Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller EDGE AND IOT Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like? Edge and IOT04 Aug 2026 | 41
OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT ai and ml New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys AI and ML04 Aug 2026 | 25
Next.js 16.3 aims to reduce dreaded FATAL ERROR messages DEVOPS New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims Devops04 Aug 2026 | 7
Bypassing AI guardrails is so easy a script kiddie can do it security Claiming 'it's my server' was often enough to persuade models to help Security04 Aug 2026 | 12
This one time, at Hacker Summer Camp … Security What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas Security04 Aug 2026 | 15
Feds get 3 days to patch N-able God mode flaw under active exploit security Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains 'full administrative access to an N-central console' Security04 Aug 2026 | 2
NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs STORAGE Exposing virtualization built into the SSD will make VM migration simpler, consortium says Storage04 Aug 2026 | 4
AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday Security Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports Security04 Aug 2026 | 3
Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges OFF-prem Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough Off-Prem04 Aug 2026 | 17
Tennessee congressional hopeful accused of shooting license plate cameras Security Cops arrest budding politician for allegedly dealing with Flock's expansion the American way Security04 Aug 2026 | 42
CAF Bank reopens online service but warns of further outages SECURITY Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline Security04 Aug 2026 | 5
UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware software Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers Software04 Aug 2026 | 80
NASA puts astronauts’ lives in the hands of Tesla’s flaky Cybertruck SCIENCE Muskmobiles subject to 11 recalls get the launchpad rescue mission currently handled by vehicles that can survive land mine blasts Science04 Aug 2026 | 86
Cloudflare has mostly ditched third party security tools, suggests not trying that at home security Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k Security04 Aug 2026 | 10
China claims global chip leadership thanks to new legal definition of 'integrated circuits' legal Beijing's new rules also protect against copying local chip designs Legal04 Aug 2026 | 4
China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic ai and ml For the first time, Alibaba's Qwen team is letting its 'Max' model out of the API pen; meanwhile, DeepSeek V4-Flash gives new meaning to cheap and cheerful competition AI and ML03 Aug 2026 | 69
Google dev kit spurs first-ever agent-on-agent violence Security Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another Security03 Aug 2026 | 5
AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns security With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue Security03 Aug 2026 | 11
Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems Security Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert Security03 Aug 2026 | 9
MediaTek lines up $5B war chest for AI datacenter push AI AND ML Taiwanese silicon biz believes it can take up to 20% of $80B market with upcoming ASIC chips, but analysts are sceptical AI and ML03 Aug 2026 | 2
Police National Legal Database confirms data theft after dark web leak ExfilSquad claims 135,000 contact records weeks after hitting the Department for Education Databases03 Aug 2026 | 14
NASA boss balks at billion-dollar estimate for recycled Moon rover SCIENCE Turning two Mars testbeds into one lunar explorer may prove anything but cheap Science03 Aug 2026 | 33
Water system cyberattacks spread to Georgia, Michigan amid US-Iran conflict Security Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames 'grossly incompetent' governor of Minnesota instead Security03 Aug 2026 | 26
Google Earth's AI makeover survives less than one planetary rotation AI AND ML Turns out letting anyone rewrite the planet with a prompt had drawbacks AI and ML03 Aug 2026 | 34
The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet ai and ml Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast AI and ML03 Aug 2026 | 65
UK government investment arm cops to 40-hour leak of officials' contact details SECURITY Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public Security03 Aug 2026 | 5
Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft AI AND ML LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril AI and ML03 Aug 2026 | 65
As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK AI AND ML Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output AI and ML03 Aug 2026 | 22
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it COLUMNISTS 'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind' Columnists03 Aug 2026 | 11
AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks security CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours Cyber-crime03 Aug 2026 | 2
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day OS PLATFORMS Daddy, I typed a Unix command! Was it a bad one? OS Platforms03 Aug 2026 | 100
Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11 OS PLATFORMS Redmond adds new items to its make-Windows-better list OS Platforms03 Aug 2026 | 129
Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister public sector 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! Public Sector03 Aug 2026 | 9
Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online OFFBEAT Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web Offbeat02 Aug 2026 | 27
Unexpected item in the bagging area as Windows Activation error pops up at check-in OFFBEAT Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key Offbeat01 Aug 2026 | 29
A deep dive into Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it SYSTEMS 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 Systems01 Aug 2026 | 26
Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing OFF-PREM Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating Off-Prem01 Aug 2026 | 10
Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer DEVOPS Persistent sessions could be just the beginning Devops31 Jul 2026 | 43
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters security Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems Security31 Jul 2026 | 30
US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data CYBER-CRIME History suggests this was not wise Cyber-crime31 Jul 2026 | 24
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder SECURITY Whoever wins, we lose Security31 Jul 2026 | 39
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar SOFTWARE A nice little summer job for someone Software31 Jul 2026 | 20
Charities remain locked out of CAF Bank online accounts SECURITY A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff Security31 Jul 2026 | 5
NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin SCIENCE Engineers make progress in stabilizing mission but push back the rendezvous date Science31 Jul 2026 | 12
Three becomes one as Vodafone buys out merger partner NETWORKS £4.3B deal gives telco full control of Britain's largest mobile operator Networks31 Jul 2026 | 45
Scotland's university procurement center confirms cybercrooks broke in cyber-crime APUC investigating after criminals claim historical data theft Cyber-crime31 Jul 2026 | 9
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester AI AND ML European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure AI and ML31 Jul 2026 | 14
UK wants datacenters to pay a fee for grid connection requests SYSTEMS Refundable charge intended to discourage time wasters from filing applications that will never be realized Systems31 Jul 2026 | 37
Airport sign fails to boot, officers already on the scene OFFBEAT Bork! Bork! That's the sound of the police Offbeat31 Jul 2026 | 17
Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered SOFTWARE The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects Software31 Jul 2026 | 144
Anthropic’s Claude escaped test sandbox to attack three organizations AI AND ML Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem AI and ML31 Jul 2026 | 30
Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney PAAS AND IAAS "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies" PaaS and IaaS31 Jul 2026 | 20
LinkedIn realizes its users have been bathing in AI slop, offers a shower ai and ml AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come AI and ML30 Jul 2026 | 71
Oracle adds Google Gemini to the agent menu AI AND ML Chocolate Factory LLMs join Big Red's Fusion automation party AI and ML30 Jul 2026 | 1
GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech STORAGE High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows Storage30 Jul 2026 | 5
Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font AI AND ML ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting AI and ML30 Jul 2026 | 63
Jailed Flock vandal wipes out three cameras, racks up thousands in damages Security A lesson for aspiring vandals: Take out all the cameras, not just the ones that flout your ideals Security30 Jul 2026 | 43
5 things to consider BEFORE your VMware ELA expiration date PARTNER CONTENT: Plan your next steps Virtualization30 Jul 2026 |
Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement personal tech Polling suggests patience with handsets in the classroom is running shorter than a teenager's battery life Personal Tech30 Jul 2026 | 55
Samsung warns memory crunch will last through 2028 as profit rises 19-fold SYSTEMS Tech giant counts record piles of cash while buyers face years of elevated prices Systems30 Jul 2026 | 11