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Chromium commit adds support for image decoder after the Big G ditched it a few years back Google has added support for the JPEG XL (JXL) image format to the open source Chromium code base, reversing a decision in 2022 to drop the technology.…

First Patch Tuesday of 2026 goes big Microsoft and Uncle Sam have warned that a Windows bug disclosed today is already under attack.…

Could be back to 2016 levels The rising cost of memory due to shortages is likely to persist into late 2027, driving higher device prices and lackluster configurations for PCs, tablets, and phones, IDC research manager Jitesh Ubrani told The Register.…

Voters across the world are waking up. Recent elections in Europe and the Americas have ushered in new governments that are openly hostile to the net-zero agenda. They were elected on mandates to restore energy sanity, lower prices, and reject the shackles of globalist climate treaties.

The open-source libraries were created by Salesforce, Nvidia, and Apple with a Swiss group Vulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes automatically when a file containing the poisoned metadata is loaded.…

Just be careful not to entrust the AI model with your sensitive data Anthropic on Monday announced the research preview of Claude Cowork, a tool for automating office work that comes with the now familiar recitation of machine learning risks.…

Step 1: Ask for deposit. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Build Moon hotel empire Everest has been turned into a run-of-the-mill tourist attraction. Space tourism is over now that any celebrity can blast off into orbit. Next up: a hotel on the Moon, now taking reservations for only about six years from now, if you're willing to make a small deposit.…

Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers Memory makers just can't churn out their DRAM fast enough. On the heels of an AI-driven shortage, SK Hynix on Tuesday announced a new 19 trillion Korean won (about $13 billion) advanced packaging and test facility in South Korea that could offer some relief - just not for consumer products like laptops and phones.…

Apparently, doom is just around the corner, thanks to climate change messing with the nitrogen cycle.

US House backs bill to regulate remote access to export-controlled chips Chinese companies may be unable to import the best US GPUs, but they have found a workaround: renting access to that hardware via cloud services. Now, the US House of Representatives is moving to bring that loophole under the export-control law.…

Forrester models slow, structural shift rather than sudden employment collapse AI-pocalypse  AI and automation could wipe out 6.1 percent of jobs in the US by 2030 – equating to 10.4 million fewer positions that are held by humans today.…

Big Tech warned expansion must come without higher household bills as Microsoft signals support President Trump says tech giants must pay their way when it comes to delivering increased power needed for datacenters, rather than the burden falling on US citizens, and it seems Microsoft is on board with that.…

As the Indian Parliament moves into the February 2026 Budget Session, there is a sense of déjà vu in the country. While the world celebrated the repeal of the 2020 Farm Laws as a victory for farmers and their year-long protest, the underlying blueprint never left the table. It has simply been rebranded and digitised. …

The Emperor Penguin has a go… just for fun Perhaps the most famous low-level systems programmer has tried "vibe coding" for himself – and he seems to be enjoying it.…

33-year-old was under surveillance for some time before returning home from the UAE Dutch police believe they have arrested a man behind the AVCheck online platform - a service used by cybercrims that Operation Endgame shuttered in May.…

Activists seem keen for the USA to go back to subsidising Europe's defence budget.

Analysts say cheap energy and storage make sense for bit barns despite policy headwinds Despite the Trump administration's opposition to renewables, solar power will likely remain part of datacenter energy supply mix due to its low cost.…

Git server flaw that attackers have been abusing for months has now caught the attention of US cyber cops CISA has ordered federal agencies to stop using Gogs or lock it down immediately after a high-severity vulnerability in the self-hosted Git service was added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.…

AuraInspector automates the most common abuses and generates fixes for customers Mandiant has released an open source tool to help Salesforce admins detect misconfigurations that could expose sensitive data.…

Dutchman fails to convince judges his trial was unfair because cops read his encrypted chats A Dutch appeals court has kept a seven-year prison sentence in place for a man who hacked port IT systems with malware-stuffed USB sticks to help cocaine smugglers move containers, brushing off claims that police shouldn't have been reading his encrypted chats.…

Yes, London property prices are high. But here's a picture of Boris Johnson Updated  From the "there but for the grace of God" department comes a new website to find affordable housing in London containing data it shouldn't.…

Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster Birmingham City Council has pushed back the relaunch of its troubled Oracle Fusion ERP system, saying staff need more time to adapt to the vendor's standard processes.…

Project Nightfall aims to deliver a UK-built long-range strike capability at speed The British government is asking defense firms to rapidly produce a new ground-launched ballistic missile to aid Ukraine's fight against Russia - hardware that might also be adopted by UK's armed forces in future.…

the Telegraph reported that the Green Finance Institute has estimated £100bn worth of additional finance and subsidies would be needed to support electric lorry take-up.

Turns out the voluntary pledge to restrict public sector tendering during Horizon scandal inquiry has loopholes Fujitsu has won a place on a UK government framework despite its commitment not to compete for new public sector contracts during the ongoing inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal.…

Satya Nadella's call to accept and embrace desktop brainboxes faces skepticism Software developers have created a PowerShell script to remove AI features from Windows.…

Our long national nightmare of UN bureaucracies exploiting global warming as pretext for forever-increasing taxation, spending, redistribution, and control over Americans is winding down at last.

Tweaks its hardware to run multiple private cloud stacks, and shift between them Lenovo has a hunch that some of you are about to shift to a different hypervisor and has created hardware to make the move easier.…

Government is fed up with bad actors using digi-cash to fund dodgy deeds India’s government has updated the regulations it imposes on cryptocurrency services providers, as part of its efforts to combat fraud, money laundering, and terrorism.…

A large portion of the Greenland ice sheet that is today over 500 m thick did not exist during the Early to Mid Holocene.

In SEC filings, Fortinet and Palo Alto show shrinking product margins taking hold. PCs and datacenters aren't the only devices that need DRAM. The global memory shortage is roiling the cybersecurity market, with the cost of firewalls expected to balloon and hit both customers and vendors in the pocketbook in 2026, according to research analysts Wedbush.…

Gang members 'systematically exploited children and young people,' cops say A 21-year-old Swedish man accused of being a key organizer of violence-as-a-service linked to the Foxtrot criminal network, which police say has recruited and exploited minors, has been arrested in Iraq.…

No wonder he's going nuclear Meta has formed a new initiative called “Meta Compute” to oversee the planning, deployment, and operations of its growing fleet of AI datacenters.…

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

Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old’s favorite shows Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn't learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams based on what disk you insert. …

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.…

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.