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Amazonâs Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidiaâs mold

07.12.2025 09:08

From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now Amazon last week revealed its Trainium3 UltraServer rack systems, and if your first thought was "boy that looks a lot like Nvidia's GB200 NVL72,"...

And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...

06.12.2025 12:00

Peak Microsoft is whatever you want it to be. Or not The readers have spoken, and the era of peak Microsoft isâ¦ open to debate.â¦

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

06.12.2025 10:11

Wanna know a secret? Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) ...

Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL

06.12.2025 00:53

Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFCâs copyleft enforcement push Electronics biz Vizio may be required by a California court to provide source code for its SmartCast TV software, whic...

Crims using social media images, videos in 'virtual kidnapping' scams

06.12.2025 00:23

Proof of life? Or an active social media presence? Criminals are altering social media and other publicly available images of people to use as fake proof of life photos in "virtual kidnapping" and ext...

Salesforce has come up with the most credible threat yet to ServiceNow, and Benioff is crowing about it

05.12.2025 23:20

Some within the CRM giant balked, but Benioff prevailed ServiceNow’s dominant spot among IT service management (ITSM) platforms is facing its “most credible” threat to date, as longtime platform...

Novel clickjacking attack relies on CSS and SVG

05.12.2025 22:55

Who needs JavaScript? Security researcher Lyra Rebane has devised a novel clickjacking attack that relies on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).…

Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked fix for React2shell vuln

05.12.2025 22:46

Security community needs to rally and share more info faster, one researcher says Amid new reports of attackers pummeling a maximum security hole (CVE-2025-55182) in the React JavaScript library, Clou...

EU metes out first-ever Digital Services Act fine, dings X for blue check deception

05.12.2025 19:05

TikTok, by contrast, satisfied DSA concerns over its ad repository transparency The European Union has issued its first-ever Digital Services Act fine, slapping Elon Musk's X with a €120 million pen...

Microsoft 365 boosts prices in 2026 … to pay for more AI and security

05.12.2025 17:39

All those new features won’t fund themselves Microsoft 365 customers have gotten an early Christmas present from Santa Satya: price rises. All that AI goodness isn't going to pay for itself.…...

Tech leaders fill $1T AI bubble, insist it doesn't exist

05.12.2025 16:19

Even as enterprises defer spending and analysts spot dotcom-era warning signs Tech execs are adamant the AI craze is not a bubble, despite the vast sums of money being invested, overinflated valuation...

Asus supplier hit by ransomware attack as gang flaunts alleged 1 TB haul

05.12.2025 15:51

Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems Asus has admitted that a third-party supplier was popped by cybercrims after the Everest ransomware gang claim...

Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns

05.12.2025 15:10

State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time Amazon has warned that China-nexus hacking crews began hammering the critical React "Rea...

Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist

05.12.2025 14:50

With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up Salesforce has told investors it is upping prices for AI agent platforms, claiming customers will...

Linux 6.18 crowned LTS kernel – and Alpine 3.23 wastes no time adopting it

05.12.2025 13:27

Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite Kernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release – just as we predicted – and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived...

Irish Excel whiz sheets all over the competition in Vegas showdown

05.12.2025 13:09

Diarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals Ireland's Diarmuid Early has won the Excel World Championship. Readers of a certain age may be disappointed to learn he has never used Lotus ...

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash

05.12.2025 12:14

Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance The UK government has kicked off plans to ramp up police use of facial recognition, undeterred ...

FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built

05.12.2025 12:01

Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process The latest release of FreeBSD contains a lot of crucial under-the-hood changes – and drops 32-bit support on both x86 and...

Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help

05.12.2025 11:38

Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout Capita has sought Microsoft's help after the launch of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) left users facing a malfunct...

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance

05.12.2025 11:16

The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts Updated Routine Cloudflare maintenance went awry this morning, knocking over the company's dashboard and API and sending sites around the...

Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?

05.12.2025 10:30

You can improve the odds by combining skepticism, verification habits, and a few technical checks Opinion Liars, cranks, and con artists have always been with us. It's just that nowadays their reach h...

Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours

05.12.2025 08:30

Medical software maker also had a vastly unhealthy approach to security On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column that tries to improve the health of the tech sup...

Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch

05.12.2025 05:33

New ‘Datacenter Manager’ manages VMs across multiple sites or clusters Open source virtualization project Proxmox has delivered the first full and stable release of its Datacenter Manager product,...

HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge

05.12.2025 04:01

Never mind, says jolly green giant, we’re a networking-centric company now HPE has revealed its revenue from servers and hybrid cloud products has gone backwards but insisted that’s nothing to wor...

An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense

05.12.2025 01:30

Automated software keeps getting better at pilfering cryptocurrency Anthropic could have scored an easy $4.6 million by using its Claude AI models to find and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain sma...

Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU

04.12.2025 23:24

The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years re:invent Amazon on Thursday unveiled Graviton5, its densest, highest performance CPU yet, cramming 192 ...

PRC spies Brickstormed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years

04.12.2025 23:10

'Dozens' of US orgs infected Chinese cyberspies maintained long-term access to critical networks – sometimes for years – and used this access to infect computers with malware and steal data, accor...

OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief

04.12.2025 22:37

'You're absolutely right! I was totally lying to you!' Some say confession is good for the soul, but what if you have no soul? OpenAI recently tested what happens if you ask its bots to "confess" to b...

Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says

04.12.2025 22:09

He's not alone: DoD inspector general says the whole Defense Department has a messaging security problem US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth definitely broke the rules when he sent sensitive information...

Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases

04.12.2025 20:48

And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks Vetting staff who handle sensitive government systems is wise, and so is cutting off their access the moment they're fired. Prosecutors say a feder...

We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares

04.12.2025 19:16

Isaacman: 'We can never accept a gap in our capabilities again' The US must return astronauts to the Moon before China mounts its first crewed landing there, NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman ...

Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike

04.12.2025 18:51

Major OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite Exclusive Server and PC prices are climbing sharply as hardware manufacturers grapple with soaring memory component costs, mu...

Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up

04.12.2025 18:40

$200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted ‘90%+’ accuracy needs human oversight Anthropic and Snowflake announced a deal that will allow the deployment of AI agents capable of compl...

Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job

04.12.2025 18:19

Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions If you didn't get your dream job, you might be able to blame your internet provider. Technical glitches o...

EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

04.12.2025 18:08

OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI...

Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative

04.12.2025 17:23

Nvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally Palantir has always been a company marked by ambition, and it's embarking on what might be its most ambitious project yet with Chain Reactio...

Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse

04.12.2025 16:01

Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime netw...

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

04.12.2025 14:24

Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explor...

Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL

04.12.2025 14:19

Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself Logitech's CEO says that AI-powered devices are a solution looking for a problem, despite being a strong proponent of AI and her firm pushin...

Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet

04.12.2025 14:07

Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks The internet has spent the past three months ducking for cover as the Aisuru botnet hurled record-shatteri...

Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power

04.12.2025 12:21

3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove New datacenters planned in Scotland would collectively require 75 percent as much energy as the entire country currently cons...

UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze

04.12.2025 11:00

Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle UK SAP users say licensing and pricing complexity is muddying the picture for Business Suite, the vendor's new model for cloud applicati...

Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals

04.12.2025 07:52

One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on Exclusive SaaS-y accounting outfit Xero has advised developers who integrate their products with its servi...

Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail

04.12.2025 06:34

It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices Availability of energy will determine the prices charged by datacenter operators, who won�...

TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets

04.12.2025 05:30

Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear Systems Approach As we neared the finish line for our network security book, I receive...

Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec

04.12.2025 02:11

Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability Memory-safe Rust code can now be more broadly applied in devices that require electronic system safety, at ...

India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform

04.12.2025 01:30

Minister wants to ‘free drivers from dependency on private companies’ India’s government is set to launch a rideshare platform and app that charges no commission and is intended to make life har...

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

04.12.2025 00:16

First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory? The lure of AI spending was too much for Micron to ignore. On Wednesday, the US chipmaker announced it's abandoning its Crucial memory and storage lineup t...

John Henry still leading the race vs AI in customer service

03.12.2025 23:30

Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI The world’s smallest digital violin is playing for AI chatbots, which are having a hard time elbowing out their...

Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

03.12.2025 23:10

Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg You don't have to be smarter than a fifth grader (or even a first grader) to commit potential copyright infrin...