Government

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

UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B

Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope

Public Sector28 Oct 2025 | 10

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

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

Vulnerability scores, huh, what are they good for? Almost nothing

CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency

Security16 Oct 2025 | 5

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

AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage

Researchers argue that this dark pattern poses a legal risk

AI + ML08 Oct 2025 | 18

Albania’s prime minister wants to appoint an AI to his ministry

Incorruptible e-government AnswerBot ‘Djella’, which reportedly runs in Azure, given job of running public procurement

Public Sector12 Sep 2025 | 19

OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety

California, Delaware AGs blast ChatGPT shop over chatbot safeguards

AI + ML05 Sep 2025 | 12

Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA - with more cuts looming

Big Red bloodbath not yet acknowledged by the company

PaaS + IaaS03 Sep 2025 | 19

Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes

When AI runs recruiting, the winning move is using the same bot

AI + ML03 Sep 2025 | 20

Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight

Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative

Security02 Sep 2025 | 8

Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks

Sites at yourcountry.gov may also not bother with HTTPs

Public Sector01 Sep 2025 | 19

AI robs jobs from recent college grads, but isn't hurting wages, Stanford study says

ai-pocalypse Machine-learning models are automating away some entry-level roles

AI + ML26 Aug 2025 | 13

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

Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason

Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right?

AI + ML21 Aug 2025 | 12

Congressman proposes bringing back letters of marque for cyber privateers

Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas

Security21 Aug 2025 | 38

Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that'll make procurement suck less

Plan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong?

Public Sector19 Aug 2025 | 9

Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show

High accuracy scores come from conditions that don't reflect real-world usage

Research18 Aug 2025 | 31

Nabiha Syed remakes Mozilla Foundation in the era of Trump and AI

interview The non-profit has a new look but still stands up for the open web

AI + ML17 Aug 2025 | 26

GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic

Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing

Public Sector12 Aug 2025 |

The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says

Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone

AI + ML09 Aug 2025 | 52

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU

Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 61

Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law

Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market

Legal06 Aug 2025 | 13

So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags

Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work

AI + ML24 Jul 2025 | 20

Stop flooding us with AI-based grant applications, begs Health Institute

ai-pocalypse Already reeling from staff cuts, the health agency is choking on slop

AI + ML23 Jul 2025 | 13

Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals

Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot

Security22 Jul 2025 | 25

US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery

Foreign worker program represents betrayal of US computer science students, advocacy group argues

On-Prem20 Jul 2025 | 141

Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines

GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges

AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 17

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 | 97

EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law

A new code aims to make it easy to figure out

AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 8

At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto

Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation

AI + ML10 Jul 2025 | 14

Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO

Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn

Public Sector09 Jul 2025 | 20

Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth

It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet

Edge + IoT08 Jul 2025 | 73

Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI

'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order'

AI + ML08 Jul 2025 | 38

EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players

Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'

AI + ML04 Jul 2025 | 42

Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box

A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool

Science03 Jul 2025 | 44

Figma files for an (A)IPO with prospectus that mentions AI 150+ times

Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes

Applications01 Jul 2025 | 2

A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws

Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well

Legal01 Jul 2025 | 28

Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages

'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA

Devops27 Jun 2025 | 46

Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark

At least the BSOD acronym will still work

OSes26 Jun 2025 | 60

Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds

Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out

AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 31

Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore

Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free

Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 116

Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues

The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy

Legal24 Jun 2025 | 8

AI may be after your job, but this AI agent promises to help you get a new one

'Jobright Agent' can apply for jobs on your behalf

AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 12

American coders are most likely to use AI

Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming

AI + ML19 Jun 2025 | 38

Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam 'vishing' schemes

To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems

Research19 Jun 2025 | 42

MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek – plus it's true open source

China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms

AI + ML17 Jun 2025 | 24

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests

Feature Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel

AI + ML15 Jun 2025 | 116

Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress

DOGE moves fast and breaks things, and now our data is at risk, security guru warns in hearing

Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 52

European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan

One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger'

Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 18

Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI

All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site

AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 10

Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated

Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them

AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 28

Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims

Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation

Public Sector31 May 2025 | 13

American science put on starvation diet

National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%

Science30 May 2025 | 80