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Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration
Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks
Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit
Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS
Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads
GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate
Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience
$1K laser mosquito zapper promises precision strikes as backers itch for answers
After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers
Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release
Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC
Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures
Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak
Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028
Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants
McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials
Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin
Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone
Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay
The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await
With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that
Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too
On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI
Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie
Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?
Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support
Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again
Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result
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
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog - defensive AI security CEO says it's not ruff to do
Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'
The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments
Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks
Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices
Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it
DeepSeek's innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in
Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense
1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
Another one bites the dust
Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine
Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons
Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age
Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage
Virgin Galactic flights stay paused while ticket prices head for the Moon
Turns out this space thing really is hard
Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure
Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down
Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education
TalkTalk Business and ARO to borg into UK tech services giant
70,000 customers will join the collective, whose name and leader remain unknown
Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers' details exposed in logistics breach
Even if your hardware is secure, quantum-ready, encrypted, and future-proof, no one is immune to a supplier letting the side down
BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime
Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza
Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed
Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected
Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you
Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated
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
New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs
Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online
OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging
'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories
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
Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity
Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop
This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph
Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books
Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back
Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M
The backup Microsoft never promised you
SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check
Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals
Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender
Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan
Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat
AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data
CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form
Twitch feeds your streams to Amazon's AI unless you tell it to stop
Bot training switch is on by default, because apparently asking first wasn't going to work
Everything is better with pickles... except Windows
Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad