How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech
Even ICE agents know their work is despicable.
That is why they wear masks.
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UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos
I don't think it just a test of the online safety act, I think it is also a test of whether the current US administraion is ok with one of their darling digital companies endorsing non-consent sexual images and by the sounds of it alleged child pornography.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if Trump defended X/Grok, pedos will look out for one another.
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Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind
Given the numbers economists have quoted, where AI investment is propping up the US economy, I can see how AI is more expensive than humans.
I don't think I'd ever read programmers were propping up the US economy in the entire time programmers have existed.
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Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem
I had the other way around, I supported some scientific software from a small company for years.
Whenever there was a problem I couldn't solve, I'd phone and the switchboard would put me through to the head developer.
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Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book
To mitigate the risk of infringement claims, commercial AI model makers may implement "guardrails" – filtering mechanisms – designed to prevent models from outputting large portions of copyrighted content, whether that takes the form of text, imagery, or audio.
Wait.
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Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'
So the function is still available to those that will pay for it then?
Meanwhile the UK government continues to spend taxpayers money maintaining a large number of accounts on X. Time to grow a spine and get off the platform.
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CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more
I don't want a waffle.
I want a glass of milk.
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GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger
I didn't like this feature when I started using Linux, then it became an essential feature that I'd use multiple times a day, and like the author, I miss it badly in MacOS.
Taking it out of Linux is a mistake, but symptomatic of much of modern computing where useful features get trashed that have big effects on people's workflows and ways of using Computers.
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Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info
Some of us never left.
For what it's worth, I ripped a boxed Allman Brothers' set last night, and Rhythmbox just did it, pictures and all.
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What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32
Can you install office 365 on a windows box with no glitches, nerfs, bugs, ....?
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Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on
That it's Oracle's infamously pricey and difficult to implement software, or that our central bank are placing all their data on Oracle cloud, within scope of the US Patriot Act data-theft-when-we-feel-like-it provisions?
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Google pushing Gemini into Gmail, but you can turn it off
...the one that turns it all off.
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Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over
A lot of avionics have a pedigree from between ten and twenty years ago and there are good reasons.
An update to anything safety critical (and radalts can come under that heading) is a time consuming process as the new kit has to be thoroughly qualified and there is a rule: Don't be the first with anything.
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HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations
Just... stop calling it sideloading.
It is an installation that Google is unhappy about and complains.
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Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate
"Company says it dropped the ball
I thought that mouse balls were a thing of the past.
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The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders
- Outlook Express
- Outlook - Part of the installable Office Suite
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OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering
The implementation of LLMs has always bothered me, especially the software architecture.
If you don't know by now that you shouldn't trust external input in any way, you shouldn't be near software development in any capacity.
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Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first
This is just a teaser for the next Bond movie, right?
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New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom
Impressive achievement.
Now, let's take a look at the scale of the problem atmospheric carbon capture is attempting to solve.
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ChatGPT Health wants your sensitive medical records so it can play doctor
I have two words for them and the second one is off.
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UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go
Government departments, like so many businesses, still haven't worked out that the only reason people are willing to endure the misery of trying to call them by phone is because they haven't been able to get the information they need through the automated website or chatbot.
Hanging AI on the end of the phone isn't going to fix that.
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ISS spacewalk postponed over mystery astronaut malady
It must really suck to get morning sickness every 90 minutes!
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Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech
Because no income tax, low business taxes, and little regulation is what has made UAE the global leader in open source and tech innovation.
Oh, hang on, that's not worked has it.
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Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response
When you are trying to organise legitimate protests against a despotic regime.
Yes the Internet is required!
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Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more
"Concerns are mounting over copper supplies, with a fresh study warning that demand will likely outstrip production within decade, threatening to constrain global technological advancement"
I have to say that the problem would be smaller for copper and rare earth element supplies if more electrical waste recycling was done across the planet.
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UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence
""My preference is to legislate little and often"
The reality will be too little too late.
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Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot
Definitely a distro worth looking at (it drives me bonkers when Windows suddenly decides to rearrange things: that group of icons are all Python-related, OBS and multimedia are grouped here...
Oops, the power has gone off on that monitor, fixed it, now WTF just happened to my desktop?).
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Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
I switched to Thunderbird ages ago and have been very happy with it.
One advantage, to my mind, is that all of my email archives live on my local PC, not on Gmail's servers.
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Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes
The part of TFA that I picked up as the main take-away was, basically, this:
Capita lost the contract because they were, er, Capita, and were replaced by MyCSP
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Most devs don't trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway
>> only 48 percent say they always check code generated with AI assistance
These are the same sort of devs who blindly download compromised npm packages and the like, with zero eyes on the code they have now globbed into their own spaghetti.
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QR codes a powerful new phishing weapon in hands of Pyongyang cyberspies
why does anyone scan something they can't read themselves?
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Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers
... is so good at solving partial differential equations, why do they give so many people difficulties in their maths classes?
Speaking of hardware/problem fit, it's always bugged me that fad-followers did so much to destroy and suppress analogue computers, when they are an excellent, and better fit than digital computers, for certain classes of problems and simulations.
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Researchers poison stolen data to make AI systems return wrong results
Technically it doesn't.
However, the thieves aren't the direct target.
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Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server
> do I need to fix it?
It can be improved.
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Tech that helps people outshone overhyped AI at CES 2026
The "C" component of it disappeared years ago, when it simply became a mutual backpacking orgy 'tween industry "leaders" and faux journalist "yes" men.
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Historic NASA test towers face their final countdown
No, these are rusty old chunks of concrete and metal.
I'm glad to see them go.
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AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far
It was once known as the Consumer Electronics Show.
What the fuck do I want a multi-million dollar neural compute node rack for?
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Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error
but avoid standing next to his cat.
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Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars
This offers a fun sci-fi premise- a planet full of seemingly random buildings with no signs of having ever been occupied, resulting from experiments with a tool like this that ultimately was never terraformed.
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Congress ctrl-Zs bulk of proposed cuts to NASA science
A Donald Duck administration would be filled with many fewer quacks.
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Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer
Yup it's got a Y in it, so the worlds biggest attention whore needed to say something otherwise his ego will implode.
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IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure
... is that it's easy to remember and read out a dotted quad but essentially impossible to remember or speak ff:12:34:56:78:89:0a:ff ... and it probably really is that simple.
If only they'd just added a couple more bytes to the address and left it with room to add more as needed.
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Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot
Programming languages are for lightweights.
Claude, write me a religion!
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Baby's got clack: HP pushes PC-in-a-keyboard for businesses with hot desks
> HP hopes to change business behavior from laptop culture to keyboard culture.
I suspect most of the targetted audience will be of the "you can prise my laptop from my cold, dead hands" variety.
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Ransomware attacks kept climbing in 2025 as gangs refused to stay dead
Unfortunately, that's not really how it works though.
Personal and sensitive data have become core components of how companies do business.
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AOSP on a diet plan as Google halves Android code drops
Google is slowly heating up the water.
They clearly want more control so they are floating developer registrations to restrict people from installing software normally a.k.a. 'sideloading'.
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Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory
"Anonymous coward because reasons."
Why bother?
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Putinswap: France trades alleged ransomware crook for conflict researcher
"Vinatier's work focused on communicating between states mired in conflict, outside of official channels."
Wonder what makes him that important for the French government; the basketball player seems to have been kidnapped/imprisoned on very flimsy charges, only so that he could be used as an exchange piece for Vinatier.
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ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open
Come on folks, securing a system is not rocket science!
Ah wait...
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Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware
"dangling attack"
Sounds like something from Carry On Cyberattack Coding.
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'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work
The only way to win is not to play.
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UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow
Now might be a good time for el Reg to follow up on the Danish govt.
dept. switching from Microsoft and a similar recent stories.
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British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture
At least it's not Crapita
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AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
It's not just an 'IT thing.'
Across the world, big business are squeezing every drop of life fluid they can from punters (you and me).
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SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs
> I did, it made me WD Green with envy.
I think it's safe to say that we all got the original joke.
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Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions
Well, I don't routinely agree with many MPs, but Mr Byrne thinks Fujitsu are and so do I, so that's two to one.
Motion passed!
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Lego crams an ASIC in a brick to keep kids interested
Lego not Legos
Lego not Legos
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FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s
Well, we all know the Modern Way to achieve things at record speed don't we, boys and girls?
Yes, it will be Agile and "move fast, break things" all the way.
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Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals
Errmmm, not quite.
Yes it's a gap, no it doesn't need plugging now, perhaps not ever.
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Mem-ageddon: AI chip frenzy to wallop DRAM prices with 70% hike
Everything you use either contains DDR or needs DDR to design, manufacture, transport, and sell it to you.
The world needs LLMs to crash out very quickly, before they do too much damage to the real economy.
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While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4
RAM prices will come down again this Autumn, just after the AI bubble bursts.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop
"The choices we make about where we apply our scarce energy, compute, and talent resources will matter"
Absolutely, if you're being serious about the environment the answer is 'not in AI'.
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When the lights went out, and the shooting started, Y2K started to feel all too real
>at least for a few moments, because the phone soon rang.
"It was the Australian office, laughing their heads off..."
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Finnish cops grill crew of ship suspected of undersea cable sabotage
Que?
There it is again - a 'voice' that has truth its name going on about how their feelings are hurt, in this case censorship - censorship they probably can't even point to.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
