SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 after a second stage failure resulted in the spent rocket tumbling uncontrollably back to Earth.…
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 European tech leaders are waking up to the risk of the US simply turning off their IT services.…
Amazon is warning users of its media services that it will not protect them against patent infringement claims relating to media codec technology supported by those services.…
The launch of the Artemis II mission to send humans around the Moon is fast approaching. The Register had a go at building Lego's latest SLS set and found it a lot of fun, particularly making whooshing noises as the rocket "launches."…
UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law [ 04-Feb-26 6:46am ]The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched a probe into Elon Musk's xAI, after its Grok chatbot produced sexual images of real people, without their consent.…
Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings [ 04-Feb-26 5:28am ]If you're brave enough to want to run the demonstrably insecure AI assistant OpenClaw, several clouds have already started offering it as a service.…
For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters [ 04-Feb-26 2:52am ]In recent years, Supermicro's regulatory filings often have delivered dramas such as losing its listing on the NASDAQ stock exchange, an admission its books may not be accurate, another possible delisting, and missing the AI boom.…
Too much AI for some, too little for others: Why AMD can't win with investors [ 04-Feb-26 2:11am ]Usually diversity is a sign of a healthy and resilient business. But for the folks on Wall Street, the breadth of AMD's portfolio is a bug, not a feature - one that sent the House of Zen's share price down by more than eight percent in after hours trading on Tuesday.…
VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files [ 04-Feb-26 12:51am ]Linux users who installed Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as a Snap package may want to check to see whether files they sent to the trash with the app have actually been deleted.…
AI agents can't yet pull off fully autonomous cyberattacks - but they are already very helpful to crims [ 03-Feb-26 11:57pm ]AI agents and other systems can't yet conduct cyberattacks fully on their own - but they can help criminals in many stages of the attack chain, according to the International AI Safety report.…
It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.…
GitHub, the Microsoft code-hosting shop that popularized AI-assisted software development, is having some regrets about its Copilot infatuation.…
Amazon Web Services' European expansion has hit the buffers as the American cloud provider grapples with aging grid infrastructure and lengthy interconnect delays.…
Palantir is shaping the "under-the-hood" practices of the US Defense Department as demand for its software grows across warfighting, shipbuilding, and weapons procurement, CEO Alex Karp said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Monday.…
Critical React Native Metro dev server bug under attack as researchers scream into the void [ 03-Feb-26 7:01pm ]Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native's Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven't received the "broad public acknowledgement" that they should, according to security researchers.…
Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin [ 03-Feb-26 6:40pm ]The Department of Energy says advanced nuclear reactor designs - many of which have so far existed mainly at the experimental, testing, or demonstration stage - generally pose limited environmental risk and can qualify for a streamlined environmental review for future projects.…
Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud [ 03-Feb-26 6:06pm ]Snowflake is launching a PostgreSQL database-as-a-service within its AI data environment to place transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI under a single set of governance rules.…
CISA updated ransomware intel on 59 bugs last year without telling defenders [ 03-Feb-26 5:17pm ]On 59 occasions throughout 2025, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) silently tweaked vulnerability notices to reflect their use by ransomware crooks. Experts say that's a problem.…
Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights [ 03-Feb-26 5:08pm ]Opinion Palantir had a whopper of a Q4, showing accelerating revenue growth, beating Wall Street's profit estimates, and enjoying a share price jump of as much as 11% during pre-market trading on Tuesday before coming back down to earth.…
Microsoft has reported two Azure service wobbles in as many days, including a disruption affecting Virtual Machine management ops yesterday and a Managed Identity for Azure resources outage in East US and West US regions today.…
Partner Content Physical AI and robotics are moving from the lab to the real world— and the cost of getting it wrong is no longer theoretical. With robots deployed in factories, warehouses, and public settings, large-scale simulation has become tightly coupled with real-world operations.…
US tariffs may be squeezing Europe's trade balance, but they are also pushing governments and businesses to spend big on keeping tech closer to home.…
Longtime HP CEO Enrique Lores is decamping for a top job at PayPal, handing the reins to an interim chief while the business hunts for a permanent successor.…
French police raided Elon Musk's X offices in Paris this morning as part of a criminal investigation into alleged algorithmic manipulation by foreign powers.…
Today is the day Azure Storage stops supporting versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS 1.2 is the new minimum.…
Polish authorities have cuffed a 20-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out DDoS attacks.…
AI-pocalypse Barnsley, a town in South Yorkshire, England, best known for coal mining and glassmaking, is being thrust into the limelight as the country's first "Tech Town" - shoehorning AI into everything from local businesses to public services.…
Mozilla has decided that if AI is going to live in your browser, you should at least be able to kill it when it gets annoying.…
NASA has concluded a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for Artemis II, but recurring liquid hydrogen leaks forced the test to be halted short of completion, prompting the agency to delay the mission's launch to at least March 2026.…
OpenClaw, the AI-powered personal assistant users interact with via messaging apps and sometimes entrust with their credentials to various online services, has prompted a wave of malware and is delivering some shocking bills.…
Britain's defense personnel will be given the authority to neutralize drones threatening military bases under measures being introduced in the Armed Forces Bill, currently making its way through Parliament.…
Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they're not suite enough [ 03-Feb-26 6:13am ]Microsoft has slipped out news that it's killing some standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans.…
South Korea enlists AI to spot pump and dump schemes on social media, or in Spam [ 03-Feb-26 4:42am ]South Korea's government and main stock exchange have developed and deployed AI-powered tools to detect schemes that aim to send the price of cryptocurrencies and shares soaring so that unscrupulous investors can cash in.…
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun [ 03-Feb-26 1:02am ]Elon Musk on Monday revealed his space company SpaceX has acquired his AI outfit xAI, and that the two will work together to escape the surly bonds of Earthly powers by tapping the sun's enduring glow.…
Notepad++ hijacking blamed on Chinese Lotus Blossom crew behind Chrysalis backdoor [ 02-Feb-26 11:23pm ]Security researchers have attributed the Notepad++ update hijacking to a Chinese government-linked espionage crew called Lotus Blossom (aka Lotus Panda, Billbug), which abused weaknesses in the update infrastructure to gain a foothold in high-value targets by delivering a newly identified backdoor dubbed Chrysalis.…
Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60 [ 02-Feb-26 10:26pm ]That slice of Pi is getting much more expensive. Everyone's favorite single-board computer, the Raspberry Pi, is jumping up in price again, with increases ranging from $10 to $60, depending on how much memory your board has.…
Intel welcomes memory apocalypse with Xeon workstation refresh [ 02-Feb-26 9:30pm ]Intel's workstation lineup is getting a much-needed refresh with the launch of its Xeon 600-series processors, boasting up to 86 cores and clocks topping 4.9 GHz. Chipzilla's timing couldn't be worse.…
There's nothing micro about this super-sized Arduino Uno [ 02-Feb-26 8:31pm ]Arduino boards power everything from robots to RGB lights, but they're a little on the small side. YouTuber UncleStem has his own solution: build a gigantic, yet fully functional one.…
Want more ads on your web pages? Try the AdBoost extension [ 02-Feb-26 7:51pm ]Come on, admit it. You like seeing banner ads on your favorite web pages, because they provide a nice break from reading text. If you're honest about this feeling, there's a new extension for you.…
DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit [ 02-Feb-26 7:32pm ]The memory shortage is worse than most of us first thought. Prices on DRAM and NAND flash memory are expected to surge in the first quarter of 2026 as AI-driven hyperscalers and cloud service providers (CSPs) continue to strain supply chains.…
ICE-reporting service StopICE has blamed a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent for attacking its app and website and sending users text messages warning them that their information had been "sent to the authorities."…
Russia-linked APT28 attackers already abusing new Microsoft Office zero-day [ 02-Feb-26 6:18pm ]Russia-linked attackers are already exploiting Microsoft's latest Office zero-day, with Ukraine's national cyber defense team warning that the same bug is being used to target government agencies inside the country and organizations across the EU.…
Oracle's first general on-prem release of its .ai database iteration draws skeptics [ 02-Feb-26 5:47pm ]Last week, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle AI Database 26ai Enterprise Edition for Linux x86‑64, but 13-year support for 19c and the prospect of AI lock-in might make users think twice about upgrading to it.…
McDonald's is not lovin' your bigmac, happymeal, and mcnuggets passwords [ 02-Feb-26 5:05pm ]Change Your Password Day took place over the weekend, and in case you doubt the need to improve this most basic element of cybersecurity hygiene, even McDonald's - yes, the fast food chain - is urging people to get more creative when it comes to passwords. …
Snowflake bets $200M that OpenAI makes databases more chatty [ 02-Feb-26 4:09pm ]Snowflake plans to spend as much as $200 million with OpenAI to bring its models and chatbot into the database vendor's sandbox and toolset. Features such as Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence will get a boost from the house of Altman.…
Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns [ 02-Feb-26 2:58pm ]Microsoft rounded off January by adding more devices to the list of those affected by the hibernation issue it claimed had been fixed by an out-of-band update.…
SAP refuses to budge on renewal discounts despite cloud growth slowdown [ 02-Feb-26 2:45pm ]SAP is refusing to change tack on renewal discounts despite lower-than-expected cloud forecasts prompting its biggest share price slide in five years.…
OpenClaw patches one-click RCE as security Whac-A-Mole continues [ 02-Feb-26 2:10pm ]Security issues continue to pervade the OpenClaw ecosystem, formerly known as ClawdBot then Moltbot, as multiple projects patch bot takeover and remote code execution (RCE) exploits.…
Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users [ 02-Feb-26 2:01pm ]Only 3.3 percent of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users who touch Copilot Chat actually pay for it, an awkward figure that landed alongside Microsoft's $37.5 billion quarterly AI splurge and its insistence that the payoff is coming.…
Notepad++ update service hijacked in targeted state-linked attack [ 02-Feb-26 1:19pm ]A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised Notepad++'s update service in 2025, according to the project's author.…
