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Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack
What all the founding members have in common, Nvidia said, is that they agree open source AI models are a fundamental part of modern cybersecurity, just like prior open source tech has been for the infosec space. “The…
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Microsoft seeks Supreme Court lifeline in pre-owned license battle
The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled in 2025 that the resale and subdivision of Microsoft on-premise…
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Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much
Not so much Trump's unpredictability is pushing governments and businesses toward open source while Britain remains…
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The roller coaster works, but the Six Flags kiosk has gone off the rails
Richard Speed Richard Speed MICROSOFT ECOSYSTEM REPORTER Published mon 27 Jul 2026 // 10:15 UTC What frightens a…
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FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another
After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another Word up Rupert Goodwins Rupert Goodwins Register columnist…
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Google goes it alone with a new cybercrime crew taxonomy
As we noted at the time, the existence of multiple naming schemas means that researchers often refer to the same group…
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Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data
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SpaceX just about nails Starship test flight 13
Simulating missions that land at Starbase, SpaceX’s Texas home, builds toward future missions that launch and land at…
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Trump expands voluntary pledge to keep datacenter costs off household power bills
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The last Space Shuttle returned to Earth 15 years ago
LON missions had been a feature of the Space Shuttle program following the Columbia disaster. REG AD…
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How AI drove Shopify back to clean code
And it has an unlikely ally for its back-to-the-roots approach: AI agents. The company is launching a new storefront…
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Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else
The pro-AI folks are jubilant, and they are especially loud on the internet. (They're probably using bots to write…
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BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
Our current office temp has an issue."It's the printer," she says, apologetically. "It makes a noise.""When it's…
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Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol sells for $5 / MTok input and $30 / MTok output.However, the tokens required to complete a task…
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Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info
This app needs to take a vow of silence when it comes to your personal information.The app, available in seven…
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AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI
Low-level programming interfaces like CUDA and ROCm remain key to unlocking a chip’s true potential. REG AD…
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Veterans Affairs signs $1.6B deal for an army of Salesforce AI agents
"Every minute a VA employee spends navigating disconnected systems is a minute not spent serving a Veteran," said…
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Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs
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SpaceX to try its luck again with Starship Flight 13 after engines and weather say no
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Uncle Sam tells overseas cybercrooks their visas are canceled
The same report says US investigators are pursuing Chinese organized crime affiliates operating in Cambodia, Laos, and…
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Burnham wants Big Ecommerce to bankroll Britain's pubs
Any extra revenue raised would be funneled back into the business rates system. "Revenue raised from these reforms…
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Google meets the neighbors and gets both barrels over its new UK datacenter
It is expected to provide up to 77 MW of IT capacity when full, but it is currently nowhere near this level, according…
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Google breaks Alibaba’s record for Europe’s largest DMA fine
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Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it
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Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours
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GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team
At the same time, newcomers will find themselves capped on how many reports they can submit until they've demonstrated…
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Talking smack about a doctor got him access to private medical files
Avram Piltch Avram Piltch US EDITOR US editor Published thu 23 Jul 2026 // 08:00 UTC PWNED Welcome back to PWNED, the…
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Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
Google Cloud experienced a 15-hour outage due to a cooling failure in its europe-west4-a zone, affecting three…
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Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball
Lora chats with Brandon and El Reg Editor-in-Chief Matt Rosoff about how datacenters are affecting the environment,…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check
We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing,” he…
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Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage
In this case, we're talking about a language that started life as a failed attempt at set-top box dominance and…
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Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge
The UK Home Office has awarded £28 million in contract extensions to two incumbent tech suppliers, PA Consulting and…
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AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You
Forrester added Microsoft to the list, citing its recent launch of the premium E7 license, which bolts M365 Copilot,…
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Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all
This week’s tale of woe comes from a company that left a door wide open for miscreants, but was lucky it didn't have…
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Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas
The Commissioner’s report goes deeper, explaining a crook who claimed to represent “Qantas IT help” made the call and…
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Ministers arm under-16s social media ban with least surprising study of the year
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Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing
There's no set definition of a token, but they're typically a set of three or four characters that are mapped to the…
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Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains
According to the CEO of Sun-Ways, the company behind the scheme, the challenge was not so much technical as…
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Orbital datacenter gold rush needs an environmental review, FCC told
Instead, it asks the regulator to put the entire emerging orbital datacenter sector on hold while it assesses the…
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Datacenter MacGyver saved the biggest football match of the year
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Home Office's glitchy eVisa rollout lands UK privacy regulator in campaigners' crosshairs
The groups want the committee to examine the eVisa program as part of its wider inquiry into government data…
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AI is becoming a bargain hunter's market, with a few luxury models on top
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Media Over QUIC can scale real-time streaming and carry the world's vids
I’ve been following the standardization of QUIC for several years (and wrote about it) but MoQ had not yet come onto…
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Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking
Incident details were not disclosed, but they were caused by AI agents that were unauthorized or misconfigured rather…
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Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract
An earlier effort to replace the UK tech services company foundered when EANI ended its £485 million contract with…
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AdaptHealth says attackers sweet-talked their way into cloud systems and stole patient data
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NetNut cracked as Google and FBI target 2 million-device botnet
Crims often use residential proxy networks to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and…
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In a volatile world, a consistent sustainability policy is critical
For example, societies must reduce factory energy use, roll out EVs, and ensure that communications equipment can…
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Somebody told DeepSeek to build in-browser ransomware and it gleefully complied
You don't need to be a sophisticated cybercriminal or advanced persistent threat group. In fact, we've already…
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