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Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns

Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them

A large station departure board displays a clock above commuters inside Victoria station.

The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains

Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really

Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

OSes

Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life

Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth

BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks

Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk

Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released

JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector

Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine

Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years

Software developers work at dual monitors in a glass-walled office

DevOps

Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged

Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack

NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle

Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration

A Microsoft Outlook app icon on a blue gradient background.

Personal Tech

Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug

Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut

Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that’s coming off the tracks

That’s not a radio. THIS is a radio

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed

Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent

ASIA IN BRIEF: China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop

PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!

OSes

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

Furores are fermenting in the forums

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Columnists

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now

AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that

Rupert Goodwins

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

Rupert Goodwins

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different

Bruce Davie

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

Mark Pesce

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

Rupert Goodwins

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Rupert Goodwins

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

Rupert Goodwins

Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for

Rupert Goodwins

Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere

Spikes deter pigeons, but Microsoft still managed to foul the screen

On-Prem

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

It's amazing what happens when you plug everything in

Off-Prem

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email

UPDATED

AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region

Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere

networks

HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi

NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork

security

Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull

Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic's uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference

devops

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

The tool is meant to take the place of 80% of the work that requires ServiceNow dev teams

cyber-crime

Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time

Matthew Isaac Knoot and Erick Ntekereze Prince will each do 18 months for hosting laptops used by North Korean IT workers to remotely infiltrate US companies

Technology news and analysis | The Register

Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns

The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life

BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks

Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released

Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine

Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged

NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle

Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug

Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that’s coming off the tracks

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

ASIA IN BRIEF: China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

Columnists

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different

The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out

What happened when AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC

Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for

MORE TOPICS

Bus station display takes the Windows 10 road to nowhere

Custom PC worked in the lab, failed on site – and so did the angry client

Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough

AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region

HPE drops first Juniper x Aruba collab – self-driving Wi-Fi

Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull

Dyna Software's AI assistant promises to massage your toughest ServiceNow configs

Fake IT workers rented laptops to Nork scammers, got prison time

Anthropic response to 1-click pwn: Shouldn't have clicked 'ok'

60% of MD5 password hashes are crackable in under an hour

IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power

$250M crypto-robbing gang’s dirty work guy sentenced to 6.5 years behind bars

TomTom’s route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion

C++ survey finds AI use rising, though trust is in short supply

State-backed hackers hammer Palo Alto firewall zero-day before patch lands

Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate

AMD puts out new slottable GPU for AI-curious enterprises

Hungarian cops cuff suspected swatter after two-year FBI probe

EU hits snooze on AI Act rules after industry backlash

NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash

The network password was a key plot point in one of the most famous movies of all time

Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer

Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking

Minister gives Palantir's NHS platform a clean bill of health

Features

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw

Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question

UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk

Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches'

Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list

Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing'

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet

Neocloud IREN buys OpenStack champion Mirantis

Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’

Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs

Young evil genius forces hamster to run on wheel to power his gadgets

Claude hitches ride on SpaceX's datacenter capacity

Musk has never built a wafer fab, but he wants to burn $119B on one anyway

Arctic Wolf kicks 250 employees out of the pack to save money for AI

1 in 8 employees totally cool with selling work credentials

Mars rover hits rocky snag with power tool

We've only gone and done it: Changed what you're used to

DRAM drought to dog AMD's chips this year