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NHS Trust IT blunder overwrites 11 years of maternity records
Human error sent reused instructions at the wrong database, taking historical access logs with it
Longtime SUSE staff asked if they'd opt for 'voluntary separation'
Other changes also afoot as employees unionize and the distro itself sees modifications
Commodore's forgotten Amiga Unix gets a modern revival
Amix gains newer CPU support and a package manager as Open Look joins the retro comeback
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
Mike Bracken says the dash to adopt sovereign AI risks giving more control to a handful of tech suppliers
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
Gartner predicts 55% of enterprise VMware users will be investigating an exit by 2029
Chasing pack has its problems too, with maturity, cost, and complex licenses
California tightens datacenter rules on water and power
Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope
Anthropic-linked CVEs pile up, attackers mostly shrug
Of 225 flaws found by Glasswing and tracked by VulnCheck researcher, just one has confirmed exploitation in the wild
Perpetual underdog AMD nips at Nvidia's heels as it joins the $1T club
Fueled by the AI boom, the House of Zen's rise isn't just Instinct - Lisa Su is riding high on some Epyc design chops too
Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds
Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain
Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic
Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts
Treasury chief says AI bosses, not their bots, will carry the can for criminal acts
'Humans are responsible, not the AI,' argues Scott Bessent as he calls out OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face
Google smacks forehead, realizes $899+ thin-and-lights were what it was missing
'A new category,' insists the Chocolate Factory, not a premium Chromebook - yet some of the family resemblance remains
London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street
Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO
AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land
Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny
AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals
Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework
RansomHouse picks a fight with Namibia's defense establishment
National cyber team confirms the breach, but not whether data was stolen or encrypted
Schneider says hotter coolant can make AI datacenters less thirsty
Modeling suggests liquid-cooled designs can halve water consumption, though the company has skin in the game
Amazon shows Meta's Muse AI shopping agent the door
Retailer cites credentials and transparency concerns while guarding its lucrative customer journey
Clop gets a taste of its own medicine after ShinyHunters hijack leak site
Rival crew demands eight figures and threatens to expose companies that paid to keep quiet
NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon
Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth
Rustaceans warned of job interviews with a malicious payload
Attackers are courting crate owners with plausible company profiles and booby-trapped recruitment calls
It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity
Please release me, let me close...
Salesforce wants to charge for AI outcomes, but first it needs to figure out how
Seats, Flex Credits, and all-you-can-eat contracts make for an 'anxiety-filled architecture'
Your cloud survived everything except the real world
War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem
VMware has quietly walked back its SmartNIC ambitions
Virtzilla’s bet on hyperscale hardware going mainstream didn’t excite customers, but may live on
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
Attempt to prove procurement prowess ended up gathering dust
Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal
Quits enterprise networking hardware business, tells users to install on-prem software ASAP
Google joins the ‘Oops, our agents hacked someone’ club after partner’s internet access error
Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up
Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough
PLUS: Toyota's robot hiring spree; China's CDNs struggle; India to charge for some UPI payments; and more!
How Windows turned months of inactivity into a 7-hour update hostage situation
Windows is getting more efficient. The updates, not so much
Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve
High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg
AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth
Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap
Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake
From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter
Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec
Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM
Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer
Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections
Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI
Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists
Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel
Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts
Agentic exploits for the win (again)
North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices
WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets
FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B
AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con
Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode
Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years
KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly
Hotfix covers only Excel 2016 and may still come unstuck around conditional formatting
The ideal database for AI agents doesn't exist yet, says Percona CEO
Iterative workloads caught vendors off guard, but requirements for a clean-slate solution remain unclear
Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point
US spy-tech firm insists its new UK senior vice president is there to 'build things, not to open doors'