Research

Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again

Updated ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit

Research13 May 2025 | 5

Boffins warn that AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies

Research flags rise in one-dimensional health research fueled by large language models

AI + ML13 May 2025 | 78

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now

CxO12 May 2025 | 46

Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways

MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong

Offbeat10 May 2025 | 65

US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties

DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom

Science09 May 2025 | 81

Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI

This BS ends at some point, right?

AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 48

Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim

'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle'

AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 34

DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI

Now that's a sum of all fears

AI + ML27 Apr 2025 | 44

UK's answer to DARPA sprouts new ideas, like programmable plants

Updated programs suggest ARIA will keep singing for another year

Science09 Apr 2025 | 29

Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash

Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit

Science08 Apr 2025 | 56

Speech now streaming from brains in real-time

Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak

Science02 Apr 2025 | 22

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?

Science25 Mar 2025 | 117

Boffins 3D-print artificial iris muscle that flexes both ways

If this light-activated stuff works, it could make building robots easier - or make lazing about under the Sun quite a workout

Science19 Mar 2025 | 9

Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites

First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next?

Science17 Mar 2025 | 23

From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up

Researchers claim efficiency boost plus reduction in environmental harm

Science11 Mar 2025 | 12

MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users

Nothing like an OpenAI-powered agent leaking data or getting confused over what someone else whispered to it

AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 15

Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery

Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making

AI + ML08 Mar 2025 | 78

Dark mode might be burning more juice than you think

Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot

Personal Tech20 Feb 2025 | 89

Microsoft shows off novel quantum chip that can scale to 'a million qubits'. So far: Eight

Updated Not just a matter of time but a matter of Majorana fermions, too

Science19 Feb 2025 | 37

Oxford researchers pull off quantum first with distributed gate teleportation

Einstein’s spooky action at a distance just got an upgrade

Science12 Feb 2025 | 57

Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find

Dammit, that was our job here at The Reg. Now if you get a task you don't understand, you may assume AI has the answers

AI + ML11 Feb 2025 | 48

Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil

For those for whom a runny white or a hard yolk is just not good un œuf

Offbeat06 Feb 2025 | 123

Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies

Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below

Systems05 Feb 2025 | 3

Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant'

When cloud customers don't clean up after themselves, part 97

CSO04 Feb 2025 | 33

Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites

Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again

Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 124

Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say

Not bad for 30 lines of code

Systems29 Jan 2025 | 66

'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages

Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio

AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 28

Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

Here's what $20 gets you these days

Research08 Jan 2025 | 13

AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask

LLMs do more for developers who already know what they're doing

Software07 Jan 2025 | 34

Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators

New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA

Science05 Jan 2025 | 12

British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five

Video Carbon-14 decay could be coming to an implant in you

Science08 Dec 2024 | 49

We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people

Oh, AI wanna be like you, AI wanna walk like you, talk like you, too

AI Software Development Week24 Nov 2024 | 47

DARPA-backed voting system for soldiers abroad savaged

VotingWorks, developer of the system, disputes critics' claims

Security21 Nov 2024 | 5

Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

Updated Dam, the consequences

Software14 Nov 2024 | 80

AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers

Throwing novel hardware at academia. It's a tale as old as time

Systems12 Nov 2024 | 2

Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway

Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database

Cybersecurity Month10 Oct 2024 | 36

UK Regulatory Innovation Office vows to slash red tape – but we've heard it all before

Comment The real issue is a reluctance to invest

Public Sector09 Oct 2024 | 38

AI code helpers just can't stop inventing package names

LLMs are helpful, but don't use them for anything important

AI + ML30 Sep 2024 | 64

Look! About chest high! Is it a pallet? Is it a drone? No, it's a Palletrone

And it's here to carry your not-very-heavy stuff

Science24 Sep 2024 | 30

S&P 500's AI FOMO fizzles: Less than half mentioned it in Q2 earnings

Is the hype over already?

AI + ML17 Sep 2024 | 3

Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize

Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online

Bootnotes14 Sep 2024 | 67

How $20 and a lapsed domain allowed security pros to undermine internet integrity

What happens at Black Hat…

Research11 Sep 2024 | 19

Atomic clocks are so last epoch, it's time someone nailed down the nuclear clock

'Giant step' in research could unlock a bunch of crazy science stuff

Science04 Sep 2024 | 29

From Copilot to Copirate: How data thieves could hijack Microsoft's chatbot

Prompt injection, ASCII smuggling, and other swashbuckling attacks on the horizon

Patches28 Aug 2024 | 7

AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?

We can misremember it for you wholesale

AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 14

How to ingeniously and wirelessly inject malware onto someone's nearby Windows PC via Google's Quick Share

DEF CON Or rather could, until the web giant was tipped off

Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2024 | 16

Sam Altman's basic income experiment finds that money can indeed buy happiness

But not necessarily health

AI + ML23 Jul 2024 | 100

Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets

Shrinks training pool, but hurts services like the Internet Archive

AI + ML22 Jul 2024 | 15

MIT's bionic leg upgrade leaves amputees walking like the wind

Researchers expect treatment to be available clinically in around 5 years

Science02 Jul 2024 | 18

Study employs large language models to sniff out their own bloopers

What if it's LLMs all the way down?

AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 24

Self-driving cars safer in sunlight, twilight another story

YMMV

AI + ML19 Jun 2024 | 75

Study finds a quarter of bosses hoped RTO would make employees quit

Worker happiness hits an all-time low

On-Prem09 Jun 2024 | 120

To solve AI's energy crisis, 'rethink the entire stack from electrons to algorithms,' says Stanford prof

Think biologically not digitally to go from megawatts to watts, HAI gathering told

AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 8

By 2030, software developers will be using AI to cut their workload 'in half'

Prepare for the HyperAssistant of the future, maybe

AI Software Development Week28 May 2024 | 98

Pew: Quarter of web pages vanished in past decade

Luckily we have the Wayback Machine

Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 27

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems

Fake science challenges academic publishing

AI + ML16 May 2024 | 38