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Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a .. - 30/06 4:33 pm Like being hard to spot? Theyd much rather you didnt Opinion There are few tech deceptions more successful than Chrome's Incognito Mode. |
Junior sysadmins first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed .. - 30/06 3:45 pm Sensible CEO wouldnt let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap Who, Me? Welcome again to Who, Me? It's the Monday morning column in which readers of The Register admit to making big mistakes and somehow swerving the consequences. |
Don't pay for AI support failures, says Gradient Labs CEO - 30/06 2:29 pm Paying for successful problem resolution is a better business model, argues Dimitri Masin interview Dimitri Masin, CEO of Gradient Labs, argues that companies using AI agents for customer support should only pay when the bot does its job. |
DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses .. - 30/06 1:41 pm Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz thats still far smaller than Ciscos or Nvidias The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has cleared the way for HPEs $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. |
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers - 30/06 12:37 am Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems Chinese chip designer Loongson last week announced silicon it claims is the equal of western semiconductors from 2021. |
Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP - 30/06 11:26 am PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before priva |
It's 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators - 30/06 8:34 am PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers; ,O365 allows takeover-free phishi |
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them .. - 29/06 7:34 pm More fiction than science Feature IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls. |
Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire' - 28/06 10:01 pm Watch out for supply chain hacks especially interview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas. |
How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd trick code into .. - 28/06 4:30 pm 'This is not a copyright message' Before plug and play was blowing up Windows 98 on a Comdex stage, Windows 95 engineers were grappling with the technology and on one fateful day they found some unusual text in the BIOS of several PCs that they had to work around. |
Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech - 28/06 7:46 am $61B business offers $10K$50K grants to assess AIs job-market impact AI biz Anthropic is trying to recruit academics to find out exactly how much its technology could crater the jobs market. |
Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and .. - 28/06 6:59 am Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing system Criminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI. |
Supremes uphold Texas law that forces age-check before viewing adult .. - 28/06 6:31 am Over 18? Prove it The US Supreme Court has ruled that Texas' age certification law for viewing sexually explicit content is valid, meaning that viewers of such material will have to prove their age. |
How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market - 28/06 4:49 am When AI is a nesting doll of networks, so why reinvent the wheel when you can license it instead feature GPUs dominate the conversation when it comes to AI infrastructure. But while they're an essential piece of the puzzle, it's the interconnect fabrics that allow us to harness them to train and run multi- trillion-parameter models at scale. |
Aloha, youve been pwned: Hawaiian Airlines discloses cybersecurity event - 28/06 4:11 am 'No impact on safety,' FAA tells The Reg update Hawaiian Airlines said a "cybersecurity incident" affected some of its IT systems, but noted that flights are operating as scheduled. At least one researcher believes Scattered Spider, which previously targeted retailers and insurance companies, could be to blame. |
Uncle Sam wants you to use memory-safe programming languages - 28/06 4:10 am 'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) this week published guidance urging software developers to adopt memory-safe programming languages. |
Fed chair Powell says AI is coming for your job - 28/06 3:01 am AI will make 'significant changes' to economy, labor market It may not happen today or even tomorrow, but US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is confident that someday soon AI is going to seriously change the US economy and labor market. |
Palantir jumps aboard tech-nuclear bandwagon with software deal - 28/06 2:29 am The AI boom needs power, and startup The Nuclear Company aims to help build Palantir has become the latest tech company to jump on the nuclear power bandwagon - not by making a datacenter deal like Microsoft or Amazon, mind you, but by providing its data analytics software to a startup aiming to help build nuclear plants faster and cheaper. |
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter learns new trick at the age of 19: very large .. - 28/06 2:01 am Now play dead, like a lot of NASA science programs if the White House gets its way The team behind NASA's 19-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been busy teaching an old spacecraft new tricks, persuading the vehicle to perform a 120-degree roll to peer more clearly into the red planet. |
Cisco punts network-security integration as key for agentic AI - 28/06 1:29 am Getting it in might mean re-racking the entire datacenter and rebuilding the network, though Cisco is talking up the integration of security into network infrastructure such as its latest Catalyst switches, claiming this is vital to AI applications, and in particular the current vogue for "agentic AI." |
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite .. - 28/06 12:34 am No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Satellite data used for hurricane forecasting is to be abruptly cut off from the end of June due to "recent service changes." |
So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller - 27/06 11:27 pm Pen Test Partners hijack data from Renault Clio to steer, brake, and accelerate in SuperTuxKart Cybersecurity nerds figured out a way to make those at-home racing simulators even more realistic by turning an actual car into a game controller. |
Before the megabit: A trip through vintage datacenter networking - 27/06 10:31 pm When it was all about the baud rate The world of datacenter networking is crammed with exotic technology and capabilities beyond the imaginings of administrators charged with running big iron decades ago. However, while it might have been a slo |
Data spill in aisle 5: Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize says 2.2M affected .. - 27/06 9:39 pm Finance, health, and national identification details compromised Multinational grocery and retail megacorp Ahold Delhaize says upwards of 2.2 million people had their data compromised during its November cyberattack with personal, financial and health details among the trove. |
The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive - 27/06 8:22 pm True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop Opinion Microsoft, tactically admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all, is sort of, kind of extending Windows 10 support for another year. |
There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes .. - 27/06 8:21 pm Or so hear members of Parliament in the UK UK lawmakers have learned there is no international protocol for making decisions over how to respond to a prospective life-threatening asteroid strike on Earth. |
The network is indeed trying to become the computer - 27/06 7:27 pm Masked networking costs are coming to AI systems Analysis Moore's Law has run out of gas and AI workloads need massive amounts of parallel compute and high bandwidth memory right next to it both of which have become terribly expensive. If it weren't for this situation, the beancounters of the world might be complaining about the cost of networking in the datacenter. |
Fresh UK postcode tool points out best mobile network in your area - 27/06 4:30 pm Pick a provider based on how good their local 4G and 5G coverage is The UK's telecoms regulator has released an overhauled tool comparing mobile coverage and performance across the country, claiming this will help the millions of Brits missing out on the best local network. |
More trouble for authors as Meta wins Llama drama AI scraping case - 27/06 4:10 pm Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers Updated Californian courts have not been kind to authors this week, with a second ruling going against an unlucky 13 who sought redress for use of their content in training AI models. |
Don't shoot, I'm only the system administrator! - 27/06 3:29 pm When police come to investigate tech support, make sure you have your story straight On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates the frolicsome fun that readers have experienced when asked to deliver tech support. |
HPE customers on agentic AI: No, you go first - 27/06 2:29 pm But like cloud computing and digital transformation, this may be a buzzword they can't ignore forever HPE Discover 2025 HPE envisions a future where customer systems are filled with its agentic AI products, but reactions from the HPE Discover show floor in Las Vegas this week suggest the company has a way to go to convince folks to buy in. |
Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption - 27/06 1:34 pm Brazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC). |
Australia not banning kids from YouTube theyll just have to use mum and .. - 27/06 11:35 am Regulator acknowledges that wont stop video nasties, but welcomes extra friction |
What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of .. - 27/06 5:13 am Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond Comment A sharply argued blog post warns that heavy reliance on Microsoft poses serious strategic risks for organizations a viewpoint unlikely to win favor with Redmond or its millions of corporate customers. |
Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark - 27/06 4:06 am At least the BSOD acronym will still work The infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) will be replaced later this summer by a new black screen as part of Microsoft's Windows Resiliency Initiative (WRI). |
FBI used bitcoin wallet records to peg notorious IntelBroker as UK national - 27/06 3:02 am Pro tip: Don't use your personal email account on BreachForums The notorious data thief known as IntelBroker allegedly broke into computer systems belonging to more than 40 victims worldwide and stole their data, costing them at least $25 million in damages, according to newly unsealed court documents that also name IntelBroker as 25-year-old British national Kai West. |
Microsoft nuke power deal for Three Mile Island appears to be ahead of .. - 27/06 2:02 am 837 megawatt reactor now expected in 2027, energy CEO says A revamped Three Mile Island nuclear plant could be fueling Microsoft's AI datacenters sooner than first thought, according to Constellation Energy executives. |
Cisco fixes two critical make-me-root bugs on Identity Services Engine .. - 27/06 1:30 am A 10.0 and a 9.8 these arent patches to dwell on Cisco has dropped patches for a pair of critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute code on vulnerable systems. |
Exif marks the spot as fresh version of PNG image standard arrives - 27/06 12:33 am 22 years on from the last spec, you can now animate your PNGs The free graphics format that people actually know how to pronounce has been updated. |
The SmartNIC revolution fell flat, but AI might change that - 26/06 11:19 pm The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers Analysis In 2013, Amazon Web Services announced a new C3 instance type and made vague references to what it described as "enhanced networking" enabled by an Intel Virtual Function interface. |
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