyager 2 signal found by Deep Space Network • The Register
Not all heroes wear capes – some are 50-year-old antennas| www.theregister.com
Former head of JPL and Voyager project scientist, dies at 88 • The Register
A legacy of scientific discovery, inspiration and engagement| www.theregister.com
Voyager 1 resumes engineering updates • The Register
All from billions of miles away| www.theregister.com
NASA works on fix for Voyager 1's degraded memory chip • The Register
Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software| www.theregister.com
Voyager 1 fires thrusters last used in 1980 – and they worked! • The Register
Ancient assembler code checked out and now probe's mission can be extended| www.theregister.com
Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them? • The Register
Black Hat: A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is| www.theregister.com
Musk agrees Starlink orbit traffic jam a 'silly narrative' • The Register
Forget the 10x programmer. How about 10x satellites?| www.theregister.com
Boffins slam FCC for dodging satellite environmental reviews • The Register
Boffins say it's absurd that the US comms watchdog won't consider atmospheric harms| www.theregister.com
Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's orbiting spies • The Register
Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant| www.theregister.com
Earth's satellite habit could end up choking the ozone layer • The Register
: Just when you think we've solved chlorofluorocarbons| www.theregister.com