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Security patches need patches now that attackers have AI

Updating your software only gets you so far. A scary scenario - security fixes themselves being bypassed - is becoming more common, according to AI penetration-testing startup Terra Security, which found a sharp rise in reported patch failures in 20...

Write bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs

If you want to keep bots from making sense of the code you worked so hard on and using it to write programs of their own, there's a new programming language out there designed to confuse LLMs. What began as software engineer Dominik Picheta experime...

Europe’s cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good

Europe’s drive for cloud sovereignty is leading to member states favoring providers from their own nation instead of building a Europe-wide cloud services market, according to a report critical of the EU’s proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA...

Red Hat helps teach about tech writing

In Brno in Czechia, Red Hat’s large local office has been helping the city’s Masaryk University to teach future technical writers. Whenever someone tries to teach, though, they learn as well. At the Open Source Summit in Prague, a senior member of R...

Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline

Uber has dodged a £340 million lawsuit brought by thousands of London black cab drivers after a High Court judge ruled that they'd left it too late to sue. Monday's ruling kills off two claims involving around 13,000 cabbies and former private hire...

SAP's Signavio hit with function injunction in Germany

A German court has issued an injunction banning SAP from providing certain features of its Signavio product, following a legal challenge from process mining biz Celonis. The ruling only applies to implementations in Germany, but is part of a broader...

Admin: 'I spent all weekend on my servers' after Microsoft breaks Exchange Server with October updates

Microsoft has acknowledged that the October 2026 Windows Server updates may be destabilizing Exchange Server. The problems are related to this list of Windows Server updates (see here) and Microsoft makes it clear they are not related to the October...

Sony’s best noise-canceling earbuds are nearly $100 off today only

Sony’s WF-1000XM6 are on sale in black today only. | Image: Sony For a very limited time, Sony’s latest high-end noise-canceling earbuds are actually cheaper than their last-gen counterpart, the WF-1000XM5. B&H Photo is selling Sony’s late...

Microsoft abandons UK AI supercomputer as grid struggles to keep up

Microsoft has reportedly pulled out of plans for Britain's largest AI supercomputer, because the government-backed project is facing the rather inconvenient problem of having no electricity to run it. The tech giant has terminated its agreement with...

Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router

A 16-year-old security flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi software could let attackers hijack millions of routers without knowing the network password, even though the chipmaker reportedly knew about the problem since 2018. Security researcher Quentin Kaiser...

Dr Garry Hunt talks to us about the astonishing Voyager probes

It's been nearly half a century since the Voyager probes launched from Earth on a mission to explore the outer solar system, and they're still running. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle on this page, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouT...

Original Voyager team member talks to us about the astonishing scientific info the 50-year-old probe gathered

It's been nearly half a century since the Voyager probes launched from Earth on a mission to explore the outer solar system, and they're still running. You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle on this page, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouT...

Museum exhibit reveals the intricate workings of a knackered Dell

Today's entry in the catalog of bork comes from Coventry's Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, where an information terminal is showing more about the hardware behind the scenes than the objects on display. Register reader Jeffrey Borinsky spotted the pan...

Apple teases MacBook Pro event next week

Apple has sent invites to a second product launch this month, and it's scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles.At the event, Apple is set to announce new Macs and a refreshed iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg. The big announcement i...

Amazon is funding a new nuclear plant in Indiana

It’ll be several years before the facility is complete, but this digital rendering gives us some idea of what it’ll look like. | Image: Amazon Amazon has signed an agreement with X-energy and American Electric Power (AEP) to fund the building...

Microsoft’s second-hand licensing appeal gets the brush-off

Microsoft has failed to win permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court in the long-running legal spat with ValueLicensing after the Court of Appeal refused its application. The US megacorp was challenging a November 2025 ruling in ValueLicensing's...

Apple’s last-gen Mac Mini with the M4 is $150 off

The front view of the Mac Mini. | Image: The Verge Best Buy has a great deal for the rest of the day on the M4 Mac Mini base model that has 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD. Normally, it doesn’t make a ton of sense to buy the M4 model for its usual $7...

AI’s epic cash call is matched only by its ability to strangle revenue streams

As it was written, so it has come to pass. A while back, we suggested that given how good AI was at code analysis, it would become possible to clone large applications. And then where would we be? Here, that’s where. An industrious individual has re...

JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes

Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy.If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of une...

Major European mobile carriers are teaming up for a ‘direct’ satellite program without Starlink

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone signed a letter of intent saying they're considering a joint bid for spectrum that would support European direct-to-device satellite competition for SpaceX's Starlink. The four telecom c...