Cyberattacks on both Russia’s and Ukraine’s emergency alert apps resulted in fake messages about missile and nuclear strikes broadcast to the public.Officials from both countries confirmed the attacks, which occurred at similar times, on Sunday even...
Microsoft has discovered once again that few things strike fear into the heart of a software engineer quite like a government deciding to fiddle with the clocks.Parts of Canada stopped observing seasonal clock changes on November 1, leaving affected...
The cyberattacks on commercial refrigerators and freezers in Europe continue, as a slew of grocery stores in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, and Sweden report widespread food wastage as a result of miscreants raising the temperatures to highs of 50ºC...
It's official: Anthropic is going public, and boy, are our eyebrows tired from poring over hundreds and hundreds of pages of questionable claims.You can listen to the latest episode of The Kettle right here on this page, as well as on Spotify,Apple...
In the past, knowing how to code and design were essential for creating a website. This meant businesses either had to outsource, spend time and money on training, or create a plain website that realistically didn’t best represent their brand....
The FBI has blamed North Korean hackers for the record-breaking $6.3 billion theft from cryptocurrency exchange Binance, pointing the finger at the notorious Lazarus Group as the exchange scrambles to replace stolen funds and reassure customers.In a...
From the department of "pointless but still cool" comes word of some kit being repurposed as a terminal for AI agents.AWS developer advocate Darko Mesaroš has connected a teletype to a modern command-line interface to revel in the delight of interac...
Capitalism can seem so perverse. Take Microsoft, which is celebrating record financial performance by inviting 60,000 employees to consider continuing their careers outside the company. Voluntary redundancy may seem to make sense when a company's ru...
Patti Zirhut, a lifelong Republican, has been studying her ballot for weeks. Zirhut eagerly voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024, but she isn't toeing the party line this year. "My ballot is all mixed up," she says. She's vo...
Comedian/actor Druski is seen during MLB All-Star Week on July 13th, 2026, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo / GC Images Netflix today announced a multiyear deal with the YouTuber, comedian, and influencer Druski,...
As robotaxis continue trials in London, an independent research group thinks the UK needs to answer some serious questions before heading any further down the road. To kick off, the sovereignty question, or "Will Britain become dependent on autonomo...
The Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB of RAM now costs $385 after an $80 price hike, the latest in a string of increases driven by the ongoing RAM shortage. This configuration launched at $120 and now costs more than triple that price. The 16GB versions...
SpaceX has discussed a deal with Boost Mobile to launch its own service through the budget-friendly carrier, according to a report from The Washington Post. The deal, which comes as SpaceX aims to make Starlink a "major" mobile carrier, reporte...
Nanjing Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (NISCO) has worked with Huawei and ecosystem partners to commercially deploy the world's first steel model powered by swarm intelligence - the YuanYe Steel Large Model (YuanYe) - across multiple scenarios at scale....
Canva is giving digital creatives a new way to design, illustrate, and edit photos on their iPads, and it doesn't have to cost them a thing. After relaunching the Affinity creative suite as an all-in-one desktop app last year, Canva has now int...
Employees at an ICA Kvantum supermarket in Sjoebo, Sweden, unload spoiled food from the freezer units. | Image: Johan Nilsson / TT News Agency / AFP via Getty Images Grocery stores across Europe have been hit by another wave of suspected cyber...
Welcome to Monday morning, an occasion The Register marks with a new instalment of "Who, Me?" It's our reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace mistakes and share your escapes from subsequent scrapes.This week, meet a reader we'll...
A designer named Marcin Wichary has revealed the story of how he freaked out a decent slab of the world’s Firefox-using population with Pac-Man.Wichary has held senior design roles at Figma, Medium, and Google. As he wrote here, in 2010 Google decid...
As debate and legal argument continue over the extent to which developers of large language models are entitled to feed the world’s data into their systems without paying for it, India’s government has come up with an idea to regulate and secure the...
Google has revealed some of its Asian customers – almost certainly Chinese e-tailers – are buying fewer ads.Speaking on Alphabet’s Q3 earnings call last week, chief business officer Philipp Schindler addressed the slowdown in ad sales growth with th...