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Veterans Affairs has lost track of software licenses amid $985M bill - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:26:08 GMT)Department putting systems in place to manage 'restrictive licensing practices'A federal spending watchdog has found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faced "challenges" in understanding the correct number of licenses it should hold for the top five vendors in its $985 million annual software expenditure.… |
UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:42:15 GMT)MoD plans rapid procurement of Cambridge Aerospace's Skyhammer system at home and abroadBritain is set to buy interceptors from a homegrown startup to counter Iranian Shahed-style attack drones, equipping both its own armed forces and allies in the Persian Gulf region.… |
Adobe finally patches PDF pest after months of abuse - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:57:07 GMT)Reader and Acrobat flaw let booby-trapped documents profile targets and hijack machinesAdobe has released a fix for an Acrobat and Reader zero-day that attackers had been exploiting for months.… |
Gym giant Basic-Fit confirms data on a million members stolen in cyberattack - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:22:08 GMT)Names, addresses, dates of birth, and bank details accessed, though not passwordsBasic-Fit, Europe's largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.… |
Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of 'Pay or leak' - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:41:08 GMT)Gang claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party toolShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn't so much hack its way in as walk through a door someone else left wide open.… |
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:07 GMT)Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companiesOpinion You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their eggs in one US basket was a stupid move.… |
NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:27:14 GMT)Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreementNHS England is spending £46,000 on "benchmarking" as it gears up for what looks like the next round of negotiations behind one of the UK public sector's biggest software deals.… |
AI went viral among attorneys. We have the numbers on what happened next - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:44:08 GMT)Not viral as in cat videos. Viral as in we need a vaccineOpinion For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving at the speed of light, AI firms claim, yet the message from the codeface remains that benefits are still more than balanced by the downsides.… |
France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:01:06 GMT)Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardwareFrance’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.… |
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:00:06 GMT)Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestibleWho, Me? The best part of the working day is lunchtime, but The Register tries to start Mondays in a pleasant fashion by bringing you a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your mistakes and detail your escapes.… |
China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:09:07 GMT)PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more!Asia In Brief China’s National Data Administration last Friday published its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citizens to ensure they can put the technology to work.… |
Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers and their impact on release process - (pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:10:17 GMT)Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUsLinus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.… |
Anthropic's mysterious Mythos AI threatens to upend the infosec world - (pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:12:27 GMT)Or it's a bunch of pre-IPO hype. Either way, we're giving it the once-over on this week's episodeKettle Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. … |
I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable - (pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:45:11 GMT)AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew thatVibe coding works. I wish it didn't. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning cannot be undone.… |
Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight - (pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:51:06 GMT)Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary dataFEATURE Spring has sprung and that means another wave of open weights AI models from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Nvidia. But this time feels a bit different.… |
Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user - (pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:01:09 GMT)Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcodeA university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode.… |
How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk - (pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:45:13 GMT)Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agentsFEATURE Salesforce CEO and chief “SaaSquatch” Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company's ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud dad uses to talk about the art work his kids taped to the refrigerator.… |
Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise - (pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:11:09 GMT)Time to start dropping SBOMsFEATURE Two supply chain attacks in March infected open source tools with malware and used this access to steal secrets from tens of thousands – if not more – organizations. We won't know the full blast radius for months.… |
Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of 'FrankLampard' - (pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:30:14 GMT)Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accountsHungary's government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices.… |
Snowflake manager explains the 'Spider-Man' theory of AI agent data access - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:05:07 GMT)With access to great data comes great responsibilitySnowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register.… |
Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:44:52 GMT)Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.… |
Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:40:30 GMT)Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizingRed Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.… |
Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:43:50 GMT)Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choiceFirefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.… |
Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:44:59 GMT)Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gearThe Global Electronics Association (GEA) warns that the US ban on foreign-made network routers is impractical because few are made domestically, leaving consumers with little choice and delaying access to next-gen products, just as Wi-Fi 7 adoption should be ramping up.… |
CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:53:30 GMT)Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealersVisitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.… |
Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:33:30 GMT)Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goalsAmazon's board of directors is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would have the megacorp disclose more information on the impact of datacenters on its climate commitments.… |
Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:10:22 GMT)Forget about investment value! Call it a 'strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation,' says KPMGMost UK business leaders will keep AI at the top of their spending priorities, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not.… |
Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:30:08 GMT)Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilitiesOpinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."… |
Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:01:11 GMT)Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crimeThe UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.… |
Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:15:08 GMT)Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dryThe government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site has begun plans to replace its legacy SAP ERP – mainstream support for which ends in 2027 – via a £33 million award to the German vendor, without competition.… |
Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:30:07 GMT)Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are comingFewer than three-tenths of those required to sign up for quarterly software-based Making Tax Digital (MTD) reporting for the latest tax year that started this month have done so, according to HM Revenue & Customs.… |
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:00:06 GMT)The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the jobOn Call Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support incidents that crossed a line.… |
AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:04:14 GMT)Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomaniaAmazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full of interesting news about the cloud and e-tail giant.… |
South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:14:13 GMT)Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license backUniversal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.… |
Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:28:32 GMT)Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices riseMicrosoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.… |
Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:05:31 GMT)Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosuresLarge language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.… |
Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:29:46 GMT)Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with thatIf you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations.… |
Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:03:41 GMT)Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for IntelGoogle will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitro NICs.… |
Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:20:15 GMT)Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victimsUS, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.… |
World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:45:25 GMT)C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle homeIt's going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly compared with prior years.… |
AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:30:10 GMT)Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numberedAI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.… |
'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:11:41 GMT)Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-inA new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.… |
Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:07 GMT)FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding tooAgriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.… |
Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:30:06 GMT)ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prizeThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including the widely used Apache Spark analytics engine.… |
Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:51:32 GMT)Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everythingExclusive Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.… |
Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:20:11 GMT)UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offlineA cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.… |
OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:54:41 GMT)Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitionsOpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.… |
Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:30:13 GMT)Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payloadHackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.… |
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:00:11 GMT)No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queueMicrosoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.… |
Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:38:09 GMT)Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinctionAmerica's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even higher prices this year.… |
