After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling
PLUS: AI datacenter bubble wobbles in Australia; E-commerce app suggests it can detect diseases; India’s top telco to IPO amid investor frenzy; and more!
Want to build a UK datacenter? Please hold while Whitehall transfers you
Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments
Reg readers land on 'Binface' as name for UK space cleanup mission
Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?
Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds
Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval
Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it
Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby
OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa
We've totally got things under control
There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix
Bad things (and software bugs?) come in threes
Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack
Monitoring was only partial and was easily bypassed
AI models describe humans as a bunch of amoral sheep
Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found
Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents
Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack
Arc browser on its way out as makers suggest an alternative
No new accounts from now, and the end will come in December
SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive
Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux
PubKeep picks up where Microsoft Publisher signs off
$99 replacement opens old .pub files on Windows and macOS, without a subscription
Musk disputes NASA safety panel's lunar launch estimates
Watchdog also warns retiring Falcon and Dragon could leave US access to orbit short of a backup
Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches
Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good
BOFH: I talked to Claude and he says you're an idiot
You know what's really sick? Getting to the pub on time on a Friday
UK threatens subsea cable saboteurs with 14 years behind bars
Whitehall wants tougher penalties and new powers over telecoms operators as Russian activity raises alarm
Beware the claw: Do you want to win the bunny or reboot Android?
Classic arcade game put to shame by judgemental Bugdroid
Vendor-affiliated AI agent tech gets adopted by friendly, funded foundation
Four projects for facilitating AI agents move under vendor-neutral governance
Windows said modem worked fine. That unmistakable scorched electronics smell suggested otherwise
Catching lightning in a tech support bottle
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