Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount
Database from legal advocacy group details growing unease with warrantless panopticon| www.theregister.com - Articles
More than 100 water systems were hit in July cyberattacks
'These are test runs for a larger-scale attack'| www.theregister.com - Articles
GitHub Actions was down yet again
Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test| www.theregister.com - Articles
MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case
Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job| www.theregister.com - Articles
Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too
Zuckercorp ties $5.3B of its payout to rivals playing along| www.theregister.com - Articles
Memory crunch: Cloud operators may be pushed to splurge 68% of capex on DRAM and NAND
Rising costs of new kit due to soaring memory prices likely to feed into cloud service bills| www.theregister.com - Articles
Boston Scientific discloses 'global disruption' in ongoing cyberattack
No timeline to restore IT systems as probe remains ongoing| www.theregister.com - Articles
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed
One AI and two trained eyes delved into the heavily padded leaks| www.theregister.com - Articles
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027
SPONSORED FEATURE: How do you plan for AI and virtualization when the clock is ticking this loudly?| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension
Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive| www.theregister.com - Articles
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database
Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company| www.theregister.com - Articles
Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist
AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work| www.theregister.com - Articles
Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist| www.theregister.com - Articles
SpaceX plans to plant $100B Starbase on Louisiana coast
Plans to break ground in 2027, produce own propellent, power in 'self-sustaining' spaceport. All before Starship ships v1.0 orbit| www.theregister.com - Articles
Nigel Farage wants to scrap 'suffocating' UK GDPR
Reform UK's leader proposes 'light-touch' alternative, although rival politicians say plans are sparsely detailed and inconsistent with reality| www.theregister.com - Articles
UK supermarket scales go 404 on shoppers
Tesco produce not found? But beware the forbidden scales...| www.theregister.com - Articles
Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose
Eight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces| www.theregister.com - Articles
Sopra Steria's £370M Capita spat heads for 2028 courtroom showdown
French SI still crying foul over shared services contract, alleges bid was 42% under DWP's own cost model| www.theregister.com - Articles
India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets
A space station by 2035 is ISRO’s new mission| www.theregister.com - Articles
Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over
Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through| theregister
Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action
Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud| www.theregister.com - Articles
Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough
Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful| www.theregister.com - Articles
Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis
The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal| www.theregister.com - Articles
Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you
Shared memory is live, with no option to separate it between services, Anthropic tells us; Claude Code stays apart for now| www.theregister.com - Articles
McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'
Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft spots ClickFix scam spreading Lumma infostealer
: Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselves| theregister
EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters
State and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits| www.theregister.com - Articles
You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack
Attackers now ready to exploit how things work, rather than just break them, says Oracle support expert| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing
Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade| www.theregister.com - Articles
Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop
OpenAI wants you to thank it for keeping a permanent record of all your discussions with its bots| www.theregister.com - Articles
US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor
Dutch electronics giant saw right through ex-engineer’s plot, albeit over a year after it all unravelled| www.theregister.com - Articles
OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast
128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin| www.theregister.com - Articles
Windows XP was released to manufacturing a quarter of a century ago
So incredibly stable, govt branches, banks, and dentist offices still haven't figured out how to close it| www.theregister.com - Articles
SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter
Rack-mount system intended for software porting, workload optimization, to bring open standard to the bitbarn| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft breaks WPF printing with .NET update
Summer in Redmond, Winter for everyone else| www.theregister.com - Articles
CISA slaps its tightest three-day patching deadline on perfect-10 Oracle flaw
Disclosed in January and honeypots buzzed soon after, CISA says it’s finally time for the USG to plug the gap| www.theregister.com - Articles
Ukraine unveils native jet-powered drone interceptor
Fast and lightweight unmanned aircraft is designed for easy deployment and fits in a pickup truck| www.theregister.com - Articles
Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads
Sponsored search results lead developers straight into a ClickFix malware trap| theregister
HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp
Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era| www.theregister.com - Articles
What is virtualization modernization?
SPONSORED EXPLAINER: Why you should take a long-term approach to rethinking your virtualization portfolio| www.theregister.com - Articles
Australia’s record industry won’t chart tunes recorded in the key of AI
This is basically a riff on ‘You wouldn’t steal a car’ and means only the human league can have a hit| www.theregister.com - Articles
SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
And fly ‘significant scale’ in 2028 – a claim that isn’t entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt| www.theregister.com - Articles
IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently
Cunning plan to expand the amount of software that runs on mainframes is also an admission ISVs are focusing their energies elsewhere| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds
Privacy? Not if you use hosted AI services| www.theregister.com - Articles
You don't want this Sleepwalker backdoor on your Windows machine
Its own command language, 23 instructions - signs point to 'well-resourced operation rather than an opportunistic one'| www.theregister.com - Articles
Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks
Glassbox dev admits he had some help from Claude to build locally running tool| www.theregister.com - Articles
Conjure cash with old Macs by linking them to AI inference Borg
Darkbloom distributed inference network promises to put underutilized Apple kit to work| www.theregister.com - Articles
Windows NT 4 went on sale 30 years ago today
The version that started to bring all Microsoft’s pieces together| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you| theregister
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants
McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials| theregister
SPONSORED: The backup Microsoft never promised you
SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think| theregister
Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again
Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result| theregister
YouTuber's backyard fab ambitions expand from RAM to homebrew LEDs
Dr. Semiconductor's latest project lights the path toward what he tells us he hopes becomes a cottage chip industry| www.theregister.com - Articles
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant
No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg| www.theregister.com - Articles
Logitech hit by sueball over tariff refunds
Complaint: Peripheral maker did not want to unplug itself from higher prices and hand back cash to customers| www.theregister.com - Articles
Users mash LinkedIn's AI slop button 1M+ times in 3 weeks
Or: Shock as users of world's largest slop repository report lots of slop| www.theregister.com - Articles
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot
The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?| www.theregister.com - Articles
What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble
Gemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators| www.theregister.com - Articles
Tesla to recall almost three million vehicles over hidden door handles
At least it looks cool, right Elon? China demands changes ahead of ban on new models in 2027| www.theregister.com - Articles
Oracle Exadata Database@AWS offers advantages, but trade-offs remain
Cloud giant allows customers to get more from Oracle hardware, but will try to gain more workloads on the side| www.theregister.com - Articles
ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach
Attackers took a look at an employee's identity dashboard, but security firm says that's as far as they got| www.theregister.com - Articles
Microsoft sounds alarm over perfect-10 Entra ID flaw
Redmond says the cloud identity bug is already fixed| theregister
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?| theregister
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Offbeat stories and capers for like-minded technology professionals| theregister
Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave
Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing| theregister
An ultra-rare piece of Microsoft history could be hiding on your shelf
Red Tetris stickers and shirtless Windows 95 tots - accidental collectibles gathering dust| theregister
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP| theregister
Microsoft flips Windows Backup to on by default unless you're in the EU
Everyone else must opt out manually if they don't fancy settings data shipped off-device| theregister
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI| theregister
AI slop is good for business if you know what you're doing
Your irresponsibility is someone else's opportunity| theregister
AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice - Corey Quinn
Quarantining leaked credentials is not good enough| theregister
US claims 15 of the world's top 20 hyperscale datacenter locations
Northern Virginia alone accounts for nearly 12% of global capacity, though new builds are shifting inland| theregister
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The Register is an iconic enterprise technology news website read by millions of IT pros around the world| theregister
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar
A nice little summer job for someone| theregister
Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026
: Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web| theregister
Android, iOS apps bad for privacy, study finds
Plus 'widespread potential violations of US, EU, UK privacy law' as an added bonus| theregister
Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity
Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop| theregister
Study finds Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data
Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, survey shows| theregister
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon
Turns out this space thing really is hard| theregister
1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
Another one bites the dust| theregister
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems| theregister
ShinyHunters claims yet another Salesforce customers breach
: And they abused a Mandiant-developed open source tool in the attacks| theregister
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'| theregister
Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents
Makes agreement under nose of Oracle, which gets its own $7 billion defense deal| theregister
Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals
Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender| theregister
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Latest news on database software and vendors| theregister
Google claims AI first after SQLite security bug discovered
: You snooze, you lose, er, win| theregister
Mozilla warns UK: Breaking VPNs will not magically fix Britain's age-check mess
Firefox maker says the tools are basic security infrastructure, not teenage contraband| theregister
Rethinking VPN: Tailscale startup packages Wireguard with network security
'A whole bunch of tunnels': Mesh networking with per-node permissions and OAuth security| theregister
After rewriting SQLite in Rust, Turso turns its sights on Postgres
Cloud database upstart wants one virtual machine core to power multiple SQL frontends| theregister
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages
Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset survived months of hunting and required a new logging tool to identify| theregister
Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon
But AI has come along just in time to cover being dumped by Apple| theregister
AMD attacks the rack with Helios systems that rival Nvidia's
Spec for spec, the House of Zen's first rack-scale AI compute platform is bigger and faster than Nvidia's Vera Rubin by nearly every metric, but that's only on paper| theregister
AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300 APUs, GPUs
Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100| theregister
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider
Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company| theregister
Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia
Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start| theregister
AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets
The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first| theregister
Amazon Q2 earnings: strong results, much baloney in press release - Corey Quinn
'Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies'| theregister
IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic, stock sheds more than a quarter of its value
CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'| theregister