Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo
Video Its driverless cars are already testing in Austin - good luck
Software30 May 2025 | 54
Software
Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents
Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed
AI + ML30 May 2025 | 1
Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft
High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing
AI + ML30 May 2025 | 19
Dell has $14BN AI server backlog, warns projects are 'nonlinear'
Can't build a datacenter overnight, argues tech giant
On-Prem30 May 2025 | 4
Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware
Take care when downloading AI freebies, researcher tells The Register
Cyber-crime30 May 2025 | 5
Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud
Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 28
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs
'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message
Patches29 May 2025 | 16
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful
It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 63
Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy
Businesses need to adopt AI, says WEF, but uncertainty is a blocker
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 12
Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels
One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it
Software29 May 2025 | 35
Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff
No, that's not someone on your team who doesn't pull their weight
Applications29 May 2025 | 3
Apple has only 30 days to comply with EU DMA rules
Users leaving App Store to make a third party payment must be free of charge, says Euro Commish
Applications29 May 2025 | 10
OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort
Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims
AI + ML29 May 2025 | 49
European Commission: Make Europe Great Again... for startups
Sick of paying the US tech tax and relinquishing talent to other continents, politicians finally wake up
CxO29 May 2025 | 19
India none-too-subtly reminds Big Tech that local laws prohibit dark patterns
‘Consumers will not tolerate deceit’ Minister tells Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Uber
Legal29 May 2025 | 9
Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity
The financial sector is adept at balancing risk and opportunity. Adversarial AI is its next big challenge
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Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to born-in-Russia messaging app Telegram to push Grok
Telegram to get 50% cut of xAI subscriptions too
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 6
Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps
Also in preview: a settings backup feature to support OS upgrades
OSes28 May 2025 | 33
Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
Jensen be limbo, Jensen be quick, Jensen go under the Uncle Sam’s limbo stick
Systems28 May 2025 | 11
Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results
So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 55
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Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers
House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley
8,000+ Asus routers popped in 'advanced' mystery botnet plot
No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect
Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor
On Call After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity
Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful
It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table
Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday update fails on some Windows 11 VMs
'The operating system couldn't be loaded' is never a great message
Thunderbird is go: 139 follows closely on Firefox's heels
One of the new smaller monthly releases – and how to tweak it
The UK wants you to sign up for £1B cyber defense force
War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending
Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor
Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage
Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look
US to deny visas to foreign officials it says 'censor' social media
Against backdrop of EU rules on spread of misinfo plus UK probing role of online hate in far right riots
STORIES
Attack on LexisNexis Risk Solutions exposes data on 300k +
Data analytics and risk management biz says software dev platform breached, not itself
Cyber-crime28 May 2025 | 2
DuckDB flips lakehouse model with bring-your-own compute and metadata RDBMS
Open source in-process OLAP system launches rival to Iceberg and Delta Lake table format, and more
Databases28 May 2025 |
Firefox 139 arrives for non-Chromium browser fans
Project shutdowns at Mozilla are not encouraging, though
Software28 May 2025 | 29
AI won't replace radiologists anytime soon
Researchers find AI models weak for medical reasoning when it comes to X-rays and CT scans
AI + ML28 May 2025 | 14
Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box
hands on Easy, medium, and the sledgehammer approach – or any combination you fancy
OSes28 May 2025 | 118
ASUS to chase business PC market with free AI, or no AI - because nobody knows what to do with it
Computex Really strong USB ports make a difference too by reducing the need for motherboard replacements
Personal Tech28 May 2025 | 21
Oracle's $40B Nvidia hardware haul may be too hot for OpenAI's Abilene, Texas DC to handle
400,000 GB200s could be more than a 1.2GW datacenter can chew
Systems27 May 2025 | 18
AI agents don't care about your pretty website or tempting ads
'Your well-honed customer experience is noise to an agent'
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 37
Ex-Meta exec: Copyright consent obligation = end of AI biz
Nick Clegg, former politico and Zuckcorp policy Prez, seems confused, can Reg readers help him?
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 147
Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down
Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool
Cyber-crime27 May 2025 | 22
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
Opinion Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse
AI + ML27 May 2025 | 186
The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – simplicity
Comment Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way round
OSes27 May 2025 | 59
Reasons to attend the 2025 AI Infra Summit
Hear some of the world’s biggest companies offer insight into AI-fuelled transformation
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AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking
Opinion Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We'll need someone even scarier
On-Prem27 May 2025 | 18
Turns out using 100% of your AI brain all the time isn’t most efficient way to run a model
Feature Neural net devs are finally getting serious about efficiency
AI + ML25 May 2025 | 22
AI ain't B2B if OpenAI is to be believed
Comment But it's still going to come in through the back door
AI + ML25 May 2025 | 16
Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system
SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems
Databases23 May 2025 | 4
Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold in Redmond
A simple text editor that dates back to Windows 1.0 is getting smartified
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 143
How Java changed the development landscape entirely as code turns 30
Feature The coffee shows no signs of cooling
Software23 May 2025 | 54
What would a Microsoft engineer do to Ubuntu? AnduinOS is the answer
It's not radical, but it is slim and pretty – usually a winning combination
OSes23 May 2025 | 74
One of Britain's largest health trusts says 'no ta' to Palantir-run data platform – for now
Care board defers decision to adopt national system
Databases23 May 2025 | 7
Stargate to land its first offshore datacenters in the United Arab Emirates
Says it will serve half of humanity but testing that claim produced a hilarious ChatGPT fail
AI + ML23 May 2025 | 33
Anthropic Claude 4 models a little more willing than before to blackmail some users
Open the pod bay door
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 21
SAP users grapple with 50% premium for industry-standard service levels
Vendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs
Databases22 May 2025 | 5
Irish privacy watchdog OKs Meta to train AI on EU folks' posts
Case in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 25
Russia expected to pass experimental law that tracks foreigners in Moscow via smartphones
4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants'
Applications22 May 2025 | 54
Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping
A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past
OSes22 May 2025 | 37
Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM
Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos
Security22 May 2025 | 63
AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming
Claude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study
AI + ML22 May 2025 | 24
AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro
And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget
OSes22 May 2025 | 63
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers
Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom
PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54
Google's AI vision clouded by business model hallucinations
google i/o The agentic era may not be all that it's cracked up to be
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 14
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
LLM trained on decades of weather data claimed to be faster, and cheaper
European Supercomputing21 May 2025 | 24
Estimating AI energy usage is fiendishly hard – but this report took a shot
And it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 11
Shadow AI in the enterprise: Managing risk without slowing progress
Shadow AI is a growing problem. Here's why, and how to handle it.
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Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt
Comment When 'AI-powered' means 'mostly humans and bad decisions'
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 64
Windows reports two CPU speeds because one would be too simple
Every hardware claim is equal, but some are more equal than others
OSes21 May 2025 | 20
Research reimagines LLMs as tireless tools of torture
No need for thumbscrews when your chatbot never lets up
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 24
Greater Manchester says its NHS analytics stack is years ahead of Palantir wares
Care board draws red lines over use of UK government-backed Federated Data Platform
Databases21 May 2025 | 54
AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics
Column Being human and working on a team is the job, not writing code
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 71
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang labels US GPU export bans ‘precisely wrong’ and ‘a failure’
Computex Argues the world needs China’s AI researchers working on his chips so the rest of us benefit
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 22
Google crowns Jules to be its agent and spreads the AI love
Google I/O Choc Fac brings gen mods to Android, Chrome, pretty much everywhere else
AI + ML21 May 2025 | 6
Google, high on AI, flogs Gemini for all things
Google I/O Search? That's now artificial intelligence, too
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 25
How open systems drive AI performance
Open-source philosophy, system-level optimizations prevent nightmare GenAI deployments, says CentML CTO
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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' would create a regulation-free AI hellscape, AGs warn
Republican defense of states' rights doesn't apply to curtailing LLMs, apparently
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 28
Dell creates one private cloud to rule them all and in the datacenter bind them
Mix Master Mike will spin up Nutanix, VMware, Red Hat on the same beastly cluster
PaaS + IaaS20 May 2025 | 3
Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade
Creative Cloud Pro arrives with more AI, higher prices, and a familiar feeling of déjà vu
Applications20 May 2025 | 50
Freshly discovered bug in OpenPGP.js undermines whole point of encrypted comms
Update before that proof-of-concept comes to bite
Patches20 May 2025 | 21
Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader
I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 29
Microsoft revives DOS-era Edit in a modern shell
Build Fast, compact, useful? Who are you, and what did you do with Windows?
OSes20 May 2025 | 72
Intel bets you'll stack cheap GPUs to avoid spending top dollar on Nvidia Pros
Computex Behold ‘Project Battlematrix’
AI Infrastructure Month20 May 2025 | 7
Wanted: A handy metric for gauging if GPUs are being used optimally
Even well-optimized models only likely to use 35 to 45% of compute the silicon can deliver
Systems20 May 2025 | 9
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy
Opinion There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it
Personal Tech20 May 2025 | 227
Techies propose the Agent Name Service: It's like DNS but for AI agents
Because nobody wants a random and unverified bot tickling their APIs
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 13
Foxconn chairman predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor
Computex Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork
AI + ML20 May 2025 | 14
Microsoft adds Grok – the most unhinged chatbot – to Azure AI buffet
Never mind the chatbot's recent erratic behavior
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 24
Nvidia builds a server to run x86 workloads alongside agentic AI
Computex Wants to be the 'HR department for agents'
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Microsoft open sources Windows Subsystem for Linux – well, most of it
Time to stand on its own two webbed feet?
OSes19 May 2025 | 19
GitHub Copilot angles for promotion from assistant to agent
Build Agent mode arrives, for better or worse
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 7
When LLMs get personal info they are more persuasive debaters than humans
Large-scale disinfo campaigns could use this in machines that adapt 'to individual targets.' Are we having fun yet?
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 17
LastOS slaps neon paint on Linux Mint and dares you to run Photoshop
Another distro for Windows users – presumably ones who love bling
OSes19 May 2025 | 93
Nvidia sets up shop in Taiwan with AI supers and a factory full of ambition
Computex Researchers and TSMC to benefit from expanded infrastructure
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 4
Latest patch leaves some Windows 10 machines stuck in recovery loops
Updated Veteran OS might be almost out of support, but there's still time for Microsoft to break it
OSes19 May 2025 | 21
AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders
Highest recorded jump in skills gap for more than a decade, recruiter finds
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 39
Qualcomm confirms it's dipping into datacenter world again, probably for AI
Computex CEO Cristiano Amon teases plans for high-speed-low-power inferencing products
AI Infrastructure Month19 May 2025 | 2
Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload
Who, Me? Yard of Eden just doesn't have the right ring to it
Software19 May 2025 | 309
Nvidia opens up speedy NVLink interconnect to custom CPUs, ASICs
Computex One of the two just needs to be made by Nv
AI + ML19 May 2025 |
China launches an AI cloud into orbit. 12 sats for now, 2,800 in coming years
Asia In Brief PLUS: South Korea signs for massive supercomputer; HCL gets into chipmaking; US tariffs slow APAC tech buying; and more
AI + ML19 May 2025 | 14
Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025
Global Accessibility Awareness Day It matters for everyone, because we'll all be disabled one day
Personal Tech18 May 2025 | 31
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app
Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcry
Applications17 May 2025 | 25
Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'
Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?
AI + ML16 May 2025 | 121
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard
Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let go
Software16 May 2025 | 45
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Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away
Applications16 May 2025 | 29
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade
Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complained
SaaS16 May 2025 | 7
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge
CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity
European Supercomputing16 May 2025 | 66
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation
We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers
On-Prem16 May 2025 | 16
How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'
Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claims
Public Sector16 May 2025 | 80
From hype to harm: 78% of CISOs see AI attacks already
AI attacks are keeping most practitioners up at night, says Darktrace, and with good reason
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Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'
After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are better
Databases16 May 2025 | 29
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