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)

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



Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL

(2025/12/04)

Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself



Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet

(2025/12/04)

Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks



Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power

(2025/12/04)

3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove



UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze

(2025/12/04)

Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle



Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals

(2025/12/04)

Exclusive One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on



Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail

(2025/12/04)

It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices



TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets

(2025/12/04)

Systems Approach Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear



Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec

(2025/12/04)

Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability



India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform

(2025/12/04)

Minister wants to ‘free drivers from dependency on private companies’



Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

(2025/12/04)

First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory?



John Henry still leading the race vs AI in customer service

(2025/12/03)

Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI



Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

(2025/12/03)

Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg



'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole

(2025/12/03)

Finish reading this, then patch



MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

(2025/12/03)

Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue



China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing

(2025/12/03)

An ‘anomaly’ meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage



Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

(2025/12/03)

Talk about enshittification



Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse

(2025/12/03)

LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits



Microsoft sharpens the blocking axe for Exchange Web Services

(2025/12/03)

Starting in March, Frontline Worker and Kiosk–only mailboxes lose EWS access



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It is a well known fact that warriors and wizards do not get along, because
one side considers the other side to be a collection of bloodthirsty idiots
who can't walk and think at the same time, while the other side is naturally
suspicious of a body of men who mumble a lot and wear long dresses. Oh, say
the wizards, if we're going to be like that, then, what about all those
studded collars and oiled muscles down at the Young Men's Pagan Association?
To which the heroes reply, that's a pretty good allegation from a bunch of
wimpsoes who won't go near a woman on account, can you believe it, of their
mystical power being sort of drained out. Right, say the wizards, that just
about does it, you and your leather posing pouches. Oh yeah, say the
heroes, why don't you ...
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"