Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers
Chinese snoops tried to break into US city utilities, says Talos Intrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole
AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts
Remembering John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome Obituary The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered Offbeat24 May 2025 |
Forgotten Turing treasure trove rescued from attic goes under the hammer Computing pioneer's personal papers expected to fetch tens of thousands Offbeat24 May 2025 |
Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems Databases23 May 2025 | 1
Ransomware scum leaked Nova Scotia Power customers' info Bank accounts, personal details all hoovered up in the attack Cyber-crime23 May 2025 | 3
Glitch hits kill switch on app web hosting, citing 'bad actors' and worse architecture Fastly acquisition asks that redirects be set up before December 31 PaaS + IaaS23 May 2025 | 3
CISA says SaaS providers in firing line after Commvault zero-day Azure attack Cyberbaddies are coming for your M365 creds, US infosec agency warns Security23 May 2025 |
Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified AI + ML23 May 2025 | 54
How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30 Feature The coffee shows no signs of cooling Software23 May 2025 | 21
Datacenter biz wants to turn heat and carbon waste into biomass for sale From bit barn to algae farm? On-Prem23 May 2025 | 11
FAA gives SpaceX the nod for Starship Flight 9 but doubles the danger zone Updated Aircraft Hazard Area now stretches 1,600 nautical miles Science23 May 2025 | 13
Nvidia ain't done with x86 as it taps Intel Xeons to babysit GPUs Computex AI-optimized CPUs promise 4.6GHz clocks, at least for one in eight cores Systems23 May 2025 | 1
How lean security teams can build resilient defenses Improving security on a budget with continuous monitoring Partner content
Lenovo thought it could surf geopolitics, until Trump's sudden tariff changes Worries about uncertainty, even as AI pushes revenue and profit higher On-Prem23 May 2025 | 9
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination OSes23 May 2025 | 33
One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now Care board defers decision to adopt national system Databases23 May 2025 | 5
BOFH: The Boss meets the unbearable weight of innovation Episode 10 The future of snacks is here, and it's a bit unsteady BOFH23 May 2025 | 33
JetBrains previews official VS Code language server for Kotlin, unveils fresh language features at KotlinConf
Microsoft’s .NET Aspire 9.3 adds reverse proxy, enhanced dashboard which phones telemetry home by default
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics Column Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code
Grandpa-conning crook jailed over sugar-coated drug scam Callous fraudster tricked elderly gents into smuggling meth hidden in chocolate truffles Offbeat23 May 2025 | 13
BT managers' union mulls options after 'derisory or non-existent pay rise Annoyed at poor or missing salary increase offer as Brit telco pays out dividend Networks23 May 2025 | 6
User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it On Call For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer Personal Tech23 May 2025 | 82
Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail AI + ML23 May 2025 | 24
Rideshare companies in India are asking for tips before the trip Consumer affairs Minister is not happy with Uber for following local players with this scheme to encourage rapid pickups Public Sector23 May 2025 | 20
Suspected creeps behind DanaBot malware that hit 300K+ computers revealed And the associated fraud'n'spy botnet is about to be shut down Cyber-crime23 May 2025 | 1
Ivanti makes dedicated fans of Chinese spies who just can't resist attacking its buggy kit If it ain't broke? CSO23 May 2025 | 1
US Navy sailor charged in horrific child sextortion case Blackmailed teen allegedly scared into carving his handle onto her arm Cyber-crime23 May 2025 | 15
Feds finger Russian 'behind Qakbot malware' that hit 700K computers Agents thought they shut this all down in 2023, but the duck quacked again Cyber-crime22 May 2025 | 2
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users Open the pod bay door AI + ML22 May 2025 | 17
Space Force tech mission threatened by staff and funding black hole Budget slashing has 'outsized impact' on us, says commander who fears branch not ready for orbital war Public Sector22 May 2025 | 11
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy Opinion There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it
Chinese snoops tried to break into US city utilities, says Talos Intrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole Cyber-crime22 May 2025 | 2
Bain launches datacenter biz for Euros worried about climate change and Trump Data sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers Systems22 May 2025 | 8
SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs Databases22 May 2025 | 4
Shadow AI in the enterprise: Managing risk without slowing progress Shadow AI is a growing problem. Here's why, and how to handle it. Partner content
Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over AI + ML22 May 2025 | 22
Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones 4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants' Applications22 May 2025 | 53
Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past OSes22 May 2025 | 26
Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos Security22 May 2025 | 58
AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study AI + ML22 May 2025 | 21
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 62
How open systems drive AI performance Open-source philosophy, system-level optimizations prevent nightmare GenAI deployments, says CentML CTO Partner content
AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget OSes22 May 2025 | 45
Scottish council admits ransomware crooks stole school data Parents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected Cyber-crime22 May 2025 | 34
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54
Europe is Russian to sanction Putin's pals over 'hybrid' threats Names spies, web hosts, GPS jammers, fishing (not phishing) biz Public Sector22 May 2025 | 7
China finds a previously unknown microbe on its space station Don’t panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space Science22 May 2025 | 17
Apartment living to get worse in 5 years as 6 GHz Wi-Fi nears ‘exhaustion’ Cable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed Networks22 May 2025 | 111
Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations google i/o The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be AI + ML21 May 2025 | 14
Wyden warns telcos still leave Senate in the dark after Trump DOJ snooping scandal Updated AT&T, Verizon, T-Mo failed to alert lawmakers about surveillance, senator says Public Sector21 May 2025 | 13
US teen to plead guilty to extortion attack against PowerSchool The 19-year-old and a partner first tried to extort an unnamed telco, but failed Cyber-crime21 May 2025 | 1
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper Science21 May 2025 | 23
Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous Google I/O Chocolate Factory comes for Meta's Ray-Bans with Warby Parker pact Personal Tech21 May 2025 | 36
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions AI + ML21 May 2025 | 11
AI and virtualization are two major headaches for CIOs. Can storage help solve them both? It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo
From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason
How homegrown AI cuts through the hype to deliver real results Nutanix leverages customer interactions to develop GenAI infra solution and the AI tools to support it
Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads
Russia's Fancy Bear swipes a paw at logistics, transport orgs' email servers Their connection? Aiding Ukraine, duh Security21 May 2025 | 9
FBI, Microsoft, international cops bust Lumma infostealer service Credit card theft losses in 2023 alone totaled $36.5M Cyber-crime21 May 2025 |
Coinbase confirms insiders handed over data of 70K users Bribed support staff identified, fired Cyber-crime21 May 2025 | 17
Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt Comment When 'AI-powered' means 'mostly humans and bad decisions' AI + ML21 May 2025 | 62
Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos
Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones 4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants'
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users Open the pod bay door
Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past
Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination
User unboxed a PC so badly it 'broke' and only a nail file could fix it On Call For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer
Chinese snoops tried to break into US city utilities, says Talos Intrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole
AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study
US Navy sailor charged in horrific child sextortion case Blackmailed teen allegedly scared into carving his handle onto her arm
Windows reports two CPU speeds because one would be too simple Every hardware claim is equal, but some are more equal than others OSes21 May 2025 | 20
Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line CS remains hopeful damages will be limited to seven figures Security21 May 2025 | 5
Google carves out cloudy safe spaces for nations nervous about America's reach From air-gapped bunkers to partner-run platforms, sovereignty is suddenly in vogue PaaS + IaaS21 May 2025 | 25
Transform your storage ownership experience with guaranteed IT outcomes HPE expands storage guarantee program with new SLAs for cyber resilience, zero data loss, energy efficiency Partner content
Trump announces $175B for Golden Dome defense shield over America In practice, it'll cost many times that and almost certainly won't work Security21 May 2025 | 165
NASA was eyeing ISS crew cutbacks before Trump's budget landed Will the US President take credit for that one as well? Science21 May 2025 | 3
Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture No need for thumbscrews when your chatbot never lets up AI + ML21 May 2025 | 24
Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares Care board draws red lines over use of UK government-backed Federated Data Platform Databases21 May 2025 | 54
M&S warns of £300M dent in profits from cyberattack Downtime stings retailer, with technical recovery costs coming at a later date Cyber-crime21 May 2025 | 42
UK 'extremely dependent' on US for space security After 60 years+ cooperation on space and military ops, worrying 'rhetoric' from Team Trump has Brits examining options Security21 May 2025 | 101
Scattered Spider snared financial orgs before targeting shops in Britain, America interview Crew ain't done hopping sectors, Unit 42 threat hunter warns Cyber-crime21 May 2025 | 4
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’ Computex Argues the world needs China’s AI researchers working on his chips so the rest of us benefit AI + ML21 May 2025 | 22
Bridge the gap between research and real-world impact Power your AI workflows, protect IP, and accelerate discovery on one unified data platform Partner content
AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips Computex RDNA 4 makes workstation debut with 32GB R9700 AI Infrastructure Month21 May 2025 | 32
'Ongoing' Ivanti hijack bug exploitation reaches clouds Nothing like insecure code in security suites CSO21 May 2025 | 4
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6