Jeff Burt is a journalist at The Register. With over three decades of experience, he has focused on technology topics since 2000, covering areas such as software development, open source software, and cybersecurity, including themes like AI and machine learning. He has been featured in various prominent outlets including Techstrong.ai, DevOps.com, and Cloud Native Now.
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By: Jeff Burt
It has been more than two years now since Broadcom spent $69 billion to buy virtualization giant VMware and in short order rattled the cages of enterprises and the wider tech industry by announcing significant price increases, new licensing plans, and a host of other changes. The company
By: on The latest series of attacks using the notorious Shai-Hulud worm puts into sharp focus the threats facing software developers and
The first day of the Dell Technologies World 2026 conference in Las Vegas this week had a faintly
By: Jeff Burt
It is common understanding that as quantum computing gets its feet under itself, it will work hand-in-hand with classical supercomputers and leverage what rapidly evolving AI tools can offer to begin solving some thorny calculations that the largest HPC systems may be unable to address. We've written about this direction quantum is heading in and steps major players already are taking to address what IBM calls “quantum-centric supercomputing.”
By: on A dangerous vulnerability found in Anthropic's popular Claude Code developer model could have allowed bad actors to grab control of a victim's system by luring them into clicking on a crafted malicious deeplink.
By: Jeff Burt
Governments have long taken an interest in quantum computing as part of the larger picture of high-end computing that over the past several years has included the race to
By: Jeff Burt
By: on IBM and Red Hat are bringing together what they've learned from frontier AI models and 20,000 engineers to launch Project Lightwell , a $5
In a Q&A session with journalists and analysts at the recent Dell Technologies World 2026, Jeff Clark, vice chairman and chief operating officer with Dell, said he didn't feel that executives at enterprise companies yet fully appreciated the critical, central role data plays in the burgeoning world of AI, both generative and agentic.
By: Jeff Burt, Rebecca Spiegel, Christian Romming, Rob Zuber
TeamPCP, the threat group behind Shai-Hulud, in May released the source code for the malware, letting any threat actor create their own variant of the self-propagating worm aimed at developers. Miasma is the latest clone based on the credential-stealing threat.
By: Jeff Burt
Last month, we did a deep dive into Cisco Systems’ third quarter fiscal 2026 numbers to get a gauge ...
