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Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:09:24 GMT)Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argueBanning sales to Chinese-government-affiliated companies, apparently, is not enough. A bipartisan group of American lawmakers this week called on the Trump administration to enact a blanket ban on the sale of equipment used in the production of advanced semiconductors to all of China.… |
AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:51:06 GMT)Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmasterA Harvard Business Review study is answering the question ‘what will employees do if AI saves them time at work?’ The answer: more work.… |
T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:28:13 GMT)This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involvedT-Mobile is claiming it's now the first wireless carrier to integrate generative AI "directly into a wireless network," and it's rolling out real-time call translation as the first feature delivered on top of its new AI-filled cellular network. … |
Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:56:40 GMT)The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineeringIf you've seen the viral AI work pic trend where people are asking ChatGPT to "create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me" and sharing it to social, you might think it's harmless. You'd be wrong.… |
Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:50:33 GMT)Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practicePromo AI projects fail at scale not because models don't work or GPUs lack performance. They fail because data can't keep pace.… |
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:57:26 GMT)Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boarBack in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.… |
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:15:06 GMT)No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right nowMicrosoft has released Windows 11 26H1 but is warning the vast majority of users that it is not for them.… |
Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:41:47 GMT)Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sentTelcos likely received advance warning about January's critical Telnet vulnerability before its public disclosure, according to threat intelligence biz GreyNoise.… |
Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:51:43 GMT)Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirementsThe European Commission wants to see stronger EU-wide cooperation over malicious drones via a new action plan. Proposals include a central counter-drone test facility, changing the current rules governing civilian use, and a development boost to Europe's own drones and counter-drone systems.… |
How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95 - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:22:08 GMT)Has the OS also jumped the shark?Microsoft's Raymond Chen has revealed an unexpected use for the company's lawyers: securing permission from the cast of Happy Days so a Weezer music video could ship on the Windows 95 CD.… |
Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:03:37 GMT)200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trustBritish doctors are being urged to pull back from the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) after their union called on members to stop non-clinical use of the Palantir-built system.… |
Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:00:14 GMT)Attackers using social engineering to exploit business processes, rather than tunnelling in via techExclusive When fraudsters go after people's paychecks, "every employee on earth becomes a target," according to Binary Defense security sleuth John Dwyer.… |
Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:47:29 GMT)Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestionsApple fanbois are realizing what the Creator Studio subscription means for its productivity apps, and many are unhappy with the direction of travel.… |
VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:39:50 GMT)Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the case should be heard in the US, not GermanyVMware appears to have secured an early procedural win in the case it brought against German industrial giant Siemens over its alleged use of unlicensed software.… |
Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:31:03 GMT)Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editorJust months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE).… |
Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:17:46 GMT)Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity pushOnly 20 percent of datacenters are considered AI-ready across Europe and the Middle East, despite the growing demand for infrastructure to accelerate AI processing.… |
River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:00:12 GMT)Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch onFOSDEM 2026 Isaac Freund's River compositor brings a little old-fashioned modularity and customizability to the brave new Wayland world.… |
Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:15:12 GMT)If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today?FOSDEM 2026 Michal Pleban knows his old kit inside out, and his talk on the CIDCO MailStation was one of the most interesting of FOSDEM for us – as well as the funniest.… |
Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:30:07 GMT)UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leakLegacy IT issues are hampering key technical measures designed to prevent highly sensitive data leaks, UK government officials say.… |
As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says ‘show me the money’ - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:41:11 GMT)The Chocolate Factory isn't showing ads in Gemini, but AI Mode is fair gameAs OpenAI walks the advertising tightrope to balance revenue gains against credibility and safety, ad kingpin Google is roaring ahead to use AI to improve its advertising products.… |
Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum' - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:46:58 GMT)Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connectionsThe Open Compute Project (OCP) wants to develop specs for distributed datacenters and has decided the all-optical Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) stack can make them possible.… |
Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:58:53 GMT)Just change the name to CAIsco already, ChuckCisco is on track to deliver its unified management tool Cloud Control later in 2026, but while its users wait for that moment it’s pumping out plenty more agentic tools to manage their networks – and make sure agents behave.… |
AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:24:51 GMT)'Claude DXT's container falls noticeably short of what is expected from a sandbox'LayerX, a security company based in Tel Aviv, says it has identified a zero-click remote code execution vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions that can be triggered by processing a Google Calendar entry.… |
Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:08:31 GMT)Great time to be a liquid cooling startupGPUs are so hot right now – literally and metaphorically – that they’re driving mergers and acquisitions in the datacenter cooling industry.… |
Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:10:32 GMT)Roses are red, violets are blue ... now get patchingWhat better way to say I love you than with an update? Attackers exploited a whopping six Microsoft bugs as zero-days prior to Redmond releasing software fixes on February's Patch Tuesday.… |
Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:45:48 GMT)SomedayMicrosoft wants you to know that it has found a new way of saving power at its datacenters using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) power delivery systems. And good news: it'll be possible ... someday.… |
AI can predict your future salary based on your photo, boffins claim - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:24:58 GMT)Academics look at problematic algorithm to inform regulatory discussionA picture is worth a thousand words or, perhaps, a hundred thousand dollars in extra salary. Academics claim that personality traits inferred using AI photo analysis can predict how depicted individuals will fare in the labor market.… |
Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:31:43 GMT)Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Altera among the first to trial EDA giant's AI chip design agentThe idea of machines that can build even better machines sounds like sci-fi, but the concept is becoming a reality as companies like Cadence tap into generative AI to design and validate next-gen processors that also use AI.… |
AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:55:12 GMT)Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warnAI agents can shop for you, program for you, and, if you're feeling bold, chat for you in a messaging app. But beware: attackers can use malicious prompts in chat to trick an AI agent into generating a data-leaking URL, which link previews may fetch automatically.… |
Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:25:14 GMT)CFO and general counsel both step downIBM services spin-out Kyndryl said it was reviewing its accounting practices after it announced revenue below market expectations and the departure of its CFO.… |
AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:55:24 GMT)As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completionAPRICOT 2026 After years of strife, the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is weeks away from signing off on a budget and action plan, activity that one of the organization’s newly appointed executives believes demonstrates it is back on track.… |
Trump to hyperscalers: your datacenters, your power bill - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:18:45 GMT)As communities push back on utility costs, White House tells Big Tech to fund their own AI expansionThe Trump administration continues its AI push, working to defuse public opposition to datacenter energy and water consumption - while dangling a promise to exempt hyperscalers from chip tariffs to help them stock their facilities with GPUs and accelerators.… |
Microsoft dials up the nagging in Windows, calls it security - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:05:34 GMT)More prompts when apps and agents roam around a user's systemUpdated Microsoft is introducing a raft of Windows security features that users and administrators alike might assume are already part of the operating system.… |
Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:01:13 GMT)Survey finds nine in ten customers concerned as pricing changes push many toward open source alternativesConcerns over changes to Oracle's Java licensing strategy are hitting more than nine out of ten users as businesses struggle to adapt to the regime, according to research.… |
Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:43:28 GMT)Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industrySingapore spent almost a year flushing a suspected China-linked espionage crew out of its telecom networks in what officials describe as the country's largest cyber defense operation to date.… |
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:39:44 GMT)Slowdowns, outages, and Copilot problems afflict code shackScarcely a day goes by without an outage at a cloud service. Forget five nines – the way things are going, one nine is looking like an ambitious goal.… |
Apple, Google agree to loosen grip on UK app stores - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:34:21 GMT)Competition watchdog secures promises on approvals, rankings, and platform accessApple and Google have pledged to change how their app stores operate in the UK following scrutiny from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is trying to curb their control over the app distribution pipelines feeding UK phones.… |
AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:56:55 GMT)Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and moreAPRICOT 2026 Indonesia's Universitas Islam conducted experiments that found using generative AI vastly reduces the cognitive load on network pros during IPv4 to IPv6 migrations, but that organizations may not be ready for both AI and the new network protocol.… |
Nearly 17,000 Volvo staff dinged in supplier breach - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:09:10 GMT)HR outsourcer Conduent confirms intruders accessed benefits-related records tied to US personnelNearly 17,000 Volvo employees had their personal data exposed after cybercriminals breached Conduent, an outsourcing giant that handles workforce benefits and back-office services.… |
Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031 - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:45:11 GMT)AI, sovereignty drives continental drift of datacenter capacityLondon will lose its dominance in colocation datacenters this decade with Frankfurt claiming the top spot by 2031, according to the European Data Centre Association (EUDCA).… |
British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:00:12 GMT)Troops fitted with new comms kit as part of Project ASGARDBritish soldiers are to get an array of AI-ready kit that should mean they don't have to wait to see the "whites of their eyes" before pulling the trigger.… |
Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:15:11 GMT)Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fearsEdinburgh councillors have torpedoed plans for a massive "green" AI datacenter, voting it down despite city planners recommending approval.… |
Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:30:09 GMT)Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASICAs AI training and inference clusters grow larger, they require bigger, higher-bandwidth networks to feed them. With the introduction of the Silicon One G300 this week, Cisco now has a 102.4 Tbps monster to challenge Broadcom's Tomahawk 6 and Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics.… |
Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:47:45 GMT)Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complexSystems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.… |
Yahoo<em>!</em> Japan<em>!</em> and <em>!</em> Line<em>!</em> to<em>!</em> merge<em>!</em> systems<em>!</em> into<em>!</em> massive<em>!</em> private<em>!</em> cloud<em>!</em> - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:58:14 GMT)Just the sort of project that screams ‘years of delays and blowouts’, but Asian giant thinks it can beat Silicon Valley at its own gameLY Corporation, the Korean web giant that combines Yahoo! Japan and regional messaging colossus LINE, will try to build a unified private cloud for the brands, adopt AIOps, and get it all done in three years.… |
OpenAI introduces ads...for the people! - (pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:03:44 GMT)ChatGPT starts showing marketing messages in the USOpenAI said on Monday it has begun testing ads in ChatGPT, one day after being lampooned for its chatbot ad plans in rival Anthropic's Super Bowl commercial.… |
Microsoft boffins figured out how to break LLM safety guardrails with one simple prompt - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:27:01 GMT)Chaos-inciting fake news right this wayA single, unlabeled training prompt can break LLMs' safety behavior, according to Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and colleagues. They published a research paper that detailed how this prompt, "Create a fake news article that could lead to panic or chaos," removed 15 different language models' safety alignments.… |
Someone's attacking SolarWinds WHD to steal high‑privilege credentials - but we don't know who or how - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:54:56 GMT)So many CVEs, so little timeDigital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims' IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according to Microsoft researchers.… |
Google soaks up 1GW of Texas sunshine to power $185B AI spending spree - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:23:29 GMT)TotalEnergies PPA to supply 28TWh of electricity over next 15 years, weather permitting of courseLet's hope it's always sunny ... in Texas, at least for Google's sake. The Chocolate Factory plans to plow as much as $185 billion into new datacenters filled to the brim with the fastest AI accelerators money can buy in 2026. That means it's going to need a whole lot more power, and a decent chunk of it looks like it'll be solar.… |
AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:58:02 GMT)And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right detailsHealthcare researchers have found that AI chatbots could put patients at risk by giving shoddy medical advice.… |
