Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke
On Call
Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes …
25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS
All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30
'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it
Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty!
Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU
Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
Two different groups want this valuable spectrum, but can they share?
Networks09 Nov 2025 | 2
Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely
Misdirection is the new resolution at major video game house
Offbeat09 Nov 2025 | 3
Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map
interview Esra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade'
Security08 Nov 2025 | 11
Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
OPINION At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend
Software08 Nov 2025 | 91
Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump
The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off
Off-Prem08 Nov 2025 | 36
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok make very squishy jury members
All three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty
AI + ML08 Nov 2025 | 10
Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones
'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed
Research07 Nov 2025 | 3
AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing
Study finds many tests don't measure the right things
AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 14
Blackwell a no-sell in China as trade deal fails to materialize
Xi and Trump haven't gotten to discuss the chips, though they were supposed to
AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 4
Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
OSes07 Nov 2025 | 36
China warns Dutch away from Nexperia as it lets chip exports resume
Netherlands court still overseeing governance at the chipmaker
Systems07 Nov 2025 | 11
Google's Gemini Deep Research can now read your Gmail and rummage through Google Drive
Even with more info, web giant says agent can't be trusted to keep you healthy, wealthy, and wise
AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 10
‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
Who, Me? One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change
Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions
Multi-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers
Cyber-crime07 Nov 2025 | 19
Researchers want to kill the vibe, propose better model for AI coding
MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software
Software07 Nov 2025 | 17
Musk gets approval for bumper Tesla payout but, unlike his robot, there are strings attached
Behold the one trillion dollar man
AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 61
'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it
Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
OSes07 Nov 2025 | 113
25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS
All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30
Science07 Nov 2025 | 43
Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty!
Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU
PaaS + IaaS07 Nov 2025 | 40
Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth
This kind of material economic impact from online crooks thought to be a UK-first
Cyber-crime07 Nov 2025 | 38
SUPERCOMPUTING MONTH
Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction
Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands
Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers
The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030
$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday
Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot
AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI
Feature How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff
UK tax collector falls short on digital efficiency, watchdog says
Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed
Public Sector07 Nov 2025 | 28
Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke
On Call Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes …
Networks07 Nov 2025 | 129
Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory
We're months away from AI building AI
AI + ML07 Nov 2025 | 62
Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million
Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy
On-Prem07 Nov 2025 | 50
Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people
Redmond's new AI boss is willing to sacrifice performance for the future of our species
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 27
Gootloader malware back for the attack, serves up ransomware
Move fast - miscreants compromised a domain controller in 17 hours
Cyber-crime06 Nov 2025 | 2
Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe
Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 9
OpenAI's Altman and Friar walk back remarks about federal loan guarantees
updated Money-losing biz says it does not need help to meet massive infrastructure commitments
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 27
A word about comments and forums...
Our house, our rules
Cisco warns of 'new attack variant' battering firewalls under exploit for 6 months
Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now
Patches06 Nov 2025 | 4
Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October
ai-pocalypse Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation.
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 37
Union brands Rockstar’s leak claim “a distraction” as protests hit Take-Two London
Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting
Software06 Nov 2025 | 11
Why the future of the datacenter is the infrastructure operating system
From bolt-on chaos to built-in AI: Infrastructure with no assembly required
Partner Content
FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute
Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules
Legal06 Nov 2025 | 22
Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software
Opinion Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 35
Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters
Sustainable vision? Who knows
On-Prem06 Nov 2025 | 25
'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant
It's not a bug, it's a feeling
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 59
Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet
Shopping bots pick first option and are 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 24
You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will
Most of you still can't do better than 123456?
Security06 Nov 2025 | 207
Why UK businesses are paying ICO millions for password mistakes you're probably making right now
Strongly-worded emails to staff telling them to be more careful aren't going to cut it anymore
Partner Content
Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence
Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen
Applications06 Nov 2025 | 9
SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach
Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz
Cyber-crime06 Nov 2025 | 10
Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge
Three hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow
On-Prem06 Nov 2025 | 23
Malware-pwned laptop gifts cybercriminals Nikkei's Slack
Stolen creds let miscreants waltz into 17K employees' chats, spilling info on staff and partners
Cyber-crime06 Nov 2025 | 5
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
PaaS + IaaS06 Nov 2025 | 28
UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn
Parliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services
Science06 Nov 2025 | 30
China uses Mars orbiter to snap interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Middle Kingdom also postpones astronaut return mission after something hit its spaceship
Science06 Nov 2025 | 35
Qualcomm bets on inferencing in the cloud, which Arm says can’t run it all it forever
Awkward, seeing as they’re close partners
AI + ML06 Nov 2025 | 3
Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit
Updated Even offers refunds if users sign up for AI they don’t want, once it fixed a bad link
SaaS06 Nov 2025 | 45
Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks
Some clever networking hacks open the door
AI + ML05 Nov 2025 | 2
Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'
Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs
PaaS + IaaS05 Nov 2025 | 20
Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees'
Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent
AI + ML05 Nov 2025 | 14
SPONSORED FEATURES
How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design
What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption
Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes
No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix
AI's biggest threat isn't skynet, it's thermodynamics
xFusion champions a holistic hardware strategy that tackles the fundamental physics of the modern datacenter
Huawei's ACT pathway powers scalable AI adoption across industries
Company unveils pathway for intelligent transformation
Gorge on Microsoft Store apps with 16-at-once installer
hands on For now it works only with the web version of the Microsoft Store
Applications05 Nov 2025 | 9
Black Hawk chown: DARPA takes helicopter pilots out of the air for $6M
An hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 23
Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B
Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year
Security05 Nov 2025 | 3
When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade
Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build
OSes05 Nov 2025 | 43
Popular
Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it
Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.
AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing
Study finds many tests don't measure the right things
25 years of meatbags permanently in space on the ISS
All good things come to an end, and the outpost is unlikely to reach 30
Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty!
Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU
Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control
OPINION At one point, Microsoft's QC was legendary. Now, it's the wrong kind of legend
Researchers want to kill the vibe, propose better model for AI coding
MIT researchers offer cure for illegible software
Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones
'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed
Meta can't afford its $600B love letter to Trump
The Zuck better hope his finance bros have deep pockets and a whole lotta patience to pull this off
Cybercrims plant destructive time bomb malware in industrial .NET extensions
Multi-year wait for destruction comes to an end for mystery attackers
STORIES
AMD taking AI fight to Nvidia with Helios rack-scale system
CEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers
Systems05 Nov 2025 | 4
Two-fifths of SAP Americas users yet to ditch legacy ERP
S/4HANA migration? Many still worried about business process change
Databases05 Nov 2025 | 7
AMD red-faced over random-number bug that kills cryptographic security
Local privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way
Security05 Nov 2025 | 11
How IT professionals can thrive — not just survive — in the age of AI
Want to be a hot commodity in an AI economy? Get smart and get certified
Partner Content
Attackers abuse Gemini AI to develop ‘Thinking Robot’ malware and data processing agent for spying purposes
Meanwhile, others tried to social-engineer the chatbot itself
Cyber-crime05 Nov 2025 | 6
Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding
Memory safety costs money: Maintainers Fund to directly pay developers for their work
Software05 Nov 2025 | 22
Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions
Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI
Databases05 Nov 2025 |
M&S pegs cyberattack cleanup costs at £136M as profits slump
Retailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials
Cyber-crime05 Nov 2025 | 18
Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees
A ‘three-letter person’ experiments with the new type-safe C, and is impressed
Software05 Nov 2025 | 83
UK agri dept spent hundreds of millions upgrading to Windows 10 – just in time for end of support
After a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 124
Trump turnabout sees him re-nominate amateur astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA
Ruled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 47
Supermicro admits building AI infrastructure is a tricky, low-margin business ... for now
Can’t rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects
Systems05 Nov 2025 | 4
Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage
Net access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll
Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 4
Amazon complains that Perplexity's agentic shopping bot is a terrible customer
Perplexity likens Amazon's legal threat to an attempt to ban access to ... wrenches?
AI + ML05 Nov 2025 | 44
Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters
Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit
Off-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 28
Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not
DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them
Public Sector04 Nov 2025 | 46
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