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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
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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
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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
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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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UK.gov vows to cut consultancy spending, then hands up to £350M to consultancies
Deloitte has won a four-year deal worth up to £200 million to offer "strategic multifunctional teams" for data…
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Where there's a will, AI still has work to do
Wills and probate senior associate Tom McInerney then reviewed the document to see how it stacked up. REG AD…
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No more Java refills for Intel Macs after JDK 27, says Oracle
Building the JDK for macOS/x64 would require setting a flag, and "there will be no guarantee that the port will build,…
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Atlas shrugs: New UK asylum seeker IT system failed to help case workers learn from appeals
According to a report from Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, the number of appeals to decisions…
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Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings
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Boffins build a better pixel capable of emitting and receiving light
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a multifunction pixel that can both emit and measure light, which could lead…
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It's looking like a hot, messy summer for security teams as AI finds countless previously hidden vulns
In addition to Chainguard, other founding member companies include BNY, Cisco, Cloudflare, Corridor, DepthFirst,…
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Italy probes AI-fueled price hikes in Microsoft 365
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ZTE CDO Cui Li at GTI Summit 2026: Co-creating an intelligent, ubiquitous 6G future and exploring new opportunities in the mobile AI era
Under the title "Co-Creating an Intelligent, Ubiquitous 6G Future", she shared ZTE's strategic insights, key…
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ZTE and GSMA announce co-location between ZTE Global Summit & User Congress and GSMA M360 ASEAN at MWC26 Shanghai
The events will bring together global ICT leaders, operators and technical experts to conduct in-depth discussions and…
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BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
It's a laptop that we expressly told him – several times – not to carry around with the cables still plugged in. So…
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Security boss thought MFA would be too much security
The support team investigated and quickly learned the real problem was with the invoicing software, which promised MFA…
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Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable
Consumer users of Windows 10 could acquire an extra year of patches any time up to October 13, 2026. REG AD…
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Apple takes over Swift Package Index, vows to remove GitHub dependency
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