/e/ OS 3.0: Slightly less clunky, slightly more private Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet OSes19 Jun 2025 | 16
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears ‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee Virtualization19 Jun 2025 | 14
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 | 28
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 | 5
KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability and Wayland improvements The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix OSes18 Jun 2025 | 17
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 | 9
ScyllaDB paddles toward scale and profit with Raft-powered upgrade Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm Databases18 Jun 2025 | 4
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 | 47
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 | 32
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 | 45
Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6% Little agents everywhere SaaS17 Jun 2025 | 17
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
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 | 260
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 | 26
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 | 71
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users Software17 Jun 2025 | 37
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
Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet
Logitech's latest keyboard and mouse combo is wired, quiet, and suspiciously sensible For that laptop feel without the laptop
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
Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy
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
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
European consumers are mostly saying 'non' to trading in their old phones Are they using it to death then locking it in a drawer? Schemes needed as shipments of refurbed kit dips
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
Amazon CISO: Iranian hacking crews ‘on high alert’ since Israel attack Interview Meanwhile, next-gen script kiddies are levelling up faster thanks to agentic AI
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 | 92
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 | 101
Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests 6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 51
Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe Updated But lose your code and it's gone for good OSes16 Jun 2025 | 19
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 | 109
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 | 56
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 | 3
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 | 245
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 | 20
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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