Engineer used welding shop air hose to 'clean' PCs – hilarity did not ensue (2026/01/16) On Call How not to maintain computers
Wikimedia’s 25th birthday gift: Letting more AIs scour pages volunteers created (2026/01/16) Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot
TSMC sees no signs of the AI boom slowing for at least two or three years (2026/01/16) 2nm process will go large this year, and bring inevitable price rises
OpenAI invests in brain-interface biz co-founded by CEO Sam Altman (2026/01/16) Merge Labs envisions controlling devices using your brain - without implanting hardware in your body
Cisco finally fixes max-severity bug under active attack for weeks (2026/01/16) This is a threat to security - and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins
Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon (2026/01/16) You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink
Over half of AI projects are shelved due to complex infrastructure (2026/01/16) The answer seems to be educating the enterprise workforce, and creating smarter use cases
Chinese spies used Maduro's capture as a lure to phish US govt agencies (2026/01/15) What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see
Flipping one bit leaves AMD CPUs open to VM vuln (2026/01/15) Fix landed in July, but OEM firmware updates are required
Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red (2026/01/15) Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.
Contagious Claude Code bug Anthropic ignored promptly spreads to Cowork (2026/01/15) Office workers without AI experience warned to watch for prompt injection attacks - good luck with that
OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal (2026/01/15) SRAM-heavy compute architecture promises real-time agents, extended reasoning capabilities to bolster Altman's valuation
Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown (2026/01/15) The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk’s problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in
A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' (2026/01/15) And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg
Budget smartphones will be hit hardest as memory prices rise (2026/01/15) When margins are this tight, mergers might follow
Windows App forgets how to log in with first security update of the year (2026/01/15) January patch trips up Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 authentication
Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans (2026/01/15) Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implications
US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking (2026/01/15) Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums
Woman bailed as cops probe doctor's surgery data breach (2026/01/15) Suspect assisting West Midlands Police over alleged theft at Walsall GP practice