London still dominates Britain’s datacenter map, but the regions are powering up
A snapshot of Britain’s datacenter estate puts nearly 40 percent of its facilities in London, along with about two-thirds of […]
Month: August 2026
NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car
ASIA IN BRIEF Japan’s NEC has started tests of parking technology that will start charging once a driver leaves their […]
Advertisers are trying to influence AI bots with secret ads
KETTLE OpenAI’s invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with […]
Linus Torvalds says AI has made ‘huge’ Linux kernel updates the new normal
Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds thinks the project has reached a new normal of supersized updates, thanks to AI. Torvalds […]
Demoralized developer’s desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
WHO, ME? The past may be a foreign country, but it’s one The Register likes to explore each Friday in […]
I’ve gone from writing about SD-WAN to depending on it
This spring, my wife and I moved from the Denver suburbs into the Colorado Rockies. The high-altitude retreat presented a […]
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Turns out the fastest way to get a company to consider paying a ransom isn’t calling the CEO – it’s […]
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Despite the popularity of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex, developers have plenty of complaints about AI coding […]
South Korean satellite spots SpaceX lunar impact
The race for the first before-and-after images of the spent SpaceX rocket on the Moon has been won by the […]
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable’s leash
After acknowledging last month that unreleased AI models committed what for human perpetrators would be computer crimes, OpenAI now says […]