Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
Linux kernel maintainers are considering giving admins a giant red emergency button to smash the next time another nasty vulnerability […]
Month: May 2026
NASA’s bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle
A rescue mission for NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has taken another step forward following the completion of environmental tests […]
Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged
Checkmarx’s software engineers are still working to remove a malicious version of the code security outfit’s Jenkins plugin after detecting […]
Water company’s leaky security earns near-£1M fine
The UK’s data protection watchdog has fined South Staffordshire Water’s parent company nearly £1 million over security failings exposed by […]
SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns
SoftBank is getting into the datacenter battery business and plans to start manufacturing them on the scale of gigawatt-hours per […]
Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree
Google says crooks already have AI cooking up zero-days, and claims one nearly escaped into the wild before the company […]
Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain
KETTLE We’ve been experimenting with LLMs for a while here at The Register, and if you ask our systems editor […]
Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances. An epic […]
Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse
In modern datacenters, storage can live anywhere — local to the machine, remotely accessed over the network, and/or shared between […]
HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin
The early history of personal computers is stacked with systems such as the Apple II and the Commodore 64 that […]