The US Department of Justice (DoJ) says its Super Intelligence Task Force (SINTF) is now up and running, after president Donald Trump ordered the move in a memo last month.Headed up by director of national intelligence Jay Clayton, as well as associ...
Linux Mint 27 is expected next month, and it's starting to take shape. Its flagship desktop, Cinnamon 2.8, is already available.The team behind the popular, beginner-friendly Linux just released Cinnamon 2.8, which will be the default desktop in Min...
New Glenn's return to flight has slipped to January 2027, according to the internal memo, viewed by The Register, from Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp, overshadowing the company's announcements of a new third stage and booster engine.Blue Origin has been...
DigiCert has admitted that a botched server migration left an internal system exposed to the internet for more than a year, allowing an unauthorized user to access customer data, including passports, driver's licenses, and other identity documents.T...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) looks set to win more than a billion pounds of UK taxpayers' money under a new Home Office contract for public cloud hosting. A planning notice, published on October 30, covers the renewal of the department's public cloud...
Despite the billions being thrown at artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered little in the way of productivity gains for UK businesses, according to the Bank of England.In its latest Monetary Policy Report, the central bank found that...
The UK government is paving the way for rules requiring essential service operators and digital providers to guard against losing control of AI agents and report incidents when safeguards fail.An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill,...
A researcher found over 100,000 words and phrases in "every major language" that are blocked from autocomplete and swipe-type in iOS, Reuters reports. The researcher, Derik Kauffman, says you can still type the words on the blocklist one letter...
Fox has officially closed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku, the companies announced on Friday. With Roku under its umbrella, Fox now controls a major streaming platform that reaches more than 100 million households in the US.First announced...
Gift-giving isn't just about grabbing something solid under a determined spending limit. It's an expression of love, a way to show someone how well you really know them. That doesn't mean you have to do it all on your own, though. Sometimes you...
Britain's ambitions for AI, advanced chips, and clean energy rest on mineral supply chains dominated by China, and MPs say they cannot establish whether ministers have a credible plan to reduce that dependence.The House of Commons Business, Innovati...
NHS England CEO Sir Jim Mackey plans to tell Palantir to clear future claims about its Federated Data Platform's benefits with his team – although he admits that could be difficult to enforce.Speaking to the Health and Social Care Committee this wee...
Netflix isn't done with Hawkins, Indiana just yet. The streamer just announced a live-action spinoff of Stranger Things which is expected to debut in 2028. It's called Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure.There aren't a lot of details, but...
The European Commission claims TikTok broke its online platform rules by offering a recommendation algorithm that creates a "rabbit hole effect" on users. In an announcement on Friday, the regulators allege TikTok's algorithm can harm users wit...
Amazon is adding a new feature to Alexa for Shopping that allows customers to purchase items by texting the AI shopping assistant. Users can describe the products they're looking to buy and/or provide a photograph of the item, and Alexa for Sho...
Ask an AI website builder for “a website for my business” and it will happily build one. The trouble is that it has no idea what your business is, who buys from you or what makes you different, so it fills every gap with safe, middle-of...
Note: Some spoilers for Control Resonant's "Recursions and Iterations" mission follow.One of Control Resonant's most memorable missions involves time travel - kind of. There are certainly multiple timelines intersecting, or maybe overlapping, o...
The autofill feature of Apple's Safari browser appears to be suffering from a date handling error that occasionally leads it to supply an incorrect credit card expiration date when filling out forms.The supposed issue has been a sore spot for Apple...
These aren’t even all the foldables in my house right now. When I first read Allison and Nilay's Verge review of the iPhone Duo, I was immediately struck by one of their complaints: that the cover display is too small. That's not how the Samsu...
The Bambu P2S Combo. | Image: Bambu I've been wanting to try 3D printing, people tell me. Which printer should I get?I finally have a fairly easy answer: the Bambu Lab P2S Combo. The auto-loading, fully enclosed touchscreen printer is one of t...