More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change (2025/09/09) Miscreants cost victims time rather than money
Apple's 'Awe Droppings' fall close to the tree (2025/09/09) iPhone 17 Air shows company lightening up
New cybersecurity rules land for Defense Department contractors (2025/09/09) Now if only someone would remember to apply those rules inside the DoD
Microserfs ordered back to the office, given 10 days to appeal (2025/09/09) If you're within 50 miles of Redmond, then it's time to come in
Defense Dept didn't protect social media accounts, left stream keys out in public (2025/09/09) 'The practice… has since been fixed,' Pentagon official tells The Reg
No gains, just pains as 1.6M fitness phone call recordings exposed online (2025/09/09) Exclusive HelloGym's data security clearly skipped leg day
US Army straps on another mixed-reality gamble with Anduril, Rivet (2025/09/09) Microsoft invitation lost in mail after HoloLens made soldiers sick
Why Windows 95 left a handy power saving feature on the cutting-room floor (2025/09/09) Microsoft feared too many machines would end up bricked
Everyone needs an AI phone. No, don't hang up, it's true (2025/09/09) Analyst bets smart money on 'proactive digital companion' upgrade cycle
What the Plex? Streaming service suffers yet another password spill (2025/09/09) For the third time in a decade
Microsoft inks AI infra deal with Yandex cofounder's biz for nearly $20B (2025/09/09) Netherlands based Nebius Group to deliver capacity from facility in New Jersey
Atlassian's move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more (2025/09/09) First, server products go end of life, now datacenter gets the chop, and larger customers will pay more
SpaceX bulks up Starlink Direct to Cell with $17B EchoStar spectrum deal (2025/09/09) Dreams of one satellite constellation die so another can live
UK Home Office dangles £1.3M prize for algorithm that guesses your age (2025/09/09) Contract tender follows 'alarming' safeguarding failure at border with undocumented kids
Nokia successor HMD spawns secure device biz with Euro-made smartphone (2025/09/09) Ivalo XE handset targets governments and security critical sectors, though Qualcomm silicon keeps it tied to the US
Anthropic's Claude Code runs code to test if it is safe – which might be a big mistake (2025/09/09) AI security reviews add new risks, say researchers
AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments (2025/09/09) From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honors for machine learning misadventures
Legacy tech blunts UK top cops' fight against serious crime, inspectors find (2025/09/09) Report warns creaking infrastructure undermines the National Crime Agency's efficiency and effectiveness
Microsoft veteran's worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS (2025/09/09) Dev admits the game once ate an entire CPU core
UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content (2025/09/09) Charities welcome change, but critics warn the law is already too broad