Who can still open your files after they've left?
EVENT: Peers compare how they find the shares nobody closed, over dinner with The Register in London.
Japanese homeware giant pulls online store after cloud breach puts 7.7M records at risk
No reopening date as orders face delays and some customers are told to refuse deliveries to cancel purchases
Datacenters, Elon Musk, and AI are all on the chopping block once Congress changes hands in 2027
Rage, rage against the dying of the right
AI echo chambers and sanity in tech leadership: Three case studies
Altman, Torvalds, Yen. One has got his head screwed on. The others could do with some grounding
Portal breach at Germany's top university exposes every registered user's password
Stolen sysadmin credentials enabled a follow-on attack on the campus management system
AI Slop FM radio experiment puts machines on trial, one dodgy tune at a time
Music fan from Wales lets listeners pit AI-generated songs against human bops – including toilet operas and HR protest songs
Memory crunch makes refurbished kit look a lot less secondhand
Soaring component costs and warranties of up to three years give buyers more reason to consider pre-loved hardware
Dev error bricked 600 PCs, caused $1M CD-ROM write-off
One lucky engineer scored a free dinner during the frantic fix, the rest got to explain their mistake
Linus Torvalds sees signs AI-prompted patch flood has peaked
Fixes are arriving faster than new bug reports for one major Linux project
Huawei says it’s made a 100 percent Chinese PC
PLUS: Japan declares infosec emergency; Apple makes biggest school Mac sale, ever, anywhere, in the Philippines; And more!
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang starring in possible remake of The Spy Who Shagged Me
Admits to affair after company board opens probe into alleged contact with possible Chinese asset who bought GPUs in bulk
Doom delivers five minutes of terminal violence on an IBM mainframe
Browser demo renders the classic shooter in ASCII, with no login required and considerable squinting encouraged
Internet governance about to get its quadrennial stress test at ITU meeting
278 proposals on table, and some fear they might shift power to governments
Fireworks says you’re wasting money on AI unless you’re using all the models
The case for managed inference, or automatically routing queries to the right model for the right job
NHS breach helpline left staff carrying a 'significant emotional burden'
Team given a day's notice faced distressed callers, safeguarding decisions during project that stretched from 2 weeks to 11
Windows takes a break at UK motorway services
Bad drivers behind the wheel or underneath the operating system – neither is ideal
Agents reveal secrets when offered to team up with each other
If you wouldn't put it on GitHub, don't give models access to it
PyTorch 2.15 tackles the 'one bad GPU' problem
Technical debt shoveled aside to make large-scale AI training more resilient
US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks
The FAA will need to come up with more money to finish the wider overhaul, though
Mac lookalikes multiply as Linux raids Apple's wardrobe
New and revived desktops promise Cupertino polish, but our quick tests found a few seams showing
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