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Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins
Boffins have peered deep into the eyes of social media users and come to the conclusion that they're not great at spotting when an influencer is trying to sell them something.…
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one
Opinion The Linux kernel is a remarkable creation. It has achieved a fundamental status in the industry, and thus the world, unmatched in scope, stability, and reputation. It powers lightbulbs to supercomputers, not to mention the billion-plus global army of Android. It covers a host of processors, a massive array of supported devices and an unparalleled choice of distributions.…
The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?
Register debate series The UK government's five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft is set to see public sector bodies spend around £1.9 billion each year—nearly £9 billion in total over half a decade. It's a vast sum for software and services, and one that deserves close scrutiny.…
Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version
Redis 8.2 is FOSS again, albeit under a different license, and has multiple performance enhancements. Meanwhile, Redis 7.2, the last of the old FOSS versions, is nearing its end of life. New version, or new Valkey?…
Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops - even after thin client costs
Analyst firm Gartner has declared hosted PCs are now often cheaper to operate than on-prem laptops, and two years away from being cost-effective for 95 percent of workers.…
Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns
Australia will help to fund the development of two datacenters in the Pacific island nation Vanuatu, an example of tech infrastructure becoming an important diplomatic consideration.…
Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco's AI sales by a cool billion bucks
Cisco sold twice as much AI kit as it forecast during its 2025 fiscal year and expects the market for binary brainboxes will continue to boost its bank balance in future.…
Doctors get dopey if they rely too much on AI, study suggests
When doctors use AI image recognition technology to spot and remove precancerous growths known as adenomas during colonoscopies, the detection rate is higher. But take the AI away, and their rate drops to below where it was in the first place.…
Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super
Eggheads working on El Capitan, the world's most powerful publicly known supercomputer, have developed a new tsunami forecasting system that could dramatically improve response times in coastal communities.…
Claude Code's copious coddling confounds cross customers
Developers using Anthropic's Claude Code wish that the AI coding assistant would stop being so effusively supportive.…
Gov't HR department latest to get nastygram from auditors
Uncle Sam's HR department has become the latest agency to get a nastygram from federal auditors, who are hoping its recently-appointed director can get his house in order better than his predecessor. …
Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts
Fortinet warned customers about a critical FortiSIEM bug that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized commands, and said working exploit code for the flaw has been found in the wild.…
OpenAI's GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting
Comment For all the superlative-laden claims, OpenAI's new top model appears to be less of an advancement and more of a way to save compute costs — something that hasn't exactly gone over well with the company's most dedicated users.…
Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해
Take a look at the internet of decades past, and you'll find plenty of jokes about bringing a desktop computer to a coffee shop. For South Korean Starbucks stores, however, that old-time meme is anything but in the past.…
US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet
The more our Earth-bound society learns to rely on electronics, the greater the risk that weather from the stars shatters our reality. That's why US government space watchers are seeking a company to help them operate the next generation of space weather satellites.…
Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer
Microsoft is having difficulty keeping development code out of the Windows event log after another message that users are advised to ignore turned up in the... event log.…
No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize <em>El Reg</em>, others in search results
hands on Even if you have your favorite sites bookmarked or type their URLs in through muscle memory, you probably still spend a lot of time looking for info on Google. Now, you can exert some control over which publishers appear in your results for news stories.…
GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there's now a 'show additional models' switch
There has been more furious backpedalling from OpenAI following the company's ill-judged launch of GPT-5 and the removal of previous model selection.…
Crooks can't let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago
Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a "better time" when this was all fields and kids respected their elders - and it looks like cyber criminals are no exception.…
CoreWeave CFO: $25BN raised in debt and equity in 18 months
Rent-a-GPU biz CoreWeave is still racking up eyewatering debts amid mounting net losses as it continues to burn cash on expanding datacenter capacity.…