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Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026 - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:09:31 GMT)Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changingDiscord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down. … |
Patch these 4 critical, make-me-root SolarWinds bugs ASAP - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:55:07 GMT)SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made ofIf you run SolarWinds’ Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root.… |
'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:26:56 GMT)iGiant also ramping US chip and AI server productionYour next Mac might be made in the US of A. Apple this week revealed plans to manufacture its most affordable Macintosh computer at a new Foxconn facility in Texas.… |
Rogue devs of sideloaded Android apps beg for freedom from Google’s verification regime - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:09:12 GMT)37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside PlaySoon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups think that the Chocolate Factory should keep its nose out of third-party app stores and have asked its leadership to reconsider.… |
North Korea's Lazarus Group targets healthcare orgs with Medusa ransomware - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:25:04 GMT)New ransomware of choice, same critical targetsNorth Korea’s Lazarus Group appears to have added another tool to its kit. It has begun using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks targeting at least one US healthcare organization and an unnamed victim in the Middle East, according to Symantec and Carbon Black threat hunters.… |
The fix inches closer: Iowa moves farm right-to-repair bill forward - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:42:38 GMT)Manufacturers like John Deere have resisted broader access to proprietary repair softwareSoon, farmers could have easier access to the tools and software needed to repair their tractors. A recent Iowa House committee vote advancing a right-to-repair bill could bring changes benefiting thousands of farmers in the US' second-largest agricultural state, supporters say.… |
GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:50:09 GMT)FreeBSD's friendliest desktop distro bets on the controversial forkGhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better support its flagship MATE desktop – as well as Xfce and the new Gershwin.… |
Go library maintainer brands GitHub's Dependabot a 'noise machine' - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:31:13 GMT)When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's offA Go library maintainer has urged developers to turn off GitHub's Dependabot, arguing that false positives from the dependency-scanning tool "reduce security by causing alert fatigue."… |
AMD copy-pastes 6 GW chips-for-stock deal in new Meta agreement - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:19:00 GMT)The House of Zen signed a nearly identical deal with OpenAI last fallAMD just signed a mega chip deal with Meta that appears almost identical to the one it signed with OpenAI last fall. And just like all cross-industry agreements between AI and chip makers of late, this one comes with some circular financing, too. … |
Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:01:12 GMT)With Server 2016 and other OSes for the chop, security fixes can continue to flow for a priceMicrosoft is giving Windows customers the "gift of time" but expects compensation for its generosity.… |
Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:02:40 GMT)No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bitesHosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe's largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from April 1.… |
UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:29:47 GMT)Social media giant retorts it doesn't want to collect 'private' data, and plans to appealThe UK's data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit £14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children's data.… |
KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:30:06 GMT)BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to dieThe latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won't require systemd, and this version has improved OpenBSD support. FreeBSD 15.1's installer offers KDE too.… |
Korean cops charge teens over bike hire breach that exposed data on 4.62M riders - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:53:49 GMT)Public prosecutor mulls sentencing following investigations into two separate attacksTwo South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul's public bike service, Ttareungyi.… |
West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:32:56 GMT)Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decisionUK Parliament has delivered the official postmortem on West Midlands Police's Copilot saga, and it reads like a case study in how not to mix generative AI with public order decision-making.… |
Intel backs SambaNova's $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:00:14 GMT)Upstart's 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia's B200 on speed and costAI infrastructure company SambaNova has raised $350 million to advance its dataflow architecture, which it pitches as an alternative to GPU-based AI systems.… |
UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:15:15 GMT)Visa applications down, executives emigrating, and AI blamed for the restThe number of international workers applying for a visa to work in the UK's tech sector dropped 11 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, and was down 6 percent year-on-year, according to consultancy RSM UK.… |
Euro allies aiming to rapidly build low-cost air defense weapons - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:30:11 GMT)We like our surface-to-air weapons affordableBritain has joined a handful of European allies in a program to develop low-cost air defense systems, including autonomous drones or missiles, with project delivery of the first elements scheduled for as early as 2027.… |
Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:03:14 GMT)Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDriveMicrosoft has teased a significant upgrade to its SharePoint collaborationware package.… |
Cisco turns to titanium spoons and sand dunes to build a better … box? - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:39:40 GMT)As Pure Storage adopts a watered-down name for a rebrandLogowatch Cisco and the vendor formerly known as Pure Storage have let their designers and marketers loose on the internet to explain some recent decisions.… |
Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content - just like it did - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:45:12 GMT)Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax are using 'distillation' to gin up their own modelsHaving built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data.… |
IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:53:03 GMT)Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2023IBM’s share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language.… |
ICE watchers say agents used software to threaten and follow them home - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:54:24 GMT)'This is a warning. We know you live right here'Two US residents have sued several Homeland Security agencies and officials, including Secretary Kristi Noem, for allegedly using surveillance tools to harass them, branding them as "domestic terrorists," and even showing up at their homes based on license-plate recognition. … |
Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums - in car crashes, that is - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:25:31 GMT)What do Taylor Swift and Drake’s release days have to do with road deaths? More than you’d thinkWho doesn’t like streaming music while driving? Unfortunately, new research suggests that when major albums drop and streaming spikes, traffic fatalities rise too.… |
Google Antigravity falls to Earth under OpenClaw-fueled compute load - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:49:37 GMT)Company tries to curb strain by banning customer accounts for 'malicious' usageGoogle customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to find their accounts suspended for using the company's Antigravity agent development app and Gemini services with third-party agent tools like OpenClaw and OpenCode.… |
Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:59:12 GMT)Nv-based integrated graphics for Wintel box also in the worksYour next laptop may have Nvidia inside – not in the form of a GPU, but as a system on a chip, complete with CPU. Team Green could be chipping away at Intel's marketshare and giving people Arm-based systems that compete with Apple's MacBook line.… |
Infosec community panics as Anthropic rolls out Claude code security checker - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:50:01 GMT)Not the first of its kindai-pocalypse Anthropic sent the infosec community into a tizzy on Friday when it rolled out Claude Code Security, a new feature that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches to fix the issues.… |
Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:01:42 GMT)Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with promptsMicrosoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base.… |
Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:43:52 GMT)Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistanceThe independent Ladybird web browser project is changing course on its choice of programming languages, with LLM-based coding assistants helping to evaluate the shift.… |
Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:05:31 GMT)Sending humans around the Moon in February, er, March - now April 2026, maybeThe quest to return to the Moon has hit another snag. NASA is delaying Artemis II again, as interrupted helium flow to the rocket’s upper stage forces a rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and wipes out the March launch window.… |
Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:03:38 GMT)Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection lawsA global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic images can't pretend that data protection rules don't apply.… |
Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:17:34 GMT)Goal is to run software locally and stream only to owners' computersIf the sour taste has still not left your mouth after Ring's Super Bowl ad, there is a $10,000 prize for anyone who can find a security flaw in the company's cameras.… |
Gemini users say their chat histories have quietly vanished - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:44:38 GMT)Complaints pile up from users after months of conversations disappear. Google insists it’s just a temporary bugOver the past few days, complaints have stacked up from people who say months of conversations with Google's AI chatbot have simply vanished, with Reg readers noting the disappearances seemed to coincide with the rollout of Gemini 3.1.… |
O say, can you see: FCC pushes patriotic programming for US 250th - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:26:55 GMT)Stations urged to mark milestone with pro-America contentThe head of the Federal Communications Commission has called on broadcasters to start the day with the Star Spangled Banner or the Pledge of Allegiance to celebrate the US's 250th birthday.… |
Ex-Amazon UK boss lined up to chair Britain's competition watchdog - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:55:04 GMT)Business Secretary praises Doug Gurr's pro-growth agendaBritain's competition regulator has tapped former Amazon UK chief Doug Gurr as preferred candidate for chair – a notable appointment given the watchdog's active investigations into major cloud providers.… |
Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:56:30 GMT)OpenAI CEO takes really, really long view on energy efficiencyAI is being unfairly targeted over its energy use, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims, as the naysayers ignore the vast amount of resources humans have consumed over millennia – not least to avoid being eating by predators.… |
Suspected Anonymous members detained in Spain over post-flood DDoS blitz - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:26:30 GMT)Quartet accused of attacking public institutions, claiming the government was responsible for 2024 tragedySpanish police say four self-proclaimed members of Anonymous are in custody after allegedly carrying out several cyberattacks on public authorities in the wake of the 2024 DANA floods.… |
AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:41:47 GMT)Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riotCybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS.… |
Workaholic open source developers need to take breaks - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:00:14 GMT)A week off for vacation? The nerve of some peopleOpinion If you want to see the definition of "workaholic," you can't do better than to look at your typical senior open source developer or maintainer. I should know, I'm a workaholic too. I know my kind.… |
Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:15:12 GMT)Analog curio nestled between fax and typewriter - this is a very different definition of 'legacy support'Bork!Bork!Bork! There are occasions when flicking a power switch can send a user into a world of bork-related pain, so it is sometimes worth taking a step back and reconsidering one's life choices.… |
Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:30:09 GMT)The only good password is no password at allopinion Passwords turn 65 this year. They became a feature of computer users' lives in 1961, with MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Before then, sysops were real sysops. All jobs went through them, one at a time, and access by others was forbidden by laws written on blocks of stone.… |
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:30:13 GMT)Rogue user showed them an excellent prank, which they put into productionWho, Me? Welcome to another installment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column in which you confess to crises you caused, and the course corrections that cured the chaos.… |
NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter’s ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:15:47 GMT)Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for helpNASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, to help the rolling robot navigate the Red Planet autonomously “for potentially unlimited distances.”… |
Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:13:36 GMT)PLUS: China’s sword-wielding humanoid robots; Australian court swamped by AI filings; Vietnam’s 25km overwater drone delivery; And more!Asia In Brief Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani has said the advent of AI means organizations no longer have any excuse to retain their legacy systems.… |
Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:56:17 GMT)Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musingsLinus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.… |
Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records - (pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:26:50 GMT)PLUS: Unpatched Ivanti boxes under attack; 0APT might not be a scam; AI gets better at helping cyber-scum; And moreInfosec In Brief An unknown attacker accessed the French government’s database listing every bank account in the country and made off with 1.2 million records.… |
UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints - (pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:34:09 GMT)Confidential complainant details passed to local politician following debateA UK councillor has dubbed her local authority's data breach "crazy" after the personal details of individuals behind a series of complaints were revealed to her.… |
Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers - (pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:03:10 GMT)Electronic eyes are watching from above, ready to catch dumpers of smashed up couches in the actThe UK government is pulling together an elite squad of drone operators to crack down on the scourge of fly tippers and unauthorized dumpers across this ever less green and pleasant land.… |
Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone - (pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:27:08 GMT)Q3 figures show the trio drawing the most broadband complaints per 100,000 customersThe UK's telecoms regulator has named and shamed the companies it receives the most customer complaints about, with certain brands cropping up more than others.… |
SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping - (pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:56:04 GMT)'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google's claim that that it bypassed digital locks to gather copyrighted content in Google Search results.… |
