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Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matter A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you throug...
Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows The Free Software Foundation Europe says its elect...
Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography librari...
Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.
The market is contracting Right product, wrong time? Amazon is reported to be developing a new smartphone, its first since 2014, and, according to industry tracker IDC, it will face entrenched competi...
Just the team, not the tech Salesforce's Agentforce team is getting an infusion of new talent by hiring the team behind Clockwise, a calendar scheduling app, but the app itself isn't sticking around.…
Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts Whatever OS you run, you have a better chance to run non-native apps. Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up sligh...
SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone? NASA is reportedly considering using SpaceX's Starship to transport the Orion capsule to the Moon, with some source...
OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky Microsoft has broken account sign-ins in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 with a recent update, c...
Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research A UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistica...
Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever re...
Lack of clear criteria risks encouraging firms to lean on state support instead of worrying about insurance The UK's cyber watchdog has warned that the government's £1.5 billion bailout of Jaguar Land...
Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls A co-founder of Supermicro is among three people charged with diverting servers fitted with Nvidia GPUs worth $2.5 b...
Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clause The UK government has promised a different approach to tech procurement following the award of controversial contracts to Palantir.…
Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around Opinion Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. I...
Beats getting roasted on the mailing list AI is coming to the Linux kernel in the form of a code review system - not code submissions.…
He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB On Call Each Friday The Register offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column th...
‘Project Sunrise’ needs a network that doesn’t exist, a rocket that’s hardly flown, and FCC approcal Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has applied to launch up to 51,600 datacenter satellites.…
Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck’s human mods couldn’t join the dots Meta has revealed it’s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than ...
Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete Chinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are...
From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kit GTC DEEP DIVE At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang finally addressed a $20 billion ques...
Deal helps company build out its Codex team In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal t...
Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline There is enough evidence going back far enough that it's reasonable to conclude social...
Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next? Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US governmen...
Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safety It turns out you won't be limited to Google-verified apps an developers on Android after all. In the face of sustain...
CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse' A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impo...
Better than seismometers? Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.…
Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028 GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less...
Kash Patel says the FBI uses all the tools it has to accomplish its mission - even if those tools are questionable It's been three years since an FBI director admitted to purchasing the location data ...
Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using Intune The US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberatt...
Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits You'll use AI and like it too - if you work for PwC. Paul Griggs, US chief executive of the global professional services ...
Creative pressure forces rethink as officials step back from default data use The UK government has backed off plans to allow AI companies to access copyrighted material for free for training purposes...
One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdog The UK's competition watchdog has published responses to its consultation over Google's strategic market statu...
It's still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/O QCon London A member of Anthropic's AI reliability engineering team spoke at QCon London on why Claude excels at findi...
New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want Browser maker Vivaldi has opened up a new front in the browser wars by making itself disappear.…
Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly price Britain’s competition watchdog is opening an investigation into Adobe’s early cancellation fees on membership plans to ascer...
Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notification Complaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit ...
Strategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind target Five years after launching its rescue plan to lift ERP users to the cloud and switch them to the latest software, SAP is off target ...
Accuracy jumps from 76% to 90% across public pilots, while users wait nearly 11 seconds for answers More powerful large language models (LLMs) are helping make the UK government's in-development chatb...
From mild vegetarianism to full-blown haterdom, there's a label for everything Opinion Are you an AI hater, an AI vegan, or a slightly more moderate AI vegetarian? Or are you on the side of the clanke...
Stitch gets voice input and an infinite canvas The term “vibe coding” has become associated with use of AI coding assistants to create code that expresses a developer’s intent, even if the results are...
Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarter Autonomous cars will need 300 gigabytes of DRAM or more, and humanoid robots will need similar quantities, leadin...
Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise party Two more Chinese cloud giants have signalled price rises for their services, again due to the impact of AI on their supply chains.…
Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth? Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback a...
Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the...
Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state...
Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes Sometimes a compliment is no help at all. Chatbot flattery, a well-known and common problem, makes things worse for humans experiencing mental healt...
The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break it One of your studios is about to make a game that you think will be a huge hit, and you don't want to pay the contractually required bonuses. Wha...
Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say GTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage syst...
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor says Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL eng...