Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL (2025/08/15) Feature Government: 'Trust us, it'll be different this time'
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponize for data theft, say boffins (2025/08/15) System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into 'investigator' and 'detective' roles that bypass privacy guardrails
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable (2025/08/15) On Call Somebody built a very sick network in the bowels of a hospital
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide (2025/08/15) Register debate series As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say
Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost (2025/08/15) Next: Modular datacenters ready to host rack-scale systems, to meet endless demand
Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs (2025/08/15) Sees AI costs rising but not certain revenue will match them
Breathe easy: Apple Watch can read your oxygen levels again (2025/08/15) iBiz shifts data to iPhone in patent workaround
Ransomware crews don't care about your endpoint security – they've already killed it (2025/08/15) Some custom malware, some legit software tools
Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek's next-gen R2 model (2025/08/14) Chinese AI model dev still plans to use homegrown silicon for inferencing
DARPA’s Cylon raider autonomous fighter jet advances to next phase (2025/08/14) Pilots may soon have to compete against frakking toasters for the title of Top Gun
Psst: wanna buy a legit FBI email account for $40? (2025/08/14) Government and police employee credentials sold at bargain-basement prices on underground forums
Equinix signs deals for nukes and fuel cells to power its AI bit barns (2025/08/14) Updated Datacenter giant looks for energy sources outside the grid
'MadeYouReset' HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers (2025/08/14) Researchers had to notify over 100 vendors of flaw that builds on 2023's Rapid Reset with neat twist past usual mitigations
Lock down your critical infrastructure, CISA begs admins (2025/08/14) The agency offered some tips for operational technology environments, where attacks are rising
Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS (2025/08/14) COMMENT Lessons of Windows 8 unlearned as software giant gives users what it thinks they need
BtcTurk suspends operations amid alleged $49M hot wallet heist (2025/08/14) Turkish exchange is the latest victim of a recent spate of major crypto thefts
Microsoft patch Tuesday update fails to install (2025/08/14) Windows 11 24H2 fixes fail from Windows Server Update Services
Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme? (2025/08/14) US DoE names firms for Pilot Program to show how it could be done
Vibe coding platform Anything arrives, our hands-on suggests caution (2025/08/14) Hands On Making apps is as easy as selling t-shirts, claims vibe coding startup
Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage (2025/08/14) Brits wake to a beeping nightmare as Amazon’s AI assistant forgets how to set – or stop – alarms