The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be Opinion  There tend to be three AI camps. 1) AI is the greatest thing since sliced bread and will transform the world. 2) AI is the spawn of the Devil and will destroy civilization as we know it. And 3) "Write an A-Level paper on the themes in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."… #theregister #IT
The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon
Opinion: Are tech giants getting nervous? They should be
Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking about HANDS ON  A $40, 5-inch touchscreen has landed for the Raspberry Pi, offering a smaller sibling for the existing 7-inch model.… #theregister #IT
Getting touchy-feely with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2
HANDS ON: Ideal for that one weird project you've been thinking about
Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech It was a simpler time It's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cassette tape. Taylor Swift dropped Life of a Showgirl on digital, vinyl, and the old jewel-cased pencil spinners. They're still with us, complete with tape tangling and endless rewinding to find that specific track you love.… #theregister #IT
Why the UK is falling back in love with retro 90s tech
: It was a simpler time
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the fallout Who, Me?  Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your missives about massive mistakes, and how you managed to move on after them.… #theregister #IT
CIO made dangerous mistake, demanded it go into production
Who, Me?: Firewall pro enjoyed European travel to fix the fallout
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission.… #theregister #IT
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, with
: Satnav birds would be a high-priority target in war. This tech could be a more resilient alternative
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more! Asia In Brief  Australia’s University of Melbourne last year used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors.… #theregister #IT
Australian uni used Wi-Fi location data to ID protestors
Asia In Brief: PLUS: India bans ‘money’ games; SK Hynix cranks out 321-layer SSDs; Fastly re-thinking CDNs for Asia; and more!
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp PLUS: Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage Infosec in brief  PLUS… #theregister #IT
AWS, Cloudflare, Google, helped Feds identify DDOS suspect
Infosec in brief: Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC Hands on  Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might think. Many recent releases, including Alibaba's Qwen 3 an… #theregister #IT
How to run LLMs on PC at home using Llama.cpp
Hands on: Everything you need to know to build, run, serve, optimize and quantize models on your PC
Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous ways to do it For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it feature  Thirty years ago, Netscape kicked off the first commercial bug bounty program. Since then, companies large and small have bought into the idea, with mixed results.… #theregister #IT
Bug bounties: The good, the bad, and the frankly ridiculous
feature: For incentives remember the three Fs – finance, fame, and fixing it
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are Researchers with Scale AI have found that search-based AI models may cheat on benchmark tests by fetching the answers directly from online sources rather than deriving those answers through a "reasoning" process.… #theregister #IT
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests
: Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are