Rollback fixed things, but stop us if you've heard this before Microsoft took down the Exchange Admin Center (EAC) today after a code change left administrators facing an "Internal Server Error" when trying to access the service. Microsoft first admitted that something was amiss at 0937 UTC on October 12, noting, "When attempting to access the Exchange admin center, affected admins may encounter a

Pew Research Center finds 51% of Americans say no, cite lack of interest - not know-how - as the top reason If you thought everyone was into chatbots, think again: about half of US adults never use the AI tools, and most have no interest in starting. According to Pew Research Center, older adults are the least likely to use chatbots, with roughly three-quarters of those aged 65 and older saying th

Fancy a bit of fun? It's always DNS What is DNS? That's right, it's a database. You can disagree with me but you would be wrong. What can you put in a database? Strings, ints (and you learn the difference right quick if your AWS account ID has a leading zero!), JSON objects, coordinates; some of the databases out there have some pretty esoteric types. PostgreSQL supports circle, a polygon, a macad

CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November AMD is expanding its rack-scale AI lineup with a design to run AI agents, offering CPU-only configurations or integrated CPU/GPU deployments, and liquid-cooled or air-cooled versions. Revealed at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit 2026 in San Jose, California, the chipmaker's new rack reference design is named Helion, while

Just over two weeks before The Register’s Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA, the questions on the table are the ones that decide the architecture. EVENT: Every sovereign AI architecture is a trade, and the currency changes with the option: capital, capability, elasticity, or the fine print about who operates it. The cost you notice last is usually the one that decides whether the pilot ever be

'Learn More' shortcut to local setup reportedly patched server-side, leaving users with more involved workarounds Microsoft has closed a loophole that let users sidestep the need for an account during setup for consumer versions of Windows 11. If users clicked "Learn More" when the setup process prompted for a Microsoft account, the Out-of-Box Experience (OOBE) skipped directly to the point where

Techies at 'Russia's Google' work around the clock as users await access to funds and network connectivity falls to 30% of normal Yandex engineers are working to restore services after Ukraine launched drone strikes on three of its five Russian datacenters. The strikes began overnight on October 7-8, "seriously damaging" Yandex's Sasovo datacenter and leading to a total shutdown. Ukrainian drones

University alleged cloud software couldn't meet its needs after years of delays to financial systems overhaul UCLA and Oracle have settled a dispute over a troubled ERP project originally budgeted at $120 million, with the vendor waiving $1.31 million in outstanding fees and granting $3.1 million in credits against future charges. In May, the University of California's Compliance and Audit Committ

Office documents in Copilot? Absolutely! Using Copilot to make Outlook themes? Nah… Not satisfied with shoehorning Copilot into every crevice of Office, Microsoft is adding Office to the Copilot app, while also evicting the AI assistant from certain parts of Outlook. The plan is simple: give the Copilot app a prompt, and it will create an Office document (for example, Word) and let a user edit it

Union urges Mayor to halt driverless taxi rollout as City Hall report raises questions about safety, congestion, and who's actually in charge London's minicab drivers want Mayor Sadiq Khan to put the brakes on robotaxis before they threaten thousands of jobs, with a new City Hall report casting doubt on whether the capital is ready for driverless cars. The Independent Workers' Union of Great Brita

25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid A piece of internet history that once traveled strapped to a pigeon's leg is up for auction at Christie's, where someone has already bid $4,000 for what might be the world's most expensive ping. The unusual lot is a surviving IP packet from a 2001 experiment in which Norwegian Linu

This week on The Kettle, we discuss some arrests and how Mythos' mathematical expertise has led to a second exploited bug that no human would have found KETTLE The FBI has announced what appears to be a third arrest in the ShinyHunters investigation, following the group's breach of Bureau systems, even as AI advances potentially leave human hackers on borrowed time. You can listen to the latest ep

How a micro JavaScript runtime uses native OS webviews to shrink the desktop footprint. As the world’s billionaires anxiously plot datacenters to run trillions of lines of AI-generated slop code, one software engineer has zagged in a completely different direction: building an ecosystem for writing and running small apps that run on desktop computers, like it was 1992 all over again. Self-describe

Nothing this old should scale this well. Yet here these words are It's 1988. Windows 2.0 is a DOS shell that runs on a dual-floppy 8086 PC. VGA is the aspirational video standard. A three-man startup in East London has decided to create low-cost LANs. There's not much of that and not much by way of standards, which is why a young programmer is rather excited by an emerging contender called TCP/IP.

Want a lightweight GUI OS for an old PC? Try this first Raspberry Pi Desktop has returned after four years, skipping Debian 12 to deliver a new version based on Debian 13 "Trixie." The updated release brings the familiar Pi desktop to PCs and Intel Macs, and could be worth a look if you want a simple, lightweight Linux to revive an older machine. Raspberry Pi's main business is making and selling

While three bosses looked on, our hero made a very expensive mistake Another working week has arrived, bringing with it the chance to shine or commence career decline. The latter is the sort of thing The Register often writes about each Monday in "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace errors. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Mark," who took us d

Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie' Autonomous AI systems are fully capable of carrying out a nightmare cyberattack scenario – finding and attacking critical operational technology and industrial equipment, and shutting down access to water, power, and other daily life necessities. If this happens, defenders may only have minutes to detect and block it, ac

And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions HPE is extending its AI-powered networking automation across its hybrid cloud portfolio. That news came from Rami Rahim, formerly CEO of Juniper Networks and now president and general manager of HPE's networking business, whom The Register met last week when he visited Australia. Rahim champion

Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030 Researchers have demonstrated a way to control where 2D semiconductor crystals begin growing, potentially addressing an obstacle to manufacturing next-generation chips at scale, according to a study published in Nature. The paper, "Spatially deterministic nucleation of 2D semicon

Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites Researchers say two characters available to typosquatters and phisherfolk can trick Chromium browsers into displaying lookalike URLs as genuine web addresses. Wangling a domain name to look an awful lot like that of a popular website is nothing new. We’ve all encountered phishing sites such as macrosoft[.]com and app