Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'
PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle
Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus
Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian
It did get sourced, but nobody cared
Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates
It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing
Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines
GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges
AI + ML18 Jul 2025 |
Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027
That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else
Systems18 Jul 2025 |
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state
Comment And we’re the ones building it
Offbeat18 Jul 2025 | 20
YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims
Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device
Legal18 Jul 2025 | 8
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters
PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2025 |
As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out
Analysis WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably
SaaS18 Jul 2025 | 27
Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus
2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time
OSes18 Jul 2025 | 7
Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight
Comment With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?
PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2025 | 9
The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement
Interview We spoke to the smoot's namesake
Science18 Jul 2025 | 35
‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’
On Call This job was a car wreck in more than one way
Columnists18 Jul 2025 | 59
EU cloud gang wins Microsoft concessions, but fair software licensing group brands them 'stalling tactic'
Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – but critics say it just buys 'Microsoft more time to lock in customers'
PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2025 |
Power to the people: How Snapdragon’s smartphone DNA is disrupting the PC market
Qualcomm Technologies is back with a non-x86-based processor series that offers power and performance
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VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support
Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation
Virtualization18 Jul 2025 | 1
OpenAI deputizes ChatGPT to serve as an agent that uses your computer
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AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 18
Laid-off AWS employee describes cuts as 'cold and soulless'
Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing
AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 17
Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China
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Cyber-crime17 Jul 2025 | 8
Google VP of development explains how ‘citizen developers’ must be tempered by the pros
AWS S3 gets vector buckets with new algorithms for reasonable performance at lower cost, VP tells us
Hands on with Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications
Microsoft shovels extra Copilot features into VS Code amid dev complaints of ‘more AI bloat’
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production
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AWS goes full speed ahead on the AI agent train
Video Running on Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore aims to pave the path from prototype to production
AI + ML17 Jul 2025 | 1
TSMC aims to make 30% of high-end chips in US with Arizona fab build out
Shovels in the dirt at Fab 3 as Fab 2’s 3nm ramp charges in several quarters early
On-Prem17 Jul 2025 | 18
Watch out, another max-severity, make-me-root Cisco bug on the loose
Updated Three perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby
Patches17 Jul 2025 | 14
FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables
Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first?
Networks17 Jul 2025 | 23
PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle
Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus
Applications17 Jul 2025 | 127
Fujitsu sorry for Post Office horror – but still cashing big UK govt checks
Updated Non-competitive £220M datacenter deal with tax collector tops £510M pile of public money
Public Sector17 Jul 2025 | 43
Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'
Research17 Jul 2025 | 80
Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x
New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers
AI + ML17 Jul 2025 | 9
Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists
The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity
Science17 Jul 2025 | 62
Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian
It did get sourced, but nobody cared
OSes17 Jul 2025 | 106
Microsoft offers vintage Exchange and Skype server users six more months of security updates
It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing
Patches17 Jul 2025 | 10
BOFH: The auditor is asking too many questions. We have just the laptop for that
Episode 13 Sale, skip, or blackmail – your asset disposal options explained
Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor
Bayesian optimizations apparently build better slabs
Off-Prem17 Jul 2025 | 33
Intel swings the axe again as it looks to lose 5,000 staff
Updated Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic
On-Prem17 Jul 2025 | 11
Trump tax law keeps Bill Gates' nuclear datacenter dreams alive
The Microsoft cofounder breathed that sigh of relief in a Cipher News interview - just before it folded
On-Prem16 Jul 2025 | 20
Review: How Passwork 7 helps tame business passwords
A simple interface and new roles-based capabilities make this venerable password manager an attractive proposition
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Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed major Russian drone maker's entire network
'Deeply penetrated' Gaskar 'to the very tonsils of demilitarization'
Security16 Jul 2025 | 96
Operation Eastwood shutters 100+ servers used to DDoS websites supporting Ukraine
Two Russian suspects in cuffs, seven warrants out
Cyber-crime16 Jul 2025 | 12
Ex-OpenAI engineer pulls the curtain back on a chaotic hot mess
'Everything breaks when you scale that quickly'
AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 18
Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all
Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three
Networks16 Jul 2025 | 33
Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?
Westinghouse taps Big G's cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming
AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 17
JWST peers through dusty curtain to catch young star making baby planets
Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape
Science16 Jul 2025 | 5
The cloud-native imperative for effective cyber resilience
Modern threats demand modern defenses. Cloud-native is the new baseline
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Crims hijacking fully patched SonicWall VPNs to deploy stealthy backdoor and rootkit
Updated Someone's OVERSTEPing the mark
Research16 Jul 2025 | 3
Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time
Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered
OSes16 Jul 2025 | 36
ASML shares tumble as US tariff turmoil rattles investors
World War Fee AI boom can't mask trade gloom, says Dutch lithography giant
Systems16 Jul 2025 | 5
Retailer Co-op: Attackers snatched all 6.5M member records
Supermarket announces white hat education scheme as four suspects released on bail
Cyber-crime16 Jul 2025 | 27
Turbulence at Air Serbia, the latest airline under cyber siege
Exclusive Attack enters day 11 and still no public disclosure of what insider claims to be 'deep breach' of Active Directory
Cyber-crime16 Jul 2025 |
UK tech minister negotiated nothing with Google. He may get even less than that
Comment Peter Kyle promised alternative to 'ball and chain' of legacy systems, but he has no plan and little power
Public Sector16 Jul 2025 | 40
If you want a picture of the future, imagine humans checking AI didn't make a mistake – forever
Column CEOs will chase illusory profits as workers are left to pick defective items from an agentic production line
AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 53
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out
Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
Channel16 Jul 2025 | 47
Starlink says SpaceX targeting 2026 for launch of Starship-ready terabit satellites
Network update reports median 25 ms latency – in the US – as capacity rockets upwards
Networks16 Jul 2025 | 37
Uber to roll out thousands of robo-cabs built by China’s Baidu
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AI + ML16 Jul 2025 | 16
AMD cleared to join Nvidia and resume selling some underpowered AI chips to China
Waiting for license approval but plans to resume shipments of the MI308 accelerator soon-ish
Systems16 Jul 2025 | 4
Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop
Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots
AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 21
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File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime
Cyber-crime15 Jul 2025 | 17
German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk
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AI + ML15 Jul 2025 | 52
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Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'
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Updated Our sources tell us mostly back office staff were let go, and that the mood in the office is very pessimistic
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It looks like enough of you are struggling to migrate that Redmond is willing to help out – for a price that might buy nothing
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Networks15 Jul 2025 | 1
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CIOs pause net-new IT investments as global tariff jitters bite
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Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere
Storage15 Jul 2025 | 9
Britain's billion-pound F-35s not quite ready for, well, anything
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Meta reveals plan for several multi-gigawatt datacenter clusters
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Nvidia to resume sales to China – with Trump administration approval
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Malaysia closes a back door that may have allowed US-sourced AI chips to reach China
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