The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge
Turn out the lights, the internet is over
AI + ML22 Jun 2025 | 4
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New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers
Welcome to bill shock, AI style
Devops20 Jun 2025 | 21
US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it
'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO
AI + ML20 Jun 2025 | 33
American coders are most likely to use AI
Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming
AI + ML19 Jun 2025 | 36
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 | 53
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 | 2
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
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 | 48
Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6%
Little agents everywhere
SaaS17 Jun 2025 | 21
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
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 | 30
‘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 | 72
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 | 113
Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests
6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks
AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 51
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
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
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 | 110
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
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Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong
VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO
Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development
Comment X11 is very far from dead – no matter if some want it to be
Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers
Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar
US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it
'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO
Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops
What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft
New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers
Welcome to bill shock, AI style
DHS warns of sharp rise in Chinese-made signal jammers it calls 'tools of terrorism'
Seizures up 830% since 2021, with devices linked to interference in emergency responses
Eutelsat seeks €1.35B to boost LEO network and take the fight to Starlink
French satellite operator plans capital raise backed by state and key investors including Bharti
Looks like Aflac is the latest insurance giant snagged in Scattered Spider’s web
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...
AI gives the sleeping network switch market a good kick
Q1 revenue jumps to $11.7B, with 400 and 800 GbE driving the spike
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 | 27
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Musk's smog-belching Colossus datacenter slammed by civil rights group
NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 9
Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforce
Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves'
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 9
French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assets
Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will
HPC02 Jun 2025 | 4
Are you a big AI business vendor making terrible AI business decisions? We can help
Opinion The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise?
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 10
Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents
Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed
AI + ML30 May 2025 | 5
Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft
High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing
AI + ML30 May 2025 | 32
Dell has $14BN AI server backlog, warns projects are 'nonlinear'
Can't build a datacenter overnight, argues tech giant
On-Prem30 May 2025 | 5
Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware
Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register
Cyber-crime30 May 2025 | 7
Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud
Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 29
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful
It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 78
Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy
Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 15
Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff
No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight
Applications29 May 2025 | 3
OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort
Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 51
Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity
The financial sector is adept at balancing risk and opportunity. Adversarial AI is its next big challenge
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Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok
Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 6
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick
Systems28 May 2025 | 12
Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results
So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 61
AI won't replace radiologists anytime soon
Researchers find AI models weak for medical reasoning when it comes to X-rays and CT scans
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 14
ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it
Computex Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements
Personal Tech28 May 2025 | 22
Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle
400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew
Systems27 May 2025 | 21
AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads
'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 37
Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz
Nick Clegg, former politico and Zuckcorp policy Prez, seems confused, can Reg readers help him?
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 149
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
Opinion Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 203
Reasons to attend the 2025 AI Infra Summit
Hear some of the world’s biggest companies offer insight into AI-fuelled transformation
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AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking
Opinion Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We'll need someone even scarier
On-Prem27 May 2025 | 18
Turns out using 100% of your AI brain all the time isn’t most efficient way to run a model
Feature Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency
AI + ML25 May 2025 | 22
AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed
Comment But it's still going to come in through the back door
AI + ML25 May 2025 | 16
Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond
A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 144
Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates
Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 33
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users
Open the pod bay door
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 21
Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts
Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 25
AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming
Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 24
Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations
google i/o The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 14
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper
European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot
And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 11
Shadow AI in the enterprise: Managing risk without slowing progress
Shadow AI is a growing problem. Here's why, and how to handle it.
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Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt
Comment When 'AI-powered' means 'mostly humans and bad decisions'
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 65
Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture
No need for thumbscrews when your chatbot never lets up
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 24
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics
Column Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 74
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’
Computex Argues the world needs China’s AI researchers working on his chips so the rest of us benefit
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 22
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love
Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6
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