US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'

Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.

If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have

The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says

Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents

It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?

Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed

Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains

MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails

That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment

Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.0

The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.

By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion

Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin

Build it, bill it, bin it as forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise

Replaceable earbud batteries lift iFixit score from zero to a dizzying two out of ten

A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption

Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts

Government survey puts the figure at 808k, says detecting and removing malware most common weakness

Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6

British Transport Police’s six-month facial recognition pilot produced one alert, and it was a false positive

Researchers find a way to recover stale indirect branch prediction entries

The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers

Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is ‘Kubernetes for agents’

Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'

It's a worm attack, AI-style

It's not OpenClaw. It's dots

Gemini, Grok now serving as front door to federal resources on unfinished, poorly designed website

Many CISOs deploy DSPM to solve a visibility problem, but visibility alone is not the value.

New business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai

Regular pricing starts at $6,799 - all that memory doesn't come cheap

Two questions remain: who is abusing the CVEs? And why did Citrix take so long to disclose?

Jevstiller targets 98% agreement by learning familiar requests on your hardware while sending uncertain and audited queries upstream

Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well

Use SharePoint Online? Keen on PDFs? Then you won't be keen on the latest Word bug

Glow Security finds more than 13,000 publicly accessible images that expose corporate development work

Equinix pilot promises faster deployment and over-the-air upgrades without downtime, provided the code behaves itself

Meta-spotted flaw could hand attackers arbitrary code execution via a maliciously crafted file

Turns out teaching an AI to keep going can make it rather bad at knowing when to stop

Just wait until you hear the bad news

Economists turn stock movements into an estimate of anticipated gains – while warning that markets can get carried away

SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three

RemoteThreat launches with $7M, 1,000 attack tools, and ambitions to equip enterprises and Uncle Sam for AI-speed operations

Protesters want ministers to reject an extension of the US spy-tech firm's £330M NHS data platform deal

Flashbangs reportedly deployed during arrest as crime group denies any connection to suspect

Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude

A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger

Ten-year deal covers customer records, case management, portals, analytics, and AI, with extensions possible to 2041

A Register dinner in Soho on 20 October takes on the file infrastructure everyone still runs and nobody chose, off the record.

Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles