No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results (2025/08/13) hands on How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less)
GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there's now a 'show additional models' switch (2025/08/13) Users want their customizations and their old models back
Crooks can't let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago (2025/08/13) CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018
CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months (2025/08/13) Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model?
Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don't have to dash to the printer to grab the 'Fire everyone' memo (2025/08/13) Hit the button and then go on your own voyage of printer discovery
AI model 'personalities' shape the quality of generated code (2025/08/13) But despite the differences, all models excel at making errors and shouldn't be trusted
Box's AI agents set to help US government agencies (2025/08/13) The vendor hops aboard GSA’s OneGov train, offering models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more
MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies (2025/08/13) Windows 365 Reserve offers 10-day cloud PCs when your machine goes kaput – but you'll still need another device to access them
UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you (2025/08/13) Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech
Marc Andreessen wades into the UK's Online Safety Act furor (2025/08/13) Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan
Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option (2025/08/13) Register debate series For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be
Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of 'high severity' protocol flaws need painful fixes (2025/08/13) Updated Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time
Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power (2025/08/13) You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI
I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11 (2025/08/13) Column An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data
NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit (2025/08/13) Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays
Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul's 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash (2025/08/13) Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack
Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room (2025/08/13) First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor
Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia (2025/08/13) Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion (2025/08/13) Tells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct'
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday baker's dozen: 12 critical bugs plus a SharePoint RCE (2025/08/13) None under active exploit…yet