Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
Interview Security, not model performance, is what's stalling adoption
AI + ML08 Jun 2025 |
Software
Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in ongoing WordPress scuffle
FAIR Package Manager project aims to prevent political power plays
Software06 Jun 2025 | 15
Just 15 buyers are in charge of £14B in UK central government tech spending
Concerns over lack of commercial expertise with big tech suppliers as country implements digital 'Blueprint'
Public Sector06 Jun 2025 | 19
Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles
Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away
Virtualization06 Jun 2025 | 19
Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman
OpenAI CEO enjoys speculative love-in with Snowflake boss as critics worry over what 1,000X compute would do to the planet
AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 30
AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi
Mini computer house comes out against 'vibe coding' fad
Software05 Jun 2025 | 59
LinkedIn CEO takes on second gig to lead Microsoft Office and M365 Copilot
Redmond doubles down on AI by doubling Ryan Roslansky's workload
Applications05 Jun 2025 | 13
Datacenters have a public image problem, industry confesses to The Reg
'Most people are f**king scared of AI, like we're feeding a monster'
On-Prem05 Jun 2025 | 38
Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture
Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in
Databases05 Jun 2025 | 6
UK tech job openings climb 21% to pre-pandemic highs
Accenture points to AI hiring spree, with London dominating demand
AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 10
HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM
Freshly acquired cloud darling talks mainframes, Ansible, and influencing Big Blue at HashiDays event
Devops05 Jun 2025 | 7
AI kept 15-year-old zombie vuln alive, but its time is drawing near
Researchers have come up with a fix for a path traversal bug first spotted in 2010
Research05 Jun 2025 | 27
Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI
All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site
AI + ML05 Jun 2025 | 8
KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast'
Encourages move to Linux but, for goodness sake, RTFM first
OSes04 Jun 2025 | 101
Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2025 | 24
Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?
World War Fee Trump's on again off again tariffs, economic uncertainty, no vital apps and higher price tags
AI + ML04 Jun 2025 | 67
Microsoft will stop pestering Windows users about Edge in EU
Plus, Europeans will find it easier to sideline Bing and uninstall the Windows Store
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 19
Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff
Microsoft's latest and greatest still lags behind predecessor as time runs out
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 54
Microsoft patches the patch that put Windows 11 in a coma
Out-of-band is becoming the norm rather than the exception
OSes03 Jun 2025 | 13
Schneider Electric says US grid will be less stable by 2030 as datacenter demand rises
Safety margin set to narrow – yes that buffer that helps prevent cascading failure events
On-Prem03 Jun 2025 | 18
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Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
Who, Me? Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins
More than a hundred backdoored malware repos traced to single GitHub user
Someone went to great lengths to prey on the next generation of cybercrooks
Ukraine strikes Russian bomber-maker with hack attack
Drones are not enough
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire
Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse
X's new 'encrypted' XChat feature seems no more secure than the failure that came before it
Musk's 'Bitcoin-style encryption' claim has experts scratching their heads
VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe
Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025
Google quietly pushes emergency fix for Chrome 0-day as exploit runs wild
TAG team spotted the V8 bug first, so you can bet nation-states weren’t far behind
VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit
29M customers, four radio suppliers, and one hell of a network headache
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Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs
February jobs cuts will be followed by rehiring in line with AI 'aspirations,' CFO says
SaaS03 Jun 2025 | 16
AI hype fuels pay rise – but only if you're in the right gig
Software among the sectors seeing a productivity boost, PwC claims
AI + ML03 Jun 2025 | 4
What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day?
That's how much on average they saved with Microsoft Copilot AI, according to a GDS study
AI + ML03 Jun 2025 | 75
Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong
Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye
Software03 Jun 2025 | 11
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IBM Watson zombie brand shuffles forward with new AI lab in NYC
Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 12
Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated
Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 26
Musk's smog-belching Colossus datacenter slammed by civil rights group
NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 9
Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforce
Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves'
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 9
Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them
OSes02 Jun 2025 | 137
French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assets
Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will
HPC02 Jun 2025 | 4
OpenMamba: Eat your greens, they're good for you
Fancy getting rolling with something Qt and Italian?
OSes02 Jun 2025 | 5
Are you a big AI business vendor making terrible AI business decisions? We can help
Opinion The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise?
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 10
Making work work better: TeamViewer and the future of the digital workplace
The entire workplace is digital, but there are ways to make it work better, from mobile AR to coffee machines being serviced remotely
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VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe
Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware
Virtualization01 Jun 2025 | 22
Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo
Video Its driverless cars are already testing in Austin - good luck
Software30 May 2025 | 240
Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents
Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed
AI + ML30 May 2025 | 5
Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft
High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing
AI + ML30 May 2025 | 32
Dell has $14BN AI server backlog, warns projects are 'nonlinear'
Can't build a datacenter overnight, argues tech giant
On-Prem30 May 2025 | 5
Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware
Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register
Cyber-crime30 May 2025 | 7
Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud
Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 29
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs
'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message
Patches29 May 2025 | 17
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful
It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 78
Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy
Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 13
Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels
One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it
Software29 May 2025 | 42
Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff
No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight
Applications29 May 2025 | 3
Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules
Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish
Applications29 May 2025 | 13
OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort
Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 51
European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups
Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up
CxO29 May 2025 | 31
India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns
‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber
Legal29 May 2025 | 9
Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity
The financial sector is adept at balancing risk and opportunity. Adversarial AI is its next big challenge
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Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok
Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 6
Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps
Also in preview: a settings backup feature to support OS upgrades
OSes28 May 2025 | 42
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick
Systems28 May 2025 | 11
Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results
So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 60
Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +
Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself
Cyber-crime28 May 2025 | 2
DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS
Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more
Databases28 May 2025 |
Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans
Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though
Software28 May 2025 | 30
AI won't replace radiologists anytime soon
Researchers find AI models weak for medical reasoning when it comes to X-rays and CT scans
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 14
Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box
hands on Easy, medium, and the sledgehammer approach – or any combination you fancy
OSes28 May 2025 | 121
ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it
Computex Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements
Personal Tech28 May 2025 | 22
Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle
400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew
Systems27 May 2025 | 20
AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads
'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 37
Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz
Nick Clegg, former politico and Zuckcorp policy Prez, seems confused, can Reg readers help him?
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 149
Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down
Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool
Cyber-crime27 May 2025 | 23
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
Opinion Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 203
The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity
Comment Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way round
OSes27 May 2025 | 59
Reasons to attend the 2025 AI Infra Summit
Hear some of the world’s biggest companies offer insight into AI-fuelled transformation
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AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking
Opinion Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We'll need someone even scarier
On-Prem27 May 2025 | 18
Turns out using 100% of your AI brain all the time isn’t most efficient way to run a model
Feature Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency
AI + ML25 May 2025 | 22
AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed
Comment But it's still going to come in through the back door
AI + ML25 May 2025 | 16
Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system
SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems
Databases23 May 2025 | 4
Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond
A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 144
How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30
Feature The coffee shows no signs of cooling
Software23 May 2025 | 55
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer
It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination
OSes23 May 2025 | 75
One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now
Care board defers decision to adopt national system
Databases23 May 2025 | 7
Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates
Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 33
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users
Open the pod bay door
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 21
SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels
Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs
Databases22 May 2025 | 5
Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts
Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 25
Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones
4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants'
Applications22 May 2025 | 56
Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping
A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past
OSes22 May 2025 | 37
Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM
Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos
Security22 May 2025 | 63
AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming
Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 24
AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro
And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget
OSes22 May 2025 | 66
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers
Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom
PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54
Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations
google i/o The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 14
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper
European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot
And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 11
Shadow AI in the enterprise: Managing risk without slowing progress
Shadow AI is a growing problem. Here's why, and how to handle it.
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Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt
Comment When 'AI-powered' means 'mostly humans and bad decisions'
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 65
Windows reports two CPU speeds because one would be too simple
Every hardware claim is equal, but some are more equal than others
OSes21 May 2025 | 20
Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture
No need for thumbscrews when your chatbot never lets up
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 24
Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares
Care board draws red lines over use of UK government-backed Federated Data Platform
Databases21 May 2025 | 54
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics
Column Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 74
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’
Computex Argues the world needs China’s AI researchers working on his chips so the rest of us benefit
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 22
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love
Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6
Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things
Google I/O Search? That's now artificial intelligence, too
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 25
How open systems drive AI performance
Open-source philosophy, system-level optimizations prevent nightmare GenAI deployments, says CentML CTO
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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn
Republican defense of states' rights doesn't apply to curtailing LLMs, apparently
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 28
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