Turns out Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Brits have delivered a fairly unambiguous verdict on giving the government access to their encrypted messages: no, thanks. New polling […]
Month: August 2026
AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting
Last month I sat in a networking lab with AWS VP of Global Network Engineering Matt Rehder and cracked a […]
Startup bags $7M to build drone-interceptor-in-a-backpack systems
A defense startup has raised $7 million to develop its counter-drone system that uses small interceptors to defend against swarms […]
Xbox respawns IKEA furniture with gaming range
Microsoft’s latest Xbox merchandising deal means at least you can sit on an IKEA cushion while you wait for your […]
AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined…as a file system?
For years, Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at Duckbill and occasional Reg columnist, has argued that Amazon’s Route 53 DNS […]
German-Japanese researchers invent electricity-free tech that could cool datacenters
Datacenter cooling could get a lot more affordable, and sustainable, if a joint German-Japanese research project can be scaled beyond […]
Researcher shows how Claude Code can be tricked simply by asking it to summarize a website
Anthropic’s Claude Code running Opus 5 in Auto Mode can be tricked into executing attacker-controlled code simply by asking the […]
Green Party wants to slam the brakes on UK datacenter construction until water and energy use are sorted
The Green Party of England and Wales wants the government to end the blanket designation of new bit barns as […]
LibreOffice 26.8 is out – local first, and with no AI
The latest semi-annual release of LibreOffice, the cross-platform FOSS office suite, is out – and it’s gleefully throwing some shade. […]
Word 97’s ghost in the machine: The crash that vanished the moment anyone looked at it
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen shared another fireside tale – one to strike fear into the hearts of engineers everywhere: […]