United Kingdom

2h ago

AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs

Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions

5h ago

Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work

If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems,

10h ago

AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org

Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds

11h ago

Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models

Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally

11h ago

Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP

Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age

12h ago

Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland 'Basin' branding, promise of fewer fees

Serverless data management without egress fees, sort of

14h ago

EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank

RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too

15h ago

Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing

Your invite to a fake AI policy advisory committee has strings attached

15h ago

AWS offers local, open source leash for agent harnesses

Dogwood Local Engine checks AI tool calls against user-defined temporal rules before they run

16h ago

Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2

Annual update installed. You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Wait a minute...

16h ago

Build the right AI factory for your needs: partner for success

SPONSORED FEATURE: HPE and NVIDIA help organizations apply accelerated computing, software, enterprise infrastructure, networking, control plane, and services to the workloads and business outcomes th...

17h ago

Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure

Attackers were probing the mail server flaw weeks before it had a CVE to its name

17h ago

MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies

Institutions told to trace who is really financing their work or risk falling foul of national security law

18h ago

Nubank halts Monzo acquisition talks after sales plunge

18h ago

CISO thought he had a 'r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd' but forgot to patch

Replacing letters with symbols still doesn’t make it good.

18h ago

Exchange Web Services enters the final stretch before Microsoft pulls access

Legacy API begins disappearing from tenants today, with no exceptions after April

19h ago

Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data

Former Labour deputy challenges Clive Lewis but skips the warnings attached to NHS figures

19h ago

Harry Stebbings: ‘I regret 996 in many ways’

20h ago

England's schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents

Two-thirds report immediate recovery, although teachers remain divided over whose job security is

21h ago

UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ

The Information Commission replaces the Information Commissioner, putting statutory powers under collective control

21h ago

Sopra Steria widens legal challenge to Capita's Whitehall outsourcing deal

Unredacted contract prompts fresh claims of preferential treatment and greater risk for the DWP

22h ago

Sifted Summit day one: dispatched

22h ago

Fewer women than ever in UK's 'old boys' club' cyber industry

Younger workers often overlooked for senior roles due to historical issues and fears they’ll get pregnant, says survey

23h ago

Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes

So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda

1d ago

The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away

What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents

1d ago

Singapore’s government creates a dating app

Team that gave the world Bluetooth COVID tracking swipes right on algorithmic matchmaking

1d ago

Exclusive: Dig Ventures raises $120m to back Europe’s AI infrastructure startups

1d ago

Wellness marketplace Healf tops Sifted ranking of 250 fastest-growing startups in Europe

1d ago

RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices

Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come

1d ago

Azure maintenance mess disrupts hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services

Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how

1d ago

Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else

US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'

1d ago

Hot Dog! America's new chatbot is packed with wieners

Just ask America.gov and you'll receive a favorite July 4th food.

1d ago

YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator

If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have

1d ago

Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China

The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says

1d ago

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

1d ago

Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding

Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents

1d ago

16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows

It's 2 am. Do you know what your teen is doing?

1d ago

Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon

Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed

1d ago

ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22bn with tender offer

1d ago

Trump decrees era of 'Super Intelligence' upon us

Federal paperwork to be pulped as agencies told to forget the old name, while critics ask who owns all those .si domains

1d ago

Smart ring maker Oura delays IPO amid 'market uncertainty'

1d ago

Exclusive: EU’s €5bn Scaleup Fund can back UK — and even US — companies

1d ago

Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call

MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails

1d ago

AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit

That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment

1d ago

Ex-NCA officer who worked on Silk Road operation ordered to repay £1.8M for stealing seized Bitcoin

Paul Chowles helped himself to 50 coins while examining devices linked to Silk Road 2.0

1d ago

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

1d ago

Where does your AI data actually live?

The Register takes HPE and NVIDIA to dinner in Washington to answer the question that stalls AI in regulated industries, off the record.

1d ago

OpenAI apes AWS Marketplace while Anthropic remains stubbornly Microsoftian

By including Baseten in its marketplace, OpenAI signals it wants its models to win on the merits, not through coercion

1d ago

Legora CEO: UK stock options make London expansion a ‘no-brainer’ — but Sweden is ‘almost impossible’