Google is paying a higher price for its bet on AI than even Alphabet's $51.4 billion in Q3 capital expenditures suggest.The biz appears to have traded its high-performing search advertising business for the mediocre monetization of AI Overviews and...
Welcome to another instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column The Register publishes each Friday as a cathartic service for readers who know that dealing with tech support BS can be a cow of a job.This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as...
Amazon Web Services will become a trillion-dollar business in five to ten years, and thanks to the AI boom Amazon CEO Andy Jassy thinks it should be able to grow by 40 percent or more in 2027 or 2028.The cloud giant is already on track to generate $...
Crypto exchange Binance has paused trading after discovering unknown parties cracked one of its workers’ laptops and used it to make massive tradesLate on Thursday, US time, the company used its social media feeds to report “Our teams are aware of r...
Intel’s share price sank by almost a quarter on Thursday after the company revealed a deep dip in sales of PC processors.The rout began after the silicon-slinger posted Q3 results that included some nice numbers, such as a 21 percent year on year re...
Multiple vulnerabilities in five popular AI developer tools could allow attackers to execute code on a host machine, read and steal files, or spoof browser address bars. Researchers say flaws in OpenAI's Codex and Microsoft's VS Code remain unpatche...
If you want to ask AI a question and watch the conversation go up in virtual flames when you're done, there's a new Mac app for that.Howler is an open-source app from a Chinese developer going by Aries Zhou, and it takes incognito mode AI questions...
Curry Barker, the director behind the hit horror film Obsession, just published a new horror short on YouTube. The short, titled "Mama Bear," is nearly five minutes long. The video is pretty unnerving, and fair warning that it gets a little gra...
Vera Platforms, a startup founded by researchers at the University of Michigan, believes there's a way to make agents trustworthy enough to handle DevOps.DevOps, which focuses on how software gets deployed and operated, is a particularly unforgiving...
During Intel's latest earnings call, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that demand for its budget-focused Wildcat Lake chips "is outstripping supply." According to CFO David Zinsner, the chips are now sold out. Zinsner said Intel has "seen significant growth...
Popular for other uses, Rust isn't typically deployed for web development. That could change, however.With AI here to do the heavy lifting, coders may want to consider the programming language, given its runtime performance and safety guarantees, su...
Suspected Chinese attackers chained PHP2Shell with a Linux kernel privilege-escalation exploit to root 25 servers, including Palo Alto Networks firewalls linked to US government-affiliated organizations, according to Dream researchers.The snoops beg...
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in an earnings call today that Google's AI-powered search modes do not help with traffic to the platform, echoing problems facing other websites and publishers. As part of its Q3 2026 earnings, Reddit revealed that...
It's a few years behind schedule, but development has resumed on the desktop edition of Canonical's existing immutable IoT distro, Ubuntu Core.Engineering veep Jon Seager announced that Canonical is Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop on the company's...
America's national laboratories are leading a consortium to move advanced battery storage technologies from the lab into domestic manufacturing.Dubbed the Battery Manufacturing Accelerator, or BattMan (no, really), the initiative aims to bring tog...
Patrick Stewart, best known for his roles in Star Trek and X-Men, has died at age 86. A message posted to Stewart's Instagram account says the actor died in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday "following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheime...
Reddit is announcing a huge shift: It's going to start requiring users to log in.Right now, you can browse Reddit without having an account, and the site is generally a great resource for crowdsourced information on a whole range of topics. I k...
Rivian reported its third quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company's financial health as it ramps up production of its all-important R2 electric vehicle - which is now, for the first time, outselling all of Rivian's o...
A major US federal agency has repeatedly left sensitive information in its Google Drive accessible to employees and contractors who had no legitimate business need to see it, and auditors aren’t happy.The General Services Administration (GSA), which...
Oracle expects to earn more from existing application customers as it embeds AI in its enterprise software suite.Speaking at Big Red's investor day on Wednesday, Chris Leone, executive veep of application development, said Oracle will layer usage-ba...