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Forget Vibe Coding, we're all about Vine Coding nowadays
Flame Of The Week It's been a while since our last Flame Of The Week, but it appears that AI is generating some strong feelings among our beloved readership.…
Slapped wrists for Financial Conduct Authority staff who emailed work data home
Four staffers at the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their personal email accounts.…
User demanded a ‘wireless’ computer and was outraged when its battery died
On Call By Friday morning, Reg readers’ batteries can sometimes be a little low, which is why we always use the day to offer a jolt of amusement in the form of On Call – the reader contributed column in which we celebrate the lows and lows of tech support.…
UK dumps £2.5 billion into fusion pipe dream that's already cost millions
The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the planning stages.…
Chinese memory-maker YMTC sues US rival Micron for defamation instead of the usual patent breaches
China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies has accused rival chipmaker Micron of defamation through a campaign to publish nasty stories and reports about it.…
I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world
Toy giant Mattel has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the tech industry's buzziest technology to the very youngest generation.…
Ransomware scum disrupted utility services with SimpleHelp attacks
Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers' customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to a Thursday CISA alert.…
Ease the seat back and watch some video in your car with next Apple CarPlay
Apple is enabling video playback on its CarPlay automotive operating system and has integrated it into iOS 26, as long as you're parked.…
Google Cloud flexes as first to host Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Server VMs
Google Cloud on Wednesday celebrated the debut of virtual machines incorporating Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPU technology, claiming to be the first cloud provider to sell this particular offering.…
US auditors beg Pentagon to pay attention to latest report about IT system flaws
US government auditors have been trying to whip the Pentagon's IT programs into shape for half a decade, and the latest report suggests it continues to be an uphill battle. …
Meta sues 'nudify' app-maker that it claims ran 87k+ Facebook, Instagram ads
Meta has sued an app maker for advertising on Facebook and Instagram a so-called "nudify" app that uses AI to generate nude and sexually explicit images and videos of individuals without their consent.…