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)

Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online

(2026/04/07)

Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life grows



Yahoo! Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one

(2026/04/07)

Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack



Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips

(2026/04/07)

Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a risk



AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server

(2026/04/07)

CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root access



AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work

(2026/04/07)

Once AI bug reports become plausible, someone still has to verify them



AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update

(2026/04/06)

'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket



Anthropic closes door on subscription use of OpenClaw

(2026/04/06)

The company is having trouble meeting user demand



Attackers exploited this critical FortiClient EMS bug as a 0-day

(2026/04/06)

CISA added the flaw to KEV after Fortinet confirmed exploitation in the wild



Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue

(2026/04/06)

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs



Windows asks a networking question on a Stratford billboard

(2026/04/06)

Bork!Bork!Bork! Glue and paper wouldn't have cared about discoverability



The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe

(2026/04/06)

Who, Me? It's not just machines that need proper HVAC



Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak

(2026/04/06)

Kettle Pay no attention to that code behind the curtain, says Anthropic as it scrambles to defend its IPO



Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them

(2026/04/05)

interview True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselves



If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue

(2026/04/05)

Vendors tout the potential, but responsibility remains unclear



How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale

(2026/04/05)

The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitable



AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup

(2026/04/04)

All Things AI Agents to check the work of the agents



Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus

(2026/04/04)

The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people



PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud

(2026/04/04)

Bonsai 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient



Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget

(2026/04/04)

Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'



Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

(2026/04/03)

Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene



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