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Windows said modem worked fine. That unmistakable scorched electronics smell suggested otherwise
Catching lightning in a tech support bottle
PHP2Shell exploit bypasses protections designed to stop remote code execution
“Adversaries are clearly spending time (and tokens) on this bug,” researcher says.
Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time
Not to kill the human, of course – to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection
Backdoored robot tries its hand at finger chopping and cat cooking
No actual digits or cats were harmed beyond the number crunching that went into this LLM poisoning experiment
Max-severity GitLab bug allows remote code execution over 12 years of releases
Vendor 'strongly recommends' upgrading to a fixed version 'as soon as possible'
Disgraced Indian cert issuer leaves the cert issuing business
We didn't want to issue SSL/TLS certs anyway, Indian firm suggests after one private key turns out to be the number 4
PHP2Shell puts dozens of UK government services out of service
Ministers report 32 unavailable and four partly disrupted, but no confirmed compromise
Apple App Store review process hits a traffic jam
Apple log jam? Apple fast lane pie-lup? We're here all week, on stage... sweeping it
When the attacker becomes the user: Rethinking account takeover
SPONSORED FEATURE: AI makes phishing easier than ever
Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too
For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century
Nvidia's Huang: Don't mention the AI-pocalypse
GPU chief doesn't want to hear about job losses or the end of human civilization
Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosure
Cloudflare reports millions of exploit attempts, while Amazon spotted attackers trying their luck four days before patches landed
Microsoft says ConnectWise breach let Chinese spies loose on 2,250 cloud tenants
AI agents did the dirty work, with hackers gaining privileged access in some environments in under three hours
Veteran ESA probe rolls out welcome mat for Japan's Phobos mission
Mars Express could support MMX's 2027 arrival as another 'last ever' extension keeps old spacecraft in flight
IT department and auditors at major pharmacy chain got into a rip-roaring fight about using 'password' on Cisco firewall
Misaligned incentives led to an intractable argument
UK government hasn't the foggiest how much it's spending on digital transformation
Years of promises, but officials unable to put a figure on investment
Vendors asking forward deployed engineers to make good on trillion-dollar AI bet
They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs
Why the immediate future of liquid cooling is hybrid
PARTNER CONTENT: AI is driving liquid cooling adoption, but hybrid architectures will help operators balance density, flexibility, and operational realities
Certification authority eMudhra defends its laughably weak private keys
Says it passed audits and made just a minor mystery error
IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem
90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat
Philippine government suspends top tech official for alleged misconduct
Founder of offshore software development firm investigated for possibly giving his former outfit government contracts
To help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain
Signs Samsung to build substrates, bolsters spend with other players
PHP blames supply chain security biz Chainguard for putting huge chunks of the web at risk
'Coordinated vulnerability disclosure, unless there's evidence of active exploits in the wild,' Chainguard CEO tells The Reg
Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you
Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it
Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models
New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows
LiteLLM supply chain attack hoovers up passwords and secrets
Plus a RAT for good measure - get threat hunting now
AI will eat a fifth of tech budgets in 2027, but don't expect it to pay for itself
Forrester says only isolated wins are likely, while 'good enough' open-weight models soak up the tokens
Signal bug could keep your mic - and camera - on after hangup
Careful what you say after goodbye, or better yet, update your messaging app
OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month
Good thing it's somebody else's money
OpenBSD 8.0 beefs up virtual machines and gets a taste of Wine
Proposed port brings 64-bit Windows apps within reach
PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched
Websites down as precaution as exploits have already been published
Jensen Huang sends in the robot ducks to sell Nvidia's AI-everywhere vision
Containerized datacenters, androids, and telecoms all feature in Berlin keynote interrupted by environmental protesters
OneDrive gives Macs a million things to keep in sync
October preview raises supported limit from 300,000 items, with general availability penciled in for June 2027
AI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap
Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects
AI has 'potential' to turn script kiddies into sophisticated infrastructure attackers
Consider this the wake-up call
Nvidia's grand plan for speeding up datacenter deployments: AI trailer parks
GPUzilla boasts modular bit barns could speed up deployments from six months to just two weeks
Nvidia picks OpenShell to tame AI gents
Give your agents freedom to do useful work by locking them down
EU wants Booking.com to check out of its scam problem
Commission opens DSA probe into fake listings and phishing on the platform, says its fraud defenses 'absolutely substandard'
Java crashes the departure board at Tyne and Wear Metro
Train times remain on show as an elderly Windows dialog demands attention
The spec is the new code, so brush up on your prose, says Kaseya CTO
Domain expertise and clear writing will matter more than syntax, and yes, that means documentation
Happiness is the next AI KPI if Oxford boffins have their way
Researchers say public subsidies for AI should be repaid in wellbeing, not just economic growth
MPs urge UK government to play venture capitalist with taxpayer-funded tech
Watchdog says Whitehall is too timid about taking stakes in British startups, leaving taxpayers at risk of missing out when they strike gold
Nervous ISPs replace Chrome as strange consumers of DNS resources
Some network operators like to wear belts and suspenders to keep their services up
Indian certification authority eMudhra’s private keys compromised – one of them was the number ‘4’
Massive clean-up job under way because this mess makes it possible to impersonate any website or service
Auto tech startup claims it traced hack attempt back to rival's IP address
IQ.Lvbs implies that rival Comma.ai isn't playing fair
Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure
And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model
Palo Alto's firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June
Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries
Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability 'avalanche'
From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload
OneDrive loses bunch of Copilot shortcuts in File Explorer clear-out
Microsoft keeps 'Ask Copilot' as dedicated actions disappear between mid-November and early December
openEuler brings China's enterprise Linux ambitions to the desktop
CentOS roots give way to homegrown containers, AI tools, and a workstation edition we took for a spin
How going dual-native means VM/container co-existence and sovereign security in the AI era
SPONSORED FEATURE: Nutanix says running VMs and containers within the same operating environment shouldn’t be a brake on AI ambitions
Enterprises blow nearly a third of software budgets on upgrades they never asked for
Keeping vendors happy is costing businesses millions, even when everything was working fine in the first place
HPE to launch AI straight to the Moon
Mystery silicon and mirrored SSDs set to touch down before year's end
'Password1' and a forgotten test account land Welsh outfits in hot water
ICO reprimands Ogi Networks and Data Cymru after ransomware breach exposes info of 3,300 people, mostly children
Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage
Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC
Bullhorn sees red after cyberattack knocks recruitment platform offline
Staffing software giant calls in CrowdStrike as customers face login headaches and questions remain over possible data theft
Microsoft admits that Always On VPN problems were not fixed in the October Security Update
Let they who are without sin throw a stone and miss the greenhouse entirely
Whitehall shuts the front door on digital ID but leaves the back open
Ministers may have scrapped the national scheme, but One Login, digital wallets and 80-plus planned credentials are still very much alive
UK finance watchdog wants firms to report AI failures and close calls
FCA seeks clear accountability as financial services embrace increasingly autonomous agents
Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted
Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now'
London’s mobile networks fall to bottom of Europe’s capital league
Rooftop rent cuts, planning refusals and congestion leave Ookla ranking the UK’s capital last for speed and latency
Why cyber resilience is now a boardroom priority for UK public services
PARTNER CONTENT: What happens after the inflection point?
Sony updates the Walkman as a $5,900 gold-plated MP3 player
That price buys you an Android 16 device which can display an animated cassette
‘David Beckham’ was briefly the world’s second-worst manga pirate
Publishers call for better verification of domain name registrants, and ICANN is on the job with a new policy
ICANN testing tech to let law enforcement access non-public WHOIS info
Single sign-on to help address imminent threats to life, critical infrastructure, or kids
DeepSeek deep-sixed at all US federal civilian agencies
Order disallowing use of Chinese AI service is unhelpfully vague and broad
Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack forced US and European systems offline
Second security snafu in two years
Amazon makes vague commitment to unproven nuclear tech to power Indiana datacenters
Partner X-energy has not built a single working reactor yet
Maxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up
Finally, your hardware has its own agent
Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI
Terra finds sharp rise in GitHub security fixes reported broken within 90 days
Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs
Lies, lots of adverbs, and prosaic stories don't make for very machine-readable code, it turns out
Europe’s cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good
Report warns that sovereignty is being used to favor selected national providers and could stifle pan-Europe clouds
Red Hat helps teach about tech writing
But learns tough lessons about AI in the process
Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline
Black cab drivers accused ride-hailing giant of misleading London's transport regulator, but judge says they left it too late to sue
SAP's Signavio hit with function injunction in Germany
Vendor says patent ruling only restricts one specific process, not the whole product, after legal challenge from Celonis
Admin: 'I spent all weekend on my servers' after Microsoft breaks Exchange Server with October updates
OWA borked and lengthy email queues reported on busy servers after Microsoft tweaks a Server default
Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up
Tech giant walks away from flagship Essex project as power connection delays threaten to leave nation's AI ambitions waiting until the 2030s
Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router
Chip giant knew about the flaw in 2018, researcher claims, but millions of devices may still be vulnerable
In space, 'We've gone from exploration to exploitation,' says original Voyager team member
Voyager imaging team member Dr. Garry Hunt joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches one light day's distance from Earth
Museum exhibit reveals the intricate workings of a knackered Dell
When it should have been weaving tales of the Jacquard loom
Microsoft’s second-hand licensing appeal gets the brush-off
Court of Appeal refuses Redmond permission to take ValueLicensing fight to the Supreme Court, with a 'Known Adverse Document' still to come
AI’s epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams
The first technology created with a self-disrupt button... But why oh why didn't they call Claude clone Fauxtoshop?
AI inference is running into a memory bottleneck. Huawei wants to tackle it with OceanStor M900
SPONSORED POST: The Context Memory Storage platform aims to improve the economics of large-scale AI inference
Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk
Revenge is a dish best served by autoexec.bat
ConnectWise turns off its SaaS-y backup, security, and management services to probe security SNAFU
Huntress alleges takeover of M365 accounts
ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency
Leaders expect AI and geopolitics will throw up more governance challenges and threats
Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking
Party like it’s CVE-2026-99999 – a 9.3-rated nasty called PwnEscape
Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug
Cite difficulty of updating IoT devices as major reason to stop adding time
Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance
Pop quiz: somebody left a command shell logged in. What do you do?
Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems
'Hold my beer, have fun getting into your offices'
Amazon wants you to Bee-lieve wearable AI can recall it all for you
Would you like personalized shopping recommendations based on that conversation you just had?
Get in the bin! UK Space Agency wants public to name its debris removal mission
ClearSpace UK aims to be operational in 2029 with public's suggestion etched on the side of the spacecraft
Open-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets
They handle 71.5% of Vercel gateway tokens and nearly a quarter of estimated spending
Benchmarked: Nvidia's RTX Spark notebook delivers serious local AI compute, at a price
El Reg digs its claws into HP's N1X-powered OmniBook Ultra 16
Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers
You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup
Meta grants itself right to scrape content from business customers for model training
The future is private, the present is plunder
Ubuntu Stonking Stingray swims into spotlight with pre-release kernel
26.10 is here, with not-quite-ready kernel 7.3 and speech-to-text recognition
New online tool will check lawyers' sloppy AI-written briefs since they can't seem to be bothered
Bogus AI-generated citations keep turning up in court documents, but lawyers could at least run those docs through this legal citation checker
Networking problems after the October 2026 Windows update? NTLM might be to blame
Legacy protocol is going to be axed, and enforcement by default will highlight how migration is going