Microsoft's latest line of festive knitwear has been frightening babies, if the experience of the winner of The Register's 2025 Christmas competition is anything to go by. Register reader Wolfetone ...

From protests to elections, governments are increasingly pulling the internet plug on entire populations. Connectivity is slowly becoming a tool of control, not a guarantee. Reading time 5 minutes For ...

Matt Dinniman introduced his series about an alien reality TV show free on the web. But readers ate up the goofy humor, now to the tune of 6 million books sold. By Alexandra Alter Alexandra Alter ...

Nearly three decades after the launch of Internet Explorer, or 27 years to be precise, Microsoft discontinued this classic browser to focus on Microsoft Edge. The company announced the end of Internet ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - IBM (IBM.N), opens new tab and Cisco Systems (CSCO.O), opens new tab on Thursday said they plan to link quantum computers over long distances, with the goal of ...

Meta AI is now embedded across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, powering search suggestions, comment summaries, and chatbot interactions. If you've noticed a little blue-and-purple ring icon in your ...

Following the October 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, many Windows users began reporting a frustrating issue: the File Explorer preview pane suddenly stopped working for many common file types. In a move ...

Microsoft is restricting access to Internet Explorer mode in Edge browser after learning that hackers are leveraging zero-day exploits in the Chakra JavaScript engine for access to target devices. The ...

Microsoft said it has revamped the Internet Explorer (IE) mode in its Edge browser after receiving "credible reports" in August 2025 that unknown threat actors were abusing the backward compatibility ...

“The attacker would first convince the victim to navigate to an official-looking spoofed website, then use a flyout on the page to request the user to reload the page in Internet Explorer mode,” ...