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Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system

But don't worry it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?



Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs

Trusted brand impersonation without the usual browser certificate warnings spells trouble

US states sue popular kitmaker TP-Link over China risks

Router maker rejects allegations it misled buyers about protection and its reliance on Chinese suppliers

Argonne scientists create chatty X-ray microscope that zooms in where you tell it to

Talking to an X-ray nanoprobe beamline is far better than talking to a toaster, we assume

OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties

Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious

Microsoft N1Xes Intel in favor of Nvidia's shiny new SoCs in Surface Laptop Ultra

Poverty-spec model starts at $2,599 with 24 GB of RAM and 512GB of storage with 128 GB models topping $5,899

Here's a look at the cute, inoffensive teddy bear shaped avatar that'll greet new Muse Charm owners.

Browser-in-browser attacks use fake Meta Muse Ad lure to steal credentials

Wiley fisherfolk spin up a new page just days after Meta's AI agent launch



ai and ml

AWS launches open-source AI agent sandbox to prevent YOLO mode disasters

Strands Box is the latest open source AI control tool from the cloud giant; like its predecessors, it promises tighter reins on autonomous agents

Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing

Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?

Poetry is the new AI security threat as PoeLLM malware infects 3K+ servers

Quoth the LLM, 'More and more'

When one datacenter is no longer enough

SPONSORED POST: Why training AI across multiple sites is creating a new networking challenge



personal tech

Europe's mobile operators sell fewer phones but gain share as budget market shrivels

Contract purchases hold up better than independent retail sales, with Apple overtaking Samsung in the carrier channel

Nine in 10 VMware customers eye the exit as licensing bills bite

Rimini Street-sponsored survey finds 48% have no plans to move workloads to Broadcom's preferred subscription platform

The Binnenhof and Hague skyline behind the Hofvijver, with trees and fountains in the foreground.

on-prem

Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative

Email and calendars move in-house in 2027, with European open source tools to follow

FortiBleed still a bleeding nuisance as FBI confirms ongoing attacks

Tens of thousands more victims and more ransomware groups getting in on the act

Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism

David Heinemeier Hansson's agent-coded bakeoff produced curious results

COSMIC shuts the door on AI code as GNOME debates letting bug reports in

System76 demands human-written contributions, while a rival desktop developer argues bot-found flaws are too valuable to ignore

From reactive to proactive: How endpoint monitoring is fixing broken meeting rooms

SPONSORED FEATURE: Cloud-based telemetry is turning meeting rooms into managed endpoints, letting IT teams anticipate failures rather than scramble once users complain



public sector

South Korean president calls for creation of tools that stop all cyber-attacks

'Complete security paradigm refresh' needed for the AI era

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Woman’s bare feet walk along wet sand beside the ocean at sunset, with a reflected silhouette.

off-prem

Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing

Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen

security

Anthropic reconfigures its cool kids security program

Company's Project Glasswing and Cyber Verification Program metamorphose into triple tier threat hunting club



systems

Google teams with nuclear power giant to give reactors a tune-up

Upgraded turbines, generators, and digital controls are expected to unlock an addition 890MW of capacity

ai and ml

Anthropic Claude subscription plan provides more value than OpenAI's, study says

Research firm not exactly thrilled by House of Altman's subscription changes

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Columnists

Colorful graffiti mural beside a tree-lined street with parked cars in Warsaw, Poland.

Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money

The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks



Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

In the age of AI, teaching networking principles remains more important than learning protocols

Kids can learn why BGP matters in a semester, but that won’t leave them ready to implement it



Bruce Davie

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Rupert Goodwins

A chinstrap penguin takes a stone from a Gentoo penguin’s rocky nest.

Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute



Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Europe's right-to-repair rules are broken, not beaten



Rupert Goodwins



The teen Bill Gates has answers to the AI-pocalypse the 70-year-old Gates has forgotten



Rupert Goodwins

A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's

Corey Quinn

Unsafe at any speed: AI optimists are turning cautious as safety concerns mount



Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring



Rupert Goodwins

AWS Security makes an inscrutable choice

Corey Quinn

A colorful cyborg sprays graffiti on a mural wall beside rows of paint cans outdoors.

Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay



Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await



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Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb

Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity

ai and ml

European AI flag bearer Mistral's new open weights model is 'Le Chonk'

Oh lawd it is coming ... to Hugging Face later this month

security

Trump Mobile customers' data dumped - and some never even received their gold device

All that glitters …

ai and ml

Wikimedia Foundation comes forward as latest OpenAI agent assault victim

Millions of automated requests may have contributed to partial Wikidata outage in May

software

Microsoft extends the Outlook naughty step with two more file types

You didn't really want to be sending around .msix and .msixbundle files, did you?

software

Classic Outlook clings to stale search results as Microsoft works on a fix

Moved messages linger and throw errors when clicked, leaving Windows Desktop Search as the workaround

ai and ml

Zombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets

Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances

security

Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion

UPDATED

Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified

security

Denmark's ID register spills more people's details than the country has residents

Abuse of private firm's access exposed 8.8M records, including those of people who had died or moved abroad

public sector

Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running

Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services

security

Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom

UPDATED

Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system

channel

KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it

EXCLUSIVE

Staff in AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing told the consultation is over, with notices due Friday

offbeat

Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station

BORK!BORK!BORK!

No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety

ai and ml

OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text

Compliance, we've heard of it

science

Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system

Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all

security

Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products

Tells users ‘action required’ – but maybe don’t make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug

offbeat

Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw

Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem

systems

Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies

Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra

security

Citrix NetScaler security snafus get even worse amid more 0-day reports

The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service

ai and ml

Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs

Like OpenClaw but with access control



ai and ml

Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool

Meet RemoveMacAI

security

FBI confirms 'multiple' arrests related to ShinyHunters hack

Another few bite the dust

Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue

AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2

systems

Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators

INTERVIEW

Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?



ai and ml

OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads

Want to generate an image with ChatGPT? Then prepare for ads if you're in the US



os platforms

Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch

AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally

ai and ml

The question you would ask HPE and NVIDIA if nobody was recording

EVENT

The Register’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE’s and NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.

offbeat

Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand

Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply



software

Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP

Warhammer set in 40,000? Yes, ERP projects can seem to take that long



ai and ml

Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it

KETTLE

Pay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle

os platforms

Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text

GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again

os platforms

Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double

How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?

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networks

BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected

UPDATED

Rescue carries an estimated £400M cash impact as Virgin Media declares move 'a stitchup'



ai and ml

Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what

OPINION

Meta isn’t helping — or perhaps it is

networks

Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed

Who me?

Silly supplier ended up short-changing themselves

ai and ml

Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it

I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before

software

Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care

All this, and angry NeoVim users

offbeat

Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40

The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today

security

Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows

Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says

databases

Clever database, but can it run Doom?

Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'

channel

Palantir's fondness for French food cooked up tech's latest fad – forward-deployed engineers

Embedded consultants who get you up to speed on new tech in a hurry aren’t new, but they meet the AI moment

software

Google hearts Apple's Swift so much it's pumping out server-side support

After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal



systems

Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent

Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!

ai and ml

arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide

Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change

Features

A glowing microchip with EU stars sits on a circuit board in a dark technological scene.

systems

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

FEATURE

Intel ME and AMD PSP: The silicon layer nobody certifies



cyber-crime

Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data

Other than Instructure execs - maybe?

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

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security

OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worse

Mostly 'routine research tasks,' and 'some involved government websites, which our models often use,' AI giant tells The Reg

security

Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval

Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence’

virtualization

The VMware exit is a protection upgrade

PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity

ai and ml

OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena

Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong



on-prem

Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter

Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk

ai and ml

OpenAI shows three staff the door over alleged information misuse

Two safety researchers and a program manager dismissed, company denies retaliation for raising concerns

systems

Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch

Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price

software

Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report

Copilot builds charts and metrics from spreadsheet data, with automatic refreshes when the numbers change

Image shows three police officers standing outside a white Spanish home residence after they arrested the suspected minor ringleader of ransomware group KillSec

cyber-crime

Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three

Operation KillSwitch takes over leak site holding at least 110 TB of stolen data



personal tech

Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50

Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM

security

Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day

No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches

public sector

UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco

Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline

Systems

Transmission towers and power lines in the foreground with a snow-covered mountain range behind them.

systems

Uncle Sam coughs up $1.9B for grid upgrades as datacenters hit a power wall

Better conductors and improved sensing capabilities expected to unlock at least 23 gigawatts of additional capacity



systems

Google-backed energy outfit brings 33 MW of 4 GW geothermal potential online in Utah

Fervo Energy aims to have 100 MW online by New Year and half a gigawatt by 2028

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Met Police suspends use of phone-hacking software over Russian links

Scotland Yard hits pause after US prosecutors trace supposedly American tech back to Moscow

offbeat

Flight delayed? So are these codec updates

A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport

software

Techie was stung by a wasp, held overnight by Chinese police, then trapped in a 13-hour meeting

Sales calls can be even nastier than support calls

ai and ml

Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support

To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component

AI chatbot interface

off-prem

AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs

Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions

systems

Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work

If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...



security

AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org

Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds

ai and ml

Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models

Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally

networks

Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP

Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age

databases

Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland 'Basin' branding, promise of fewer fees

Serverless data management without egress fees, sort of

security

EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank

RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too



security

Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing

Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached

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AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses

Dogwood Local Engine checks AI tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they run

os platforms

Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2

Annual update installed. You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Wait a minute...

ai and ml

Build the right AI factory for your needs: partner for success

SPONSORED FEATURE: HPE and NVIDIA help organizations apply accelerated computing, software, enterprise infrastructure, networking, control plane, and services to the workloads and business outcomes that matter most.

security

Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure

Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name



security

MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies

Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law

security

CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch

Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.

saas

Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access

Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April

public sector

Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data

Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures

Students in a classroom sit at desks and take a written exam.

security

England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents



security

UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ

The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control

public sector

Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal

Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP

security

Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry

Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they’ll get pregnant, says survey

FOSS

Laptop with a large pink heart graphic on its screen and smaller hearts floating above it.

software

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal

Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom line

Acquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'

Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365

Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push

Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander Linux

Debian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin

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Crowd of protesters in London holding handmade signs beneath a large scaffolded building.

offbeat

Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes

So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda

ai and ml

The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away

What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents

public sector

Singapore’s government creates a dating app

Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking

systems

RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices

Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come

off-prem

Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services

Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how



security

Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else

US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'

public sector

Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners

Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.



offbeat

YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator

If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have

systems

Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China

The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says

ai and ml

Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding

Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents

security

16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows

It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?



os platforms

Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon

Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed



OPINION

Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands

$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note

ai and ml

Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us

Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains

ai and ml

Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call

MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails

ai and ml

AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit

That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment

cyber-crime

Ex-NCA officer ordered to surrender £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin

Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.0

ai and ml

Where does your AI data actually live?

The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.

columnists

OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian

By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion

software

Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*

Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin

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networks

Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it

networks

Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill

personal tech

Boss wrongly claimed IT deleted his files, refused to learn the one-click fix



personal tech

User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key

Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work

personal tech

Exec couldn’t identify a photocopier, which made for a fax-inating tech support call



software

Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it

software

Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support

software

Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees

AI Companies

Colorful toy vehicles and a ball sit in an outdoor wooden sandbox.

ai and ml

Docker's new sandboxes aim to contain AI agents for real

With Cloud Sandboxes, devs can keep agents at arm's length

Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down

Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug

Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild



Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter

Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here



Most people who quit M365 for Google do it out of spite, but there’s no ROI in that

Nor are you likely to save much by making the move, says Gartner



Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts

'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face



Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec

Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache



ai and ml

7 in 10 enterprises expected to abandon vendor-built agentic AI by 2028

Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise

personal tech

Apple makes the AirPods 5 slightly less hostile to repair

Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten

Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates

A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption

on-prem

America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill

Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts



security

More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills

Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness

software

KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, but the X11 session isn't invited

Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6

security

UK rail cops' £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches

British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive

security

Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines

Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries



offbeat

Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time

The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers



ai and ml

OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans

Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is ‘Kubernetes for agents’

ai and ml

Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations

Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'

security

Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections

It's a worm attack, AI-style

Infosec

security

Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script

More mockery and memes from the Dark Web Roast

cyber-crime

ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'

Data theft and extortion biz, that is

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security

Crooks use fake desktop apps to fool HR staff into giving them remote access

Nothing in the attack chain screams malicious software, except none of the impersonated HR and payroll providers actually offers a desktop app

cyber-crime

Bitget blames North Korea for $387.5M crypto wallet raid

Familiar fingerprints point to Kim’s regime … to the surprise of nobody



cyber-crime

Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked

Force says public data appears untouched, but investigators looking into whether crims grabbed employee information



cyber-crime

Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers

DriveWealth coughs up historic customer info after attackers socially engineer their way inside



security

Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs

Operator’s AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan



security

Salesforce Agentforce vulns allowed 0-click CRM data theft, anonymous phishing

'SalesBleed' security flaws 'lead to very unexpected consequences'

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OpenAI tries disarming AI angst with cute graphics and always-on agents

It's not OpenClaw. It's dots

public sector

Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core

Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website

security

FBI to ShinyHunters: 'We know how to find you'

Federal cops have 'a very particular set of skills'

ai and ml

Zuckerberg touts enterprise AI push because Meta would never do anything to damage your reputation

New business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai

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Close the observability gap with agentic observability

SPONSORED POST: How agentic AI, real-time visibility, and stronger governance can help enterprises protect critical services and manage increasingly complex IT environments.



personal tech

AMD's 192 GB Gorgon Halo prices might leave you petrified

Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap

security

Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services

Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?

ai and ml

Open source tool distills Jev so you can run it locally

Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream



offbeat

Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business

Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well

software

Microsoft sends PDFs to strange new worlds instead of SharePoint

Use SharePoint Online? Keen on PDFs? Then you won't be keen on the latest Word bug



ai and ml

AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies

Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work

Schneider gives datacenter switchgear the software-defined treatment

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off-prem

Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI

First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition



off-prem

Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them

USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam



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AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth

Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap



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AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users

Improved signup experience for ‘AI builders’ hides complexity and includes spending cap

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AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good

Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible

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Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips

Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute

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Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

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Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox

No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices

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Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks

Meta-spotted flaw could hand attackers arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file

OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark

Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop

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Leaked IPO docs: Anthropic tempts investors with existential risk warning

Just wait until you hear the bad news

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Investors are pricing in a 32.6% AI productivity boost for software engineers

Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away

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Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short

SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three



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Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush

RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations

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public sector

Healthcare campaigners turn up the heat on Palantir at Labour conference

Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's £330M NHS data platform deal

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Dutch police arrest 'security pro' in ShinyHunters probe

Flashbangs reportedly deployed during operation as crime group denies any connection to suspect

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Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You’re Fabric app devs now

Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude

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What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens?

A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger

HM Revenue and Customs document placed over British pound banknotes

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HMRC bets up to £2.4B on Salesforce for taxpayer CRM overhaul

Ten-year deal covers customer records, case management, portals, analytics, and AI, with extensions possible to 2041

Which copy of the file is the real one?

A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.

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Europe’s internet registry wants governance ‘correction’ because its ‘Executive Board’ is not the executive

RIPE NCC hopes members get aboard effort to tidy things up and give its CEO a vote



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Southern Water taps fiber network to sniff out leaky pipes

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Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal

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BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs

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UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below

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Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes

Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles

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Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

Rise of the Googlebook means ChromeOS users get eight years' support, not a decade

ai and ml

OpenAI’s dirty deeds Down Under included security bypass attempts, using exposed keys, source code siphon

Admits its agents side-swiped four Australian government sites

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AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD

columnists

AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure

What's wrong with being a great wholesaler?

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JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources

Smells like more agentic ransomware, Redmond warns

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OpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns

During testing, the model showed it can violate security rules more often than its predecessors

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French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs

Because sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button



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How many times are you paying for the same file?

U.S. $100 banknotes stacked in an automatic cash counting machine.

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Microsoft's Copilot super app comes with a meter attached

Redmond calls its pricing model an 'evolution' as advanced AI racks up usage charges

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Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop

DAWO combines a Linux-based client with open source tools for cloud, communications, and collaborative work

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Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain

EU firms capture less than 10% of the bloc's datacenter chips, server assembly, and cloud infrastructure markets

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OpenAI agents went the long way round for UN data

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Microsoft tells nonprofits their deleted M365 data isn't coming back

Grant retirement went off the rails, so Redmond is offering affected organizations help starting over

cyber-crime

Ex-soldier's telecom hacking spree earns him 70 months

Active-duty campaign targeted at least ten organizations and sought $1 million in ransom payments



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UK government vows to reclaim services from outsourcing giants

Whitehall unit will examine critical contracts after Capita pensions fiasco strengthens case for bringing work in-house

networks

Ofcom pulls the plug on Openreach's aggressive fiber discount

Regulator intervenes after deciding altnets may be unable to match the offer and recover their costs

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Jev is rapidly rising to challenge the LLM for enterprise AI supremacy

The Jevolution will not be televised, because The Kettle is audio only

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Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’

The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent

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Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up

Whitehall changes a 'big mistake' as anything going in with Business department gets squeezed

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Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool

Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?



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SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22

Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific

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Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin's $700M Mars comms contract

Bezos' biz gets familiar paperwork from unfamiliar quarters as rival challenges NASA award

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Mars astronauts could live in houses made of yeast and jello, say scientists

Low-energy 3D printing could turn Martian dirt into sturdy structures

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Chinese researchers find egg-cellent way to keep space debris from scrambling craft

Eggy armor cuts projectile speed in simulations as LEO gets increasingly crowded

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Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium

Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour

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BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury

Eight years after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches



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NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area

Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028

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HMRC vowed to break up with Capgemini then paid it another £4.2B

Government wants public spending to back British business, but the French supplier could remain at the tax collector until 2036

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Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damage

Denial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up

security

Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack

Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes

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Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data

Friday afternoon is not the time for snap decisions, but weekends are useful to cover your tracks

Collage of six surprised faces with wide eyes and open mouths in vertical panels.

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OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought

Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline

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