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With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that

On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI

Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie

Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support

Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result

Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service

PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!

Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'

Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change

Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks

Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it

Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense

Another one bites the dust

Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons

Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology

Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage

Turns out this space thing really is hard

Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn

Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education