Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture (2025/12/22) Anna’s Archive’s idealism doesn’t quite survive its own blog post
Conman and wannabe MI6 agent must repay £125k to romance scam victim (2025/12/22) Judge says former most-wanted fugitive Mark Acklom will likely never return to the UK
What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows (2025/12/22) Opinion Wasn't 2025 the year it happened? Yes. No. Answers on a Christmas card
EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031 (2025/12/22) Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics
Vultures rake our claws over COSMIC as Pop OS 24.04 LTS with 'Epoch 1' emerges (2025/12/22) Hands On Even with the latest Gparted Live, it's not easy to dual boot – but it's worth the hassle
Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency (2025/12/22) On-site staff keep key systems working while all but one region battles with encrypted PCs
AI is rewriting how power flows through the datacenter (2025/12/22) Rising rack densities are driving changes from grid connection to chip-level delivery
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech (2025/12/22) Feature Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty
The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked (2025/12/22) Opinion Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech
AI has pumped hyperscale capex, capacity – but how long can it last? (2025/12/22) Total operational capacity just keeps rising
New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good (2025/12/22) Who, Me? Mousey wouldn’t work, wah-wah-wah
There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM (2025/12/22) SK Telecom's epic infosec fail will cost it another $1.5 billion
Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan (2025/12/22) APAC in Brief PLUS: Debian supports Chinese chips ; Hong Kong’s Christmas Karaoke crackdown; Asahi admits it should have prevented hack; And more!
Google sends Dark Web Report to its dead services graveyard (2025/12/21) Infosec In Brief PLUS: Texas sues alleged TV spies; The Cloud is full of holes; Hospital leaked its own data; And more
Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss (2025/12/21) Interview What if AI vendors focused on the demand side?
NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift (2025/12/21) UPDATED Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting
Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul (2025/12/20) We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg
Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck (2025/12/19) hands on Custom-designed $10,000 scooter goes 65mph, has a 60-mile range, and runs silently
ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US (2025/12/19) Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members
DOE recruits cloud, chip, and AI giants for Trump's Genesis Mission (2025/12/19) But not Phil Collins, sadly