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Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later

14 June 2026 @ 9:36 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

PLUS: Japan’s space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!

Claim: The Trump Administration is Shutting Out Climate Refugees

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

"... there’s little hope of a new system to help those forced from home by climate impacts ..." The post Claim: The Trump Administration is Shutting Out Climate Refugees appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

The Model That Works

14 June 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach at X, my own blog is here.) I’d like to take a moment to discuss some implications of my peer-reviewed paper about my implementation… The post The Model That Works appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

America the Unfree—Home of the Policed, Surveilled and Occupied

14 June 2026 @ 4:30 pm - OffGuardian

“I love the inflation.” Donald Trump, June 2026 I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody.” Donald Trump, May 2026 America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, …

US Army picks out Vampire to fill a gap in its layered drone defenses

14 June 2026 @ 2:00 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets

Too Much Wind and Too Much Sun

14 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

We are taking unprecedented risks with our electricity system, because those in charge of energy policy have no conception of how it works. The post Too Much Wind and Too Much Sun appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

14 June 2026 @ 12:30 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

From Java tests to Shai-Hulud, bots keep proving they'll swallow anything you feed them

EU sovereignty push gives tech buyers a new alphabet soup to swallow

14 June 2026 @ 9:15 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Brussels presses on despite US fury as it looks to enforce cloud autonomy and bolster open source

Open Thread

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

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

Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains

14 June 2026 @ 7:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

MPs told that while concerns over handsets and social media grows, evidence they're changing children's brains is limited

Why is the Financial Times Encouraging Parents to Make Their Children Anxious About Climate Change?

14 June 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

It’s not climate change that is the primary threat to the mental health and intellectual formation of young people in Britain and the West. It is the relentless, one-sided, empirically dishonest amplification of worst-case scenarios by institutions — newspapers, broadcasters, schools, government agencies — that ought to know better and once did. The post

America’s Energy Future Is Being Decided in Obscure Utility Commission Races

14 June 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Republicans, business leaders, and ratepayers should start paying attention. The decisions made by these commissions will shape the affordability, reliability, resilience, and economic competitiveness of the American economy for decades to come. The post America’s Energy Future Is Being Decided in Obscure Utility Commission Races appeared first on

The History of Greenpeace: The Evolution of Green Extremism

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

The era of unchecked “activism” that masks itself as science while practicing inhumane sabotage is reaching its end. We are witnessing the slow, painful process of reality catching up to the Greenpeace propaganda. And frankly, it’s about time. The post The History of Greenpeace: The Evolution of Green Extremism appeared first on Wa

Unverified and Unvalidated

13 June 2026 @ 5:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) Dear friends, pull up a chair and pour a good strong coffee. Because today’s topic is a… The post Unverified and Unvalidated appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Normal Reich

13 June 2026 @ 2:00 pm - OffGuardian

So the German Supreme Court has ruled on my case. Their ruling is that they will not rule on my case. They sent my attorney a letter to that effect. It literally says: The constitutional complaint will not be accepted for a ruling. No explanation is provided. This ruling is incontestable.” So I am now …

World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs

13 June 2026 @ 1:30 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Spoiler: It doesn't end well for Team Register

Africa’s nuclear future is small (modular reactors)

13 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Rwandan President Paul Kagame may well be Africa’s foremost nuclear energy champion. Speaking in Paris at Nuclear Energy Summit 2026, Kagame said Rwanda is determined to do what it takes to power its development with nuclear energy. This, he said, will require strong institutions, sound regulation, and an educated workforce – all of which Rwanda is building. The post Africa’s nuclea

AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking

13 June 2026 @ 11:00 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Honey, I flattened the datacenter network

NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can

13 June 2026 @ 9:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Minister says trusts can go it alone on procurement as Parliament mulls February 2027 FDP contract renewal

Plankton Production Same As 20 Years Before–Climate Scientists Panic!

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

Yet another junk study, which would not see the light of day in any other branch of science: The post Plankton Production Same As 20 Years Before–Climate Scientists Panic! appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

XP-era Windows spotted haunting London's driverless railway

13 June 2026 @ 8:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

A blast from the past greets commuters

Climate Alarmism’s Reset And The Policy Reckoning It Demands

13 June 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

This moment offers developing nations a rare opportunity to reclaim energy sovereignty. They can accelerate fossil-fuel development where it makes economic sense, integrate newer technologies where they prove competitive, and reject any framework that treats affordable energy as a luxury. The post Climate Alarmism’s Reset And The Policy Reckoning It Demands appeared first

Wrong, ScienceAlert: Sea Level ‘Acceleration’ Isn’t What the Measured Data Show

13 June 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Sea level is rising; it has been for generations. The key question is whether it is accelerating in a way that justifies claims of looming crisis. The longest, most reliable measurements say no. ScienceAlert failed to look at all the science available, and in the process, created a biased and false article. The post Wrong, ScienceAlert: Sea Level ‘Acceleration�

NanoClaw now armed with JFrog for safer packages

12 June 2026 @ 11:07 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

AI agents can't be trusted, so don't give them dangerous powers

SK Hynix to boost memory production 3x ... you can wait another 8 years, right?

12 June 2026 @ 9:05 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

We're moving as fast as we can, says SK Group chair

Piketty’s Eco-Marxist Utopia: Why Degrowth and Global Redistribution Will Trap the Poor in Poverty

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

The world's poor deserve better than another utopia designed for them by the globalist intelligentsia. They deserve cheap energy, open markets, secure property rights, and the freedom to industrialise on terms they choose for themselves. That is what worked in East Asia. It is what will work in South Asia, Africa and Latin America. And it is precisely what the Global Justice Report, for all its mathematical sophistication, conspicuously fails to offer. The post

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

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

GitHub caught off guard by customers actually using the AI being evangelized

MX Linux 25.2 provides possible refuge from AI as well as systemd

12 June 2026 @ 7:10 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Plus, Raspberry Pi edition finally catches up

Fired IT worker jailed for 21 months after sabotaging old school district

12 June 2026 @ 6:21 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Iowan’s scheme undone after misplacing trust in former coworker

Everyone Wants Affordable Energy. Nobody Wants to Cut the Ribbon.

12 June 2026 @ 6:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Leadership matters in developing energy projects. Following the 2025 inauguration of the President Donald Trump, five pipeline projects, including Constitution, were revived in the Northeast, after years of being stalled by political hostility, according to an S&P Global analysis. Outside the region, 10 projects received federal or state approvals. The post Everyone W

Live at 1 PM ET: Godzilla El Niño is Coming! — The Climate Realism Show #205

12 June 2026 @ 4:40 pm - Watts Up With That?

Ocean temps are rising in the tropical Pacific Ocean, a natural and regular phenomenon called El Niño. Climate modelers say this year's could be one of the biggest ever, and some have nicknamed it "Godzilla El Niño!" That's a fun name, but what can we expect in this El Niño cycle? The Climate Realism Show's Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Jim Lakely, and special guest Lois Perry will talk about that. The post

KPMG's AI report becomes an accidental demo of AI hallucinations

12 June 2026 @ 3:38 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

GPTZero claims only 5 of the report's 45 citations matched their sources, raising questions about how the Big Four's AI study was assembled

WATCH: Israel Caught Spying on US!

12 June 2026 @ 3:00 pm - OffGuardian

Do you know the documented history of decades of illegal Israeli government spying on Washington? Do you know who was involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that stole America’s nuclear secrets to build Israel’s illegal and still undeclared nuclear arsenal? Do you know about Unit 8200 and the inescapable web of cyber spying operations that …

Novo Nordisk reports cyberattack as UK gives Wegovy pill the nod

12 June 2026 @ 1:54 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Clinical trial participant data stolen, but pharma giant says exposed records were pseudonymized

Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year

12 June 2026 @ 1:08 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage

Microsoft has mostly repaired flaw in Surface hardware that allowed unprotected devices to be bricked by a single packet

12 June 2026 @ 1:05 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

And it was Microsoft Copilot that unwittingly revealed the longstanding vulnerability

Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters A Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot

12 June 2026 @ 1:00 pm - Watts Up With That?

Department of the Interior Press Secretary Charlotte Taylor told the DCNF in June 2025 that E&E News is a “desperate outlet” that solely reports on “leaks from government agencies and even high school newspapers have a bigger readership.” The post Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters A Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot ap

Google fires sueball at alleged Chinese phishers over AI-powered fraud ops

12 June 2026 @ 12:14 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands

Elon Musk is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000

12 June 2026 @ 11:38 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Retail investors lined up to get a handful of Musk's magic beans in SpaceX's debut

Met Police boss threatens to cut 700 frontline jobs after Palantir deal blocked

12 June 2026 @ 10:51 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Commissioner Mark Rowley says automation savings are now 'at risk'

Plymouth council exposes hundreds in latest local government email gaffe

12 June 2026 @ 10:32 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Authority admits mass message to home-schooling families revealed recipients' addresses, prompting ICO report and apology

UK digital ID gets brain trust to 'challenge' ministers on policy

12 June 2026 @ 10:13 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

CEO of Mumsnet among the six-member team

BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder

12 June 2026 @ 9:17 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Mission Control sends its regards

Crackpot Christians Worried About GB News!

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

The Guardian headline refers to “Christian leaders”. In fact, Operation Noah is nothing of the sort, it is just a small charity (their own description"), and do not reflect the policies and beliefs of the C of E. The post Crackpot Christians Worried About GB News! appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Windows bowls a BSOD at sports fans

12 June 2026 @ 8:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

It's just not cricket

Delos Data offers AI chip startups a fast track to rack scale

12 June 2026 @ 7:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Half the trouble of building an Nvidia NVL or AMD Helios competitor is just getting the networking out of the box

This is your BIOS speaking. Please fix me. Your PC is broken

12 June 2026 @ 6:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Casual IT team learns that building bespoke PCs can be a false economy

ISS Leak Scare Underscores Why NASA Is Ready to Send the Aging Outpost to a Fiery End

12 June 2026 @ 5:00 am - Watts Up With That?

Five astronauts ordered to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours as Russian crew attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory, The post ISS Leak Scare Underscores Why NASA Is Ready to Send the Aging Outpost to a Fiery End appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Two costly Endangered Species Act permitting boondoggles

12 June 2026 @ 1:00 am - Watts Up With That?

The public, landowners, and Congress need to know what Endangered Species Act development permitting actually requires in labor and cost. The post Two costly Endangered Species Act permitting boondoggles appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Claude is ready for its corporate close-up

11 June 2026 @ 10:43 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

IDC says recent moves show Anthropic racing to meet enterprise requirements

About That Climate Emotions Study

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

The 966 Germans were asked how they felt. They told them. The feelings went into the model, the model made numbers, the numbers went into the journal, and everyone got paid, the survey panel included. And that, as far as I can tell, is the rest of the story. The post About That Climate Emotions Study appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

Everyone hates frontier AI labs, says Palantir boss

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

'Enterprises are fed up,' says Alex Karp, because LLM makers 'want to tokenmax' instead of understanding enterprise needs

Anthropic recruits army to sell Claude to nonprofits

11 June 2026 @ 7:29 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Join Claude Corps, see the world, spread the gospel of AI

ShinyHunters hacked 100+ orgs by exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-day

11 June 2026 @ 7:01 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

University of Nottingham is first of many, Shiny tells The Reg

Google's new open-weights model brings image-generation tricks to AI text generation

11 June 2026 @ 6:31 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Language model builds on diffusion tech to boost output performance by up to 4x, claims Chocolate Factory

Microsoft's worst 'Nightmare' unleashes BitLocker bypass 0-day

11 June 2026 @ 5:51 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Another day, another Windows exploit code

Hand-cranked AI box lets you get a workout while you wait for answers

11 June 2026 @ 5:21 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

We're all familiar with AI cranks by now, but what about crank-powered AIs?

Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips'

11 June 2026 @ 4:54 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths

ZTE wins three Selular Award 2026 honors for AI-powered network innovation

11 June 2026 @ 4:45 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

PARTNER CONTENT: Recognized for breakthrough achievements in FWA, Network Ecosystem, and Native AI Baseband, ZTE solidifies its role as a key driver of Indonesia’s 5G-Advanced and AI economic growth

Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts

11 June 2026 @ 4:13 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

iFixit teardown reveals two-year-old, mid-range, Chinese Android

VRChat says somebody faked a breach notice with the Maine AG's office

11 June 2026 @ 4:01 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

'We have no reason to believe that our data or systems have been compromised. We are in the process of contacting the Maine Attorney General's office to have this removed.'

Cost per sample? Try cost per attempt

11 June 2026 @ 3:53 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

PARTNER CONTENT Your genomics pipeline is probably failing 30% of the time and you're paying for all of it

Apple gives Mac devs a WSL-ish thing to call their own

11 June 2026 @ 3:46 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Persistent containers promise native tooling and strong isolation, though docs, features, and memory handling need polish

Race against re-entry: Swift's would-be saviour straps itself to a rocket

11 June 2026 @ 3:28 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is go for integration, with a launch from Kwajalein expected within weeks

Apple version of Office 2019 becomes useless in a month

11 June 2026 @ 2:32 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

The only solution is to buy an upgrade (or switch providers)

Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend

11 June 2026 @ 1:26 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Satnav parts designed and manufactured in the EU, but using GlobalFoundries to produce them

OpenAI could go from AI pioneer to AI's BlackBerry, says Forrester

11 June 2026 @ 12:57 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

As OpenAI courts investors and chases enterprise customers, Forrester says today's AI leader could become tomorrow's cautionary tale

Oracle's AI datacenter splurge gives investors the capex jitters

11 June 2026 @ 12:40 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Q4 sales climbed 21%, but Wall Street more interested in $70B buildout bill

Met Police joins forces with Apple to choke London's stolen phone trade

11 June 2026 @ 12:27 pm - www.theregister.com - Articles

Intelligence-sharing pact tracks kit that comes back online after being nicked

Forget About ‘Healthy Life’

11 June 2026 @ 11:00 am - OffGuardian

It has been reported that ‘healthy life expectancy’ in the UK has fallen during the past decade. Disparity between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in different regions of the UK has been described. A 20-year gap between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Richmond and the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Blackpool …

Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day

11 June 2026 @ 10:30 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection

NS&I dangles £220K salary for CEO willing to straighten out £3B IT mess

11 June 2026 @ 10:09 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Comes with a corner office, government scrutiny, and the 'full-spectrum disaster' known as Project Rainbow

Nottingham Uni says student records raided after ShinyHunters claims cyberattack

11 June 2026 @ 9:20 am - www.theregister.com - Articles

Crooks claim 40 GB haul as breach database pegs number of exposed email addresses at 455K

UK Treasury still deciding whether to show up to £1.7B ERP program it agreed to fund

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

Move from Oracle put back until December following delays to Workday rollout

Quick Take…The (Well-Timed) Belfast Riots

10 June 2026 @ 5:00 pm - OffGuardian

On Monday night, a Sudanese immigrant allegedly attacked a man on the streets of Belfast in an attempt to decapitate him. Bystanders intervened, as the story goes, the attack was stopped and the victim – named as one Stephen Ogilvie – survived having suffered severe injuries, including the loss of his left eye. He’s reportedly …

“Device-Level” Nudity Detection: UK Gov’t Blackmailing Public into Digital ID

8 June 2026 @ 5:30 pm - OffGuardian

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced plans, in a speech earlier today, to introduce “device-level controls” that will prevent children from viewing, sending or taking naked photographs: This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online. Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent …

Quick Take…what’s up with CBDCs?

7 June 2026 @ 4:00 pm - OffGuardian

Have you seen a mainstream headline about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) so far this year? Probably not. What used to be a regular on the front page has been curiously absent. What stories there are have been tucked away, and the tone is decidedly changed: Is a digital euro necessary for monetary sovereignty? Rethinking …

Vanishing

6 June 2026 @ 6:30 pm - OffGuardian

Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where old wooden structures had been abandoned years before and lay forlorn. But they drew us to them. Old names on walls, here and there a small plaque …

Faking “Water Bankruptcy” Part 1: Data Centres

5 June 2026 @ 8:30 pm - OffGuardian

We are currently witnessing the birth of a new psy-op targeting our most vital natural resource – water. And in the coming series of articles we’ll be breaking down every aspect of this emerging agenda. The chosen label for this new fear-as-control exercise is “water bankruptcy” . It’s a name originating in a UN report …

The UK Column Conundrum

1 June 2026 @ 8:52 pm - Iain Davis

UK Column, one of the UK's leading independent media outlets, says it is under attack by other independent media journalists. It has strongly defended itself. But what is really behind the unseemly spat? The post The UK Column Conundrum appeared first on Iain Davis.

The Beautiful Multipolar New World Order

18 May 2026 @ 10:16 am - Iain Davis

The beautiful multipolar world order is imminent according to BRICS foreign ministers. But is it actually that attractive? Read here for some musing on the subject. The post The Beautiful Multipolar New World Order appeared first on Iain Davis.

Jerm Warfare & Iain Davis on Multipolarity

16 May 2026 @ 9:28 am - Iain Davis

Multipolarity: What is it and what are the issues? Jerm Warfare (Jeremy Nell) and Iain Davis discuss the multipolar world order. The post Jerm Warfare & Iain Davis on Multipolarity appeared first on Iain Davis.

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.