ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help

(2025/12/05)

Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout



Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance

(2025/12/05)

Updated The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts



Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

(2025/12/05)

Opinion You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks



Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours

(2025/12/05)

On Call Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security



Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch

(2025/12/05)

New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters



HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge

(2025/12/05)

Never mind, says jolly green giant, we’re a networking-centric company now



An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense

(2025/12/05)

Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency



Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU

(2025/12/04)

re:invent The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years



PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years

(2025/12/04)

'Dozens' of US orgs infected



OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief

(2025/12/04)

'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!'



Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

(2025/12/04)

He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem



Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases

(2025/12/04)

And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks



We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares

(2025/12/04)

Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again'



Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike

(2025/12/04)

Exclusive Major OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite



Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up

(2025/12/04)

$200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted ‘90%+’ accuracy needs human oversight



Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job

(2025/12/04)

Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions



EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

(2025/12/04)

OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere



Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative

(2025/12/04)

Nvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally



Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse

(2025/12/04)

Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files



Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

(2025/12/04)

Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices



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