The Register Kettle

From international banking worries to the market state of canary-in-the-coal-mine Oracle, the AI bubble is sure looking taut. The Bank for International Settlements, often referred to as "the central bank for central banks" said in a report at the end of June that it was worried the AI bubble was nigh on to popping and taking the global economy with it. Oracle, the hyperscaler with arguably the la...

AI commands all the headlines nowadays, but the biggest security story of the week is all about human laziness and poor password habits - just like the good old days.  This week on the Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by US editor Avram Piltch and security editor Jessica Lyons  to talk about the Klue breach , which was blamed on a "compromised legacy credential" that ought to probably hav...

It's been a week since the Trump administration established a de facto ban on Anthropic's Mythos derivative, Fable 5, and the more that comes out about the move the more it seems like Anthropic employees talking amongst themselves were on to something: Is the government just picking on the company? This week on the Kettle, host  Brandon Vigliarolo  and Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons  chat...

El Reg's systems editor Tobias Mann has been in Taipei for the past week getting the skinny on the hottest new chips, and what he's heard has been less about actual hardware announcements and more about how chipmakers are rushing to meet the demands of AI, other customers be damned.  Tobias joins host Brandon Vigliarolo to discuss what he's noticed at Computex 2026 , how AI has taken over yet anot...

It was explosive news week – if you're the price of a popular-but-aging piece of consumer gaming hardware or a Jeff Bezos rocket.  This week on The Kettle, Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by Reg reporters Richard Speed and Dan Robinson to talk about the Steam Deck's 40+ percent price hike and what it means for the ongoing memory-and-storage shortage . Sure, it's just consumer hardware, but it's the l...

Google I/O has ostensibly been an AI show for a few years running, but this year's announcements have taken the cake, which Google seems all to happy to let its users eat as it reshapes the web.  On this week's episode of The Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by  El Reg  senior reporter Tom Claburn and open source reporter Liam Proven to discuss how Google's bevy of AI announcements, and d...

Hopefully  you  haven't had reason to notice yet, but there's a rising problem with AI services on Google Cloud, AWS, and other platforms sticking their customers with bills in the tens of thousands of dollars.  This week's episode of the Kettle focuses on two such stories that The Register published this week, one concerning Google and another  involving AWS. In both cases cloud customers using A...

This week on The Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by systems editor Tobias Mann and senior reporter Tom Claburn to discuss the current state of locally-installed coding assistant LLMs. After some experimentation, both Claburn and Mann have concluded they're actually getting pretty good. What does that mean for the computing power crunch? Hopefully it means cash-strapped developers will be...

Windows is a mess, Copilot's been a disaster, updates have been failing ... hey, Microsoft - everything okay? There's been a lot going wrong for the Windows maker of late, and leadership is promising improvements. Join host and El Reg Brandon Vigliarolo, US editor Avram Piltch, and Microsoft reporter Richard Speed to pick apart the situation and read the entrails to see what Microsoft's future hol...

This week on the Kettle we split the conversation between two topics: The biggest news out of Google Cloud Next, and the latest hype-bursting revelations about Anthropic's Mythos AI, and the fact that it's already been accessed inappropriately. Different topics, yes, but both point to the same thing: AI is reshaping everything from Google's hardware designs to the security world, and we'd better g...

Prompt injection attacks are, in a lot of ways, like phishing a human: By convincing them of your harmless intent, they do something that's not in their best nature just like the gullible person handing over corporate details. Thinking about it that way, our current AI paradigm will likely never escape prompt injection attacks - you can't patch out the ability to con someone with language, human o...

Anthropic stunned the infosec world this week with the announcement of a new zero-day discovering and exploiting AI called Mythos, which it claims is too dangerous to release to anyone but the biggest companies in the tech world. Join host Brandon Vigliarolo, APAC editor Simon Sharwood, and senior reporter Tom Claburn to discuss the Mythos news, what it means, and why it's probably appropriate to...

A human mistake at Anthropic last week led to the entirety of Claude Code's source code being leaked to the web, pubished on GitHub, forked, dissected, picked apart, and otherwise exposed to the world to see - perfect fodder for a Kettle of vultures looking for some news to pick apart. Join cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons, senior reporter Thomas Claburn, and host Brandon Vigliarolo as they pick...

Did you know that if you tell your AI it's an expert coder it'll actually write worse code? Join Brandon, systems editor Tobias Mann, and senior reporter Thomas Claburn to discuss the state of - and limitations with - AI software development, and why we're not convinced it's going to replace a human dev anytime soon.

We regret to inform you that RSAC 2026 is probably going to be all about agentic AI, and with good reason: It's changing both the defensive and offensive security paradigms. Along with agentic AI, The Register security editor Jessica Lyons tells host Brandon Vigliarolo that other hot topics at the industry's big event this year are likely to include the war in Iran, North Korean IT employment scam...

Join host Brandon Vigliarolo, El Reg's systems editor, Tobias Mann, and US editor Avram Piltch to discuss what we think might be on deck for this year's Nvidia GTC, starting Monday, March 16.

Join host Brandon Vigliarolo, The Register cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons, and systems editor Tobias Mann to discuss how the US/Iran conflict seems like a new era in the primacy of tech's role in war, how an international conflict is shaping nascent tech hotspots, and more.

The Kettle returns with a new format (audio only) and new host (ugh, he's American?), but the same old banter, analytics, and insight it had before the break. Join us for our first episode, coming soon.