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Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs RSA 2026  Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.…

Customers are 'excited' says one solution provider Snowflake is putting cash and kinetic energy behind the idea that AI works best in its platform.…

Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. …

Digital twins of leaders may be plausible as novelty acts, but not really welcome Imagine that your boss is too busy to show up at that meeting you called so she sends a bot of herself instead. With a digital twin, even your company's CEO - the one who spends all his time on the corporate jet - could make an appearance at your powwow about the break room coffee machine. But would you want them there?…

Zenity CTO demos 0-click AI agent exploits on stage at RSAC RSA 2026  There's a very simple reason why just about every enterprise AI agent is vulnerable to zero-click attacks, according to Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity.…

10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanup Softbank's SB Energy is redeveloping Department of Energy (DoE) land in Ohio for a massive datacenter campus, adding extra generation facilities and power infrastructure alongside it.…

From MasterResource By Robert Bradley Jr. “Humans aren’t rational…. How, then, can we combat misinformation when simply presenting the facts is no longer enough – and may even backfire?” –…

This evening I looked into the eyes of someone in hell - mortgage rates and electricity bills soaring, gasoline prices near doubling in a week, but he has a family to support.

Expendable military drones are so 2025 The US Army just took receipt of what may be the coolest unmanned drone ever flown by the military: A full-sized Black Hawk helicopter. …

Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edges AvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications — platforms Microsoft's own cross-platform .NET framework lacks — but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.…

Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.…

Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.…

In space, no one can hear you being petty SpaceX has fired back at Amazon with a letter to the US telecoms regulator, after Amazon objected to its plans for orbiting datacenters.…

US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-in US data miner Palantir has quietly landed inside the UK's financial watchdog, plugging into a trove of sensitive data as Whitehall simultaneously insists it wants to wean itself off exactly this kind of dependency.…

More cores, higher clocks, lower prices Review  It's a tough time to be a PC enthusiast. Between the memory crunch and the AI boom driving up prices on storage, DDR5, and GPUs, it's gotten prohibitively expensive to build a PC.…

A heightened crescendo of voices reverberating across the world, to aggressively promote renewable energy, will continue to miss the point about the need to have a sustainable energy mix. Such a mix has to include baseload power. This typically includes coal and nuclear. A sustainable energy mix cannot be maintained if baseload energy in the form of coal-fired power stations is phased out in favor of renewable energy in the form of solar and wind. Here in South Africa, we are being misinformed a

Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn't 'material,' but then stolen data was published Trio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.…

Infosec pros descend on San Francisco kettle  When El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons joins infosec industry colleagues in San Francisco for RSAC 2026 this week, she's expecting agentic AI to be on everyone's lips - at least those who aren't busy gossiping about the lack of presence from any representatives of the US federal government.…

The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patch Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.…

Draft Request for Proposals says you can move shuttle orbiter but you cannot break it NASA has issued a draft Request for Proposals to move a flown space vehicle, a step some lawmakers see as progress toward relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia to Houston, Texas.…

Ukraine's battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardware NATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a cue from the experience gained by Ukrainian forces over the past four years.…

Every month of 'careful consideration' is another month Redmond laughs all the way to the bank Here's the uncomfortable truth: every week the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) hesitates on its decision on the outcome of its public cloud services market investigation, the meter keeps running and taxpayers continue to foot the bill.…

Your instinctive revulsion is spot on. Follow your nose Opinion  Science is at its best when it makes manifest radical ideas that change our worldview. This is the flag all sane people salute, under which we march to war. Yet in our hearts, we know that the very tastiest science is that which confirms our prejudices and validates what we've known all along. Cornell University has just served up a plate of the finest yet. Tuck in.…

Quote of the Week: “If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can’t burn him.."— Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (1898)

National Audit Office warns government has little idea of how to respond in the event of a major solar storm The UK's National Audit Office (NAO) has warned the country is underprepared for a severe space weather event.…

First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face Who, Me?  Monday is upon us, but before you use the new week to explore opportunity and adventure, The Register presents a new installment of Who, Me? It's our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of flops, failures, and foul-ups.…

Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add up Elon Musk has put Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI in harness to build a chip fabrication outfit called "Terafab" capable of producing a terawatt's worth of computing power each year, then send most of it into space.…

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood Car manufacturers must ensure that electric cars make up at least 33% of their total registrations this year or…

'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issues Microsoft has acknowledged that it needs to improve the quality of Windows 11 and outlined its plan to get the job done.…

True reason consists in admitting that there are realities greater, more urgent, and more sacred than the planet's thermostat. War forces us to look horror in the face. Let us at least have the decency not to ask for its carbon footprint.

PLUS: Singtel’s triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more! Asia In Brief  Australia’s government on Monday announced a set of datacenter “expectations” to guide would-be bit barn builders who contemplate breaking ground down under.…

PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more! Infosec In Brief  Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts and conduct phishing attacks, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last Friday.…

Canada has to deal with some of the regulatory calcification we’ve let build up for some time, before we will be an attractive investment destination. We are still paralyzed by endless programs and reporting requirements and regulations that make potential investors go “Ewww…is there anywhere else?” 

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. 1. Mexico’s War on Cash This week, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced restrictions on cash payments for drivers, planning that all toll and fuel payments …

It is time for real courage in Albany to admit that the fundamentals of the Climate Act need to be revised because we do not know how much this will cost and there has never been a feasibility analysis that proves that wind and solar provide enough energy to power the electric system.  Unless the technological challenges are recognized and solutions proposed we will never know the true costs. I do not believe that net-zero climate action and affordability will ever be compatible.

If Euronews had bothered to even do a modicum of research into this phenomenon, they’d know their story is based on misrepresentation of the cause of a change that can’t be sensed and promotes false alarm. Instead, they went the “click bait” route, choosing narrative over truth; badly misleading their readers in the process.

The operating system of the universe isn’t going to debug itself feature  CERN is nothing like today's agentic AI jockeys, who mostly rely on pre-set weights and generic TPUs and GPUs to generate their slop. CERN burns custom nanosecond-speed AI into the silicon itself just to eliminate excess data.…

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Who are the Ellisons? Where does their immense fortune come from? And how do they plan to use that fortune? By the end of today’s episode, you’re going to know more about the Ellison family, Zionists, technocrats, media moguls, and how they are using their power to shape your future. Download options and a full …

Gas from Rosebank would be used in the UK and contribute to around 1 per cent of national needs.

The AI race will not be decided by algorithms alone. It will be decided by whether we can build the physical backbone on which advanced computing depends -power plants, transmission, substations, cooling systems, and the teams that bring it all online.

A summer which kept soils moist and provided lots of sunshine is apparently a sign of climate breakdown.

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) I got to thinking about how much the world will warm in the long run when the…

Judges are directed to the writings of Michael Mann and Naomi Oreskes as examples of scientific consensus, without disclosure of their advocacy roles or involvement in litigation narratives.

Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matter A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it could also be quietly helping your brain hold it together.…

Attempting to determine who is doing what to whom — and for what purpose — within the labyrinth of financial and technocratic geopolitics is akin to trying to locate the exit of a maze while still wandering within its walls, rather than observing its full design from a vantage point above. The book The Empire …

Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows The Free Software Foundation Europe says its electronic-payments provider Nexi Group unexpectedly "cancelled" its account – cutting the charity off from around 450 donors.…

Brits are being urged to work from home and use ovens less as the energy crisis deepens, amid worries that Rachel Reeves can’t help because she’s “maxxed out the nation’s credit card” with “runaway welfare spending”.

Over 130 million barrels of Russian crude oil remained on the sea as of March 6, according to a report by Kpler.

Guest “Making American ‘Shale’ Greater Again” by David Middleton As noted in a previous post, the Permian Basin would rank 4th in the world in natural gas production, if US…

Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too much Since February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.…

The truth is, no one can ever know. And this is where the science rubber really hits the road.

The market is contracting Right product, wrong time? Amazon is reported to be developing a new smartphone, its first since 2014, and, according to industry tracker IDC, it will face entrenched competition with better products and a market that is expected to contract by double digits.…

Just the team, not the tech Salesforce's Agentforce team is getting an infusion of new talent by hiring the team behind Clockwise, a calendar scheduling app, but the app itself isn't sticking around.…

It's not that nobody cares, its just people worried about the imminent end of the world are too shy to speak up.

Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts Whatever OS you run, you have a better chance to run non-native apps. Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up slightly, and so is running Windows apps on top of 64-bit Linux and macOS.…

SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone? NASA is reportedly considering using SpaceX's Starship to transport the Orion capsule to the Moon, with some sources calling it a done deal.…

The UK’s Covid Inquiry just published their third module report, and as per usual the headlines have become hyper focused on one paragraph out of four hundred pages (you can read the full report HERE). The claim, taken from the introduction by Baroness Hallett, is that the National Health Service “teetered on the brink of …

OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're lucky Microsoft has broken account sign-ins in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 with a recent update, causing error messages in apps like OneDrive and Office.…

Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new research A UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a watchlist database.…

Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, including traffic bursts topping 30 terabits per second.…

Lack of clear criteria risks encouraging firms to lean on state support instead of worrying about insurance The UK's cyber watchdog has warned that the government's £1.5 billion bailout of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) risks setting a troubling precedent for how Britain handles major cyber crises.…

Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controls A co-founder of Supermicro is among three people charged with diverting servers fitted with Nvidia GPUs worth $2.5 billion to Chinese customers in violation of US export controls.…

Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clause The UK government has promised a different approach to tech procurement following the award of controversial contracts to Palantir.…

Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks around Opinion  Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a price estimate - something it said was due to decisions yet to be taken on the scheme's scope - or how long the government would keep "audit trail" records of ID

Beats getting roasted on the mailing list AI is coming to the Linux kernel in the form of a code review system - not code submissions.…

He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USB On Call  Each Friday The Register offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…

‘Project Sunrise’ needs a network that doesn’t exist, a rocket that’s hardly flown, and FCC approval Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has applied to launch up to 51,600 datacenter satellites.…

Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck’s human mods couldn’t join the dots Meta has revealed it’s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than humans.…

Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to compete Chinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival products, but believes it can build a mutually optimized stack that makes performance gaps moot.…

From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kit GTC DEEP DIVE  At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang finally addressed a $20 billion question he’s dodged for months: Why spend so much to license AI chip startup Groq’s tech and hire away its engineers rather than build it themselves?…

Deal helps company build out its Codex team In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for its Codex programming agent.…

Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offline There is enough evidence going back far enough that it's reasonable to conclude social media platforms are responsible for population-level mental health harms. …

Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next? Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.…

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Since the US/Israel began their war – sorry, their “targeted, limited, combat operation” – hard facts have been hard to come by. In a more than usually cloudy combat narrative, we’ve been told that Iran is winning AND losing, depending who you ask. It’s a regime change war, but also it isn’t. Various Iranian officials …

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 war in Iran is having the impact that most people with any sense knew it would have: The price of oil is going up, and the supply of oil is going down. Of course, whether or not the latter of these is actually true we will never know, and it’s beside the point. Oil …

The Mars Colony was real, everyone knew that. The actors all knew it because it was in their non-disclosure agreements. The problem was that the radiation of the Van Allen belts and the interference of the asteroid field made any direct, real-time communication almost impossible. That’s what the set was for. And the costumes. The …

“One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it — it was the black kitten’s fault entirely.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Anyone who is not sick at heart and raging over the slaughter of over 165 young Iranian girls at a school by the American-Israeli monsters waging war on Iran is depraved and …

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 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 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? 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 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 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.

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 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 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.