We’re still over a month away from the premiere of season three, but Paramount has announced that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is getting a fifth season — and that it will be its last. While Strange New Worlds’ first four seasons are (or will be) all ten episodes long, the fifth will run for […]
The PCIe 7.0 specification has now been released, while many of us are still waiting for PCIe 6.0 to materialize in consumer products. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) announced on Wednesday that PCIe 7.0 is now available to members of its organization, delivering a theoretical maximum bandwidth speed of 512GB per second in both […]
It was one of the offenders' final warning
Four staffers at the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) were let off with warnings over separate cases involving the transmission of regulator data to their personal email accounts.…
Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop
On Call By Friday morning, Reg readers’ batteries can sometimes be a little low, which is why we always use the day to offer a jolt of amusement in the form of On Call – the reader contributed column in which we celebrate the lows and lows of tech support.…
STEP sucked up £220 million in 2022, and it's still not apparent what that accomplished
The UK government has just allocated another £2.5 billion to an ambitious fusion energy project without any indication it's progressed much beyond the planning stages.…
Alleges dirty PR campaign to slur its tech
China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies has accused rival chipmaker Micron of defamation through a campaign to publish nasty stories and reports about it.…
Meta is paying $14.3 billion to acquire 49 percent of Scale AI and hire its CEO, Alexandr Wang, to revamp its troubled AI efforts. As part of the deal, Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and remain on Scale's board of directors, both companies announced on Thursday. Sources say Wang will lead […]
Mattel-OpenAI deal paves the way for an AI beach-off
Toy giant Mattel has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the tech industry's buzziest technology to the very youngest generation.…
Good news: The vendor patched the flaw in January. Bad news: Not everyone got the memo
Ransomware criminals infected a utility billing software providers' customers, and in some cases disrupted services, after exploiting unpatched versions of SimpleHelp’s remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, according to a Thursday CISA alert.…
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford commencement speech, and the Steve Jobs Archive has marked the occasion by uploading an HD version of the speech, publishing notes Jobs emailed to himself, and sharing details about the leadup to the speech. You can see everything on a page on the Steve Jobs […]
There’s finally some good news for anyone battling multiple Thread networks while using Matter devices in their smart home — as long as you’re the patient type. According to Matter Alpha, the tvOS 26 beta announced at WWDC this week adds Thread 1.4 to Apple TVs. And, as Apple’s smart speakers use a fork of […]
Only while parked
Apple is enabling video playback on its CarPlay automotive operating system and has integrated it into iOS 26, as long as you're parked.…
Baby got Blackwell GPUs
Google Cloud on Wednesday celebrated the debut of virtual machines incorporating Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPU technology, claiming to be the first cloud provider to sell this particular offering.…
Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast-sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer distractions and less eye strain, and many include extra features, like adjustable frontlighting. Some really are pocketable. Others are waterproof […]
President Donald Trump's warning that protesters of Saturday's US military parade in Washington, DC, will be met with "very heavy force" threatens to chill speech and underscores the need for protesters to take precautions around digital surveillance, privacy advocates tell The Verge. In remarks from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump did not distinguish between […]
Apple is aiming to launch the upgraded Siri that it originally previewed at WWDC 2024 in spring 2026 with iOS 26.4, according to Bloomberg. At WWDC last year, Apple showed off how Siri would be able to do things like understand your personal context or take actions based on what’s on your screen. But in […]
If you’ve been on social media lately, you might’ve seen the unsettling AI slop videos showing AI-generated people in wild scenarios or just speaking a bunch of nonsense. On Wednesday night, the betting platform Kalshi decided to take this trend outside the social sphere by putting a nonsensical AI-generated ad in front of the millions […]
Father's Day rules. It's a day to celebrate all that dads have contributed to the people, homes, and communities that they're a part of. Being a dad is a lot of work - something I can vouch for, being a relatively new one myself - so for Father's Day, why not give dear old dad […]
The DoD has ignored many past recommendations
US government auditors have been trying to whip the Pentagon's IT programs into shape for half a decade, and the latest report suggests it continues to be an uphill battle. …
Despite 'multiple enforcement actions,' Joy Timeline HK allegedly wouldn't stop
Meta has sued an app maker for advertising on Facebook and Instagram a so-called "nudify" app that uses AI to generate nude and sexually explicit images and videos of individuals without their consent.…
Bose has announced upgraded QuietComfort Ultra wireless earbuds with better adaptive ANC that can more smoothly adapt to sudden spikes in noise. The QuietComfort Ultra (2nd Gen) are expected to be available through Bose’s online store starting later this summer for $299 in black, white smoke, and deep plum color options. The new earbuds carry […]
On Thursday afternoon, many people with smart home setups connected to Google Home / Nest, or who are trying to stream music on Spotify, started coming up empty. All I got when I tried to open the Spotify website was a message that says “Audiences in Jwt are not allowed,” and opening the app also […]
Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain
Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.…
Living with colorblindness feels like you're constantly being pranked by the world in subtle, irritating ways. The other day, I was booking a flight on Kayak, trying to figure out which dates are the cheapest by looking at their low fare calendar. See any issues? Oh, sorry - that's what it looks like to me. […]
Aircraft didn't even get its wheels up before sinking into suburban area
A Boeing 787 flying from India to London's Gatwick airport has crashed, leaving one reported survivor among the 242 people aboard.…
Meta’s geothermal ambitions are growing with a new agreement to support projects in New Mexico. It announced the deal with XGS Energy today, a company developing next-generation geothermal technologies that make it possible to use this energy source in places where it was unfeasible before. The plan is to add 150 megawatts of carbon pollution-free […]
These days, we are all dealing with huge amounts of information, from meeting notes to social media, to photos and videos, to whatever else we've collected - and we are all trying to find some way to store it, organize it, and find it when we need it. If you want to get really basic, […]
University collab underscores pivot to Asia amid unpredictable US policy
TSMC has opened a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo in Japan, the company's first such collaboration with an academic institute outside of Taiwan, amid ongoing concerns over the Trump administration's attitude to foreign tech firms.…
Influencers on affiliate shopping platform LTK may soon get access to a huge new audience: Pinterest users. Under a new partnership announced today, high-performing image posts on LTK will automatically be cross-posted to Pinterest; the pilot program is expected to expand in the coming months to more creators and content formats. LTK is a huge […]
Apple announcing Android features years after Google shipped them is a tale as old as time, but that doesn't make it any less fun to point out whenever it happens. This year's WWDC felt especially Android-y - not helped by Siri essentially sitting this year's announcements out while Apple put its new Liquid Glass design […]
Who'd have thunk? The bigger the iron, the more efficient it gets
With Moore's Law on its last legs and datacenter power consumption a growing concern, AMD is embarking on an ambitious new goal to boost the energy efficiency of its chips 20-fold before 2030. And it sees rack-scale architectures as a key design point to get there.…
House of Zen's biggest iron yet boasts 72 MI400 GPUs, 260 TBps of UALink bandwidth, and 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4
AMD offered its best look yet at the rack-scale architecture that'll underpin its MI400-series GPUs in 2026 at its Advancing AI event in San Jose on Thursday.…
Garmin announced the $799 Venu X1 fitness watch today. It offers a 2-inch square AMOLED screen and seems like a shot at the Apple Watch Ultra 2, given its similar square design and titanium body, even though the company’s other watches already offer similar features to Apple’s flagship wearable. It’s sort of like a square […]
And for its next trick, DC Studios is expanding its new cinematic universe with a series focused on Mister Miracle. During its presentation at this year’s Annecy Film Festival, DC studios announced it is producing an adult animated Mister Miracle series that will be showrun and executive produced by comics writer Tom King. Based on […]
Few brands are as synonymous with outdoor sports as Garmin. You’ll find these fitness trackers and smartwatches on dozens of wrists at any 5K, marathon, or Ironman. You’ll also find Garmin devotees among divers, thru-hikers, golfers, kiteboarders — you name it. But these devices aren’t just for athletes. The company’s made significant strides in its […]
Another one bites the dust at America's top cybersecurity agency
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has lost another senior leader: executive director Bridget Bean departed on Wednesday.…
I love finding deals on devices that pull double duty, as it feels like it’s stretching my dollar even further. That’s why Google’s discounted TV Streamer (4K) caught my attention this week. It’s not just a powerful streaming device but also a great smart home hub — one you can currently grab from Amazon, Walmart, […]
Reddit is introducing some new features for comments, including the ability to share comments as posts, a comment insights tool to track things like upvotes and views, and comment drafts, according to a post from the Reddit product team. The features are rolling out today on Reddit’s native apps and on the web, and the […]
If you've been waiting for a chance to get your hands on Nintendo's GameCube Controller for the Switch 2, now's your moment. It's back in stock for $64.99 from the My Nintendo Store website. As before, it's only available to Nintendo Switch Online members, and it's made to play GameCube titles available through the Switch […]
Weather and propulsion system problems conspire to keep astronauts away from the ISS
The Axiom-4 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been held up by a liquid oxygen leak in the Falcon 9's first stage.…
Nintendo's Switch 2 is faster, more powerful, and all around better than its predecessor in just about every way. It's also bigger than the OG Switch. But, like, how much bigger? Okay, sure, we can check the specs and see that the Switch 2 is half an inch (12.7mm) taller and 1.2 inches (30.48mm) wider […]
And the House of Zen wants to put 128 of them in your rack
Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators have been on the market for just over six months, and AMD says it's already achieved performance parity with the launch of its MI350-series GPUs on Thursday.…
New front-of-the-meter agreement avoids direct delivery snag that drew regulator pushback
Amazon has amended its deal with Talen Energy to buy power for a Pennsylvania datacenter from an adjacent nuclear power plant after regulators raised their eyebrows at the original deal.…
Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported session
Like any other distro with GNOME 49, the next interim release of Ubuntu will be Wayland-only – at least in its GNOME variant.…
Apple’s days of blocking you from watching video through CarPlay appear to be coming to an end. The upcoming iOS26 update will allow people to project video from their phones onto the center display of their vehicle through AirPlay. This will enable users to “watch their favorite videos from iPhone right on their CarPlay display […]
Get ready for more Silent Hill. As part of its Press Start online presentation on Thursday, Konami announced that it’s remaking the original Silent Hill in partnership with Bloober Team, the studio that developed last year’s well-received Silent Hill 2 remake. Konami didn’t share any more details beyond that the game is in development; the […]
Instagram is making it easier for users to express themselves through music, reels, and posts. A feature rolling out today allows users to automatically share the name and artist of the Spotify song they’re currently listening to in their Instagram Notes — the temporary status updates that appear above profile pictures in Instagram DMs. Instagram […]
Microsoft is launching Copilot Vision for Windows today, an extension of its AI assistant that lets you share your screen or apps so that Copilot can do things like coach you through using Adobe Photoshop features or analyze the photos and webpages you’re looking at. “When you choose to enable it, Copilot Vision can see […]
I feel like a broken record, but I've been writing for more than a year that the next Xbox console will be more PC-like. Now, I think Microsoft just teased its next-gen Xbox plans while announcing its partnership with Asus to bring two Xbox Ally handhelds to the market later this year. The Xbox Ally […]
DRIVE stack promises safer roads and smarter cars – eventually
GTC Paris Nvidia has officially rolled out its autonomous vehicle (AV) software, despite telling a UK car mag that fully self-driving vehicles are not likely before the next decade.…
Steam's June 2025 edition of its Next Fest is going on now through June 16th, and the event is packed with great-looking demos for games coming to PC. Seriously, it seems like there are a lot of demos; a search filter on my Next Fest homepage shows more than 2,500 English demos to pick from. […]
Anker has issued a recall for its PowerCore 10000 power bank (model A1263) due to a “potential issue with the lithium-ion battery” that could pose a fire safety risk. The company has received 19 reports of fires and explosions that have caused minor burn injuries and resulted in property damage totaling over $60,700, according to […]
Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. It says its new, experimental AI-based model for forecasting […]
The iPad Mini is no longer the biggest tablet you can fit into a mobile gaming controller (without breaking it a little). Razer’s new $199.99 Kishi V3 Pro XL can accommodate a 13-inch iPad or Android tablet that uses a USB-C connector. It’s like Razer’s 2013 Edge, in spirit at least. My 10.9-inch iPad Air […]
John Deere will have to fight the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit, which accuses the company of increasing repair costs by making farmers use its network of authorized dealers to fix their equipment, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a ruling on Monday, Illinois US District Court Judge Iain D. Johnston rejected John Deere’s attempt […]
Discounts have been tough to find on the 11-inch iPad Air with the M3 chip (the 2025 model), but there’s a good one happening on every color available at Amazon and Best Buy. Normally $599, the 128GB tablet is available for $499 — a price that it has sold for just once before in late […]
Time to stop giving cold storage the cold shoulder
Feature The future of archival data storage is tape, more tape, and then possibly glass-based tech, with DNA and other molecular tech still a distant prospect.…
Competition Appeals Tribunal gives nod for claim to go to trial
A billion-pound legal action against Google over Play Store fees can proceed to trial.…
Snapchat has launched a new subscription tier that offers access to a wider selection of lenses and augmented-reality experiences. The Lens Plus subscription costs $8.99 per month and will include lenses made by Snapchat and “select” creators to start, such as an exclusive AI-powered video lens and a Bitmoji game lens. Along with access to […]
Tubi‘s next move to expand its streaming catalog sounds like a win for the indie movie set. Today, Tubi (which is owned by Fox) announced that it is partnering with Kickstarter to distribute a number of films funded on the crowdfunding platform. Beginning this fall, more than 20 movies “that uniquely resonate with Tubi fandoms” […]
Xgimi is sticking batteries into the latest versions of its compact MoGo projectors, making them even more portable since you no longer need to bring an extra power bank if you don’t have access to an outlet. Both the MoGo 4 and MoGo 4 Laser are supposed to have enough built-in power to watch a […]
The US taxpayer is going to be on the hook for all the soldiers, tanks, and planes that appear in Donald Trump's military parade. But several major tech companies are paying for the festivities along the parade route. According to recent statements from America250, Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir are some of the […]
Meta is suing a company that advertised generative AI apps on its social media platforms that enable users to “nudify” people without their consent. The lawsuit against Joy Timeline comes after hundreds of ads for the digital undressing apps were discovered on Meta’s Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and Threads platforms by a CBS News investigation published […]
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Between a borrowing rock and a fiscal hard place, Labour chases efficiency
In the UK's first multi-year Spending Review since 2021, the government has announced £10 billion ($14 billion) in NHS technology and digital transformation by 2028-29, an increase of nearly 50 percent on the current financial year.…
And why supporting quantum computing is easier than supporting a 1MW rack
Interview When the great and the good of the datacenter world got together in Cannes last week for Datacloud Global Congress, storage was barely mentioned, with shortages of GPUs, power and land the key talking points.…
Rolling across rugged alien wilds, your circular base in The Alters offers a twinkling haven from the whipping winds and nauseating radiation. At least, that's how it feels for the first few hours. Gradually, as the in-game days stack up, my view of the vessel changes: protagonist Jan Dolski seems to be stuck on what […]
Incident responders suggested sweeping improvements following Active Directory database heist
Exclusive Cybercriminals broke into systems belonging to the UK's NHS Professionals body in May 2024, stealing its Active Directory database, but the healthcare organization never publicly disclosed it, The Register can reveal.…
A survey from AI biz Qodo finds robo-coding productivity gains are unevenly distributed
Exclusive Software developers largely appreciate the productivity improvements they get from AI coding tools, but they don't entirely trust their output, according to a survey conducted by AI coding biz Qodo.…
Fujifilm is announcing the X-E5, a new $1,699.95 mirrorless camera due out in August. It has a 40-megapixel sensor, a new control lever on its front, a classic EVF mode with old-school frame lines, and of course a bunch of analog-inspired film simulations. It’s yet another retro-looking mirrorless from Fujifilm, but it’s one of the […]
Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions
The UK government has disclosed plans for the country's most powerful supercomputer to be built in Edinburgh – less than a year after cancelling an identical plan.…
Promised way back in June 2024, the Moto Tag location tracker is finally rolling out UWB support via a firmware update. That makes it the first tracker on Google’s Find Hub network to support ultra-wideband tracking, which is superior to Bluetooth since it uses distance and directional arrows to guide owners with compatible phones to […]
UC San Diego hopes humans spend less time fighting fires, more time repelling 'exquisite' attacks from abroad that researchers accidentally invited
Cisco Live Experienced IT professionals should share their experience so their employers can create digital twins and AI agents that do parts of their own jobs, to relieve them of repetitive work and after-hours troubleshooting chores.…
Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them
Occupants of planet Earth can’t see the Sun’s poles – unless they look at images the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has just sent home.…
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has already used AI to replace himself during earnings reports, and now Klarna is using AI to clone him another way: through an AI-powered phone hotline. The hotline is now open for users to provide feedback to an interactive AI version of Siemiatkowski that’s trained on his “real voice, insights, and […]
Big Red hails growth from ‘astronomical and ‘insatiable’ demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth
Oracle has surfed demand for cloud services to post revenues that beat its own forecast, fuelled by demand for non-AI cloud services.…
'BrowserVenom' is pure poison
Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom".…
Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools
Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process.…
Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance
US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair its own gear, and will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a fight.…
Apple’s smart home didn’t get a single nod during the WWDC keynote, but it turns out there are some interesting developments coming to the Home app around energy management. In a video posted to the Apple developer site this week, the company outlined its new EnergyKit framework, which allows developers to integrate energy data from […]
Earlier this year, Google shipped a Pixel 4A update to some owners that lowered battery life to mitigate overheating risk, and soon, it’s going to do the same for the Pixel 6A. “A subset of Pixel 6A phones will require a mandatory software update to reduce the risk of potential battery overheating,” Google’s Alex Moriconi […]
The Nintendo Switch 2 is here, but we can’t just forget about the original Switch. We’ve still got love for the console, and its many millions of owners, so we’ll keep recommending the best controllers for the Switch right here. Now, you may already know that the best Switch controllers aren’t the ones that come […]
Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic
DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing the risk of PTSD.…
Everything is AWESOME!!!
OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out its o3-Pro model for ChatGPT Pro and Teams subscribers, slashed o3 pricing by 80 percent, and dropped a blog post from CEO Sam Altman teasing "intelligence too cheap to meter."…
Every morning, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez says she checks her email "to see if I'm going into work." At a time when the federal workforce has been slashed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Gomez's job appears to be one of the most precarious in the US government. She's the last remaining […]
Back in June 2020, when this article was first written, people were taking to the streets to organize for justice and protest against systemic racism and police brutality. There have been several other flashpoints for protests since then (for example, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade), but the recent activities of ICE, especially […]
Reddit's first-ever chief product officer, Pali Bhat, is leaving the company in "the coming months," spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt confirmed to The Verge. Bhat, a former Google executive, joined Reddit in October 2021. "His tenure was about as clear pre / post test as we could run," CEO Steve Huffman said in an internal message about […]
His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more
Obit Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the most brilliant computer programmer ever, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 74.…
FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters
In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites.…
Meta is launching new video editing tools that will let you transform videos using AI. The tool, which is only free for a “limited time,” gives you more than 50 preset prompts you can use to edit your video, allowing you to set a theme, change the background, and tweak what you’re wearing. The presets […]
Apple is introducing a suite of updated child safety features, including one that will give parents more control over who their kids can communicate with. The features are set to arrive with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26, which will launch this fall. Children will now be […]
The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant
Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking.…
Customers weren’t sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues
After lackluster results from customer-facing automation, Starbucks is now redirecting its tech ambitions toward helping its own employees.…
Jeff Koons, best known for his Balloon Dog sculptures that have sold for as much as $58 million, has collaborated with Lexon Design and The Broad museum in Los Angeles to make his iconic artworks more functional and accessible. Available for preorder through Lexon’s website starting June 17th are a new 11-inch tall Balloon Dog […]
Disney and Universal sued Midjourney on Wednesday for generating Shrek, Darth Vader, Buzz Lightyear, and a host of other copyrighted characters in the first major legal showdown between Hollywood and generative AI. The complaint, filed in a US District Court in central California, calls Midjourney’s AI image generator a “virtual vending machine, generating endless unauthorized […]
Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale
Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta.…
Taboola, the company best known for serving up those weird, clickbaity advertisements you often find beneath online articles, has created an AI chatbot. The tool, called “DeeperDive,” is launching in beta on USA Today and The Independent, and will answer readers’ questions using information “sourced from trusted journalists.” A demo on Taboola’s site shows a […]
If you’re dealing with what appears to be poor battery life on the Nintendo Switch 2, the company has a support document with steps you can try to fix it. The document spells out what you can try if “the battery amount displayed and the actual remaining battery use don’t match,” according to Nintendo. “For […]
The Father’s Day deals have landed, with discounts on everything from Bluetooth speakers to streaming devices to help you (or your dad) make the most of summer. And if your plans involve unwinding with a good book, well, Amazon’s latest Kindle Scribe is on sale at Amazon and Best Buy starting at just $299.99 ($100 […]
Update, June 11th: Best Buy has sold out of its initial online inventory of both the standalone console and the Mario Kart World bundle. Gamers who missed out on a chance to get a Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day, or in the rare opportunities since, can buy one through Best Buy’s website or mobile […]
