Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has offered a definitive date for the BepiColombo mission’s arrival at Mercury. BepiColombo is a […]
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Pope Leo warns AI boom can give Big Tech and the people who run it too much power
Pope Leo XIV has made artificial intelligence the subject of the first major teaching issued since his appointment in May […]
Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI
OPINION At Google’s I/O 2026 developer conference last week, the company’s Search VP Liz Reid celebrated the rapid growth of […]
Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer’s bizarre crusade against hyperscalers
A French SRE has given Amazon, Google, and Microsoft until September to fix cloud lock-in or face an endless barrage […]
Under-trained techie didn’t claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in
WHO, ME? Welcome once again to “Who, Me?” – The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate the things you […]
OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge
HANDS ON Even after 60 releases, to borrow Carlsberg’s slogan, OpenBSD is probably the most secure FOSS Unix-like OS in […]
Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public
Anthropic has revealed its intention to one day release models that match the performance of its Mythos bug-finding AI to […]
Samsung memory workers call off strike and may score six-figure bonuses
ASIA IN BRIEF Workers at Samsung Electronics may score bonuses of well over $100,000 after calling off a planned strike. […]
Linus Torvalds to ‘start being more hardnosed’ about ‘pointless pull requests’ – some of which come from AIs
Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has signaled he’ll push back when he receives irrelevant pull requests, after complaining that developers […]
Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately
KETTLE Google I/O has ostensibly been an AI show for a few years running, but this year’s announcements have taken […]