Ubuntu 24.04.3: Noble Numbat point release slips out quietly (2025/08/08) Bugs in the current LTS are getting squished
Star leaky app of the week: StarDict (2025/08/08) Fun feature found in Debian 13: send your selected text to China – in plaintext
Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region (2025/08/08) 'Although the incident has been marked resolved, in practice it lingers,' admin tells us
Ex-White House cyber, counter-terrorism guru: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not a necessity (2025/08/08) Comment Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm'
NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon (2025/08/08) Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia
Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps (2025/08/08) Black hat Not a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed
UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases (2025/08/08) updated Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’
Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project (2025/08/08) New SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees
UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act (2025/08/08) It's 'more than a temporary trend,' Decodo claims
After 30 years PHP still evolving: Team adds pipe operator, considers generics (2025/08/08) Modern language features plus high performance FrankenPHP app server make PHP worth another look
Behold the wood-block wonder of the Kilopixel display (2025/08/08) Feature We're going out on a limb here... why not branch out from things like retina displays and get a little more fine grained?
Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK (2025/08/08) Opinion A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond
Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM (2025/08/08) On Call Documentation was so substantial, staff measured it in feet
Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act (2025/08/08) Opinion Will someone think of the deals politicians are making?
North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme (2025/08/08) Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby
Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them (2025/08/08) Fears adversaries will use them in the belief they can take plenty of punishment
Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s (2025/08/08) A new connector may be on the cards, too
$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board (2025/08/08) Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year
Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them? (2025/08/08) Black Hat A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is
OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations (2025/08/08) That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right?