Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords (2026/04/21) Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' (2026/04/21) One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match (2026/04/21) Review An $899 CPU? In this economy?
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account (2026/04/21) CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M
Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies (2026/04/21) Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected
Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters (2026/04/21) No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little
England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one (2026/04/21) 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork
Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it (2026/04/21) Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee
Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul (2026/04/21) Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole
Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture (2026/04/21) Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment
Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war (2026/04/21) And China is loving it
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing (2026/04/21) Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess
Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch (2026/04/21) Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.
Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus (2026/04/21) UPDATED A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports
Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again (2026/04/21) The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions
World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home (2026/04/21) Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple
Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter (2026/04/20) Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit
Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet (2026/04/20) Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law
Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver (2026/04/20) Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software
Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US (2026/04/20) Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currency