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Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth

Theregister • October 31, 2026

Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s

Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?

Built to bend: Postgres’s inventor and a steward on what AI really needs

PARTNER CONTENT: Michael Stonebraker and Bruce Momjian on why enterprise AI needs a database that no one controls, and what PostgreSQL 19 says the road ahead

Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo AI use

A lot of software engineers feel bleak the future of the profession

PHP2Shell is a warning shot for vulnerability disclosure

Keeping secrets is difficult in an open world, but we've done it before and must do it again

Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out

London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists

Anthropic now lets Claude users jump out of plane without parachute

Google struggling to make AI Mode searches pay

There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix

Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to server in China

Microsoft offers parachutes to 60k employees if they jump by the end of the year

Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge

Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo AI use A lot of software engineers feel bleak the future of the profession

Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo AI use

A lot of software engineers feel bleak the future of the profession

Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot

Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titan

How a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot

Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're covered Insurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring

Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're covered

Insurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring

Google's revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bump Just wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly

Google's revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bump

Just wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly

AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue Before long, we could be writing a cloud company with a retail side hustle

AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue

Before long, we could be writing a cloud company with a retail side hustle

Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks

PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Security Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more

Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack

PLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more

Black Hat and DEF CON DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

Black Hat and DEF CON

DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure

Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

Security EQT buys majority in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified

EQT buys majority in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis

Went at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified

Malware Month Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight

On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career

AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland

AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS

Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland

Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing

Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core Desktop

Canonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing

Systemd adds support for Rust What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!

Systemd adds support for Rust

What's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!

FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions

FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releases

Daemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions

SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux

SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive

Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux

Red Hat helps teach tech writing But learns tough lessons AI in the process

Red Hat helps teach tech writing

But learns tough lessons AI in the process

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This article is one source in a clustered incident — the cluster page carries the summary, timeline and every other outlet covering it.

NHS Warns of Patient Data Risk After Vendor Collapse The NHS has issued a warning regarding a potential risk to GP patient data following the collapse of a website vendor. The vendor's failure has raised concerns about the security of patient records, which may have been compromised. While specific details about the attack vector or the extent of the data breach are not disclosed, the NHS has advised healthcare providers to review their data protection measures. The incident highlights vulnerabilities in third-party vendor management and the importance of robust cybersecurity protocols in healthcare. No specific CVEs or have been reported in relation to this incident. 3 sources 39

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Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth

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