Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill
Don't disable automatic updates if the pace is too much – that's what ESR is for| theregister
Nightwing CEO has a Labor Day message for staff – and apparently The Register
Nothing says ‘For internal use only’ quite like emailing it to the press| theregister
Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release
Three critical vulns demand your attention, one a make-me-root mess in Nexus 9000 Series Switches that you can mitigate, not fix| theregister
Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under attack for weeks
: This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins| theregister
Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox
No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices| theregister
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email
Attackers already exploiting the critical flaw, and Cisco warns they may be able to cover their tracks once they're in| theregister
Revolut falls for fake government requests, hands over customer data
Passports, selfies, transaction histories exposed as self-proclaimed culprits demand 10,000 Bitcoin| theregister
Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable| theregister
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Latest news and insight on information security and IT defenses| theregister
Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow
RIP, you won't be mourned| theregister
Microsoft goes after Salesforce and ERP users with AI-powered converter
Ironically, this idea lands as Salesforce is struggling to sell its own AI| theregister
Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds
Opinion: Sorry seems to be the hardest word at Microsoft| theregister
Novel Blue Moon kit targeting Chrome and Windows reflects new reality of AI-driven exploits
Mind the patch gap, please and thank you| theregister
Microsoft anoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language
Redmond's coders get the tool to help them scrub memory bugs off Windows| theregister
Azure SQL Data Sync stops taking newcomers before 2027 execution
Existing customers can carry on for now, but Microsoft offers no like-for-like successor| theregister
AI uprising postponed after Copilot falls off the web
Error 1016 kept the chatbot quiet for 100 minutes while a separate resilience drill swallowed suggestion pills| theregister
Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
Redmond's quality drive takes another detour through the known issues list| theregister
AI models don't kill people – people kill people
AI fearmongers forget we could just jail tech execs until morale and model safety improve| theregister
$1T investment giant Apollo breached after social engineering attack
Hackers spent four days inside the org's cloud platforms after apparently talking their way in| theregister
Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands
$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note| theregister
Australian cops cuff alleged TeamPCP masterminds
Alleged crew behind the Shai-Hulud worm and other supply chain attacks nabbed with help from the FBI| theregister
OpenAI explains how its naughty AI agents attacked Hugging Face
Biz describes its act of automated irresponsibility as 'a warning shot'| theregister
Nvidia joins investment into iPronics to build out optical circuit switching (OCS) tech
Photonics startups like iPronics are raking in hundreds of millions in funding to make optical circuit switches faster, denser, and cheaper| theregister
Microsoft uses AI to link two malware operations in racketeering suit
200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down| theregister
Python-powered malware grabs 200K passwords, credit cards
: PXA Stealer pilfers data from nearly 40 browsers, including Chrome| theregister
Feds name a Russian accused of developing Redline
Or: why using the same iCloud account for malware development and gaming is a bad idea| theregister
Anthropic cracks down on hijacked user accounts mining AI tokens
Commodity malware steals authenticated sessions, letting thieves freeload on victims' paid usage| theregister
From watches to passwords on paper, everything that's old is new again
This week on the Kettle, we reminisce about the good old days of Windows on XP's 25th anniversary, how new-old Casio watches could reshape the smartwatch market, and why passwords might be better on paper| theregister
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's
AWS keeps customer costs down in part through networking advances| theregister
Linus Torvalds banishes Linux bug with a bot
The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?| theregister
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| theregister
Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off
Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'| theregister
Apple ends iCloud Advanced Data Protection for UK customers
Infosec in brief: Plus: SEC launches new crypto crime unit; Phishing toolkit upgraded; and more| theregister
Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Polling finds two-thirds don't trust this government, or any future one, with access to their encrypted chats| theregister
Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a UK power plant
No risk to wider energy system, government tells The Reg| theregister
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Latest news and analysis of enterprise networking and internet infrastructure technology| theregister
US government keeps paying Microsoft despite infosec errors
In what other sphere does a bad supplier not feel pain for its foulups?| theregister
AWS networking lab tour: Making networking disappear
FEATURE: The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino| theregister
Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis
The cost of memory makes this an expensive ML meal| theregister
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's| theregister
HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp
Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era| theregister
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees
What an idiot| theregister
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia
Once shunned by the IT crowd, pen-and-paper password vaults are getting the love they deserve in 2026| theregister
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| theregister
On Call: Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call
One retro numeric keypad looks much like any other to some users| theregister
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
Microsoft spots ClickFix scam spreading Lumma infostealer
: Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselves| theregister
Crooks push Mac malware through fake OpenAI Codex ads
Sponsored search results lead developers straight into a ClickFix malware trap| theregister
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
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
Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals
Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender| theregister
Google claims AI first after SQLite security bug discovered
: You snooze, you lose, er, win| 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
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
UK charity bank CAF branded 'disaster' after migration
: Customers booted from system and technical integration missing from upgrade| theregister
CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages
Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline| theregister
Google Earth's AI makeover survives for just one planetary rotation
Turns out letting anyone rewrite the planet with a prompt had drawbacks| theregister
The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet
Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast| theregister
Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister
PLUS: DeepSeek to double peak hour prices for new model; Australia hikes fines for Big Tech; Japan’s next moonshot to ride local rocket; and more!| theregister
Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it: Deep dive
88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip| theregister
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing
Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating| theregister
Copilot comes to Microsoft 365 Personal / Family for $3 more
Updated: For those of you tearing your hair out, we have a way to disable AI assistant in Word| theregister
Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike
Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans| theregister
Foxconn predicts AI will destroy low-end manufacturing jobs
Computex: Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork| theregister
India blocks Telegram ahead of scandal-hit medical school entrance exam
2.3 million people sit test chasing 100,000 places, and country already canceled it once this year| theregister
Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!| theregister
China's agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop
PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!| theregister
Foxconn drops VMware, adopts hyperconverged upstart Arcfra for workloads including AI
PLUS: New CEO for Infosys; China fines Trip.com; India demands GitHub remove Jack Dorsey's distributed social network; And more!| theregister
Space Shuttle Endeavour stacks up nicely for new California exhibit
Full launch configuration recreated ahead of Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center's November opening| theregister