OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right?
Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them? Black Hat A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is
Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM On Call Documentation was so substantial, staff measured it in feet
Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act Opinion Will someone think of the deals politicians are making?
Humans make better content cops than AI, but cost 40x more To keep toxic content from damaging brands, both people and machines have a place AI + ML08 Aug 2025 | 5
Chinese biz using AI to hit US politicians, influencers with propaganda DEF CON In misinformation, Russia might be the top dog but the Chinese are coming warns former NSA boss Research08 Aug 2025 | 2
Meet President Willian H. Brusen from the great state of Onegon hands on LLMs still struggle with accurate text within graphics AI + ML08 Aug 2025 | 9
Ubuntu 24.04.3: Noble Numbat point release slips out quietly Bugs in the current LTS are getting squished OSes08 Aug 2025 | 5
Star leaky app of the week: StarDict Fun feature found in Debian 13: send your selected text to China – in plaintext Software08 Aug 2025 | 8
Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region 'Although the incident has been marked resolved, in practice it lingers,' admin tells us PaaS + IaaS08 Aug 2025 |
Ex-White House cyber, counter-terrorism guru: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not a necessity Comment Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm' CSO08 Aug 2025 | 16
NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia Science08 Aug 2025 | 54
Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps Black hat Not a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed Research08 Aug 2025 | 2
UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases updated Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’ AI + ML08 Aug 2025 | 38
Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project New SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees Databases08 Aug 2025 | 1
Could agentic AI save us from the cybercrisis? Many hands make light work in the SOC Sponsored feature
UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act It's 'more than a temporary trend,' Decodo claims Networks08 Aug 2025 | 32
After 30 years PHP still evolving: Team adds pipe operator, considers generics Modern language features plus high performance FrankenPHP app server make PHP worth another look Software08 Aug 2025 | 16
Behold the wood-block wonder of the Kilopixel display Feature We're going out on a limb here... why not branch out from things like retina displays and get a little more fine grained? Offbeat08 Aug 2025 | 21
Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK Opinion A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond Public Sector08 Aug 2025 | 79
Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM On Call Documentation was so substantial, staff measured it in feet Columnists08 Aug 2025 | 79
Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act Opinion Will someone think of the deals politicians are making? Security08 Aug 2025 | 70
North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby Science08 Aug 2025 | 13
Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them Fears adversaries will use them in the belief they can take plenty of punishment Offbeat08 Aug 2025 | 43
Tech bro denied dev's hard-earned bonus for bug that overcharged a little old lady Who, Me? Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts
Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s A new connector may be on the cards, too Systems08 Aug 2025 | 7
$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Aug 2025 | 5
Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them? Black Hat A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is Security07 Aug 2025 | 29
OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right? AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 18
German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz Black Hat Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans Research07 Aug 2025 | 17
AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028 What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you? Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 4
Microsoft, CISA warn yet another Exchange server bug can lead to 'total domain compromise' No reported in-the-wild exploits…yet Patches07 Aug 2025 | 3
NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts? Science07 Aug 2025 | 12
Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error' Nothing to see here - just removing that old Emoluments Clause and habeas corpus Legal07 Aug 2025 | 47
Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion' Tells The Reg they never were ... 'and this will not change' Legal07 Aug 2025 | 49
Black Hat's network ops center brings rivals together for a common cause Black Hat The Reg goes behind the scenes of the conference NOC, where volunteers 'look for a needle in a needle stack' Security07 Aug 2025 | 2
IT firing spree: Shrinking job market looks even worse after BLS revisions The payroll growth we thought we experienced in May and June? Gone, like tears in the rain
CISA releases malware analysis for Sharepoint Server attack Indications of compromise and Sigma rules report for your security scanners amid ongoing 'ToolShell' blitz CSO07 Aug 2025 |
Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links Chipzilla boss accused of huge conflict of interest Systems07 Aug 2025 | 60
Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims Storage07 Aug 2025 |
Riding the AI current: why leaders are letting it flow Would you let AI make lifestyle decisions for you? Statistically, the two people sitting next to you would. Sponsored feature
KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data Watch out, the phishermen are about, customers told Cyber-crime07 Aug 2025 | 23
Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK Updated Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 19
LG ordered to pay £150k after phone defect caused Scotland house fire Forensics experts say the state of the K8’s battery suggests it led to the living room blaze Personal Tech07 Aug 2025 | 15
OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 reaches RC status Bold, clean, much less legacy tech – and a bit less like old SUSE OSes07 Aug 2025 | 17
The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward 'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards Cloud Infrastructure Month07 Aug 2025 | 13
Microsoft eventually realized the world isn't just the Northern Hemisphere Veteran engineer explains the fall of 'Fall' in Windows release OSes07 Aug 2025 | 79
Comprehensive solutions from HPE for safeguarding your data HPE data protection portfolio looks after your digital assets no matter what threats may come Partner content
GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React Devops07 Aug 2025 | 58
Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act Personal Tech07 Aug 2025 | 85
Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear Feature Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 49
Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 57
How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer Hands On All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 6
Trump teases ‘approximately’ 100 percent tariff for imported semiconductors World War Fee Exemptions available for chipmakers who promise to build American fabs Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 53
I see you’re riding an Uber to work. Would you like a cheap coffee on the way? Rideshare giant wants to use AI for delivery of hyper-personalized offers AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 15
Robots can program each other's brains with AI, scientist shows It's a step toward The Terminator, built 20 times faster than people can program AI + ML07 Aug 2025 | 17
Apple piles another $100B on top of previous US manufacturing pledge Quick - someone ask Siri if there are still tariffs on India Systems06 Aug 2025 | 18
Microsoft researchers bullish on AI security agent even though it let 74% of malware slip through UPDATED Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign AI + ML06 Aug 2025 | 7
Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market Legal06 Aug 2025 | 14
Mauritius investigates AFRINIC as African institutions show support ahead of new elections But strife and criticism continue Networks06 Aug 2025 | 3
AI and virtualization are two major headaches for CIOs. Can storage help solve them both? It's about evolution not revolution, says Lenovo
From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason
How homegrown AI cuts through the hype to deliver real results Nutanix leverages customer interactions to develop GenAI infra solution and the AI tools to support it
Why rapid proliferation of cloud native apps requires faster, more efficient toolsets Kubernetes enables easy, rapid AI app development, making it the industry standard for AI workloads
OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office gpt-oss-20b can't seem to decide who won the election, but tried to convince us that it was Biden AI + ML06 Aug 2025 | 45
Only ISPs get to determine what constitutes 'affordable' broadband, says team Trump A good deal, like beauty, is in the ISP of the beholder, after all - at least if you want BEAD funding Public Sector06 Aug 2025 | 16
Google says the group behind last year's Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions Cyber-crime06 Aug 2025 | 1
Trump surprises with TSMC $300B investment claim Chip contract manufacturer declines to comment Systems06 Aug 2025 | 24
German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz Black Hat Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans
KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data Watch out, the phishermen are about, customers told
Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU
Microsoft eventually realized the world isn't just the Northern Hemisphere Veteran engineer explains the fall of 'Fall' in Windows release
How to run OpenAI's new gpt-oss-20b LLM on your computer Hands On All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience
Microsoft, CISA warn yet another Exchange server bug can lead to 'total domain compromise' No reported in-the-wild exploits…yet
Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them? Black Hat A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is
Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear Feature Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark
Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act
GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React
Arista pushes Ethernet for AI, downplays effect of tariffs Thanks to LLMs, CEO expects to see networks 'back-end and front-end converge' Networks06 Aug 2025 |
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic get blanket deal to saturate US government with their AI Act now and Uncle Sam will throw in ChatGPT Enterprise for your agency for just $1 Public Sector06 Aug 2025 | 4
Overcoming app delivery and security challenges in AI deployments F5 AI Gateway enables protection and optimization to deliver ideal user experiences Partner content
Microsoft hoping to knock users' socks off with Windows XP Crocs A crock of what now? Personal Tech06 Aug 2025 | 23
More NASA spacecraft give controllers the silent treatment Communication problems for recently launched small satellites Science06 Aug 2025 | 9
AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev Updated Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 | 77
Nvidia security boss pledges 'no backdoors' As US charges 2 Chinese nationals with illegally shipping chips to China Systems06 Aug 2025 | 4
Microsoft reminds developers that Visual Studio 2015 is set for retirement October 14 is going to be a big day in the Redmond world Applications06 Aug 2025 | 6
UK's Ministry of Defence pins hopes on AI to stop the next massive email blunder Australia's Castlepoint Systems recruited to avoid repeat of Afghan breach scandal Public Sector06 Aug 2025 | 40
MX Linux 25 loses systemd toggling power as Debian 13 looms Upstream changes force users to pick an init system at install instead of boot OSes06 Aug 2025 | 45
Network scans find Linux is growing on business desktops, laptops Security hardening and DevOps activities the tipping point OSes06 Aug 2025 | 43
Three questions you should always be able to answer about your security environment All security questions are hard to answer, but these three are non-negotiable Partner content
Mistakenly sold NASA command trailer could be yours – for $199K Former Space Shuttle support vehicle surfaces after surplus slip-up Offbeat06 Aug 2025 | 10
Birmingham City Council's £131M Oracle rebuild in danger as go-live nears Finance and HR system overhaul still faces major risks with just months to go before second launch Databases06 Aug 2025 | 49
Mobile industry charts course to smartphone satellite broadband First services go live, but full-featured coverage depends on new chips, standards, and constellations Networks06 Aug 2025 | 6