Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find
EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 6
Software
Asana's cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem
New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks
Security18 Jun 2025 | 1
Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL
Exclusive In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for
Databases18 Jun 2025 | 4
KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability and Wayland improvements
The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix
OSes18 Jun 2025 | 9
Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated
Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 8
ScyllaDB paddles toward scale and profit with Raft-powered upgrade
Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm
Databases18 Jun 2025 | 2
Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday
Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet
OSes18 Jun 2025 | 33
Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support
Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions
Applications18 Jun 2025 | 29
Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff
Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 19
Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6%
Little agents everywhere
SaaS17 Jun 2025 | 14
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 | 25
Broadcom delivers VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – the release that realizes its private cloud vision
Promises silos for VMs, storage, and networks are out. Happy cloud-like days are in, without hyperscale complications
Virtualization17 Jun 2025 | 1
Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up
Opinion Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either
Software17 Jun 2025 | 242
Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data
GLAM-E Labs report warns of risk to online cultural resources
AI + ML17 Jun 2025 | 25
UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review
Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year
Databases17 Jun 2025 | 5
‘AI is not doing its job and should leave us alone’ says Gartner’s top analyst
As for agentic AI, don’t get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss
AI + ML17 Jun 2025 | 68
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push
Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users
Software17 Jun 2025 | 35
Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project
DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense'
Public Sector17 Jun 2025 | 6
UK students flock to AI to help them cheat
No need to plagiarize if you can have AI do it for you
AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 90
LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign
Next version to drop Windows 7 through 8.1, and 32-bit Windows support is on the way out, too
OSes16 Jun 2025 | 96
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Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up
Opinion Parent company Mozilla's not my fave either
‘AI is not doing its job and should leave us alone’ says Gartner’s top analyst
As for agentic AI, don’t get him started about the enormous challenge of making it work vendors just won't discuss
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push
Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users
Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project
DoD says deal covers 'warfighting'. OpenAI merely mentions healthcare and 'supporting proactive cyber defense'
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
Bots are overwhelming websites with their hunger for AI data
GLAM-E Labs report warns of risk to online cultural resources
UK MoD pauses £92M Oracle Fusion contract amid project governance review
Last of Whitehall-wide ERP overhaul will not kick off until next year
AWS locks down cloud security, hits 100% MFA enforcement for root users
Plus adds a ton more security capabilities for cloud customers at re:Inforce
Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday
Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet
Alt cloud platform Railway forced to pause lowest tiers after onrush of GCP customers
A moment of panic as some customers thought the free tiers were going away
STORIES
Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests
6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks
AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 48
Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe
Updated But lose your code and it's gone for good
OSes16 Jun 2025 | 18
BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off
As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humans
AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 26
Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data
Student 'believed he could finish' software dev 'project alone and therefore that the rules did not apply to him'
Security16 Jun 2025 | 110
Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project
Exclusive Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked
Public Sector16 Jun 2025 | 32
Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins
Opinion Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype
AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 50
VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown
German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA
Legal16 Jun 2025 | 10
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 | 105
As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths
We take a quick look at the headline features – and the growing differences
OSes14 Jun 2025 | 33
Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person
Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot
Databases13 Jun 2025 | 42
Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers
Please insert another million dollars to continue
PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2025 | 9
Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up
Exclusive Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly
AI + ML13 Jun 2025 | 55
Danish department determined to dump Microsoft
Comment Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland
Applications13 Jun 2025 | 125
UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs
Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees'
Software13 Jun 2025 | 66
I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world
Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-off
AI + ML13 Jun 2025 | 26
AMD bets on rack-scale compute to boost AI efficiency 20x by 2030
Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets
European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 6
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported session
OSes12 Jun 2025 | 72
AI coding tools are like that helpful but untrustworthy friend, devs say
Exclusive A survey from AI biz Qodo finds robo-coding productivity gains are unevenly distributed
AI + ML12 Jun 2025 | 39
CIO wants to grow tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents
Cisco Live UC San Diego hopes humans spend less time fighting fires, more time repelling 'exquisite' attacks from abroad that researchers accidentally invited
AI + ML12 Jun 2025 | 22
Oracle scores cloud customer – maybe China's TEMU – that wants any available server, anytime, anywhere
Big Red hails growth from 'astronomical' and 'insatiable' demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth
PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 3
DeepSeek installer or just malware in disguise? Click around and find out
'BrowserVenom' is pure poison
Cyber-crime11 Jun 2025 | 5
Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews
Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools
AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 40
Altman fluffs superintelligence to save humanity as OpenAI slashes prices
Everything is AWESOME!!!
AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 13
RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac
Obit His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more
Software11 Jun 2025 | 23
Salesforce tags 5 CVEs after SaaS security probe uncovers misconfig risks
The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant
Research11 Jun 2025 |
Starbucks brews up AI to support baristas instead of replace them
Customers weren’t sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues
AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 15
Cisco returns to load balancing market as it chases VMware refugees
Cisco Live Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale
Devops11 Jun 2025 | 2
Schneider, Nvidia sign pact to cool Europe's AI ambitions
GTC Paris With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 |
Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots
Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable'
AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 46
Microsoft slows Windows 11 24H2 Patch Tuesday due to a 'compatibility issue'
updated On your marks, get set... bork!
Patches11 Jun 2025 | 50
UK govt promises digital reform in spending review. We've heard that before
Opinion How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027
Public Sector11 Jun 2025 | 13
AI's the end of the Shell as we know it and I feel fine … but insecure
Column Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine
AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 22
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers
Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside
European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 2
Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome
AI could bring a new round of browser wars
AI + ML11 Jun 2025 | 21
Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses
Cisco Live Wants to let AI do the boring bits so his team can invent more cool stuff
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 60
Apple-Intel divorce to be final next year
After twenty years, it's Intel outside
OSes10 Jun 2025 | 61
Trump administration's whole-government AI plans leaked on GitHub
Updated The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry – we captured backups
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 48
Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs
Plus: AWS launches second Secret-level cloud region
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 26
Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire
Updated Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy
Software10 Jun 2025 | 236
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 Start Menu updates
Windows Insiders will be first to see if the Windows 10 itch has been scratched
OSes10 Jun 2025 | 56
ChatGPT users wake to find it's even more wrong, slower than usual
Updated Oh, great – now who'll do my thinking for me?
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 20
Snowflake and Databricks bank PostgreSQL acquisitions to bring transactions onto their platforms
Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success
The State of Storage10 Jun 2025 | 3
Apple tries to contain itself with lightweight Linux VMs for macOS
Swift-based containerization framework aims to improve performance and security
Virtualization10 Jun 2025 | 22
China orders trial of aged care robots that can cook, clean, and provide emotional support
Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 28
Apple goes glass whole as it pours new UI everywhere
Annual infomercial spruiks visual change, modest functional enhancements, and a movie
OSes09 Jun 2025 | 68
As AI gallops through the federal workforce, lawmakers once again call for expanded training
The last effort never went anywhere
Public Sector09 Jun 2025 | 6
Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning
AI 'thinking' may just be an illusion
AI + ML09 Jun 2025 | 45
Unemployment is spiking for US IT pros - unless you want to babysit bots
Economic uncertainty and the race to AI are pillaging the IT job market
AI + ML09 Jun 2025 | 17
UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy
Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'
European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 | 50
Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO
Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers
On-Prem09 Jun 2025 | 63
Microsoft cuts the Windows 11 bloat for Xbox handhelds
If gamers can have a slimline version of the OS, why not IT admins?
OSes09 Jun 2025 | 39
Chap claims Atari 2600 'absolutely wrecked' ChatGPT at chess
1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs – can you do better with your retro-tech?
AI + ML09 Jun 2025 | 65
China's asteroid-and-comet hunter probe unfurls a 'solar wing'
Asia in brief Plus: Hitachi turns graybeards into AI agents, Tiananmen anniversary censorship, AWS in Taiwan, and more!
Science09 Jun 2025 | 4
Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
Interview Security, not model performance, is what's stalling adoption
AI + ML08 Jun 2025 | 30
Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in ongoing WordPress scuffle
FAIR Package Manager project aims to prevent political power plays
Software06 Jun 2025 | 19
Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending
Concerns over lack of commercial expertise with big tech suppliers as country implements digital 'Blueprint'
Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 33
Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles
Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away
Virtualization06 Jun 2025 | 24
Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman
OpenAI CEO enjoys speculative love-in with Snowflake boss as critics worry over what 1,000X compute would do to the planet
AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 35
AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi
Mini computer house comes out against 'vibe coding' fad
Software05 Jun 2025 | 60
LinkedIn CEO takes on second gig to lead Microsoft Office and M365 Copilot
Redmond doubles down on AI by doubling Ryan Roslansky's workload
Applications05 Jun 2025 | 13
Datacenters have a public image problem, industry confesses to The Reg
'Most people are f**king scared of AI, like we're feeding a monster'
On-Prem05 Jun 2025 | 39
Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture
Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in
Databases05 Jun 2025 | 7
UK tech job openings climb 21% to pre-pandemic highs
Accenture points to AI hiring spree, with London dominating demand
AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 10
HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM
Freshly acquired cloud darling talks mainframes, Ansible, and influencing Big Blue at HashiDays event
Devops05 Jun 2025 | 7
AI kept 15-year-old zombie vuln alive, but its time is drawing near
Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010
Research05 Jun 2025 | 27
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
KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast'
Encourages move to Linux but, for goodness sake, RTFM first
OSes04 Jun 2025 | 105
Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2025 | 24
Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?
World War Fee Trump's on again off again tariffs, economic uncertainty, no vital apps and higher price tags
AI + ML04 Jun 2025 | 71
Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU
Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 19
Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff
Microsoft's latest and greatest still lags behind predecessor as time runs out
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 55
Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma
Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 13
Schneider Electric says US grid will be less stable by 2030 as datacenter demand rises
Safety margin set to narrow – yes that buffer that helps prevent cascading failure events
On-Prem03 Jun 2025 | 18
Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs
February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says
SaaS03 Jun 2025 | 16
AI hype fuels pay rise – but only if you're in the right gig
Software among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims
AI + ML03 Jun 2025 | 5
What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day?
That's how much on average they saved with Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a GDS study
AI + ML03 Jun 2025 | 76
Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong
Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye
Software03 Jun 2025 | 11
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IBM Watson zombie brand shuffles forward with new AI lab in NYC
Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 12
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
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