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Japan’s PM orders cybersecurity review to stop Mythos going full CyberZilla

12 May 2026 @ 5:40 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Fears exponential increase in attack scale and speed

Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6

12 May 2026 @ 4:44 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Giving v4 an ‘area code’ based on ASNs to give operators more addresses to play with, without upgrades

GitLab promises a different kind of layoff as biz pivots toward AI

12 May 2026 @ 1:58 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Code hosting biz is trimming its global footprint and flattening its management layer

Red Hat blasts RHEL 10.1 into orbit aboard Voyager's micro datacenter

12 May 2026 @ 12:14 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images

Quit VMware and you’ll emerge with more complex and less capable infrastructure

11 May 2026 @ 11:59 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Analyst says modernizing applications is probably a better use of your time than hypervisor migration

Double Canvas breach acknowledged as ShinyHunters sets new pay-or-leak deadline

11 May 2026 @ 11:16 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

UPDATED: Sorry, kids, everything's back up so get to work on your new assignment - An essay on the ethics of paying ransoms, because it looks like that's what happened here

Three Months In: EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Has Quietly Become a Legal Fight, not a Scientific One

11 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

For all the talk of finally relitigating the underlying climate science, the EPA's final rule does almost none of that. It does not argue that greenhouse gases fail to qualify as pollutants. It does not litigate model sensitivities, the surface temperature record, attribution methodology, or any of the empirical questions that WUWT contributors and others have spent close to two decades documenting. The science case is, formally, not the basis of the rule. The post

Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line

11 May 2026 @ 8:54 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Inspired by TempleOS, this terminal emulator is just about as bonkers

Microsoft researchers find AI models and agents can't handle long-running tasks

11 May 2026 @ 8:50 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

An intern who failed this much would be shown the door

Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers

11 May 2026 @ 8:21 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

New IElevator2 COM interface? No problem

“Record Breaking” Adolescence Gets Its Inevitable Reward

11 May 2026 @ 7:00 pm - OffGuardian

Adolescence is back to get its pay-off. In an “historic” night for television, the Netflix original drama broke some record for…whatever. Because of course it did. Because it was always going to. For anyone fortunate enough to have missed out on the Adolescence hype, or self-preserving enough to have tactically forgotten it, the show is …

OpenAI can't have incompetent AI consultants ruining the market, so bought its own

11 May 2026 @ 6:33 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

By which we mean it bought someone else's with other people's money

Debian 14 cracks down on unreproducible packages

11 May 2026 @ 5:04 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Dull but important … so, a bit like Debian itself, really

Right, Washington Post, Banning Hamburger Ads Won’t Stop Climate Change

11 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

They want to push what farmers remain to go all-organic, which ironically means they will need more land to produce anywhere near the same output because yields will fall, resulting in higher overall emissions. The post Right, Washington Post, Banning Hamburger Ads Won’t Stop Climate Change appeared first on Watts Up With Tha

Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

11 May 2026 @ 4:30 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

After all that hype, AI scanner found one low-severity cURL flaw

Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life

11 May 2026 @ 2:54 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 – and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth

BWH Hotels guests warned after reservation data checks out with cybercrooks

11 May 2026 @ 2:34 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Customers urged to keep an eye out for phisherfolk

Feature freeze for Python 3.15 as first beta released

11 May 2026 @ 2:14 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

JIT compiler much improved, but no reinstatement for leaky incremental garbage collector

Google says criminals used AI-built zero-day in planned mass hack spree

11 May 2026 @ 1:38 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

GTIG says AI-powered hacking has moved well beyond phishing emails and chatbot tricks

SoftBank bets on battery building to back bit barns

11 May 2026 @ 1:37 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Tech investment giant wants batteries for its own AI datacenters, and lots of them

Volkswagen Face $1.7 Billion Fine For Missing Emissions Targets

11 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

In Europe, electric vehicles made up about 20% of new car sales in early 2026. That’s significant, but still not enough for companies like VW to comfortably hit their targets. As a result, they’re effectively selling more EVs than the market organically demands. The post Volkswagen Face $1.7 Billion Fine For Missing Emissions Targets appeared first on

Water company's leaky security earns near-£1M fine

11 May 2026 @ 12:52 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Utility provider failed to detect Cl0p ransomware attack for nearly two years

Checkmarx tackles another TeamPCP intrusion as Jenkins plugin sabotaged

11 May 2026 @ 12:11 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Cybercrooks ruin engineers' weekends with Saturday attack

NASA's bid to save Swift from fiery death passes another hurdle

11 May 2026 @ 11:52 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Katalyst's LINK spacecraft clears Goddard tests before Pegasus rocket integration

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos

11 May 2026 @ 11:16 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there

Classic Outlook's Quick Steps trip over Microsoft bug

11 May 2026 @ 10:28 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Client's handy automations get grayed out unless you know the keyboard shortcut

Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits

11 May 2026 @ 10:00 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement

The latest innovation in UK public transport: Schrödinger's trains

11 May 2026 @ 9:15 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Who knows what is going where. Might as well have a lovely beer instead.

Select Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #690

11 May 2026 @ 9:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.” — Albert Einstein The post Select Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #690 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Taiwan's train cyber-trauma reveals a global system that’s coming off the tracks

11 May 2026 @ 8:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

That’s not a radio. THIS is a radio

Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch

11 May 2026 @ 7:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

The office sink is always a horror. Managers worried this one glowed

Sovereign cloud is only possible if you’re Chinese or American: Gartner

11 May 2026 @ 5:31 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Which is awkward for European orgs who fear US clouds might leave the continent

90% Subsidized… Bielefeld Germany’s €7 Million Hydrogen Garbage Truck Fleet Sits Idle

11 May 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

The case of Bielefeld’s idle garbage truck fleet is an example of bureaucracy’s rank inability to operate a society, serving as a reminder that “green” technology is a costly folly. The post 90% Subsidized… Bielefeld Germany’s €7 Million Hydrogen Garbage Truck Fleet Sits Idle appeared first on Watts

RGGI Status Update

11 May 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

...it is past time for the states to ask whether this experiment is worth the cost. If politicians really want to lower electricity costs, the easiest step is to drop out of RGGI. The post RGGI Status Update appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

ASIA IN BRIEF: China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop

11 May 2026 @ 12:49 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

PLUS: Robot becomes Buddhist monk in Korea; TikTok spending $25bn in Thailand; Baidu floating chip biz; and more!

Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain

10 May 2026 @ 11:00 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Anthropic might be thinking about space to ease its computing burden, but Claude Code on your laptop is way more practical

Keystone XL Rebranded as “Keystone Light” in Trump’s Push for North American Energy Security

10 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

This project is a leaner, faster, and more litigation-resistant project that reuses idle pipe, threads existing corridors, avoids reservation land, and is racing the clock to lock in steel-in-the-ground before the next Democratic administration can once again sacrifice North American energy security to green ideology. The post Keystone XL Rebranded

Multipolarity & the Function of the Fake Binary

10 May 2026 @ 8:15 pm - OffGuardian

Updated from ‘The Function of the Fake Binary‘, May 16 2022 In his 1998 book The Common Good, Noam Chomsky describes the key role that managed disagreements play in modern politics… The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within …

Net Zero Parties Annihilated By Trump Aligned Candidates in British and Australian Elections

10 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Turns out the public has higher priorities than ensuring their great grandkids enjoy 0.01ºC lower temperatures in 100 years. The post Net Zero Parties Annihilated By Trump Aligned Candidates in British and Australian Elections appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse

10 May 2026 @ 2:00 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Amid the AI-fueled memory crunch, will Compute Express Link finally have its moment to shine?

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

10 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Furores are fermenting in the forums

Antarctic “Triple Whammy” Paper Lands Just As the Ice Rebounds

10 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

...by the time the "triple whammy" paper went to press, Antarctic sea ice had already done the thing the paper now says is unlikely. It bounced — sharply, in a single year. The post Antarctic “Triple Whammy” Paper Lands Just As the Ice Rebounds appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin

10 May 2026 @ 9:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

It's not much cheaper than an equivalent laptop, so who's this for, exactly?

Open Thread

10 May 2026 @ 9:00 am - Watts Up With That?

A place for discussion. The post Open Thread appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK

10 May 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of northern latitude, Atlantic cloud, the non-negotiable demands of a British winter, and the irreplaceable value of the land and water we are being asked to sacrifice. The post The Case Against In

Nation’s Largest Grid Operator Warns Drastic Measures Required As Data Centers Come Online

10 May 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

“Constrained supply” is at the heart of PJM’s complaints. This shortage largely stems from the many regulatory reviews required to break ground on energy developments, according to the Consumer Energy Alliance. The post Nation’s Largest Grid Operator Warns Drastic Measures Required As Data Centers Come Online appeared first on

Green Machine Targets Plastics at Consumer Expense

9 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

The war on plastics amounts to nothing more than a war on modern conveniences made possible by the innovations inherent in the free market. The post Green Machine Targets Plastics at Consumer Expense appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device

9 May 2026 @ 5:57 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Deletion of a longstanding privacy assurance sparks concerns

Endangered Species Act regulatory overkill

9 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered Species Act regulations seriously distort Congressional intent. They make it almost impossible for anyone except the rich to develop land within the extensive habitat of an endangered or threatened species. Not just in Florida but throughout America. The post Endangered Species Act regulatory overkill appeared first on

A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why.

9 May 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

The "most significant development in climate research in decades," has an ugly side. The post A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why. appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel

9 May 2026 @ 12:25 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Apple's old backup boxes only speak AFP and SMB1, but NetBSD under the hood gives them one last shot

London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool

9 May 2026 @ 10:03 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Imagine taking a dip 177m above the streets of London’s West End

Ding Dong, RCP8.5 Is Dead!

9 May 2026 @ 9:00 am - Watts Up With That?

For years, we have been fed a never-ending diet of apocalyptic climate scares – killer heatwaves, biblical floods, deadly droughts, devastating hurricanes, to name just a few. The post Ding Dong, RCP8.5 Is Dead! appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform

9 May 2026 @ 8:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

Catfish Farmers, Undertakers, Miners Helped Bring About Major EPA Deregulation

9 May 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi issued a memo on April 27 ending the 1985 Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) method of classifying hazardous chemicals. Numerous stakeholders have criticized IRIS for dramatically overestimating the toxicity for certain industry-specific compounds to many business’ detriment. (RELATED: America Just Made Its Biggest Critical Mineral Find In Years — But There’s A Problem) The post

Copenhagen’s City Govt. Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat

9 May 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

...they have weaponized the green agenda against the elderly residents who built the civilization these eco-warriors now seek to dismantle, one beef patty at a time. The post Copenhagen’s City Govt. Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Akamai surges on big LLM deal as Cloudflare dims

8 May 2026 @ 11:17 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Good times, bad times

GPT-5.5 may burn fewer tokens, but it always burns more cash

8 May 2026 @ 9:08 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

It’s not just gas prices skyrocketing. Frontier-model pricing keeps climbing too

Let’s talk about….UFO files released!

8 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - OffGuardian

The Pentagon has made good on Donald Trump’s promise and published the first instalment of previously classified UFO files. You can read them all on the Pentagon’s dedicated website. The cache of 162 files, photos and videos has caused a buzz of conversation…but I’m not sure why. This article in the Express, for example, picks …

Zap Energy: The first fission-fusion company

8 May 2026 @ 9:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Responding to the ETH Zurich study, Johal says she hopes all the fusion designs become commercially successful – but believes that Zap’s design will produce economies of scale thanks to their modular design. The post Zap Energy: The first fission-fusion company appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Tech is now rolling out the old grievance grift

8 May 2026 @ 8:02 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Not just for hated US Presidents, now even tech bros lament their foes

Worm rubs out competitor's malware, then takes control

8 May 2026 @ 5:26 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

All your compromised credentials are belong to us now instead of the other gang

Disgraced US gov software contractor found guilty of database destruction

8 May 2026 @ 5:10 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Twin brother still faces trial over broader cybercrime allegations

U.S. Fossil Fuel Environmentalism: EPA Air Quality Statistics

8 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

From 1970 to 2023, U.S. emissions of six criteria air pollutants declined 78% while GDP grew 321% and energy consumption rose 42%—consistent with the Environmental Kuznets Curve and driven by wealth creation and market incentives rather than central planning. The post U.S. Fossil Fuel Environmentalism: EPA Air Quality Statistics appeared first on

Iran war hits datacenter building supply chains, upping costs

8 May 2026 @ 3:56 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

BCS says builders face up to 20% material hikes and patchy deliveries

Raspberry Pi wants Windows admins to Connect – or it might pull the plug

8 May 2026 @ 2:12 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Remote access software could bring mixed fleets under one roof, assuming enough people ask for it

'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit

8 May 2026 @ 1:36 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE

Trump jumps from 'anything goes' to 'strict regulation' AI policy

8 May 2026 @ 12:56 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

In a word, 'Huh?'

Meta U-turns on encryption push for Instagram as DMs go plaintext

8 May 2026 @ 12:42 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

After years of insisting end-to-end encryption was the future of online comms, Zuckcorp has handed itself full visibility into user chats once again

Vi clone written in BASIC proves old habits :wq hard

8 May 2026 @ 12:30 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

A few hundred lines of Yabasic recreate just enough to keep modal editing muscle memory alive

UK abandons police database cloud move after £35M transformation stalls

8 May 2026 @ 12:16 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Home Office finds 80% of code cannot be reused, balks at £26M in extra costs

GameStop CEO's eBay account reinstated following takeover PR stunt

8 May 2026 @ 11:46 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Ryan Cohen briefly banned after bootstrapping cash ostensibly to buy the auction site

Hackers ate my homework: Educational SaaS Canvas down after cyberattack

8 May 2026 @ 10:59 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

ShinyHunters takes the credit and gives developer an F for security

Quick Take…Hantavirus Cruise Ship Weirdness

7 May 2026 @ 7:00 pm - OffGuardian

Eight people sick, pandemic threat low. Doesn’t sound like big news…and yet the media won’t stop talking about it. It already has its own WikiPedia entry. The whole thing feels very odd in a very familiar way.

IMA PANEL: How to Deal With Authorities – #SolutionsWatch

6 May 2026 @ 8:00 pm - OffGuardian

It’s the cross-over you’ve all been waiting for, #SolutionsWatch meets the Independent Media Alliance! Panel host James Corbett is joined by IMA regulars Derrick Broze, Ryan Cristian, Kit Knightly, Jason Bermas, Hakeem Anwar & Steve Poikonen, and guests Etienne de La Boetie2, Larken Rose and Ernest Hancock to discuss how we interact with the state …

Digital ID & the Kids in Fake Moustaches

5 May 2026 @ 8:30 pm - OffGuardian

They're trying to rebrand the authoritarian Online Safety Act as just a silly piece of paper - not tyranny, it’s just bumbling, idiotic half-measures.

Founding Felons: Jefferson Would Be on a Watch List Today—You Might Be Next

4 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - OffGuardian

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.” Benjamin Franklin Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not government overreach, endless war, corruption, surveillance, or the steady erosion …

Everything We Don’t Need to Know, and A Few We Do

3 May 2026 @ 5:00 pm - OffGuardian

“And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don’t need to know.” Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present, 2017 Onerous it is and more onerous it will be when AI …

How believable is Banksy?

2 May 2026 @ 8:00 pm - OffGuardian

The guerrilla artist's "surprise" statue is supposedly anti-establishment....except the establishment seems to LOVE it.

The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis and John Titus (Full Interview)

18 March 2026 @ 10:45 am - Iain Davis

The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis and John Titus (Full Interview) The post The Technocratic Dark State: Trump, AI, and Digital Dictatorship with Iain Davis and John Titus (Full Interview) appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State – Reality Check Radio

9 March 2026 @ 2:49 pm - Iain Davis

The Technocratic Dark State and other matters discussed by author Iain Davis and Paul Brennan on Reality Check Radio. The post The Technocratic Dark State – Reality Check Radio appeared first on Iain Davis.

Keir Starmer’s Questionable Child Protection History

26 February 2026 @ 6:25 pm - Iain Davis

Keir Starmer has a dubious history of child protection failures. We examine some of those conspicuous alleged "mistakes." What we are asked to believe is sometimes very hard to accept. The post Keir Starmer’s Questionable Child Protection History appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Filton Six: The People Rule, OK?

11 February 2026 @ 11:56 am - Iain Davis

The Filton Six have not been found guilty in a trial by jury. The Jury in the case exercised their constitutional rights and liberties. To appreciate the staggering importance of the jury's decision read here The post The Filton Six: The People Rule, OK? appeared first on Iain Davis.

What Is A 15-Minute City?

30 January 2026 @ 4:40 pm - Iain Davis

What is a 15-Minute City? Is it, as some apparently believe, simply an urban space where essential goods and services can be accessed within 15 minute walk or cycle ride from you home? No! As usual, there is much more to it than that. The post What Is A 15-Minute City? appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Official UK Digital Identity Panopticon

24 January 2026 @ 10:32 am - Iain Davis

The official UK digital identity Panopticon has been announced by the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood. The implication for the British people are extremely concerning. Read more here. The post The Official UK Digital Identity Panopticon appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Technocratic Dark State and Grand Theft World

20 January 2026 @ 3:54 pm - Iain Davis

The Technocratic Dark State with Grand Theft World - Author Iain Davis discusses his latest book with Richard Grove from Grand Theft World The post The Technocratic Dark State and Grand Theft World appeared first on Iain Davis.

Fake Digital ID “Victory”

15 January 2026 @ 4:53 pm - Iain Davis

The fake Digital ID "victory" in the UK is explored by Iain Davis and Ant Critchley from Becoming Stellify. Possible solutions are discussed. Watch here! The post Fake Digital ID “Victory” appeared first on Iain Davis.

Operation Talla – Unconstitutional and Unlawful

7 January 2026 @ 12:32 pm - Iain Davis

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.

How We Can Resist The UK Dictatorship – Part 2

1 January 2026 @ 3:56 pm - Iain Davis

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.