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Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power ...

2026-07-21T16:45:35Z

Oracle faces $100M annual bill to back Wisconsin datacenter power promises

Regulator refuses to budge on $7B guarantee for nearly 1 GW campus being developed with Vantage and OpenAI

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/21/oracle-faces-100m-annual-bill-to-back-wisconsin-datacenter-power-promises/5275728

Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet ...

2026-07-21T13:00:00Z

Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet

Firewall maker looks to safeguard its custom ASIC production with homegrown silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/07/21/intel-fortifies-foundry-with-an-actual-customer-fortinet/5275374

Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago And would have lasted longer ...

2026-07-21T10:45:00Z

Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago

And would have lasted longer if some code hadn't trampled on places it shouldn't

https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/07/21/viking-1-landed-on-mars-50-years-ago/5275041

Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder ...

2026-07-21T09:15:00Z

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

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/21/some-mullvad-vpn-customers-tunnel-for-exit-after-co-founder-donates-millions-to-populist-party/5275012

Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of ...

2026-07-20T21:57:51Z

Attackers pummel critical WordPress vuln to create all sorts of mischief

Plus dozens of PoCs in the public domain

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/20/attackers-pummel-critical-wordpress-vuln-to-create-all-sorts-of-mischief/5275265

Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims ...

2026-07-20T20:10:00Z

Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims

IC3 says any account claiming to represent it is fake

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/20/scammers-impersonate-fbi-on-social-media-prey-on-crime-victims/5275224

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight ...

2026-07-20T19:37:16Z

AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical

An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/20/aws-customer-learns-the-hard-way-how-even-the-smallest-oversight-can-be-mission-critical/5275089

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid ...

2026-07-20T19:15:59Z

Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid

Datacenters tax utilities normally, so just imagine what they could do if workloads were designed to destroy

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/20/malicious-cloud-customers-can-bring-down-the-power-grid/5275193

The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep ...

2026-07-20T16:01:00Z

The Document Foundation says Microsoft's file formats keep users on a short leash

OOXML may carry an ISO certificate, but only Office can be trusted to render it properly

https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/07/20/the-document-foundation-says-microsofts-file-formats-keep-users-on-a-short-leash/5274960

Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH ...

2026-07-20T14:59:00Z

Microsoft 365 calendars become spy drop boxes in HOLLOWGRAPH campaign

Malware hides commands in appointments set for 2050 and uses Redmond's own cloud to phone home

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/20/microsoft-365-calendars-become-spy-drop-boxes-in-hollowgraph-campaign/5274982

Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's ...

2026-07-20T14:14:00Z

Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain

Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/07/20/windows-server-update-services-buckle-under-microsofts-metadata-mountain/5274843

Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a ...

2026-07-20T12:44:00Z

Watching the world burn as all the money flows into a multitrillion-dollar Magic 8 Ball

On this week's episode of The Kettle, we welcome a special guest to discuss how the AI datacenter buildout is setting the world on fire – literally

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/20/watching-the-world-burn-as-all-the-money-flows-into-a-multitrillion-dollar-magic-8-ball/5274553

Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record ...

2026-07-20T12:00:00Z

Infosec expert: Paidwork users' data pwned after 23M-record database dumped online

HIBP claims leaked info includes bank account numbers, payout histories, and personal details

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/20/infosec-expert-paidwork-users-data-pwned-after-23m-record-database-dumped-online/5274869

Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered ...

2026-07-20T11:15:00Z

Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs

With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/20/microsoft-rushes-out-windows-fix-for-dells-hot-and-bothered-pcs/5274810

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch ...

2026-07-20T10:31:00Z

UK's seventh prime minister in a decade says he'll ditch digital ID scheme

One of Labour's biggest technology projects is headed for the bin as Burnham reshuffles Whitehall's priorities

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/20/uks-seventh-prime-minister-in-a-decade-says-hell-ditch-digital-id-scheme/5274794

Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates ...

2026-07-20T10:00:00Z

Major glitch in Matrix as UK government projects watchdog rates shared services cluster red

Nine-department ERP overhaul judged unachievable without urgent action

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/20/major-glitch-in-matrix-as-uk-government-projects-watchdog-rates-shared-services-cluster-red/5274368

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical Which ...

2026-07-20T09:15:00Z

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical

Which way to the Land of the Free again?

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/20/airbus-takes-flight-from-aws-what-happens-next-is-critical/5274109

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on ...

2026-07-20T08:30:00Z

Auditors tell UK government to do the math before banking on £45B AI savings

Departments haven't worked out how the technology will reshape staffing, roles, and skills across the public sector

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/20/auditors-tell-uk-government-to-do-the-math-before-banking-on-45b-ai-savings/5274194

High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no ...

2026-07-20T07:24:00Z

High hardware costs see Red Hat offer a two-server edge rig, no mini-PC required

Worries about ‘prohibitive cost of powering, maintaining, and deploying a third node’

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/07/20/high-hardware-costs-see-red-hat-offer-a-two-server-edge-rig-no-mini-pc-required/5274762

Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this' ...

2026-07-20T06:30:00Z

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

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/20/comment-in-code-read-dear-future-me-sorry-i-wrote-this/5274130

AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: ...

2026-07-20T03:28:36Z

AI ops tools will create console sprawl and break IT more often: Gartner

Yet by 2030, a quarter of the IT ops work you do now will be handled by an unsupervised clanker

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/20/ai-ops-tools-will-create-console-sprawl-and-break-it-more-often-gartner/5274712

Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to ...

2026-07-20T00:38:54Z

Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check

PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/20/chinese-president-xi-jinping-wants-emergency-response-systems-to-keep-ai-in-check/5274687

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius ...

2026-07-19T16:05:00Z

Connecting AI agents to outside services explodes the risk radius

Connect all the things and watch what happens

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/connecting-ai-agents-to-outside-services-explodes-the-risk-radius/5274640

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know ...

2026-07-19T08:01:00Z

Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something

Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage Tim ...

2026-07-18T13:30:00Z

Java was a three-day hotfix away from dying horribly on stage

Tim Lindholm, Java's original JVM maintainer, shares with El Reg some of the grungy build details the doc glosses over

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/18/java-was-a-three-day-hotfix-away-from-dying-horribly-on-stage/5274590

NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD New maintainer ...

2026-07-18T07:45:00Z

NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD

New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/18/nextbsd-returns-to-dollop-apple-source-on-freebsd/5273788

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly And what to ...

2026-07-17T17:40:00Z

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/17/mozilla-speeds-firefox-release-schedule-to-biweekly/5274423

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions ...

2026-07-17T17:00:00Z

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month

22H2 has until 2028, or there's always Windows 11

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/17/microsoft-cuts-onedrive-support-for-older-windows-10-versions-next-month/5274489

Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates Amazon ...

2026-07-17T16:37:39Z

Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates

Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/17/billing-software-error-sends-billion-dollar-aws-estimates/5274521

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting ...

2026-07-17T16:15:22Z

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Turns out decades-old email tricks still work against some LLM-powered email filters

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/17/ai-spam-filters-are-getting-suckered-by-old-school-text-salting/5274434

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said ...

2026-07-17T14:02:00Z

Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/17/torvalds-challenged-the-haters-to-fork-linux-someone-said-hold-my-beer/5274275

Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room Retirement ...

2026-07-17T13:20:00Z

Microsoft gives admins Exchange Online breathing room

Retirement of PowerShell -Credential parameter pushed back to the end of 2026

https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/07/17/microsoft-gives-admins-exchange-online-breathing-room/5274346

Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over ...

2026-07-17T12:35:43Z

Top EU court clips YouTube's intermediary defense over reviewed content

You can't claim to be a passive host after vetting a creator's channel, Google warned

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/17/top-eu-court-clips-youtubes-intermediary-defense-over-reviewed-content/5274299

Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch ...

2026-07-17T11:58:10Z

Attackers target critical FortiSandbox flaws as CISA issues patch order

Command injection vulns land on exploited list after researchers spot abuse attempts

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/17/attackers-target-critical-fortisandbox-flaws-as-cisa-issues-patch-order/5274287

Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US ...

2026-07-17T10:45:00Z

Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester

Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands

https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/17/europes-chip-ambitions-wont-break-dependence-on-us-cloud-and-software-says-forrester/5274086

Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy ...

2026-07-17T10:00:00Z

Ransomware curdles production at Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy biz

No use crying over spilled milk when US plants can't bottle it in the first place

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/17/ransomware-curdles-production-at-coca-colas-fairlife-dairy-biz/5274157

Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS ...

2026-07-17T09:15:00Z

Google fixing Android lock screen bug that lets Gemini send SMS without a PIN

A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/17/google-fixing-android-lock-screen-bug-that-lets-gemini-send-sms-without-a-pin/5273027

Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after ...

2026-07-17T08:30:00Z

Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge

Continuity support required after £336 million replacement deal delayed by more than a year

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/17/home-office-hands-28m-to-immigration-it-incumbents-after-procurement-challenge/5272345

How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality ...

2026-07-17T08:00:00Z

How Gartner can help turn your AI vision into business reality

SPONSORED POST: Feeling stuck with your AI application projects? Gartner has the solution

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/17/how-gartner-can-help-turn-your-ai-vision-into-business-reality/5270873

Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – ...

2026-07-17T06:30:00Z

Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem

We're not Li-ion, user thought mobile phone batteries died every few days

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/17/tech-support-chap-told-angry-customer-to-think-inside-the-box-and-solved-the-problem/5272293

NTP server that travelled back in time caused massive Aussie ...

2026-07-17T04:48:45Z

NTP server that travelled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage

Telstra skipped a patch, didn’t record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/07/17/ntp-server-that-travelled-back-in-time-caused-massive-aussie-mobile-outage/5274059

South Korea making its own security-centric AI model Adapting ...

2026-07-17T01:56:40Z

South Korea making its own security-centric AI model

Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/17/south-korea-making-its-own-security-centric-ai-model/5274034

OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's ...

2026-07-16T22:50:00Z

OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'

Data purges deemed an example of 'misaligned behavior' that upstart is working to avoid

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/openai-admits-gpt-56-occasionally-deletes-files-but-its-an-honest-mistake/5274008

Amsterdam activists lob acid balloons at Microsoft datacenter ...

2026-07-16T21:04:35Z

Amsterdam activists lob acid balloons at Microsoft datacenter project

Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting concrete and steel

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/amsterdam-activists-throw-acid-at-microsoft-datacenter-project/5273943

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100 Models ...

2026-07-16T20:25:00Z

Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100

Models demand trust without offering verification

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/researcher-poisons-open-weight-ai-model-for-under-100/5273880

EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search ...

2026-07-16T16:48:41Z

EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids

The Chocolate Factory is not amused

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/16/eu-forces-google-to-share-its-toys-with-the-other-ai-and-search-kids/5273819

AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: ...

2026-07-16T16:21:00Z

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

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/16/ai-vendors-have-found-someone-to-pay-their-infrastructure-bills-you/5273712

Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard ...

2026-07-16T15:46:12Z

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.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/16/kick-your-mouse-out-of-the-house-with-this-ai-assisted-keyboard-utility/5271938

C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your ...

2026-07-16T15:33:01Z

C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest

Newly documented stealer ClickLock comes for the more trusting Mac user with spot of social engineering

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/16/cmon-just-copy-this-text-string-and-paste-it-into-your-macos-terminal-itll-fix-your-computer-honest/5273701

NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job ...

2026-07-16T14:52:00Z

NASA's Artemis III will need three rockets to do the job Apollo did with one

Blue Origin and SpaceX get their turn to prove they can dock, loiter, and not blow up the launch pad

https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/07/16/nasas-artemis-iii-will-need-three-rockets-to-do-the-job-apollo-did-with-one/5273620

Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's ...

2026-07-16T13:49:17Z

Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push

Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'

https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/16/airbus-migrating-70-critical-apps-from-aws-to-frances-scaleway-amid-digital-sovereignty-push/5272373

Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport ...

2026-07-16T12:49:38Z

Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack

Sentencing bookends the biggest cybercrime conviction in UK history

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/16/brit-scattered-spider-duo-handed-tickets-to-prison-over-transport-for-london-attack/5272446

AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech ...

2026-07-16T12:05:25Z

AI power binge delivers best half since 2022 for climate tech venture funding

Low-carbon projects reap accidental windfall as billions chase compute infrastructure

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/ai-power-binge-delivers-best-half-since-2022-for-climate-tech-venture-funding/5272401

Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due ...

2026-07-16T11:25:20Z

Windows 10 refuses to die, and the security bill is coming due

One in six machines still run the old OS as migration stalls and patch deadlines creep closer

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/16/windows-10-refuses-to-die-and-the-security-bill-is-coming-due/5271987

AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites Storm ...

2026-07-16T10:54:42Z

AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites

Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/16/aws-cloudfront-outage-serves-errors-instead-of-websites/5272421

How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy ...

2026-07-16T08:30:00Z

How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Why to do it, and what to watch out for

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/16/how-to-teach-an-old-intel-mac-new-tricks-with-opencore-legacy-patcher/5271880

Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all Using the ...

2026-07-16T07:00:00Z

Law firm insisted on one password to rule them all

Using the admin password, you could be anyone and see anything

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/16/law-firm-insisted-on-one-password-to-rule-them-all/5269484

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian ...

2026-07-16T06:27:47Z

Tech support scam caused massive data breach at Australian airline Qantas

It’s possible to leak PII describing 5.7 million people without breaching privacy rules

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/16/tech-support-scam-caused-massive-data-breach-at-australian-airline-qantas/5272267

Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high ...

2026-07-16T05:01:48Z

Even HP resellers thought the price of toner and ink was too high – so HP India facilitated an illegal cartel

Regulator fines PC and printer giant for rigged tender bids and collusion

https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/07/16/even-hp-resellers-thought-the-price-of-toner-and-ink-was-too-high-so-hp-india-facilitated-an-illegal-cartel/5272244

Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: ...

2026-07-16T02:01:01Z

Cyberattack threatens utterly critical infrastructure in Japan: KFC

The Colonel stops taking online orders and may close stores after logistics partner’s systems go down

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/16/cyberattack-threatens-utterly-critical-infrastructure-in-japan-kfc/5272220

Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't: releases a frontier ...

2026-07-16T00:14:41Z

Former OpenAI CTO does what Altman won't: releases a frontier AI model that's actually open

Thinking Machines' first open weights model is a 975 billion parameter alternative to Chinese LLMs

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/16/former-openai-cto-does-what-altman-wont-releases-a-frontier-ai-model-thats-actually-open/5272177

Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, ...

2026-07-15T22:30:00Z

Cadence's AuraStack agent melds AI with HPC to speed PCB, advanced packaging design

One-two punch offers a glimpse of how low-precision AI can complement high-precision simulations

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/cadences-aurastack-agent-melds-ai-with-hpc-to-speed-pcb-advanced-packaging-design/5271465

Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 Retail ...

2026-07-15T20:54:37Z

Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2

Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown

https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/15/aws-ec2-leadership-change-dave-treadwell-replaces-brown/5272154

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists Haskell ...

2026-07-15T20:37:46Z

Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

Haskell adherents revisit the language's tongue-in-cheek 'avoid success at all costs' mantra

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/15/prominent-haskell-defector-pilloried-by-anti-ai-purists/5272124

Salesforce's Agentforce isn't winning over clients, ...

2026-07-15T17:04:18Z

Salesforce's Agentforce isn't winning over clients, KeyBanc analysts claim

Investment bank cites messy customer data and a product that 'just isn't there'; Salesforce counters by saying it the fastest-growing product in its history

https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/07/15/salesforces-agentforce-isnt-winning-over-clients-keybanc-analysts-claim/5271866

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off Linux supremo says ...

2026-07-15T16:54:00Z

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/5271894

Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: ...

2026-07-15T16:24:00Z

Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report

Report finds regional differences, especially outside the EEA, but it's still a dark tale claiming user manipulation

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/15/dark-patterns-in-windows-are-steering-users-to-edge-mozilla-commissioned-report/5271792

CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws Three ...

2026-07-15T15:21:58Z

CISA sounds alarm over trio of exploited SharePoint flaws

Three bugs are under active attack, and two more critical holes could add to the pain

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/15/cisa-sounds-alarm-over-trio-of-exploited-sharepoint-flaws/5271814

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise ...

2026-07-15T13:44:57Z

Microsoft cancels Patch Tuesday for some Dell users over surprise shutdowns, overheating devices

Mega hardware vendor reports problems - but Windows maker isn't yet naming affected models

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/15/microsoft-cancels-patch-tuesday-for-some-dell-users-over-surprise-shutdowns-overheating-devices/5271691

MPs fear Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall's £1.15B ...

2026-07-15T13:14:17Z

MPs fear Treasury cold feet could sink Whitehall's £1.15B shared services push

'Do as we fund, not as we do' sends 'very poor reputational signal' says damning report

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/15/mps-fear-treasury-cold-feet-could-sink-whitehalls-115b-shared-services-push/5271668

LegacyHive: 'Bone-shattering' zero-day from ...

2026-07-15T12:59:39Z

LegacyHive: 'Bone-shattering' zero-day from Microsoft's serial tormentor not the haymaker that was promised

Experts say it’s a useful post-compromise tool, for those with the brain cells required to put it together

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/15/microsofts-serial-tormentor-drops-legacyhive-0-day/5271723

AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges ...

2026-07-15T12:21:00Z

AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges

Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/07/15/aws-sustainability-claims-dont-hold-water-lawsuit-alleges/5269723

A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on ...

2026-07-15T10:44:00Z

A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32

New Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/15/a-moment-of-silence-please-for-the-final-release-of-debian-on-x86-32/5271198

EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in ...

2026-07-15T10:00:00Z

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

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/15/eu-competition-decision-hands-sap-customers-more-leverage-in-contract-talks/5271154

Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5 This elevator ...

2026-07-15T09:15:00Z

Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5

This elevator is headed for floor Bork

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/07/15/software-bloat-this-elevator-needs-an-8gb-core-i5/5270901

The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the ...

2026-07-15T07:29:00Z

The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web

'We don't serve their kind here' protects publishers, but won't help rebels destroy the monetization Death Stars built by Google and Meta

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/15/the-star-wars-cantina-scene-shows-we-need-a-new-hope-for-the-agentic-web/5270946

At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token ...

2026-07-15T06:26:38Z

At last, a good reason to buy an AI PC: Reining in runaway token bills

Gartner thinks we’re headed to a hybrid AI model where you offload stuff to the desktop whenever possible

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/15/at-last-a-good-reason-to-buy-an-ai-pc-reining-in-runaway-token-bills/5271589

South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot Tender calls for ...

2026-07-15T04:54:11Z

South Korea to launch universal basic AI chatbot

Tender calls for providers to power free service with local LLMs, government to supply some GPUs

https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/07/15/south-korea-to-launch-universal-basic-ai-chatbot/5271566

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they ...

2026-07-15T03:40:17Z

Australia demands AI companies must produce more energy than they consume, stop ‘theft’ of content

PM frames sweeping new regulations as the equivalent of labour movement touchstones like winning a minimum wage

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/australia-demands-ai-companies-must-produce-more-energy-than-they-consume-stop-theft-of-content/5271535

Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud ...

2026-07-15T00:16:21Z

Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update

As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer

https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/07/15/google-clouds-vmware-service-loses-resilience-due-to-a-dud-update/5271511

OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving ...

2026-07-14T23:00:33Z

OpenAI hides Codex agent instructions behind encryption, leaving developers in the dark

Developers worry encrypted MultiAgentV2 messages will make debugging and auditing harder

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/openai-hides-codex-agent-instructions-behind-encryption-leaving-developers-in-the-dark/5271484

Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with ...

2026-07-14T20:49:40Z

Patchpocalypse Now: Microsoft tops last month's record with 622 Patch Tuesday CVEs

Remember when last month's 206 CVEs seemed eye-watering? Yeah, those were the days

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/14/patchpocalypse-now-microsoft-tops-last-months-record-with-622-patch-tuesday-cves/5271434

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic ...

2026-07-14T19:39:50Z

If you want Claude to speak nicely to you, try Hindi or Arabic

Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/if-you-want-claude-to-speak-nicely-to-you-try-hindi-or-arabic/5271409

New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts 50 ...

2026-07-14T18:30:57Z

New York becomes first state to halt datacenter buildouts

50 MW-plus bit barn builds on hold while Empire State hashes out rules to protect the environment and ratepayers

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/new-york-becomes-first-state-to-halt-datacenter-buildouts/5271377

DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before ...

2026-07-14T16:44:00Z

DeepMind bigbrain calls for America to set AI standards before it's too late

Industry, regulate thyself

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/deepmind-bigbrain-calls-for-america-to-set-ai-standards-before-its-too-late/5271343

Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a ...

2026-07-14T16:09:00Z

Welsh Doxbin admin jailed for egging on swatters from behind a screen

Callum Dare encouraged others to carry out dangerous hoaxes, made mini-movies from the footage

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/14/welsh-doxbin-admin-jailed-for-egging-on-swatters-from-behind-a-screen/5271281

Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... ...

2026-07-14T15:38:59Z

Microsoft rolls out Windows Search updates and they're... quite good

Who are you, and what have you done with Microsoft?

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/14/microsoft-rolls-out-windows-search-updates-and-theyre-quite-good/5271320

RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same ...

2026-07-14T15:01:44Z

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

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/14/risc-v-firmware-project-wants-every-board-booting-from-the-same-hymn-sheet/5271084

IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic CEO ...

2026-07-14T14:16:36Z

IBM's mainframe sales get mugged by AI hardware panic

CEO Krishna: Customers blew their Z budgets on servers and storage before prices spike, Q2 financials 'disappointing'

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/07/14/ibms-mainframe-sales-get-mugged-by-ai-hardware-panic/5271230

Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon ...

2026-07-14T13:40:16Z

Sun sets on Vulcan Centaur as NASA moves SunRISE to SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Solar observatory awaits a new launch date after its original ride hit booster trouble

https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/07/14/sun-sets-on-vulcan-centaur-as-nasa-moves-sunrise-to-spacex-falcon-heavy/5271170

Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole ...

2026-07-14T13:03:34Z

Engineer shoves Linux peg through Sega 32X-shaped hole

'Performance is abysmal, bus contention is bonkers, but it does work'

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/07/14/engineer-shoves-linux-peg-through-sega-32x-shaped-hole/5271028

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos ...

2026-07-14T12:39:03Z

Musk promises purge after Grok Build caught sending entire repos to the cloud

Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud/5271123

'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 ...

2026-07-14T12:15:00Z

'The bots are alive!' Jailbroken Gemini spun up new C2 server for Russian fraudster in just 6 minutes

Human did 10% of the job,
AI did 90%

https://www.theregister.com/research/2026/07/14/the-bots-are-alive-jailbroken-gemini-spun-up-new-c2-server-for-russian-fraudster-in-just-6-minutes/5270131

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers Mozilla, ...

2026-07-14T11:59:03Z

Hands off our VPNs, privacy groups tell UK ministers

Mozilla, Proton, Tor warn ministers that targeting the tech risks creating more problems than it solves

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/07/14/hands-off-our-vpns-privacy-groups-tell-uk-ministers/5271070

Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly ...

2026-07-14T10:37:00Z

Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly

Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/14/frame-a-new-x11-server-implemented-directly-in-assembly/5270498

India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not ...

2026-07-14T09:57:00Z

India's crewed space mission is ready for splashdown, but not launch

Gaganyaan was supposed to fly in 2022 and make the country only the fourth to put people into orbit

https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/07/14/indias-crewed-space-mission-is-ready-for-splashdown-but-not-launch/5270879

How do you solve a problem like Capita? Bringing troubled ...

2026-07-14T09:14:00Z

How do you solve a problem like Capita?

Bringing troubled contracts in-house requires skills Whitehall is already struggling to recruit

https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/14/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-capita/5270368

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing ...

2026-07-14T06:28:00Z

Anthropic's extravagant tokenizer complicates AI pricing

Token consumption doesn't tell the whole tale but it shouldn't be ignored

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/anthropics-extravagant-tokenizer-complicates-ai-pricing/5270792

India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI ...

2026-07-14T02:18:45Z

India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business

Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/14/indias-tech-services-giant-hcl-is-getting-into-the-ai-datacenter-business/5270827

Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become ...

2026-07-13T23:37:22Z

Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider

Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/zucks-ai-ambitions-put-meta-on-course-to-become-americas-next-big-cloud-provider/5270758