United Kingdom

3h ago

University of Bristol spinouts looking to raise

4h ago

OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy

French cloud backported a patch into Debian and didn’t seek customer consent, despite chance of downtime

10h ago

Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief

Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain

12h ago

Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims

IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake

13h ago

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical

An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral

13h ago

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

13h ago

Frontier LLMs couldn't help Hugging Face fight off evil agents

Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged

15h ago

Kendall and Kyle exit UK government amid Burnham reshuffle

16h ago

The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash

OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly

17h ago

Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign

Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home

18h ago

Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain

Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory

19h ago

EU's AI labeling rules take effect next month

Chatbots and agents will have to come clean about who – or what – users are talking to

19h ago

Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball

On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally

20h ago

Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online

HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details

21h ago

Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs

With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all

21h ago

CuspAI lands $450m round to accelerate AI materials discovery

22h ago

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities

22h ago

Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red

Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action

23h ago

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

Which way to the Land of the Free again?

1d ago

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

1d ago

High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required

Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’

1d ago

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'

Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work

1d ago

15 anti-fraud startups to watch in 2026, according to investors

1d ago

How Daniel Ek is building his ‘new European dream’

1d ago

Burnham sparks backlash over reported plans to ditch DSIT

1d ago

AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner

Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker

1d ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check

PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!

1d ago

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

Connect all the things and watch what happens

2d ago

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

2d ago

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over

3d ago

NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code

3d ago

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close

3d ago

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month

22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11

3d ago

Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates

Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug

3d ago

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters

3d ago

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust

3d ago

Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room

Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026

3d ago

Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content

You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned

3d ago

Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order

Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts

3d ago

Europe’s VCs are increasingly taking on jobs at their startups

3d ago

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit

Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort

3d ago

Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester

Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands

3d ago

Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz

No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place

3d ago

From chatbots to ‘digital teammates’: The shift towards multiplayer AI

3d ago

Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN

A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages

4d ago

Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge

Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year

4d ago

How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality

SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution

4d ago

Microsoft open-sources Comic Chat, its cartoon IRC curiosity

Step back three decades to 'a period when software teams were willing to color outside the lines'

4d ago

Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem

We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days