ai and ml Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting Teams question detection bot postpones debut, will get 2-month extension to practice interrupting you
security Print management outfit PaperCut is under 0-day attack, and it’s drawing customers’ blood The fix is either an unvalidated and unofficial emergency patch or taking the server offline
software Google forces Android apps to use memory more wisely as RAMpocalypse rages No one can afford RAM anymore, so we're requiring devs to mind memory usage
personal tech Nitter might be no more, but Twitter is back (sort of) Twitter.now aims to fill the bird-shaped hole left by X. For a fee
software Salesforce boasts: 50% of bookings were from 'customers refilling the tank... they consume Flex Credits, they want more' As SaaS giant gets a boost from Claudeforce, users might want to know how their AI use will be monetized
software Microsoft slaps a fresh coat of AI paint on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap AI at Work roadmap is the new name for upcoming Microsoft 365 capabilities
databases AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company
software Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through
ai and ml McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI' Fasten your seatbelt and empty that bladder: AI investment is rising, but reported enterprise earnings impact remains stubbornly flat
software Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing Current Exchange connector is retiring - and new ones won't work if you don't upgrade
software HMRC dangles £500M carrot for National Insurance system revamp Taxman wants to drag creaky NPS into agile era
applications I picked Task Manager 'to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop' – OG dev talks to The Reg Original author of legendary 1996 system utility tries to answer the question: 'How would I do it today?'
software Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI Bungs banknotes at Bristol boffins to find out if mature code survives the machine
columnists Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement
software Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory It survived testing and the boss signed off, so who was really to blame?
software Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing
applications Microsoft lets you swap New Outlook's looks with the face of Outlook Classic Functionality not all there yet, but at least Redmond's latest and greatest appears a bit more like its predecessor
software Developer given Mission:Impossible - fixing rubbish code that could crash a city - simply chose not to accept it After imagining explosions, blackouts, and daring escapes, this techie decided the best thing to do was just not doing the job
saas Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot
software Thunderbird to flap twice as fast from September Email client follows Firefox onto two-week release treadmill
software SAP consultant job ads overshoot final offers by up to 12%, recruiter claims Both sides apparently start high then price in the inevitable haggle
software Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 71 Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online
software Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is
software Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
software Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you
virtualization Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
software Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads
ai and ml Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone
software Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
software Five years after quitting a job, developer's former boss asked for rapid tech support Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter
software Give Google the boot by building your own search engine Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about
databases Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages Think your bugs are a pain to track? WAL-Reset survived months of hunting and required a new logging tool to identify
ai and ml OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions
ai and ml Hey, big spender – OpenAI has a new SKU just for you $125 a month? So, how good are those open-weight models getting, again?
software Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared
software NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car PLUS: Infosys to wear Crocs for a decade; Fujifilm may quit printers; 2GW datacenter debuts in western China; and more!
devops Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death Look over there, Copilot - it's a beautiful AI farm where you can tend some digital rabbits
ai and ml Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
software UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers
SOFTWARE Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar A nice little summer job for someone
SOFTWARE Techie lured out of retirement to support software only he remembered The first job was lucrative and went well, but a pension was preferable to rolling projects
AI AND ML Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font ShieldFont is available today if you've got copy that needs protecting
SOFTWARE Microsoft's cloud brings rain of revenue but modest M365 AI revenue harvest Capex spending? What? Me worry?
SOFTWARE Microsoft faces competition probe over Copilot subscription price hike Watchdog asks whether customers were clearly told how to avoid the costlier AI-equipped plans
ai and ml Perplexity's tokenmaxxing Model Council gives you multiple bot perspectives Up to 8 AI models running in the cloud weighing in on ambiguous business issues? Sounds affordable
ai and ml College prof hides prompt to catch AI cheaters, finds human nature is pretty much as we thought
ai and ml Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks AI seems to have a liberal bias
SOFTWARE Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle £270M ValueLicensing case remains mostly paused while Redmond pursues permission to appeal
software Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data Never believe a suit who says they're handy with tech
Software Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it Sleep doesn't pay
ai and ml OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap
software IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets
SOFTWARE Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job
SOFTWARE GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
SOFTWARE Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other
SOFTWARE Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
software Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this' Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work
SOFTWARE Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close
software EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids The Chocolate Factory is not amused
SOFTWARE AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year
software Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.
SOFTWARE How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher Why to do it, and what to watch out for
databases EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks Truce over maintenance fees is a bargaining chip for ECC holdouts – just don't expect a stampede to third-party support
SOFTWARE RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system
Software Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan
ai and ml Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing This week on The Reg's Kettle podcast, we wonder whether tokenminning is going to bring the industry back down to Earth
columnists Microsoft is losing the battle to protect license lucre. It better get used to the feeling Time for the Clone Wars remake
personal tech Slothful summer app lets you scroll simply by tilting your head ScrollPods is Mac-only, and you'll need compatible AirPods
ai and ml AI tool scours the web for job openings, preps your resume and cover letter Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project
SOFTWARE OpenMandriva claims disgruntled admin trashed repos after community bust-up Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs
software SAP makes it easier for customers to shop for legacy product support, ending EU antitrust probe Vendor drops reinstatement fees and caps back-maintenance charges ahead of the ECC support cliff
ai and ml Tool promises to make lazy academics' AI-written papers sound more human Startup insists it's not trying to help anyone cheat the system - honest!
SOFTWARE Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ditches SharePoint while Bavaria also mulls Microsoft alternatives
software Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs Coalition says ICO failed to act despite hundreds of complaints about bug-plagued digital immigration status scheme
ai and ml Avoid AI atrophy – new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away
software New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead Fed up with forgetting flags? Let Instagui read --help output and build a browser GUI instead
Software Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses spat ValueLicensing celebrates while Redmond considers next steps
software Microsoft says the world is changing faster than it can keep up as it guts commercial, Xbox teams Xbox chief says company can't afford to mistake longevity for inevitability
SOftware Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code Who wrote this rubbish? Oh ...
Software Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track A final humiliation for Australia’s Securities Exchange and its attempts to run a bourse on distributed ledgers
software Vim text editor game teaches you keyboard shortcuts with ice cream delivery Browser game teaches Vim's famously unintuitive movement commands to keep your hands on the keyboard
AI and ML Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions 'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'
Software No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle Apple's final break with Chipzilla leaves another platform preparing to wind down support
software Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings Allows ISVs to put their names on the door so desirable bots always get in
SOFTWARE One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V A homebrew PC and mini-mainframe were only the warm-up for Yuri Zaporozhets' latest operating system
SOFTWARE Three FOSS projects for developers, procrastinators, and media wranglers Prism tracks AI emissions, Super Productivity keeps tasks local, and TAMOSS brings the BBC's media API to Kubernetes
Software Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency SPI co-creator Dave Verwer joins Apple, says 'We will be moving away from that model completely'
APPLICATIONS Collabora releases CODE 26.04 as rivalry between FOSS cloudy office suites heats up Now with Markdown support and smarter formula error handling – plus integrated AI, though it's off by default
software Deno project is going to add cross-platform desktop apps in next major update Feature is not yet stable, but will offer easy conversion of web applications
saas Microsoft rivals line up to tell UK watchdog where the software behemoth hurt them Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition
AI and ML Anthropic reimagines Claude in Slack as nosy, always-on agentic AI coworker The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack
AI + ML Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
AI + ML ZTE ensures 2026 Jiangsu Football City League opening ceremony with 5G-A, powering robot traffic police debut
AI + ML DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs
Software Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave
