BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress Systems Approach Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour
Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits
GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist Hybrid of GNUstep and Xfce channels classic NeXT vibes
Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so' Interview French provider seizes on Redmond's admission that US law could override local protections
Windows Backup for Organizations doesn't actually save data files Not a disaster recovery option, but good enough for a migration OSes27 Aug 2025 |
Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says Security27 Aug 2025 | 1
Word to autosave new docs to the cloud before you can even hit Ctrl+S Feature rolls out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, stashing unnamed files in OneDrive by default Applications27 Aug 2025 | 5
Bun JS toolkit adds MySQL driver, secrets API, YAML, and more Feature bloat, or added value for this JavaScript toolkit? Devops27 Aug 2025 |
Nx NPM packages poisoned in AI-assisted supply chain attack Stolen dev credentials posted to GitHub as attackers abuse CLI tools for recon Devops27 Aug 2025 |
Uncle Sam throws AI 'chili cook-off' to spice up healthcare fraud detection No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data Public Sector27 Aug 2025 | 2
The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams Don't let it happen to you Cyber-crime27 Aug 2025 | 5
Taiwan indicts three over alleged theft of TSMC trade secrets Chipmaker keen to protect assets as race for 2nm process heats up Systems27 Aug 2025 |
Classic Psion fan releases proof-of-concept language server for OPL Vintage computing boffinry to please palmtop enthusiasts Applications27 Aug 2025 | 6
Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so' Interview French provider seizes on Redmond's admission that US law could override local protections Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2025 | 20
GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist Hybrid of GNUstep and Xfce channels classic NeXT vibes OSes27 Aug 2025 | 8
VMware customers say bye-bye Broadcom and vote for Nutanix Many seeking a replacement for VMware are turning to Nutanix as a strategic choice Sponsored feature
Salesforce data missing? It might be due to Salesloft breach, Google says Attackers steal OAuth tokens to access third-party sales platform, then CRM data in 'widespread campaign' Cyber-crime27 Aug 2025 | 3
What a difference 2 years makes: MariaDB buys back SkySQL Because the DBaaS has lately become AI-tastic, among other things Databases27 Aug 2025 |
EchoStar sells off its spectrum for more than its total market cap $23B deal with AT&T shows where the money is Networks27 Aug 2025 | 6
VMware: The private cloud's main purpose is now keeping developers happy The DevOps dance has new steps, but Virtzilla thinks it can teach ops folks to tango Virtualization27 Aug 2025 | 1
Unlike most of Musk's other ventures, Starship keeps it together for Flight Test 10 Explosions all expected and on schedule this time Science27 Aug 2025 | 41
Who are you again? Infosec experiencing 'Identity crisis' amid rising login attacks Vendor insists passkeys are the future, but getting workers on board is proving difficult Research27 Aug 2025 | 34
Datacenters face rising thirst as Europe dries up Analysts warn cooling demands could outstrip supplies as heatwaves intensify Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2025 | 25
More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will surive Quick, get some investment money before the bubble bursts Systems27 Aug 2025 | 2
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it Who, Me? Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the fallout
Intel pitches Clearwater Forest as a consolidation play for all you hoarding ancient Xeons Hot Chips Chipzilla's first datacenter part to use 18A process tech is another core-packed monster Systems27 Aug 2025 | 4
BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress Systems Approach Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour Networks27 Aug 2025 | 8
Google issued ‘State-backed attack in progress’ warnings after spotting web hijack scheme Suspects this was Beijing-backed Typhoon and/or Panda crew targeting diplomats in Asia Security27 Aug 2025 |
Trump stomps feet, pulls out 't-word' again over China rare earths ban World War Fee 'They have to give us magnets' Science26 Aug 2025 | 86
Anthropic teases Claude for Chrome: Don't try this at home AI am inevitable, AI firm argues AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 7
Google takes Photoshop to the woodshed with new image AI It will even draw legs and arms not in the source material AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 38
First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it's not active – yet Oh, look, a use case for OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b model Cyber-crime26 Aug 2025 | 1
Azure apparatchik shows custom silicon keeping everything locked down Hot Chips From hardware security chips and trusted execution pipelines to open source Root of Trust modules Cloud Infrastructure Month26 Aug 2025 | 4
AI robs jobs from recent college grads, but isn't hurting wages, Stanford study says Machine-learning models are automating away some entry-level roles AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 12
DOGE accused of duplicating critical Social Security database on unsecured cloud Remember that cost-cutting group once led by Elon Musk? Federal employees are still dealing with it Security26 Aug 2025 | 50
ZipLine attack uses 'Contact Us' forms, White House butler pic to invade sensitive industries 'Many dozens' targeted in ongoing campaign, CheckPoint researcher tells The Reg Cyber-crime26 Aug 2025 | 5
BOFH: HR plays checkers, IT plays 5D chess Episode 16 It's not sabotage if you log a maintenance ticket first
Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits VMware Explore26 Aug 2025 | 18
Cupertino must stop calling Apple Watches 'carbon neutral,' German court rules Judge says label is 'misleading' Personal Tech26 Aug 2025 | 10
Uncle Sam speedruns AI chatbot adoption for federal workers The GSA is letting AI chatbot makers jump the FedRAMP queue Public Sector26 Aug 2025 | 4
The APAC AI paradox: unlocking potential amidst evolving perceptions APAC consumers love AI productivity gains, slightly less keen on the whopping energy bills Partner content
Microsoft tweaks Windows Out of Box Experience for enterprises to adjust control freakery Administrators can get patches installed via Intune before the first login PaaS + IaaS26 Aug 2025 | 13
Citrix patches trio of NetScaler bugs – after attackers beat them to it Criminals already abusing its latest zero-days Cyber-crime26 Aug 2025 | 2
ESA engineers trace anomaly in silent Juice spacecraft to a bug in the code Timer fail blamed for probe going quiet as Venus looms Science26 Aug 2025 | 18
Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates Applications26 Aug 2025 | 70
Asahi, Nikkei sue AI search outfit Perplexity for copyright infringement Tokyo filing adds to mounting actions against startup AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 3
Crypto thief earns additional prison time for assaulting witness Remy Ra St Felix led a vicious international crime ring Cyber-crime26 Aug 2025 | 9
Build with confidence with Azure Essentials How Microsoft's Azure resources help IT teams unlock cloud and AI value Partner Content
Two scrubs, one Starship: Third time lucky for SpaceX? We've going to Mars! Oh no – anvil clouds! Science26 Aug 2025 | 66
Docker Desktop bug let containers hop the fence with barely a nudge Isolation? We've heard of it Devops26 Aug 2025 | 5
Farmers Insurance harvests bad news: 1.1M customers snared in data breach Crims raided third-party systems and lifted personal data, including license numbers and partial SSNs Cyber-crime26 Aug 2025 | 4
Silver State goes dark as cyberattack knocks Nevada websites offline Phone lines also down as officials rely on social media to issue updates Systems26 Aug 2025 | 3
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave Updated Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 89
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us Security26 Aug 2025 | 18
Two wrongs don’t make a copyright Opinion What the Dickens is going on in Germany? Legal26 Aug 2025 | 78
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech COMMENT Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions Public Sector26 Aug 2025 | 67
VMware finally porting Cloud Foundation to Arm – in baby steps EXCLUSIVE Because AI, like everything else this year VMware Explore26 Aug 2025 | 2
Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning GPU modules for AI and robotics take aim at latency Edge + IoT25 Aug 2025 | 2
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse Comment 10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape Systems25 Aug 2025 | 42
VMware before Broadcom was 'a unicorn in fluffy cloudland' The CEO of VMware's most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what's gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better VMware Explore25 Aug 2025 | 10
How fixed wireless access can bridge the digital divide wherever you are Wireless reaches the parts fiber can’t
Riding the AI current: why leaders are letting it flow Would you let AI make lifestyle decisions for you? Statistically, the two people sitting next to you would.
Google's open lakehouse: the foundation for enterprise AI data Unifying data to support AI applications used to come with trade-offs. Not any more, says Google
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license Databases25 Aug 2025 | 7
xAI fires legal rocket at Apple and OpenAI claiming they're locking out Grok Lawsuit 'consistent with Mr Musk’s ongoing pattern of harassment' says Altman's crew AI + ML25 Aug 2025 | 35
Solid-gold nav bars? Trump plans redesign of government websites Okay, who has the gold leaf, paint, and #FFD700? Public Sector25 Aug 2025 | 72
The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon Opinion Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be Columnists25 Aug 2025 | 214
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave Updated Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find
Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits
VMware before Broadcom was 'a unicorn in fluffy cloudland' The CEO of VMware's most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what's gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better
Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us
Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech COMMENT Poor defenseless tech companies need help despite massive profits, low tax bills, and monopoly positions
Google kneecaps indie Android devs, forces them to register Sideloaders face ID checks, fees, and paperwork as Chocolate Factory tightens gates
Trump made Intel an offer it couldn't refuse Comment 10 percent equity and maybe that $8.9 billion in CHIPS funds you're waiting on doesn't get lost in red tape
Cupertino must stop calling Apple Watches 'carbon neutral,' German court rules Judge says label is 'misleading'
Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 HANDS ON Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking about Personal Tech25 Aug 2025 | 12
Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech It was a simpler time Personal Tech25 Aug 2025 | 114
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative Science25 Aug 2025 | 49
A data architecture for the age of AI How Google BigQuery is evolving to power AI-driven insights at scale Sponsored Post
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors Asia In Brief PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more! Security25 Aug 2025 | 46
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp Infosec in brief Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage Security25 Aug 2025 | 8
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp Hands on Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC AI + ML24 Aug 2025 | 7
Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous ways to do it feature For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it Security24 Aug 2025 | 9
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are AI + ML23 Aug 2025 | 18
VirtualBox 7.2 fixes flaky 3D guests and adds Arm-on-Arm support hands on Oracle-backed FOSS hypervisor a worthy rival to Hyper-V and VMware Virtualization23 Aug 2025 | 30
The Unix Epochalypse might be sooner than you think Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037 OSes23 Aug 2025 | 115
US government snaps up 10% of Intel for $8.9B The funds were already allocated under the CHIPS Act and Secure Enclave program Systems23 Aug 2025 | 65
Beeline and ZTE advance Kazakhstan's digital future with Giga City 2.0 ZTE and Beeline Kazakhstan unveiled Giga City 2.0 – a transformative initiative marking a new era of AI-driven innovation and sustainable connectivity Partner Content
Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges Cloud Infrastructure Month22 Aug 2025 | 10
Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft among major customers Cyber-crime22 Aug 2025 | 7
AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes AI + ML22 Aug 2025 | 18