Britain plots digital bedtime after kicking under-16s off social media
The UK government is preparing to kick under-16s off social media and clamp down on a range of online features […]
Month: June 2026
Palantir’s NHS data deal called in for a second opinion
Experts have welcomed the UK government’s decision to review its contract with Palantir to provide software central to tackling the […]
Google found liable for bad AI Overview results. Let’s play Truth Or Consequences
OPINION Tech companies hate liability, or at least the sort that makes them liable if something goes wrong. It doesn’t […]
Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet
WHO, ME? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It’s The Reg’s reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes […]
Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later
Google Cloud customers with resources in India have had to deal with elevated latency for several days – and there’s […]
US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses
The US Army has awarded a contract to defense biz L3Harris for its Vampire counter-drone system to support an urgent […]
AI is code – and can’t be prompted into being smarter
The author of Java property-testing tool jqwik did not want AI coding agents using his project. So he told them […]
EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow
Gartner has warned that the EU’s plans to triple datacenter capacity in Europe over the next five to seven years […]
Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids’ brains
MPs looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children’s brains got a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists […]
World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs
The team behind the AI Octopus Euro 2024 predictor has updated its simulator for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, this […]