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Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever
Opinion Come October 14, 2025, Windows 10 support dies. Despite that, more users than ever are using Windows 10 rather than moving to Windows 11.…
Why does the UK keep getting beaten up by IT suppliers?
It's a line Brits love to quote: "You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full-time job. Now, behave yourself." Michael Caine's iconic dialogue as the Get Carter protagonist sums up how tech companies see the government: big, in bad shape, and here to do what they say.…
Enlightenment reaches 0.27, continuing its quiet but persistent journey
Enlightenment is one of the granddaddies of Linux desktops, and after a couple of years, the project has a shiny new release.…
Apple plugs security hole in its iThings that's already been exploited in iOS
Apple has plugged a security hole in the software at the heart of its iPhones, iPads, Vision Pro goggles, Apple TVs and macOS Sequoia Macs, warning some miscreants have already exploited the bug.…
AI facial recognition could sink this murder investigation
A murder case in Cleveland, Ohio, could collapse because the city's police relied on AI-based facial recognition software to obtain a search warrant.…
DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3
Barely a week after DeepSeek's R1 LLM turned Silicon Valley on its head, the Chinese outfit is back with a new release it claims is ready to challenge OpenAI's DALL-E 3.…
DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI'
DeepSeek's open source reasoning-capable R1 LLM family boasts impressive benchmark scores – but its erratic responses raise more questions about how these models were trained and what information has been censored.…
US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America's allies from cyberattacks as well as steer international computer security policies.…
Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures
The end of the road is nearing for a range of aging Nvidia graphics cards, as support for several architectures was marked as feature-complete in the latest release of its CUDA runtime this month.…
South Carolina's abandoned nuclear reactors positioned to fuel the AI datacenter boom
Abandoned in 2017, a pair of incomplete South Carolina nuclear reactors may get a new lease on life due to the growing need to power AI datacenters.…
Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB as front end
Microsoft has launched a document database platform constructed on a relational PostgreSQL back end.…
DeepSeek suspends new registrations amid cyberattack
China's DeepSeek, which shook up American AI makers with the debut of its V3 and reasoning-capable R1 LLM families, has limited new signups to its web-based interface to its models due to what's said to be an ongoing cyberattack.…
Google takes action after coder reports 'most sophisticated attack I've ever seen'
Google says it's now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week.…
Citrix slated to axe its Technology Professional program
Citrix is winding up its Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) program, a move described as "a short-sighted decision that reflects a lack of vision for the future."…
Zyxel firewalls borked by buggy update, on-site access required for fix
Zyxel customers are dealing with a range of issues including reboot loops after an update on Friday went awry.…
AI agents? Yes, let's automate all sorts of things that don't actually need it
Opinion The "agentic era," as Nvidia's Jim Fan and others have referred to the current evolutionary state of generative artificial intelligence (AI), is going to be a huge disappointment.…
Tech stocks tank as US AI dominance no longer a sure bet
Share prices for some of the biggest American tech brands that crested the AI hype waves crashed this morning on the rocks of DeepSeek, a Chinese startup that last week released LLMs that challenges US dominance.…
Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage
Swedish authorities have "seized" a vessel – believed to be the cargo ship Vezhen – "suspected of carrying out sabotage" after a cable running between Sweden and Latvia in the Baltic Sea was damaged on the morning of January 26.…
Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid
Scientists mistook Elon Musk's Tesla roadster for an asteroid in a debacle that highlights the problem of tracking near-Earth objects.…
CDNs: Great for speeding up the internet, bad for location privacy
Infosec in brief Using a custom-built tool, a 15-year-old hacker exploited Cloudflare's content delivery network to approximate the locations of users of apps like Signal, Discord, and others.…