British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted
CEO warns airlines that don’t learn to sell themselves to machines could soon be flying under the radar
AI + ML13 Dec 2025 | 37
Software
Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger
Executive order sidesteps Congress and sets up Litigation Task Force
AI + ML12 Dec 2025 | 31
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems
SaaS12 Dec 2025 | 26
Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move
Security12 Dec 2025 | 4
Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing
Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial
SaaS12 Dec 2025 | 13
Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation
Wiz says React2Shell attacks accelerating, ranging from cryptominers to state-linked crews
Cyber-crime12 Dec 2025 | 9
Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability
Analysts say the shift offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure vendors keep control
AI + ML12 Dec 2025 | 5
Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system
Replacement rollout plagued by bad data and missing features, says watchdog
Public Sector12 Dec 2025 | 16
AI superintelligence is a Silicon Valley fantasy, Ai2 researcher says
The dream of electric sheep gets a reality check from Moore’s Law
AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 51
VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA
Exclusive Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu
Virtualization11 Dec 2025 | 22
Disney turns to dark side, licenses IP to OpenAI for videos, images
Begun, these AI wars have
AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 28
European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger
Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better
Legal11 Dec 2025 | 12
Legacy Update expands archive of vanished Microsoft downloads
Preserving not just updates, but also lots of the now-deleted optional extras
OSes11 Dec 2025 | 27
Trump's AI 'Genesis Mission' emerges from Land of Confusion
DOE lays out $320M plan for science platform linking national labs, industry, and academia
Science11 Dec 2025 | 16
Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life
Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection
AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 52
10K Docker images spray live cloud creds across the internet
Flare warns devs are unwittingly publishing production-level secrets
Research11 Dec 2025 | 12
Airbus exec: Most CIOs in Europe will not finish SAP ECC6 migration by 2030
Exclusive Aerospace giant faces 'massive work' to move legacy ERP systems to S/4HANA as support deadline looms
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 16
India’s government wants to set prices for the content AI companies use to train models
Proposes central body to collect royalties and dole out cash to creators
AI + ML11 Dec 2025 | 7
Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane
VIDEO ‘Chute opened early and snagged on a stabilizer
Offbeat11 Dec 2025 | 84
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 15
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Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems
Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims
Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements
Microsoft promises more bug payouts, with or without a bounty program
Critical vulnerabilities found in third-party applications eligible for award under 'in scope by default' move
The CRASH Clock is ticking as satellite congestion in low Earth orbit worsens
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Half of exposed React servers remain unpatched amid active exploitation
Wiz says React2Shell attacks accelerating, ranging from cryptominers to state-linked crews
New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks
And the earlier React2Shell patch is vulnerable
Here we go again: Microsoft in UK court over cloud licensing
Competition Appeal Tribunal to decide if multibillion-pound overcharging case can go to trial
UK watchdog urged to probe GDPR failures in Home Office eVisa rollout
Rights groups say digital-only record is leaking data and courting trouble
Microsoft RasMan DoS 0-day gets unofficial patch - and a working exploit
Exploit hasn't been picked up by any malware detection engines, CEO tells The Reg
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US teens not only love AI, but also let it rot their brains
Yeah, not shocking, but with other studies linking AI to weaker learning and mental-health risks, it’s a worry
AI + ML10 Dec 2025 | 40
Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers
Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting
AI + ML10 Dec 2025 | 14
Vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software
Opinion They're now good enough to do things well, if you take the time to learn how to steer them
AI + ML10 Dec 2025 | 131
How to answer the door when the AI agents come knocking
Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok
AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 12
Linux Foundation aims to become the Switzerland of AI agents
An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on
AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 11
Window Maker Live 13.2 brings 32-bit life to Debian 13
Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build
OSes09 Dec 2025 | 17
Activist groups urge Congress to pause US datacenter buildouts
Bad for consumers, bad for the environment, 230+ groups say
The Future of the Datacenter09 Dec 2025 | 9
Google's AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight
Brussels probes whether unpaid web and YouTube content – and rivals' lock-outs – amount to abuse of dominance
AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 6
AI mania to swell datacenter capex to $1.6T by 2030 – if the bubble doesn't pop first
Analysts say demand keeps rising despite constraints, shaky returns, and mounting investor nerves
The Future of the Datacenter09 Dec 2025 | 10
SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics
February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration
Databases09 Dec 2025 |
Affection for Excel spans generations, from Boomers to Zoomers
Younger finance pros are just as loyal to Microsoft's venerable spreadsheet app as their elders
Offbeat09 Dec 2025 | 58
IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol
Digital native? Cloud native? No, we need to be AI native, says Riyadh Air
AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 32
Researchers spot 700 percent increase in hypervisor ransomware attacks
Get your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi setups in order, people
Virtualization09 Dec 2025 | 10
Trump says Nvidia can sell H200s to China – if Washington gets a 25 percent cut
Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits
Public Sector09 Dec 2025 | 28
Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix
'User Alignment Critic' will review agentic actions so bots don't do things like emptying your bank account
AI + ML09 Dec 2025 | 27
Publishers say no to AI scrapers, block bots at server level
The open web is closing down for unwanted automated traffic
AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 21
DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote
But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for
AWS Re:invent08 Dec 2025 | 3
Windows Insiders get a glimpse of Microsoft’s agentic future
Native MCP support lands in Insider Dev and Beta builds
OSes08 Dec 2025 | 38
Classic MacOS for non-Apple PowerPC kit rediscovered
Unreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone?
OSes08 Dec 2025 | 20
Automakers' AI dreams may run out of road over the next five years
Analysts reckon only a handful of manufacturers will push ahead as the rest hit the brakes
AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 25
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse
Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates
Databases08 Dec 2025 | 5
IBM drops $11B on Confluent to feed next-gen AI ambitions
Big Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka
AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 18
Datacenters are hoarding grid power just in case, says Uptime Institute
Warning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections
The Future of the Datacenter08 Dec 2025 | 31
Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes
Regulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement
Security08 Dec 2025 | 24
Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era
Nina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops
Software08 Dec 2025 | 25
Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas
Can’t take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out
Software08 Dec 2025 | 11
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
Who, Me? Ignorance really can be bliss
On-Prem08 Dec 2025 | 43
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier things
AI + ML08 Dec 2025 | 55
Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it
Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed
Applications05 Dec 2025 | 11
Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG
Who needs JavaScript?
Research05 Dec 2025 | 12
Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln
Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says
Security05 Dec 2025 | 15
Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist
Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs
AI + ML05 Dec 2025 | 83
Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns
State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time
Cyber-crime05 Dec 2025 | 4
Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist
With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up
SaaS05 Dec 2025 | 4
Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it
Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite
OSes05 Dec 2025 | 13
Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown
Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals
Applications05 Dec 2025 | 33
FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built
Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process
OSes05 Dec 2025 | 81
Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?
Opinion You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks
AI + ML05 Dec 2025 | 58
Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours
On Call Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security
Applications05 Dec 2025 | 108
Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch
New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters
Virtualization05 Dec 2025 | 30
An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense
Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency
Security05 Dec 2025 | 10
OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief
'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!'
AI + ML04 Dec 2025 | 19
Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up
$200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted ‘90%+’ accuracy needs human oversight
AI + ML04 Dec 2025 | 3
EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform
OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere
AI + ML04 Dec 2025 | 9
ZTE CDO Cui Li speaks at Economist Impact's AI Innovation Asia 2025
ZTE outlines a human-centered, long-term roadmap for agentic AI adoption
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Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits
Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices
Software04 Dec 2025 | 79
Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL
Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself
Offbeat04 Dec 2025 | 5
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze
Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle
Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8
Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals
Exclusive One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on
SaaS04 Dec 2025 | 28
Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec
Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability
Software04 Dec 2025 | 5
John Henry still leading the race vs AI in customer service
Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI
AI + ML03 Dec 2025 | 17
Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator
Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg
Legal03 Dec 2025 | 108
MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers
Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue
AI + ML03 Dec 2025 | 11
HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware
IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona
Virtualization03 Dec 2025 | 7
Escaping the squeeze: your strategy for a confident VMware-to-AWS migration
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Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push
Statcounter shows the gap narrowing as users cling to older hardware and familiar workflows
OSes03 Dec 2025 | 48
Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS
Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve
OSes03 Dec 2025 | 17
China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad
Think tank ASPI says Beijing is even using it to steal fish from the ocean
AI + ML03 Dec 2025 | 48
Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI
Re:Invent AWS Chief Matt Garman lays out his vision bringing artificial intelligence to the enterprise
AWS Re:invent03 Dec 2025 | 13
University of Pennsylvania joins list of victims from Clop's Oracle EBS raid
Ivy League school warns more than 1,400 people after attackers siphon data via zero-day
Cyber-crime02 Dec 2025 | 1
Microsoft mops up Mesh after another metaverse misfire
Dreams of a virtual world linger on in Teams
Software02 Dec 2025 | 9
Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another
Amar Subramanya spent mere months at Microsoft before replacing John Giannandrea
AI + ML02 Dec 2025 | 7
MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL
CEO touts win from 'super-high growth' customer that couldn't scale on rival system
Databases02 Dec 2025 | 12
French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models
Lineup spans 3B to 14B parameters, from edge devices to multi-GPU rigs
AI + ML02 Dec 2025 | 2
How to make your data AI-ready, using infrastructure you already own
Hammerspace maximizes your GPU usage using your existing NVMe storage
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Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one
Opinion We're getting it baked into Windows whether we like it or not
AI + ML02 Dec 2025 | 97
Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward
Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered
OSes02 Dec 2025 | 10
Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11
Corrected document clears up rollout timeline and confirms switch well ahead of deadline
Public Sector02 Dec 2025 | 12
Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling
Opinion Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome
Software02 Dec 2025 | 124
India demands smartphone makers install a government app on every handset
'Sanchar Saathi' shares data to help fight fraud and protect carrier security
Public Sector02 Dec 2025 | 30
Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
Zig prez complains about 'vibe-scheduling' after safe sleep bug goes unaddressed for eons
Devops02 Dec 2025 | 41
OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI
Thrive will use the AI-maker's tech in its managed services and accounting businesess
AI + ML01 Dec 2025 | 12
Google Antigravity vibe-codes user's entire drive out of existence
Caveat coder
AI + ML01 Dec 2025 | 83
Search the pre-ChatGPT internet with the Slop Evader browser extension
Surf Google SERPs like it's November 29, 2022, with this workaround for the age of AI slop
AI + ML01 Dec 2025 | 13
HSBC partners with Mistral AI as banking giants spend billions looking for LLM boost
Move follows Bank of America's $4B new tech war chest
AI + ML01 Dec 2025 | 7
HPE pumps AI cloud lineup with extra Nvidia capabilities
Blackwell GPUs, Juniper integration, and a planned France lab aim to speed enterprise rollouts
AI + ML01 Dec 2025 |
Windows 11 needs an XP SP2 moment, says ex-Microsoft engineer
Stop AI bloat, fix the operating system, implores veteran software developer Dave Plummer
OSes01 Dec 2025 | 154
Asda's 'self-inflicted' SAP mess after Walmart divorce stalls financial revival
Overbudget Project Future will continue to cause problems into Q2 next year, chairman admits
On-Prem01 Dec 2025 | 29
Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof
Budget model slips in at $45 while other boards climb amid AI-driven component crunch
Storage01 Dec 2025 | 74
French Football Federation faces own-goal after club software data breach
Zut alors! Cybercrooks scored names, numbers, and license IDs
Cyber-crime01 Dec 2025 | 2
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