Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil (2025/09/22) It's one small sip for man...
Linux has the lineage to out-evolve the deadliest of cyber threats, given the right push (2025/09/22) Opinion Darwin would understand microkernels. We need microkernels that understand Darwin.
'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service' (2025/09/22) Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls
FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security (2025/09/22) Lloyds Data and AI lead doesn't want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky
Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery (2025/09/22) Who, Me? Revenge on managers who slow things down is a drink best served with floating fungus
Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs (2025/09/22) The Register looks forward to learning more about a possible Dell hyperscale sovereign social SaaS platform
Tech troubles create aviation chaos on both sides of the Atlantic (2025/09/22) ‘Cyber-attack’ on ticketing outfit Collins and cable cuts at Dallas ground hundreds of flights
Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing (2025/09/22) Asia In Brief PLUS: India ponders tax breaks for datacenters; Samsung plans hiring spree; Taliban bans fiber internet; and more
Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits (2025/09/22) Infosec in brief PLUS: Luxury brands under fire; FBI warns crims are spoofing it again; ICE buys phone cracking software
Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls (2025/09/22) Optus was unaware network changes caused a problem, and ignored some customer complaints
Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks (2025/09/21) hands on From pain-free shutdowns to crap-free search, these tweaks will improve your experience
SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals (2025/09/20) And also force them to improve resilience
Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact (2025/09/20) Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment
Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry (2025/09/20) It will hit outsourcing companies hardest
Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity (2025/09/19) With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over
ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt (2025/09/19) Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?
Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000 (2025/09/19) Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation
Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says (2025/09/19) Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets
Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees (2025/09/19) Comment Latest marketing blitz for a solution seeking a problem... and a killer app
Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself (2025/09/19) It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier