Microsoft tosses Teams Live chat into its feature graveyard
Microsoft is killing Live chat in Teams about 18 months after launch as it seeks to “focus investments on newer […]
Month: August 2026
Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced for Computer Misuse Act offenses
A former Merseyside police officer will today begin his 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after being found guilty […]
‘Asimov was right’ about rules for robots, says ex-US Cyber Director
EXCLUSIVE Don’t waste time worrying about AI models achieving sentience – they’re essentially already there, according to former US National […]
‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec
Cloudflare chief financial officer Thomas Seifert has run the numbers on internet traffic trends and predicted that human-generated packets will […]
China launches mysterious probe into security of Palo Alto Networks’ products
China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) has conducted a review of Palo Alto Networks’ products. The regulator’s announcement of its review says […]
Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees
ON CALL Welcome to another edition of On Call, the reader-contributed column The Register runs each Friday to share your […]
How the famed USENIX Security conf is managing a flood of papers in the AI era
The 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USS), which takes place next week in Baltimore, Maryland, hit an all-time high for paper […]
Uncle Sam aims to help nuclear energy find its sea legs
Not content with nuclear reactors on land, the US is backing an international push to put atomic power plants aboard […]
Latest GitHub outage squeezes Actions, Pages to death
GitHub’s automation platform Actions and its hosting service Pages are failing, according to an incident page on the service’s status […]
AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision
AI models may not be that good at fixing security flaws. Researchers at 1Password’s Off-by-1 Labs analyzed security patches generated […]