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Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:53:39 GMT)Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helpingThe Artemis II mission has produced some stunning imagery as the spacecraft loops around the Moon on its journey from Earth and back.… |
Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:08:52 GMT)Motorola and Google top PIRG's latest scorecardSamsung and Apple phones are more difficult to repair than those from other makers, according to a report ranking devices by how easy to fix they are.… |
Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:13:36 GMT)ITSM the area most likely to offer wins, according to Gartner researchTech leaders hoping AI might help save money and improve efficiency in IT infrastructure should know that only 28 percent of use cases fully succeed and offer return on investment (ROI).… |
White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:27:09 GMT)'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration'First, the good news: the Artemis II crew has successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space. Now the bad news: the White House is sharpening the budget blade once again.… |
No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:08 GMT)UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphoricallyThe UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away from shipping silicon.… |
Shots fired over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:09:24 GMT)Quite literally, from a gun, into the front door of a councilor who supports planDatacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area.… |
OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches' - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:27:13 GMT)Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AIKubecon Sovereignty was a big topic was at last week's Kubecon, and Thierry Carrez, the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, shared strong feelings around it that included raising the idea that tech companies might be forced by their countries' governments to deploy "kill switches."… |
Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:31:14 GMT)Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outsideOpinion When the first M1 Apple Silicon systems sprouted at the end of 2020, we loved the tech but not the walled garden it grew in. Apple had complete control over all its platforms and could set its own rules, but only to become more Apple-y. There was a whole world outside that area where Apple Silicon would never tread, even if Cupertino could iterate fast enough to keep up. Plus, Apple's appliance sensibility limited its expansion options, especially with performance dependent on its own silicon. … |
Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:35:11 GMT)Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life growsBritish adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online.… |
Yahoo<i>!</i> Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:21:54 GMT)Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stackLY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.… |
Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:09:00 GMT)Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a riskBroadcom has announced that Google has asked it to build next-generation AI and datacenter networking chips, and that Anthropic plans to consume 3.5GW worth of the accelerators it delivers to the ads and search giant.… |
AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:03:49 GMT)CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root accessIn the latest chapter on leaky CUPS, a security researcher and his band of bug-hunting agents have found two flaws that can be chained to allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code and achieve root file overwrite on the network.… |
AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:16:32 GMT)Once AI bug reports become plausible, someone still has to verify themIf AI does more of the work but humans still have to check it, you need more reviewers. Now that AI models have gotten better at writing and evaluating code, open-source projects find themselves overwhelmed with the too-good-to-ignore output.… |
AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:27:27 GMT)'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticketIf you've noticed Claude Code's performance degrading to the point where you find you don't trust it to handle complicated tasks anymore, you're not alone.… |
Anthropic closes door on subscription use of OpenClaw - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:37:36 GMT)The company is having trouble meeting user demandOpenClaw is popular, but not with the people responsible for keeping Anthropic’s services online. The company has disallowed subscription-based pricing for users who use the open-source agentic tool with Claude to try to keep things moving.… |
Attackers exploited this critical FortiClient EMS bug as a 0-day - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:14:25 GMT)CISA added the flaw to KEV after Fortinet confirmed exploitation in the wildFortinet released an emergency patch over the weekend for a critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) bug believed to be under attack since at least March 31.… |
Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:36:05 GMT)After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUsIt's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. … |
Windows asks a networking question on a Stratford billboard - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:00:11 GMT)Glue and paper wouldn't have cared about discoverabilityBork!Bork!Bork! Today's entry in the pantheon of public whoopsies is not so much Windows falling over as someone sticking a network connection where it possibly doesn't belong.… |
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:30:06 GMT)It's not just machines that need proper HVACWho, Me? The world is rapidly becoming a more uncertain place, but The Register tries to offer readers one small point of certainty by always delivering a fresh Monday morning instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your errors and elucidate your escapes.… |
Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:02:52 GMT)Pay no attention to that code behind the curtain, says Anthropic as it scrambles to defend its IPOKettle When it comes to circling up for this week's Kettle, what is there to discuss but Anthropic's accidental release of Claude Code's source code?… |
Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them - (pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:00:13 GMT)True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselvesinterview Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest.… |
If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue - (pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:11 GMT)Vendors tout the potential, but responsibility remains unclear"You can't blame it on the box," says the boss of a UK financial regulator. What about the people who sold you the box? Good luck with that, says a global tech analyst.… |
How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale - (pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:00:08 GMT)The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitableIf you thought Nvidia's GB200 rack systems were big, CEO Jensen Huang is just getting started. At GTC last month, the world's most valuable company revealed plans to use photonic interconnects to pack more than a thousand GPUs into a single mammoth system by 2028.… |
AI will make anyone a 10x programmer, but with 10x the cleanup - (pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:13:15 GMT)Agents to check the work of the agentsAll Things AI AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking "Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site." And, no, adding "DON'T HALLUCINATE" to the instruction loop won't help.… |
Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus - (pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:00:06 GMT)The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in peopleIn 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term. To understand why, it helps to consider the history of the underlying Azure infrastructure.… |
PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud - (pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:09:08 GMT)Bonsai 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficientPrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications.… |
Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:41:05 GMT)Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.… |
Netflix – yes, Netflix – jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:42:44 GMT)Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a sceneA new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.… |
NHS staff resist using Palantir software - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:36:58 GMT)Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds muchPalantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.… |
When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:00:14 GMT)This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried foodBork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.… |
Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled - (pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:28:14 GMT)Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagineOn Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.… |
AI models will deceive you to save their own kind - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:11:51 GMT)Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behaviorLeading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).… |
Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4 - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:15:41 GMT)Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languagesGoogle on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.… |
Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:07:40 GMT)About that partnership...Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.… |
US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:08:52 GMT)Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systemsA software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. … |
They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:34:07 GMT)Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocksTens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.… |
Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:04:05 GMT)Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrongA recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun.… |
IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:32:10 GMT)Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient computeIBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads.… |
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:56:12 GMT)Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms around sovereignty, provoking an angry response from the original developer.… |
Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working' - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:27:51 GMT)In space no one can hear you scream, at MicrosoftMany a frustrated user has sworn they'll launch Microsoft Outlook into space, but NASA has actually done it – on a journey around the Moon, where it's now causing problems for astronauts.… |
Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:05:59 GMT)The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other servicesSalesforce has begun to position Slack, its business collaboration platform, as the interface through which users can access and act on data in enterprise applications from rival vendors.… |
Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:04:11 GMT)Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineerThe world's most popular CMS has been remade with the help of AI. Cloudflare has released EmDash version 0.1, described as a rebuild of the WordPress CMS (content management system) but using TypeScript rather than PHP. … |
Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:32:08 GMT)Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to ChenIt's not me, it's you. Five words that signify the end of a relationship with a toxic partner, or an ill-timed riposte to users tired of broken Microsoft updates.… |
Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:48:08 GMT)Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savingsThe BBC is looking for a supplier to provide IT for all its workforce and help automate parts of the corporation through a contract apparently named after a dog.… |
AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:53:07 GMT)We must design expecting much of what we publish will be reinterpreted by 'systems we don't control'Those who rely on artificial intelligence to summarize official material may get a misleadingly narrow or incomplete version of it, a senior designer for the UK government has warned.… |
Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:19:08 GMT)And of course the Orion toilet malfunctionedToilet trouble, telemetry problems, and an issue with the flight termination system have not marred the Artemis II mission to the Moon, which launched yesterday.… |
SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:02:10 GMT)And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisisThe latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here with a new kernel. There's also a new GParted Live, and some other handy utilities.… |
The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:01:10 GMT)Connected devices can leave an otherwise secure network vulnerablePwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're sure it has protected against a lot more exploits than it has caused. But in this case, the desire for everyone's favorite stimulant led to a massive breach.… |
AI recruiting biz Mercor says it was 'one of thousands' hit in LiteLLM supply-chain attack - (pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:02:58 GMT)First public downstream victim, but won't be the lastAI hiring startup Mercor confirmed it was "one of thousands of companies" affected by the LiteLLM supply-chain attack as the fallout from the Trivy compromise continues to spread.… |
Google's TurboQuant saves memory, but won't save us from DRAM-pricing hell - (pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:17:22 GMT)Chocolate Factory’s compression tech clears the way to cheaper AI inference, not more affordable memoryWhen Google unveiled TurboQuant, an AI data compression technology that promises to slash the amount of memory required to serve models, many hoped it would help with a memory shortage that has seen prices triple since last year. Not so much.… |
