Which way to the Land of the Free again?

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

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

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

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

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Connect all the things and watch what happens

Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort

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

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

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

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

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

Telstra skipped a patch, didnt record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen

Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos

Two US lawmakers push tighter curbs on chipmakers from the Middle Kingdom

Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid

Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel

Models demand trust without offering verification

Beware of fab makers bearing press releases

The Chocolate Factory is not amused

Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year

Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.

Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering

Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad

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

Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'

Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history