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By treating a short-term temperature blip as proof that a “critical climate change mark” has been breached, CBS/AP misleads readers about how climate science actually works. The 1.5°C figure is a political benchmark, not a physical tipping point, and brief excursions above it say little about long-term climate outcomes. The fact that nothing resembling the predicted catastrophes occurred when the threshold was touched suggests that CBS/AP is engaging in doom-mongering rather than journalism

Partnership between behemoths raises questions about OpenAI's place at the iTable It may finally be time to take AI on the iPhone siri-ously. Apple and Google on Monday announced a multi-year partnership that will see Apple Foundation Models standing on the shoulders of Google Gemini models, one that will return a small portion of the roughly $20 billion Google pays annually to be Apple's default search provider.…

If penicillin was discovered on moldy bread, who's to say the next miracle drug won't be born from AI hallucinations Nvidia has teamed up with pharmaceutical heavyweight Eli Lilly to plow up to $1 billion into a research lab over the next five years to advance the development of foundation models for AI-assisted drug discovery.…

High-margin infrastructure kit takes precedence, leaving laptops and desktops wanting Memory shortages will likely stunt PC shipments in 2026, as available supplies will not be able to meet demand thanks to memory makers chasing the lucrative AI infrastructure market instead.…

Digital signage is great, until it isn't Bork!Bork!Bork!  Windows activation is a tricky thing, particularly for digital signage that should be directing customers to in-store bargains but instead shows passersby that someone has yet to give Microsoft their pound of flesh.…

Survey finds security checks nearly doubled in a year as leaders wise up The number of organizations that have implemented methods for identifying security risks in the AI tools they use has almost doubled in the space of a year.…

You can check out anytime you like, but please don’t ever leave Google is aiming to turn Gemini into a one-stop personal shopper with what it hopes will become a global standard for agentic AI commerce, and it's already persuaded major retailers to let Google handle transactions without sending users to their websites. …

This sends a terrifying signal to the climate czars that the developing world is waking up. Leaders like President Mnangagwa and industrialists like Dangote are realizing that the “Green Energy Transition” is a luxury good—likely a bogus one—they cannot afford. They are choosing the path of India and China—rapid industrialization fueled by whatever works. And what works, undeniably at this time, are fossil fuels.

Two new Linux GUIs – plus Phoenix, an experimental new X server in Zig The new year brings releases from opposite ends of the Linux GUI spectrum: IceWM, an X11 window manager from the late 1990s, and Budgie, a newer full desktop environment that has gone Wayland-native.…

Agents must be 'safer and better than humans,' James Nettesheim tells The Reg exclusive  When it comes to security, AI agents are like self-driving cars, according to Block Chief Information Security Officer James Nettesheim.…

On the 20th December 2021 a group of concerned citizens presented evidence to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) alleging “serious indictable offences arising from the manufacture, promotion, and administration of the COVID-19 vaccines.” As a consequence of Operation Talla, those allegations were not investigated by the MPS. Many similar allegations submitted to other police forces around the …

Immediate retirement for freebie automation platform Microsoft has abruptly pulled the plug on the venerable Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), sending any administrators still clinging to the platform scrambling for alternatives.…

AI firm promises HIPAA-compliant integrations as chatbot moves into hospital admin Fresh from watching rival OpenAI stick its nose into patient records, Anthropic has decided now is the perfect moment to march Claude into US healthcare too, promising to fix medicine with yet more AI, APIs, and carefully-worded reassurances about privacy.…

Sick astronaut back on Earth by Thursday, nature of ailment remains undisclosed NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has handed command of the ISS to Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov as Fincke and the rest of Crew-11 are scheduled to head back to Earth on Wednesday.…

Britain risks electricity rationing by the next general election unless its fleet of ageing gas-fired power stations is urgently upgraded, a new report has warned.

Yes, you can get rid of it – assuming nobody's looked at it in 28 days Microsoft's latest Windows Insider release introduces a policy allowing admins to remove the Copilot app from managed devices. But there's a catch - actually, several.…

Website built around buying and selling stolen data has lost control of its own Updated  BreachForums, the serially resurrected cybercrime marketplace, has tripped over itself after a data breach spilled details tied to about 324,000 user accounts.…

Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware Opinion  For a world economy driven by consumerism, it's become markedly unkind to consumers. This goes double – literally – for digital tech, where memory prices have increased by between 100 and 250 percent in six months. If you think GPUs are pricey now, you'll only have to wait six weeks, during which both AMD and Nvidia are expected to demonstrate supply-side economics mu

Tech minister Liz Kendall says the government will back a robust regulatory response Ofcom is investigating X over potential violations of the Online Safety Act, Britian's comms watchdog has confirmed.…

A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant A blog post by programmer Nemanja Trifunovic, The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M, is on the face of it an interesting little excursion into the late delivery of a long-forgotten bit of software – one that turned out to be pivotal for the entire computer industry.…

'Unsupported' doesn't mean 'unused' Bork!Bork!Bork!  It isn't only a computer's software underbelly exposed during a bork. Sometimes the poor thing's innards are on show as engineers attempt to wring a little more life from long-expired systems.…

Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch pitches age limits and classroom curbs as fixes for behavior and mental health The Tories have pledged to kick under-16s off social media, betting that banning teens from TikTok and Instagram will fix what they see as a growing crisis in kids' mental health and classroom behavior.…

Quote of the Week: “I haye already placed before the Royal Society an account of some experiments which brought to light the remarkable fact that the body of our atmosphere, that is to say the mixture of oxygen and nitrogen of which it is composed, is a comparative vacuum to the calorific rays [Infrared Radiation], its main absorbent constituent being the aqueous vapor [Water Vapor] which it contains. It is very important that the minds of meteorologists should be set at rest on this subject�

A busy year of end-of-support dates awaits unwary admins 2026 has begun with the familiar sound of Microsoft's software Grim Reaper sharpening a blade as administrators peer glumly at the calendar of carnage ahead.…

UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals Who, Me?  Welcome to Monday morning and another instalment of “Who, Me?” - the weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of what not to do at work, and how to get away with it.…

Labels Rome's comms regulator ‘a quasi-judicial body’ that works on behalf of ‘shadowy, European media cabal’ Cloudflare’s CEO has threatened to pull the company out of Italy, and to withdraw free services it intends to provide to the Winter Olympic games, after the nation’s communications regulator slugged it with a fine equal to one percent of its annual revenue for violating anti-piracy regulations.…

Frigid tempertures have gripped Central Europe and the population ist struggling to stay warm. Media say it’s all part of warming!

Says ongoing talks about security are about understanding best practice, not strong-arming vendors India’s government has denied that it is working on rules that would require smartphone manufacturers to provide access to their source code.…

The Coalition is generally supportive of the continued pursuit of renewable energy generation – but not at the expense of grid reliability and safe, adequate and affordable electric service. The inability to timely develop renewable generation and keep up with forecast demand necessitates keeping all options on the table, including existing fossil-fuel generation.

PLUS: Cambodia arrests alleged scam camp boss; Baidu spins out chip biz; Panasonic’s noodle shop plan; And more! Asia in Brief  The governments of Malaysia and Indonesia have suspended access to social network X, on grounds that it allows users to produce sexual imagery without users’ consent.…

PLUS: Veeam patches critical vuln; Crims bribing dark web insiders; UK school takedown; And more infosec in brief  Meta has fixed a flaw in its Instagram service that allowed third parties to generate password reset emails, but denied the problem led to theft of users’ personal information.…

By Andy May R is an extremely powerful programming language for processing, analyzing and displaying data from large datasets. As discussed in the first post of this series on analyzing…

R has improved dramatically.

Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power exclusive  Alarmed by what companies are building with artificial intelligence models, a handful of industry insiders are calling for those opposed to the current state of affairs to undertake a mass data poisoning effort to undermine the technology.…

Congress must act on durable reforms that help ensure Americans have access to affordable, reliable and secure energy for decades to come while helping to power U.S. technology and innovation.

A place for discussion.

Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependence The European Commission has launched a fresh consultation into open source, setting out its ambitions for Europe's developer communities to go beyond propping up US tech giants' platforms.…

The recently concluded 30th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30) spectacularly failed to address any of the issues it was called to consider. Did they secure more committed funding for developing countries? No. Did they establish a new agreement to significantly cut carbon dioxide emissions by ending fossil fuel use. No. Ending fossil fuels use wasn’t even mentioned in the final agreement.

South African leaders must pivot to an energy agenda that accepts the present reality: Coal and natural gas are indispensable for industrial competitiveness – at least until affordable, reliable, on-demand alternatives can match their performance and cost.

I can't recall the USA ever stopping foreign scientists from visiting, but apparently that will be a thing in the future.

We’re only ten days into 2026, and we’ve already got a war, a revolution and now an incipient social media ban. Allegedly. Apparently, X’s GrokAI is editing photos to put people in bikinis on request, and this is terrible. Something must be done. I’m not going to get into the details, or bother quibbling over …

Apparently buying technology off others will not be a thing in the Guardian / Kerry vision of the future.

The Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ended on 30th November, was quieter than normal, with five hurricanes, compared to a long-term average of 7.2.

The great tragedy of the settled climate science era, now facing increased scrutiny, is the draining of public confidence in once revered scientific institutions. Covid was hardly a high point in medical science, while climate fear mongering is in danger of becoming a social joke. ‘Boiling’ oceans and constant risible records are mixed with obvious pseudoscience such as human ‘attribution’ claims. The blast from Hunga Tonga may well help in blowing away much of this fake news for good.

Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation ANALYSIS  From May's cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency to the Foreign Office breach months later, cyber incidents have become increasingly common in UK government.…

The shutdown of the power supply in southern Berlin has brought the fragility of the “Energiewende” (transition to green energies) policy clearly to our attention.

For most Americans, natural gas forms an invisible backbone of modern civilization, enabling processes that touch nearly every aspect of daily life. From the gases that power steel furnaces to those that preserve food, support health care, and enable advanced manufacturing, natural gas has helped raise living standards dramatically over the past quarter-century.

Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations New research from Sandia National Laboratories suggests that brain-inspired neuromorphic computers are just as adept at solving complex mathematical equations as they are at speeding up neural networks and could eventually pave the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers.…

Let the bots figure out what to sell for how much Accenture is betting that the future of retail will run through AI with an investment in Profitmind, an agent-based platform that automates pricing decisions, inventory management, and planning. …

This is just a short update regarding how global surface air temperature (Tsfc) trends are tracking 34 CMIP6 climate models through 2025. The following plot shows the Tsfc trends, 1979-2025, ranked from the warmest to the coolest.

Remember when government agents didn't wear masks? While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for its multi-billion-dollar surveillance tech budget.…

Developer survey from Sonar finds AI tool adoption has created a verification bottleneck Talk about letting things go! Ninety-six percent of software developers believe AI-generated code isn't functionally correct, yet only 48 percent say they always check code generated with AI assistance before committing it.…

"... ("letting the market decide”) can’t be the only factor without ... externalities ..."

I’ve had a cold, and as a cold Traditionalist, that means I’ve been sitting on the couch in my dressing gown, sipping herbal tea with honey in it. (The Zealots from The Church of New Colds would have me masking up and gaffer taping plastic sheets over my doors and windows, but they are odd …

There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money From disposable electric candy to voice-activated refrigerators without physical handles, CES was crammed full of enshittified, intrusive, insecure, and wasteful technology this year – just like it is every year. …

New nuclear capacity won’t show up until around 2030 Meta is writing more checks for nuclear investment, even though the new capacity tied to those deals is unlikely to come online until around 2030. The company says it will need the new power to run its hyperscale datacenters.…

Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else The Desktop Classic System is a rather unusual hand-built flavor of Debian featuring a meticulously configured spatial desktop layout and a pleasingly 20th-century look and feel.…

Basketball player accused of aiding cybercrime gang extradition blocked in exchange for Swiss NGO consultant France has released an alleged ransomware crook wanted by the US in exchange for a conflict researcher imprisoned in Russia.…

State-backed attackers are using QR codes to slip past enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins, the FBI says North Korean government hackers are turning QR codes into credential-stealing weapons, the FBI has warned, as Pyongyang's spies find new ways to duck enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins.…

No naming that tune and no album covers Microsoft is celebrating the resurgence of interest in physical media in the only way it knows how… by halting the Windows Media Player metadata service.…

Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed NASA is bringing the Crew-11 astronauts back to Earth early after one encountered a medical issue that could not be dealt with aboard the orbiting outpost.…

Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping Concerns are mounting over copper supplies, with a fresh study warning that demand will likely outstrip production within a decade, threatening to constrain global technological advancement.…

Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a working VMware ESXi hypervisor escape kit more than a year before the bugs it relied on were made public.…

The software wasn't actually renamed, but you couldn't be blamed for being confused Opinion  Wait? What? I was just cruising along the information superhighway – yes, I'm old, deal with it – when I spotted a Y Combinator story announcing, "Microsoft Office renamed to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot app'." Excuse me!? I looked closer and found that, sure enough, it certainly looked

Extremophile bacteria could help turn Martian dirt into building material for human habitats Tough microbes able to survive extreme environments on Earth could be the key to constructing buildings to allow humans to survive on Mars, according to a research paper.…

The queue might move on, but the software never did Bork!Bork!Bork!  Today's bork - on a UK border control wait-time screen - is doubly unfortunate. Tired passengers get no clue how long until someone checks their passport, and of all organizations that should keep security certs current, the one responsible for keeping out criminals tops the list.…

Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions Grok has yanked its image-generation toy out of the hands of most X users after the UK government openly weighed a ban over the AI feature that "undressed" people on command.…

Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts The Bank of England has trebled the amount it is spending on its Oracle systems integrator amid efforts to migrate business applications to the cloud.…

As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again On Call  2025 has ended and a new year is upon us, but The Register will continue opening Friday mornings with a fresh installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that tells your tales of tech support.…

Nobody really needs an AI toothbrush that sends their gums to the cloud Opinion  Another Consumer Electronics Show has rolled through Las Vegas, and this year vendors scrawled “AI-enabled” on all the kit they hope will find its way into your home – while airbrushing away its immaturity and downsides.…

Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too The authors of a hypothetical manual containing procedures repressive governments can use to stay in power despite restive populations would surely devote its first chapter to turning off the internet, an action the government of Iran appears to have taken in the last 24 hours.…

Grab some popcorn for the Xi vs Zuck bout, which may not be the biggest fight on the card Chinese authorities have signalled they’ll likely probe Meta’s planned acquisition of made-in-China AI platform Manus.…

Dark copyright evasion magic makes light work of developers' guardrails Machine learning models, particularly commercial ones, generally do not list the data developers used to train them. Yet what models contain and whether that material can be elicited with a particular prompt remain matters of financial and legal consequence, not to mention ethics and privacy.…

We are immersed in a behavioural psychology programme. The global elite is manipulating everything from incidents to information, in the process of building an authoritarian technocracy. The powerful do not wait for events such as a pandemic to happen and then exploit; instead, they create the events, which are scripted for a predetermined outcome. But …

Operation Talla exposes the British state for what it is: unconstitutional and unlawful. We only know about it thanks to the tireless work of committed campaigners. Read the incredible story of Operation Talla here. The post Operation Talla – Unconstitutional and Unlawful appeared first on Iain Davis.

In Part 1, responding to David Lammy’s attempt to deny our constitutional right to trial by jury, we discussed the fact that the UK government is a franchise of the global public-private partnership (G3P). The UK G3P-state—represented by the executive branch of government, the legislative branch, and the bulk of the judiciary—is one among many functional oligarchies. We …

Supermarket shelves have never been fuller, yet diets have become poorer. Across the world, food systems praised for their productivity now deliver an abundance of calories alongside widespread micronutrient deficiency, ecological collapse and rural precarity. This is the outcome of an agricultural model that equates food security with yield and mass production with nourishment. Sustained …

Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution—when executive power expanded openly and unapologetically, surveillance became ambient, dissent became dangerous, and the machinery of militarized government embedded itself into daily life. Under Trump 2.0, the erosion of civil …

Okay, who had “the US invades Venezuela and kidnaps the President” down as the first big story of 2026? Well done if you did, you probably got good odds. That’s the “breaking news” as of about two hours ago: Venezuela President Maduro captured after US strike and will face drugs and weapons charges CNN The …

Christmas presents wrapped with care? Check. Steaming cup of hot chocolate? Check. Relaxing Christmas background music? Check. Now, what am I forgetting. Oh, that’s right: the Solutions Watch end-of-year update! Well, here it is, and right on time. Kick back and enjoy this tour through another year of solutions, creativity and activism. Sources, shownotes and …

In this article we consider what the UK constitutionally rule of law means and how we can use it to resist the UK dictatorship. Read more HERE. The post How We Can Resist The UK Dictatorship – Part 2 appeared first on Iain Davis.

Please check out my speech at the Mass Non Compliance protest rally against digital ID in London on 13th December 2025. The post Iain Davis Speaks At The Mass Non Compliance Protest Against Digital ID appeared first on Iain Davis.

This brilliant argument from the X account of Private Joker explains why those who think digital ID is a "bogeyman" couldn't be more wrong. Read more here. The post Digital Identity Is a Force-Multiplier appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State: James Corbett and I discuss some of the major themes of my new book now available to Preorder through Papercut Publishing. The post James Corbett and Iain Davis Expose the Technocratic Dark State appeared first on Iain Davis.

The United Nations regime is not a trustworthy regime of any kind. Yet, we are constantly asked, by the regime itself and its compliant mainstream media propagandists, to blindly trust it. You must be joking. The post Trust The United Nations Regime? You Must Be Joking. appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State is due for publication shortly and Dr David A. Hughes has described it as one of the most important books you will read. He interviews me, and we discuss the book and why it matters. The post The Technocratic Dark State: Dr David A. Hughes Interviews Author Iain Davis appeared first on Iain Davis.

Sonia Poulton and I discuss my new book The Technocratic Dark State. We look at who is behind the digital transformation and consider their aims and objectives. The post The Technocratic Dark State appeared first on Iain Davis.

Digital ID in the UK is not the BritCard. True digital ID includes the possible BritCard but to understand what true digital ID is read here. The post The BritCard Psyop: What Is True Digital ID in the UK? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The BritCard is supposedly our introduction to digital ID in the UK. But the proposal is so bizarre, as Paul Brennan and I discuss. The post BritCard UK Digital ID – Reality Check Radio appeared first on Iain Davis.