Jensen’s purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry
KETTLE AI repository Hugging Face will soon be an Nvidia property, and while everyone’s promising things will remain the same […]
Month: September 2026
Who, Me? Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
WHO, ME? Every Monday morning The Register asks the same question – “Who, Me?” – because that’s the name of […]
Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals
ASIA IN BRIEF Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Council last week decided to pause all datacenter builds in the […]
Might as well blame AI for this giant Linux release candidate, says Linus Torvalds
Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has decided he might as well blame AI for a version 7.3 release candidate that’s […]
Time lords prepare to kick leap seconds into the next millennium
The prospect of a negative leap second – combined with decades of irritation over leap seconds generally – looks set […]
US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why
The US military’s effort to prevent troops from being tracked by adversaries through purchased location data hasn’t worked as well […]
BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury
After nearly eight years, ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo spacecraft is finally nearing Mercury, as engineers begin the arrival sequence by […]
ASCII smuggling isn’t just an AI security risk
Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in […]
AMD’s Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets
Machine learning researchers have a new and expensive option for doing local AI. AMD just raided its spare parts bin […]
Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you
Anthropic has blueprints for building e-commerce bots that shop on behalf of clients. That’s not something many consumers want at […]