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With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that

Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie

On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI

Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support

Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service

The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over

McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials

Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone

Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns

Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC

After raising $2.8M, the project has entered production, but company comms have done little to reassure buyers

Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak

Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience

Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads

Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result

PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!

Corma CEO tells The Reg it's building 'One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power'

Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change

Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks

Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices

Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit

AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's afternoon' is the sort of thing this will make, and others look likely to adopt it

Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense

Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology

Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons

Another one bites the dust

Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations

Turns out this space thing really is hard

Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage

Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards

If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you

Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills

Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data

$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP

Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact

Don't worry, this one was via a bug bounty program

Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps

Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn

Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education

Papers please. Windows is watching

Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is

How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine

Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory

Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online

Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza

Connecting a single power cord turned into a lucrative all-nighter

Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books

Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected

Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop