- IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight
Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’ IBM’s Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big Blue Cloud, and therefore were prevented from controlling or creating resources.…
- More layoffs at Microsoft as axe falls in Washington and California
One possible solution - go join a union like recently-acquired-by-Redmond ZeniMax UPDATED Less than a month after Microsoft announced it was axing three percent of its staff, regulatory filings indicate new cuts at the tech behemoth.…
- IBM Watson zombie brand shuffles forward with new AI lab in NYC
Unsurprisingly, it's all about agents, the buzzword du jour IBM on Monday unveiled watsonx AI Labs, a New York City hub where startups, researchers, and IBM engineers are expected to co-create agentic AI tools for enterprise use.…
- CoreWeave signs megalease at Applied Digital's not-so-little house on the prairie
A big win for North Dakota CoreWeave is headed to North Dakota, where the rent-a-GPU outfit has signed two roughly 15-year lease agreements with Applied Digital for 250 megawatts of capacity, which the datacenter builder expects will generate around $7 billion in revenue.…
- Ukrainians smuggle drones hidden in cabins on trucks to strike Russian airfields
A real-world Trojan Horse attack Ukraine claims it launched a cunning drone strike on Sunday against multiple Russian airbases, hitting over 40 military aircraft and inflicting an estimated $7 billion in damage, in an operation dubbed "Spiderweb."…
- Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated
Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them Computer scientists have developed a way for an AI system to rewrite its own code to improve itself.…
- Dem senators pen stern letter urging Noem to reinstate cyber review board
Remember Salt Typhoon? Anyone? A group of Democratic senators has urged Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reestablish the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), which had been investigating how China's Salt Typhoon hacked US government and telecommunications networks.…
- Musk's smog-belching Colossus datacenter slammed by civil rights group
NAACP claims that 'temporary' gas turbines were an attempt to get around environmental laws Elon Musk's smog-belching Colossus AI datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee, is once again catching heat, this time from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which urges local authorities to halt operations and fine the startup for what it sees as a "clear" violation of the Clean Air Act.…
- Snowflake finance veep says big corps migrate at a glacial pace
$100 million+ deals are beholden to enterprises' on-prem upgrade cycles Snowflake's ability to grow in the market for larger enterprise customers is hampered by the renewal cycle for older, on-prem data warehouse and analytics tech.…
- Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforce
Is that 'best' for customers or for shareholders? Any vendors that think they've got this 'all figured out is kidding themselves' A senior Salesforce exec says users need to be flexible about AI pricing models while vendors determine which one works best.…
- NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed
White House withdraws Isaacman pick amid potential $6B funding drop More details are emerging about potential NASA budget cuts alongside the abrupt withdrawal of the nomination of Jared Isaacman as the agency's new administrator.…
- Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options
It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them Microsoft is updating Notepad again. The latest indignity for the veteran Windows text wrangler? Text formatting.…
- VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit
29M customers, four radio suppliers, and one hell of a network headache Network engineers can take solace from the completed merger of Three and Vodafone announced today, as the difficult technical work now starts to unify their separate networks over the next several years.…
- US community bank says thieves drained customer data through third party hole
Disclosure at MainStreet Bancshares comes as American finance orgs beg for looser reporting requirements Community bank MainStreet Bancshares says thieves stole data belonging to some of its customers during an attack on a third-party provider.…
- French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assets
Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will Stumbling Euro tech giant Atos looks set to finally sell its Advanced Computing assets to the French state.…
- OpenMamba: Eat your greens, they're good for you
Fancy getting rolling with something Qt and Italian? OpenMamba is an independent Italian distribution which uses Fedora's packaging tools and offers a choice of KDE Plasma or LXQt.…
- Are you a big AI business vendor making terrible AI business decisions? We can help
The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise? Opinion Congratulations! As CEO of a giant tech company, head of a sovereign wealth fund, or a VC bored with megayacht leapfrog, you have billions of dollars of other people's cash to spend. You want to make a difference. You want to be a success.…
- Wanted: IT manager for UK government agency – £60k
So much for cushy public sector roles – a non-IT manager at McDonalds makes more How much is an IT manager worth? Well, if you're working for a government agency, the answer seems to be about £60k (about $81k), according to a new vacancy being advertised.…
- Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter Who, Me? Welcome once again to “Who, Me?”, the reader contributed column in which we invite Reg reader to tell tales of the times when they got things very wrong.…
- Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1
Birthdays for ESA (50) and Johann Strauss (200) marked with music of the spheres What did you do on Saturday? We ask because the Vienna Symphony Orchestra spent some of it playing a waltz that the European Space Agency (ESA) transmitted in the general direction of the Voyager 1 probe.…
- Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank
PLUS: Equinix Singapore outage; Japan and India explore geocoding; APAC datacenter shortage predicted Asia In Brief Intel and Japan’s SoftBank have reportedly teamed up to develop low-power memory for AI.…
- Lumma infostealer takedown may have inflicted only a flesh wound as crew keeps pinching and selling data
PLUS: Ransomware gang using tech support scam; Czechia accuses China of infrastructure attack; And more! Infosec In Brief Despite last week’s FBI announcement that it helped to take down the crew behind the Lumma infostealer, the malware continues to operate.…
- VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe
Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware Broadcom’s VMware business unit has dropped the lowest tier of its channel program, a move one analyst told The Register will benefit its rivals.…
- Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump
'It's a high-stakes intelligence war,' analyst explains exclusive A mystery whistleblower calling himself GangExposed has exposed key figures behind the Conti and Trickbot ransomware crews, publishing a trove of internal files and naming names.…
- Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims
Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation Australia now requires large companies to inform the government if they have paid off ransomware perps.…
- American science put on starvation diet
National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60% To make America great again, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to get by with less.…
- Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo
Its driverless cars are already testing in Austin - good luck Video Tesla has been testing self-driving Model Ys on the streets of Austin, Texas. But according to the automaker's bête noire, the Dawn Project, kids should keep clear.…
- Nvidia scores its first DOE win since 2022 with Doudna supercomputer
System promises a 10x increase in 'scientific output' - not necessarily performance The US Department of Energy's next supercomputer will be built by Dell Technologies and powered by Nvidia's next-gen Vera-Rubin accelerators - a notable switch from the usual Cray-AMD tag teams that build such machines. It's the first DOE win for Nvidia since the Venado system in 2022.…
- Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents
Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed Perplexity, an AI search biz, has launched Perplexity Labs, a project automation service capable of generating basic apps and digital assets on demand, with example workflows and project samples to help first-timers get started.…
- ConnectWise customers get mysterious warning about 'sophisticated' nation-state hack
Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a "sophisticated nation state actor" that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers.…
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