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Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove
US data miner Palantir has quietly landed inside the UK's financial watchdog, plugging into a trove of sensitive data as Whitehall simultaneously insists it wants to wean itself off exactly this kind of dependency.…
Intel's Core Ultra 270K, 250K Plus are an appeal to cash-strapped PC enthusiasts
Review It's a tough time to be a PC enthusiast. Between the memory crunch and the AI boom driving up prices on storage, DDR5, and GPUs, it's gotten prohibitively expensive to build a PC.…
US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor - then came the data leak
Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.…
RSAC 2026: Uncle Sam backs out, and AI agents are everywhere
kettle When El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons joins infosec industry colleagues in San Francisco for RSAC 2026 this week, she's expecting agentic AI to be on everyone's lips - at least those who aren't busy gossiping about the lack of presence from any representatives of the US federal government.…
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates
Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.…
NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle'
NASA has issued a draft Request for Proposals to move a flown space vehicle, a step some lawmakers see as progress toward relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia to Houston, Texas.…
The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope
NATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a cue from the experience gained by Ukrainian forces over the past four years.…
CMA dithers on cloud probe as Microsoft's meter runs on taxpayer dime
Here's the uncomfortable truth: every week the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) hesitates on its decision on the outcome of its public cloud services market investigation, the meter keeps running and taxpayers continue to foot the bill.…
Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for
Opinion Science is at its best when it makes manifest radical ideas that change our worldview. This is the flag all sane people salute, under which we march to war. Yet in our hearts, we know that the very tastiest science is that which confirms our prejudices and validates what we've known all along. Cornell University has just served up a plate of the finest yet. Tuck in.…
When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella
The UK's National Audit Office (NAO) has warned the country is underprepared for a severe space weather event.…
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo
Who, Me? Monday is upon us, but before you use the new week to explore opportunity and adventure, The Register presents a new installment of Who, Me? It's our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of flops, failures, and foul-ups.…
Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using ‘new physics’
Elon Musk has put Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI in harness to build a chip fabrication outfit called “Terafab” capable of producing a terawatt’s worth of computing power each year, then send most of it into space.…
Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11
Microsoft has acknowledged that it needs to improve the quality of Windows 11 and outlined its plan to get the job done.…
Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home
Asia In Brief Australia’s government on Monday announced a set of datacenter “expectations” to guide would-be bit barn builders who contemplate breaking ground down under.…
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks
Infosec In Brief Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts and conduct phishing attacks, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last Friday.…
CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge
feature CERN is nothing like today's agentic AI jockeys, who mostly rely on pre-set weights and generic TPUs and GPUs to generate their slop. CERN burns custom nanosecond-speed AI into the silicon itself just to eliminate excess data.…
Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor
A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it could also be quietly helping your brain hold it together.…
Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat
The Free Software Foundation Europe says its electronic-payments provider Nexi Group unexpectedly "cancelled" its account – cutting the charity off from around 450 donors.…
Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban
Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.…
Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst
Right product, wrong time? Amazon is reported to be developing a new smartphone, its first since 2014, and, according to industry tracker IDC, it will face entrenched competition with better products and a market that is expected to contract by double digits.…