Apple’s new 15% mini-app deal finally gets Tencent to cut Cupertino in
When is an app not an app? When it’s a mini app inside another app
Personal Tech15 Nov 2025 |
Thomas is a senior reporter at The Register. His specialty lies in government IT, software development, and the ethical use of artificial intelligence. Thomas has nearly 30 years of experience in technology publishing, including roles ranging from magazine section editor to editor-at-large.
Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee
Who guards the guardrails? Often the same shoddy security as the rest of the AI stack
AI + ML14 Nov 2025 | 7
Execs make rules that control AI usage, then break them for their own work
FOMO trumps corporate governance when it comes to AI
AI + ML14 Nov 2025 | 8
Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out
Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone"
AI + ML13 Nov 2025 | 75
OpenAI GPT-5.1 adds more personalities, loses inhibitions
Updated model may deliver a bit more unwanted content, but will be polite about it
AI + ML13 Nov 2025 | 5
Google apes Apple, swears cloud-based AI will keep your info private
We take your privacy, seriously
AI + ML12 Nov 2025 | 9
Superintelligence probably not happening, but AI will still reshape society, expert panel says
Ask 339 people, get 339 answers
AI + ML11 Nov 2025 | 20
AI companies keep publishing private API keys to GitHub
Security biz Wiz says 65% of top AI businesses leak keys and tokens
AI + ML10 Nov 2025 | 11
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 | 20
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 | 31
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 | 30
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
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
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
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
IBM cutting several thousand jobs in latest layoffs
Resource Actions expected to hit half of US Infrastructure group
On-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 35
Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all
If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way
Software04 Nov 2025 | 29
MIT Sloan quietly shelves AI ransomware study after researcher calls BS
Even AI has doubts about the claim that '80% of ransomware attacks are AI-driven'
Research03 Nov 2025 | 18
Fortytwo's decentralized AI has the answer to life, the universe, and everything
No datacenters required
AI + ML02 Nov 2025 | 39
AI blew open software security, now OpenAI wants to fix it with an agent called Aardvark
AI promises to find bugs and gaps in your apps
Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2025 | 18
Amazon juggernaut continues hauling in more cash despite recent bad news
The spending will continue until AI revenue improves
Off-Prem31 Oct 2025 | 1
Claude code will send your data to crims ... if they ask it nicely
Company tells users concerned about exfiltration to 'stop it if you see it'
Cybersecurity Month30 Oct 2025 | 16
Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown
Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services
PaaS + IaaS29 Oct 2025 | 35
'Keep Android Open' movement fights back against Google sideloading restrictions
Petition seeks to rally community opposition and alert regulators
OSes29 Oct 2025 | 26
OpenAI non-profit will run for-profit that has yet to make a profit
Corporate restructuring will benefit ... uh, humanity
AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 16
Nvidia adds AI peanut butter to Nokia's 6G network chocolate, throws in $1 billion
The pair intends to develop cellular infrastructure for running edge AI workloads
AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 5
Chatbots parrot Putin's propaganda about the illegal invasion of Ukraine
Fake views from Moscow's pet media outlets appear in about one in five responses
AI + ML28 Oct 2025 | 57
Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
'The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice'
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 33
Berkeley boffins build better load balancing algo with AI
One way AI can improve on human work
AI + ML25 Oct 2025 | 8
High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses
31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring
Offbeat24 Oct 2025 | 58
Don't take AI to Thanksgiving: Bots have hidden biases
It's not a bug, it's a feature
AI + ML23 Oct 2025 | 14
Excel is three sheets to the window on iOS as update borks everything
iPhone and iPad users vexed by denial of spreadsheets
Applications23 Oct 2025 | 17
OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off inevitability of prompt injection, releases AI browser anyway
'Trust no AI' says one researcher
Cybersecurity Month22 Oct 2025 | 13
Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums
Updated Social media site continues legal campaign against those who take its content without a license
Legal22 Oct 2025 | 24
OpenAI releases bot-tom feeding browser with ChatGPT built in
Why experience the web for yourself when there's so much privacy to surrender?
AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 31
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds
Rise and grind, robot overlords demand
AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 46
AI does a better job of ripping off the style of famous authors than MFA students do
Shall I refer thee to all those lawsuits about fair use? Researchers think this result makes them worth revisiting
AI + ML21 Oct 2025 | 24
Aid groups use AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ to juice fundraising efforts
Researchers accuse tech firms of profiting from exploitative AI imagery
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 14
Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'
Taps Ruby core to oversee RubyGems, Bundler
Devops18 Oct 2025 | 23
Anthropic brings mad Skills to Claude
Teaching an old bot new tricks
AI + ML16 Oct 2025 | 20
Vulnerability scores, huh, what are they good for? Almost nothing
CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency
Security16 Oct 2025 | 5
Librephone battles the proprietary binary blob
Free Software Foundation project aims to reverse-engineer non-freedom respecting firmware
OSes15 Oct 2025 | 35
OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it
If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free
AI + ML15 Oct 2025 | 84
Salesforce pumps the dream of AI agents as helpers, not replacements
In the Agentic Enterprise, 'AI doesn’t replace people, it elevates them'
SaaS15 Oct 2025 | 7
Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects
Laptop maker's apolitical endorsement of politically contentious projects meets resistance
OSes14 Oct 2025 | 43
Android 'Pixnapping' attack can capture app data like 2FA codes
GPU-based timing attack inspired by decade-old iframe technique
Cybersecurity Month13 Oct 2025 | 8
OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias
AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product
AI + ML10 Oct 2025 | 51
Kyndryl sued for firing non-white workers, disabled vet
Security team cuts allegedly targeted workers based on race, national origin, age, and whistleblowing
On-Prem10 Oct 2025 | 21
Google rearranges Agentspace into Gemini Enterprise
A new spin on workflow automation as Chocolate Factory tries to displace Microsoft as the enterprise go-to
AI + ML09 Oct 2025 | 3
Hobble your AI agents to prevent them from hurting you too badly
That's the main takeaway from the Zenity AI Agent Security Summit
Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2025 | 11
AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage
Researchers argue that this dark pattern poses a legal risk
AI + ML08 Oct 2025 | 18
Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot, not so much
AI + ML07 Oct 2025 | 47
Google DeepMind minds the patch with AI flaw-fixing scheme
CodeMender has been generating fixes for vulnerabilities in open source projects
Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2025 | 1
OpenAI tells developers ChatGPT is ready to be their gatekeeper
Integrate your apps via their Apps SDK and maybe they'll send you some business
AI + ML06 Oct 2025 | 6
AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds
Top AI models keep saying you’re right, and that’s the problem
AI + ML05 Oct 2025 | 34
Google goes straight to shell with AI command line coding tool
Devs live in terminals - now Jules does too
AI + ML03 Oct 2025 | 20
Salesforce pickin' up good vibrations
Agentforce Vibes is a new AI-assisted IDE for building Salesforce apps and agents
AI + ML02 Oct 2025 | 5
Curl project, swamped with AI slop, finds not all AI is bad
Artificial intelligence works when humans use it wisely
AI + ML02 Oct 2025 | 9
Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads
Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt
AI + ML01 Oct 2025 | 16
Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority
Use your home subscription with your work Microsoft 365 account
AI + ML01 Oct 2025 | 76
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