AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev’s headphones
Developer Matt Callaghan claims he caught Alibaba trying to track web users by playing sounds through browsers vulnerable to audio […]
Month: August 2026
I picked Task Manager ‘to see how ready AI is for primetime… or if it would just degrade to slop’ – OG dev talks to The Reg
The author of the original legendary 1996 Windows Task Manager has released new versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux, telling […]
Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI
Canonical’s fondness for AI and Rust is no secret. Now it is co-funding a three-year PhD project investigating whether the […]
Security vets rally around $4 paper password books for sale in Australia
Are you sick and tired of maintaining a password manager? Struggling with choosing the right one for you? Well, readers […]
AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft winds back the clock on Windows
KETTLE This week, we learned a lot more about what’s going on inside the datacenter. GPUs may still be king […]
China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight
China’s Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Sunday cancelled a planned Monday moonshot launch. The mission plan for Chang’e 7 calls […]
Software should work, and talking about it needn’t be boring
OPINION DVD is one of those technologies that dominated for barely a generation yet left a permanent cultural mark. It […]
Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
WHO, ME? Welcome to another installment of “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column in which The Register opens the working […]
Ancient ‘Who owns Linux?’ case now has one foot very deep in the grave
The long legal battle over ownership of Linux is closer than ever to ending, after a panel of three judges […]
AI-driven upgrade of communications energy storage empowers a new energy ecosystem for multiple industries
AI datacenters have become a major driver of rising electricity consumption, but AI doesn’t just happen in a datacenter. The […]