☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem, while the rest of a zone and region kept humming

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

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

Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain

IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake

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

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

Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 happily obliged

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action

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

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

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, didn’t 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

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.

Beware of fab makers bearing press releases