"You can hire a bunch of very smart people who will explain how DNS works at a deep technical level [...], but the one thing you can't hire for is the person who remembers that when DNS starts getting wonky, check that seemingly unrelated system in the corner, because it has historically played a contributing role to some outages of yesteryear."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

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"You can hire a bunch of very smart people who will explain how DNS works at a deep technical level [...], but the one thing you can't hire for is the person who remembers that when DNS starts getting wonky, check that seemingly unrelated system in the corner, because it has historically played a contributing role to some outages of yesteryear."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

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Slow Wi-Fi? Add houseplants to the list of suspects

Not as bad as other interference, but maybe it's time for a wired connection Houseplants could be slowing down your Wi-Fi, according to Broadband Genie, which reckons surfers can increase broadband speeds by almost 40 percent just by moving their router away from any greenery.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/slow_wifi_could_be_houseplants/

AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs

Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely moved Software development was one of the first areas to adopt generative AI, but the promised revolution has so far delivered only modest productivity gains, and Bain says only a full rethink of the software lifecycle will shift the dial.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/developers_genai_little_productivity_gains/

AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs

Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely moved Software development was one of the first areas to adopt generative AI, but the promised revolution has so far delivered only modest productivity gains, and Bain says only a full rethink of the software lifecycle will shift the dial.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/developers_genai_little_productivity_gains/

Slow Wi-Fi? Add houseplants to the list of suspects

Not as bad as other interference, but maybe it's time for a wired connection Houseplants could be slowing down your Wi-Fi, according to Broadband Genie, which reckons surfers can increase broadband speeds by almost 40 percent just by moving their router away from any greenery.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/slow_wifi_could_be_houseplants/

China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents

Cyberspace watchdog tightens reporting regime, leaving little time to hide incidents Beijing will soon expect Chinese network operators to 'fess up to serious cyber incidents within an hour of spotting them – or risk penalties for dragging their feet.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/china_1hour_cyber_reporting/

China slaps 1-hour deadline on reporting serious cyber incidents

Cyberspace watchdog tightens reporting regime, leaving little time to hide incidents Beijing will soon expect Chinese network operators to 'fess up to serious cyber incidents within an hour of spotting them – or risk penalties for dragging their feet.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/china_1hour_cyber_reporting/

Albania’s prime minister wants to appoint an AI to his ministry

Incorruptible e-government AnswerBot ‘Djella’, which reportedly runs in Azure, given job of running public procurement Albania’s prime minister has proposed appointing an artificial intelligence as a minister.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/albania_ai_minister/

AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments

From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honors for machine learning misadventures It was bound to happen. The Darwin Awards are being extended to include examples of misadventures involving overzealous applications of AI.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/ai_darwin_awards/

AI Darwin Awards launch to celebrate spectacularly bad deployments

From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honors for machine learning misadventures It was bound to happen. The Darwin Awards are being extended to include examples of misadventures involving overzealous applications of AI.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/ai_darwin_awards/

Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says

Researchers also found that more than half of citations didn’t rank in top 100 for term Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AIs, acc…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/

Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says

Researchers also found that more than half of citations didn’t rank in top 100 for term Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AIs, acc…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/

AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems

Fixes typos, creates timebombs AI coding assistants allow developers to move fast and break things, which may not be ideal.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/ai_code_assistants_security_problems/

AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems

Fixes typos, creates timebombs AI coding assistants allow developers to move fast and break things, which may not be ideal.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/ai_code_assistants_security_problems/

Windows starts asking for admin rights where it shouldn't after security fix

Patch closes vuln but leaves standard users locked out of common apps Microsoft's August 2025 Windows Security Update is causing pain for administrators after a fix for a vulnerability led to some unintended consequences.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/windows_admin_rights_bug/

Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up A RAID failure has taken the Matrix.org homeserver offline, leaving users of the decentralized messaging service unable to send or receive messages while engineers attempt a 55 TB database restore.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/matrixorg_raid_failure/

EU court's dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates' ire

Now you've gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he's working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) allowing data to continue flowing across the pond, but the challenges are unlikely to stop there.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/eu_us_data_challenge/

EU court's dismissal of US data transfer challenge raises privacy advocates' ire

Now you've gone and done it: Privacy lawyer says he's working on challenge to 2023 Data Protection Framework The European Union General Court (EGC) has rejected a challenge to the US-EU Data Privacy Framework (DPF) allowing data to continue flowing across the pond, but the challenges are unlikely to stop there.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/eu_us_data_challenge/

Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up A RAID failure has taken the Matrix.org homeserver offline, leaving users of the decentralized messaging service unable to send or receive messages while engineers attempt a 55 TB database restore.…
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https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/matrixorg_raid_failure/