Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree (2026/02/12) DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock
NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission (2026/02/12) Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine
Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy (2026/02/12) Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle
The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware (2026/02/12) Open Source Policy Summit 2026 That's not a good idea
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks (2026/02/12) Legal teeth sold separately
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend (2026/02/12) Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals
The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X (2026/02/12) Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing
Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs (2026/02/12) Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise
Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators (2026/02/12) APRICOT 2026 Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers
Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care (2026/02/12) Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting
Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust (2026/02/12) Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices
Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill (2026/02/12) Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story
Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers (2026/02/11) Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says
Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely (2026/02/11) Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed
Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China (2026/02/11) Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue
AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds (2026/02/11) Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster
T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation (2026/02/11) This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved
Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn (2026/02/11) The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering
Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms (2026/02/11) Promo Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practice
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers (2026/02/11) Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar