Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked DevOps Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic tech
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change
Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long
Security researchers spent 6 days doing their Chromework, built 1B user exploit Xbow earned a $250K bug bounty and all the AI model got was a lousy t-shirt Security14 Oct 2026 |
Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day after researchers confirm in-the-wild attacks Vendor promises fix for separate privilege-escalation flaw in the coming weeks Security14 Oct 2026 |
Leap seconds face judgment day as time lords prepare to vote Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries Science14 Oct 2026 | 6
Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking What are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet AI and ML14 Oct 2026 | 6
Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007 Browser-based fun to remember a time before Apple's annual cash grab became a thing Offbeat14 Oct 2026 | 1
New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades Systems14 Oct 2026 | 11
Tiny11 puts Windows 11 on a diet without the PowerShell workout New desktop app simplifies stripping out bundled software, with heavier cuts carrying security and support risks OS Platforms14 Oct 2026 | 8
Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable If you thought 1.6 Tbps was fast, just wait, Cisco's USFP targets 12.8 Tbps in a single optical pluggable Networks14 Oct 2026 | 4
US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans PaaS and IaaS14 Oct 2026 | 35
Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support Decades of cross-platform character corruption finally comes to an end for Windows coders Devops14 Oct 2026 | 9
Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno BORK!BORK!BORK! Tick, tick, tick, tick, ticket, ticket, tick tick Offbeat14 Oct 2026 | 4
KPMG tech and data boss tells staff facing the boot he's getting promoted Exclusive Paul Henninger shares news of his move up via email as around 200 colleagues prepare for redundancy Channel14 Oct 2026 | 24
OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper FBI alleges covert recorder was plugged into a TV, with a second device later discovered in the employee's bag Security14 Oct 2026 | 35
The AI math isn't mathing as infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue Analyst predicts 80% of neoclouds will disappear as standalone businesses by 2030 On-Prem14 Oct 2026 | 21
UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns Whitehall's digital staffing falls short of its own target as ministers leave the skills gap unresolved Public Sector14 Oct 2026 | 10
It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill New models arrive so fast, we already have more new tech than it's possible to understand in a career Columnists14 Oct 2026 | 15
Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff' 37% of ransomware attacks involve psychological or physical threats, global survey found Cyber-crime14 Oct 2026 | 5
Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code When continuous integration gits you down, there's always an AI-tuned monorepo Devops13 Oct 2026 | 11
CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many Nick Andersen wants to work with private industry on security, but the Trump admin has taken an axe to such efforts. Public Sector13 Oct 2026 | 2
OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt Geordie's tests recorded 155 activity traces and multiple subagents after dot was given read-only permissions AI and ML13 Oct 2026 | 23
Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks The company unites resources from disparate macOS devices AI and ML13 Oct 2026 | 23
Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testing The Haiku 4.5 model was told to interact with randomly selected web pages, and it anonymously submitted fabricated information through an online form Security13 Oct 2026 | 13
Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter AI and ML13 Oct 2026 | 18
Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset' Jefferies wonders if LLMs will ever be profitable during the 'ongoing collapse in token pricing' PaaS and IaaS13 Oct 2026 | 43
Microsoft celebrates end of Office 2021 LTSC with MS 365 outage So how's that cloud migration working out for German and UK users? SaaS13 Oct 2026 | 17
NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations OS Platforms13 Oct 2026 | 27
Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks 96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 2027 Systems13 Oct 2026 |
AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns Financial watchdog fears AI spending bust could rattle markets, with mounting debt and cyberattacks adding to the headache AI and ML13 Oct 2026 | 37
Cyberattacks crank French supermarket refrigeration systems up to 50°C Stock spoiled at hundreds of stores as manufacturer says affected equipment ran outdated firmware Security13 Oct 2026 | 73
'123456' password linked to Denmark data breach affecting 8.8M people Local media reports three weakly protected accounts at small IT biz whose access to national register was abused Security13 Oct 2026 | 56
European datacenter boom threatens higher energy bills unless governments intervene Moody's forecasts server farms could consume 17% of Dutch electricity and 30% of Ireland's by 2035 On-Prem13 Oct 2026 | 11
Owner of fashion brands Hobbs and Whistles joins autumn pwned collection Several IT systems remain offline and orders face delays as TFG London becomes latest retailer to suffer cyberattack Cyber-crime13 Oct 2026 | 1
UK Cabinet Office takes £7.8M hit to kill off recruitment system Department told to ditch it to get back in line with Shared Services Strategy, plus faces £8.9M fine for IR35 shambles Public Sector13 Oct 2026 | 7
Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users Customers report connectivity strangeness in the Intel Connectivity Performance Suite Networks13 Oct 2026 | 8
Home Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checks Ministers promised faster decisions, but campaigners say the technology is making mistakes while asylum processing times are getting worse Public Sector13 Oct 2026 | 33
VMware is pushing so many patches, it thinks users need new tools to manage the flood It's 2026 and Virtzilla reckons it's OK to pay for MFA Virtualization13 Oct 2026 | 5
Microsoft blames a configuration change for Exchange Admin Center tumble Rollback fixed things, but stop us if you've heard this before SaaS12 Oct 2026 | 18
Chatbot refuseniks edge out users in the US, and they’re not for turning Pew Research Center finds 51% of Americans say no, cite lack of interest - not know-how - as the top reason AI and ML12 Oct 2026 | 41
No shame in the Domain Name game: DNS is doomed, literally Fancy a bit of fun? It's always DNS Networks12 Oct 2026 | 28
AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November Systems12 Oct 2026 | 2
Which AI infrastructure option actually holds a boundary? EVENT Just over two weeks before The Register’s Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture. AI and ML12 Oct 2026 |
Windows 11's easiest account bypass gets the Microsoft boot 'Learn More' shortcut to local setup reportedly patched server-side, leaving users with more involved workarounds OS Platforms12 Oct 2026 | 48
Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex datacenters knock cloud and payments offline Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal Security12 Oct 2026 | 62
ZTE strengthens the implementation of its "Green Digital Path" sustainability strategy in Indonesia PARTNER CONTENT: Driving "Tech for Good": ZTE links local mangrove planting to global decarbonization roadmap Networks12 Oct 2026 |
UCLA settles Oracle ERP dispute with $3.1M in credits and $1.31M wiped off the bill University alleged cloud software couldn't meet its needs after years of delays to financial systems overhaul SaaS12 Oct 2026 | 2
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah… Applications12 Oct 2026 | 10
London cabbies want Sadiq Khan to slam the brakes on robotaxis Union urges Mayor to halt driverless taxi rollout as City Hall report raises questions about safety, congestion, and who's actually in charge Personal Tech12 Oct 2026 | 65
Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's 25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid Offbeat12 Oct 2026 | 36
Imagine there's no Shiny Hunters – AI could make human hacking crews obsolete This week on The Kettle, we discuss some arrests and how Mythos' mathematical expertise has led to a second exploited bug that no human would have found Security12 Oct 2026 | 2
When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint. Devops12 Oct 2026 | 25
Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are Columnists12 Oct 2026 | 53
Raspberry Pi Desktop catches up with Debian 13 after 4-year wait Want a lightweight GUI OS for an old PC? Try this first OS Platforms12 Oct 2026 | 25
To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work Who, me? While three bosses looked on, our hero made a very expensive mistake Systems12 Oct 2026 | 54
AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie' Security11 Oct 2026 | 83
HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years Interview And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions Networks11 Oct 2026 | 84
Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030 Science11 Oct 2026 | 1
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites Security10 Oct 2026 | 39
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software OPINION EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway Columnists10 Oct 2026 | 91
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders Software10 Oct 2026 | 15
Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures AI and ML10 Oct 2026 | 6
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier Security09 Oct 2026 | 8
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4 TB of OneDrive storage What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again Personal Tech09 Oct 2026 | 77
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers Networks09 Oct 2026 | 21
Growing pains: how distributed AI training changes the network between datacenters SPONSORED FEATURE: While linking the GPUs in a datacenter is a challenge, coordinating thousands of them to work efficiently over hundreds of kilometers presents a new set of difficulties. Networks09 Oct 2026 |
Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in AI and ML09 Oct 2026 | 4
Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring Personal Tech09 Oct 2026 | 25
US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year Offbeat09 Oct 2026 | 33
Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch No word on exploitation status, but a 9.5 severity score suggests time is of the essence Security09 Oct 2026 | 7
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference AI and ML09 Oct 2026 | 186
Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired as separate Marketplace charges piled up PaaS and IaaS09 Oct 2026 | 33
BOFH: Smells like team spirit EPISODE 19 In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses BOFH09 Oct 2026 | 108
Whose roadmap is your software estate running on? SPONSORED POST: Vendor roadmaps set the pace of change in most enterprise software estates. Origina argues the business should. Software09 Oct 2026 |
Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell ON CALL Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake Systems09 Oct 2026 | 67
So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes Octocats claim 35x write improvement Devops09 Oct 2026 | 3
India’s tech giants shrug off changes to USA’s skilled visa program As Microsoft denies alleged ‘fraud and abuse’ that sparked the tweaks Legal09 Oct 2026 | 39
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter UPDATED Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex Off-Prem09 Oct 2026 | 74
AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage AI and ML08 Oct 2026 | 10
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in Security08 Oct 2026 | 6
Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers HPC08 Oct 2026 | 5
There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work AI and ML08 Oct 2026 | 8
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up Offbeat08 Oct 2026 | 10
High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47483 Security08 Oct 2026 | 8
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters Systems08 Oct 2026 | 2
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE On-Prem08 Oct 2026 |
Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise Credential-stealing malware detected within minutes of npm release, but impact remains unknown Security08 Oct 2026 | 1
Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms Researchers corroborate parts of Silent Ransom Group dump detailing crypto payouts, cash brokers, and recruitment Cyber-crime08 Oct 2026 | 3
Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness Systems08 Oct 2026 | 11
Fighting GenAI with GenAI: The New Email Security Landscape SPONSORED FEATURE: Old attack, new protections Security08 Oct 2026 |
Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90 OBIT Her team's code kept Apollo 11's landing on course when the guidance computer became overloaded Software08 Oct 2026 | 44
Rust upstart reveals 'reimplementation' of Microsoft Office – with Claude on coding duty ArtCraft adds Word, Excel, and PowerPoint lookalikes to its open source lineup, but they're not ready for production Software08 Oct 2026 | 44
CrowdStrike finds possible bank hacker's CV among exposed AI logs Suspected Chinese speaker used Claude Code and agentic pentesting tool ARTEX in attacks on South Korean lenders Cyber-crime08 Oct 2026 | 2
IBM offloads 'hundreds' of its cloudy VMware customers Broadcom partner 11:11 picks ‘em up ahead of channel death deadline Virtualization08 Oct 2026 | 10