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Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands

$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note #aiandml Read full arti...

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True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once

All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Prolific Microsoft 0-day hunter drops CrowdStrike Falcon exploit PoC

A shared security 'Nightmare' #security Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

CERN moves thousands of accelerator control computers to Debian

Prompted by CentOS 8's premature demise, it's a very visible loss for the Red Hat ecosystem #osplatforms Read full article on The Register →

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Hugging Face CEO says 'planets aligned' for Nvidia deal, aims to reach 100M users

When the moon is in the seventh house... #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000s

The FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot #personaltech Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area

Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028 #science Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM

SPONSORED FEATURE: Boards want to know if they're less exposed than last quarter. Patching metrics aren't the solution #security Read full article on The Re...

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Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance

But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

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Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast

A real alternative to running some kind of FOSS Unix clone #osplatforms Read full article on The Register →

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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard

GPU giant pledges to keep the model hub open to the entire AI ecosystem #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

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Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes

Armed with password hashes and salts, attackers could already be kraken those creds #cybercrime Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

'Uber rapture' leaves passengers and drivers behind in Nigeria and Uganda

No time for a fare-thee-well as app hails a ride out of two more markets #offbeat Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Windows 11 update sends some desktops into an unwanted goth phase

Hello darkness, my old friend... I've trusted Redmond once again #osplatforms Read full article on The Register →

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Which came first, Windows 95's taskbar or NeXT's Dock? Neither

Reg hack accidentally rattles Microsoft folks' cages… again #osplatforms Read full article on The Register →

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Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving

Part of wider infrastructure replacement upgrade project with HPE #onprem Read full article on The Register →

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UK's Online Safety Act has made 'absolutely no difference,' kids say

Children's Commissioner also furious with Ofcom over a string of failures #security Read full article on The Register →

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British wind power to drive Maersk container ship

Rotor sails claimed to deliver fuel and emissions savings of 21% #offbeat Read full article on The Register →

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Your VMware renewal invoice ate your AI budget – what now?

SPONSORED POST: A free event with Nutanix on Oct 7 can win some of it back #virtualization Read full article on The Register →

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Terminated employee cost company hundreds of thousands of dollars because nobody revoked access

They had more access than the average Joe, and IT didn't track what needed to be cut off #security Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

To keep the AI hacking genie bottled up, try one-way networks

Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren't enough to keep frontier models at bay. "Data diodes" might do the job #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Zuck's Muse to Spark joy with open weights release 'soon'

While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade

Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds #virtualization Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say

Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent' #security Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November

The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data #devops Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip

Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend #offbeat Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium

Risk of an unprecedented negative adjustment prompts plan to let UTC drift by as much as an hour #offbeat Read full article on The Register →

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US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why

DoD controls on mobile ad identifiers haven't stopped military location data turning up for sale #publicsector Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury

Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches #science Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you

Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets

AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk #onprem Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters #security Read full article on The Register →

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Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident

Two cases of agents escaping to solve unsolvable problems paints an uncomfortable question: Is the entire internet in OpenAI's experimental agentic firing line...

4 days ago

My Word. Microsoft's prepping Similarity Checker for retirement

Built-in plagiarism police to hand in badge next month #applications Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channels

The Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next #osplatforms Read full article on The Register →

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Microsoft to bounce mail from outdated Exchange servers

2016 and 2019 installations must meet the October 2025 baseline to reach cloud-hosted inboxes #onprem Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

PostgreSQL 19 connects the dots with standardized graph queries

Baked-in SQL syntax arrives through multi-vendor collaboration, although indexing still needs to catch up #databases Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

JavaScript installer pnpm recast in Rust because ECMAScript can't keep up

Fully backward-compatible upgrade promises zero-friction speedup for monorepo wranglers. #devops Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Cloud snail-mail service Docmail enters third day stuck in the outbox

No restoration time for platform used by more than 30,000 UK organizations, including NHS trusts and medical practices #offprem Read full article on The Reg...

4 days ago

Wayve and Uber steal a march on Waymo with paid self-driving London rides

15 Mustangs on the city streets, but the Nissan LEAF follow-up could dispense with the safety driver #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Enjoy the Windows 10 Update Experience at London's O2

The new extreme sport: Windows Updates #offbeat Read full article on The Register →

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US law firm accuses UK AI software firm of unwanted contract renewal when it tried to leave

Customer alleges AI telco system had frequent issues, did not work as promised, as vendor sues separately for non payment #legal Read full article on The...

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UK military wants lasers to stop drone swarms without running out of ammo

Project PANOPTES puts £5M on the table for an autonomous, vehicle-mounted defense #offbeat Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Best eSIM for travel 2026: which one offers the best value for money?

PARTNER CONTENT: Price isn't everything #personaltech Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

On Call: User who handled life-or-death situations struggled with the SHIFT key

Novel interpretations of the keyboard made for trouble @ work #personaltech Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud

This sounds like a RTFM error at hyperscale #offprem Read full article on The Register →

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The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech

Why now? Well, the Linux desktop market share in the EU doubled between 2024 and 2025 (to 5.7%). That's why! #software Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release

Three critical vulns demand your attention, one a make-me-root mess in Nexus 9000 Series Switches that you can mitigate, not fix #security Read full article...

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OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders

Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams #security Read full article on The Register →

4 days ago

OpenAI throws Astra into the top-tier model ring

OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot #aiandml Read full article on The Register →

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