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Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:28:37 GMT)E7 arrives with plenty of AI and not much of a discount. Got to keep those shareholders happyMicrosoft has finally confirmed that its AI-centric E7 subscription tier - where it licenses AI agent agents like employees - will debut on May 1 for an eye-watering $99 per user per month (pupm).… |
EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:02:48 GMT)An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addressesExclusive ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that encrypted and copied user data from its cloud systems.… |
MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:45:51 GMT)But questions remain over long-term commitment to clustering tech in open sourceAfter a couple of years of relative calm, the relationship between MariaDB and its open source foundation was ruffled in February, leaving observers with a few unanswered questions.… |
LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2 - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:19:08 GMT)Plain-text fans rejoice as Writer gains native CommonMark import and exportMarkdown has been around for more than 20 years, but native support in LibreOffice might suddenly help to make it viable for more people.… |
Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:40:22 GMT)Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan DeckerFormer British deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg has landed a board seat at UK-based neocloud Nscale, alongside fellow ex-Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg and former president of Yahoo Susan Decker.… |
Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:08:28 GMT)Two-week deadline to fraudsters to fess up or have their faces plastered across every screen in the countryDutch national police are taking a novel stand against scammers - 100 suspects now have less than two weeks to hand themselves in or face public shaming.… |
Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:40:53 GMT)Dutch spies flag large-scale campaign to hijack secure messaging accountsRussian-linked hackers are trying to break into the Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government officials, journalists, and military personnel globally – not by cracking encryption, but by simply tricking people into handing over the keys.… |
NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:08:43 GMT)Vulcan rocket hardware drafted in amid Artemis reshuffle but still no word on landerNASA has selected United Launch Alliance's Centaur V upper stage for the Artemis missions that aim to return astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time since 1972.… |
Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:58:46 GMT)This isn't just a nostalgia trip – billions of legacy microcontrollers may be at riskAI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example.… |
Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:14:52 GMT)UK government slams comments as 'sickening and irresponsible'Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is once again under investigation after it began posting explicit and derogatory remarks about historic football disasters when prompted by users on X.… |
Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:30:07 GMT)Atomic clocks will tell you when your Waymo is lateThe British government is to pour £180 million into ensuring the UK keeps up with the times.… |
UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:15:14 GMT)Gargantuan ERP and HR overhaul has committed around £1.7B and affects nearly half a million public workersOpinion On the eve of its fifth birthday, the UK's Shared Services Strategy for Government got a couple of presents. With around £1.7 billion already committed to tech suppliers and a 2028 deadline looming, the 450,000 civil servants and military personnel set to depend on these systems might wonder what was in store.… |
Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:30:13 GMT)Britain's Ministry of Defence wants a counter-drone system designed, contracted, and delivered within weeksBritain's Royal Navy is urgently seeking a ship-based counter-drone system and recent world events likely explain why.… |
Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:30:07 GMT)Ignorance really was the way to achieve blissWho, Me? Welcome to another working week, and another installment of "Who, Me?" – a weekly reader-contributed column that unearths your errors and reveals how you rebounded afterwards.… |
Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:12:23 GMT)Tech-adjacent Dyson, Epson, and Whoop also have a crackWorld War Fee Tech companies have started suing the US government to seek repayment of tariffs that the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional.… |
NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:56:30 GMT)You gotta start somewhere, and in this case astroboffins would have been nowhere without help from intrepid volunteersNASA has published new analysis of its 2022 planetary defense test that suggests the mission slowed down the target asteroids, albeit infinitesimally.… |
Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:31:10 GMT)Cyber is no longer the hush-hush thing it used to be, as team Trump invades Iran with hackers taking the leadKettle Unlike previous military conflicts, the cyber domain has been front and center since the Trump administration invaded Iran, upending the traditionally quiet role played by hackers in military conflicts.… |
Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP - (pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:13:48 GMT)PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And moreChina’s Ministry of Commerce has warned of further disruption to the global semiconductor supply chain after Dutch chipmaker Nexperia cut access to some of its systems for Chinese staff.… |
FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools - (pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:14:54 GMT)PLUS: Europol takes down two crime gangs; LastPass users phished (again); Crooks increase crypto hauls; And moreInfosec In Brief The FBI is investigating a breach of its systems which reportedly affected systems related to wiretapping and surveillance.… |
AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work - (pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:00:06 GMT)Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reginterview AI agents allow cybercriminals and nation-state hackers to outsource the "janitorial-type work" needed to plan and carry out cyberattacks, according to Sherrod DeGrippo, Microsoft's GM of global threat intelligence. North Korea is taking advantage.… |
Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom - (pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:30:06 GMT)What hath science wrought?A clump of living human brain cells wired into a silicon chip has answered the internet's most important computing question: yes, it can run Doom.… |
Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics - (pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:12:13 GMT)Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profitsfeature By now you've probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It's an apt description: power goes in and tokens come out.… |
Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services - (pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:01:07 GMT)'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall'Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people questioned by pollster Ipsos.… |
60 years since humanity first touched the surface of another planet - (pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:30:15 GMT)Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted VenusIt is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.… |
Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids - (pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:51:11 GMT)Meta supposedly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by NvidiaOpenAI and compute partner Oracle have reportedly abandoned a planned expansion of their flagship Stargate datacenter, after negotiations were stalled by financing and Sam Altman's apparent fear of commitment.… |
Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact - (pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:07:18 GMT)It's the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fineAnthropic economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory report that AI is not eliminating as many jobs as experts have predicted. … |
Don’t blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:24:00 GMT)US unemployment ticked up to 4.4%The US economy shed 92,000 jobs in February, a dramatic downturn from analyst expectations that it would add about 50,000 jobs. The shortfall stoked growing fears that AI could be contributing to higher unemployment.… |
Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:41:44 GMT)Now if only device makers would deliver higher quality componentsThanks to Anthropic's AI and its bug-detecting abilities, Firefox users can now enjoy stronger security. Unfortunately, if browser crashes rather than security flaws are the problem, Claude probably can't help.… |
Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:56:24 GMT)Steals SMS messages, location data, contacts … and delivers it to Hamas-linked crewHamas-linked attackers are dropping spyware disguised as an emergency-alert app on Israelis' smartphones via SMS messages, according to security researchers.… |
US state laws push age checks into the operating system - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:15:06 GMT)Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSSMany web sites, social media services, and other platforms require age verification on the theory that it will protect kids from seeing inappropriate content. But now some US states want to require the operating system itself to check your age and that could cause big headaches for FOSS vendors.… |
Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:04:48 GMT)Switchzilla says flaws could allow file overwrites or privilege escalationJust when network admins thought the Cisco SD-WAN patch queue might finally be shrinking, Switchzilla has confirmed miscreants are exploiting more vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN management software.… |
Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:37:50 GMT)Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court'AI giant Anthropic says that it has "no choice" but to sue the US government after being officially designated a supply chain risk to national security.… |
Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smack Moon in 2032, boffins confirm - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:35:17 GMT)Humanity and its neighbor safe from this menace at leastScientists have ruled out the possibility that the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 might hit the Moon on December 22, 2032.… |
Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:51:08 GMT)Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroadThe Trump administration is reportedly planning new restrictions on GPU exports, aimed not only at controlling who gets them, but at driving AI investment back into the US.… |
Microsoft spots ClickFix campaign getting users to self-pwn on Windows Terminal - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:37:12 GMT)Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselvesA new twist on the long-running ClickFix scam is now tricking Windows users into launching Windows Terminal and pasting malware into it themselves – handing the credential-stealing Lumma infostealer the keys to their browser vault.… |
UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:31:07 GMT)House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growthBritain's creative industries will face significant damage unless the government strengthens AI copyright law, according to a House of Lords committee.… |
Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027 - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:41:05 GMT)Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps upMicrosoft has delayed the opt-out phase for the new enterprise version of Outlook to 2027, giving administrators another 12 months to get ready for migration.… |
Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:02:55 GMT)FBI and French GIGN swoop on Saint Martin, John Daghita in cuffsThe son of a government contractor was arrested in the Caribbean after allegedly stealing more than $46 million in seized cryptocurrency from the US Marshals Service, the FBI says.… |
Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:45:14 GMT)Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAINorway's Forbrukerrådet consumer council is taking aim at the creeping enshittification of modern life in a 100-page report – and a splendid four-minute video which we highly recommend.… |
Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:38:06 GMT)Released from the curse of the update bork fairyMicrosoft has finally fixed a Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) bug it introduced in Windows 10's final update.… |
UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:27:03 GMT)It promised £1.15B… but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog saysThe UK's Treasury is yet to fully commit to joining a multi-billion pound ERP and HR shared services program it has agreed to fund, potentially slashing any resulting savings, according to a report from the National Audit Office.… |
Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000 - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:22:14 GMT)Attackers accessed systems holding data tied to millions of Oyster and contactless usersTransport for London has confirmed that a 2024 breach exposed the data of more than 7 million people – a far larger crowd than the few thousand customers originally warned that their details might be at risk.… |
UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:57:49 GMT)Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunalExclusive The UK's Department for Transport (DfT) is assembling government lawyers to fight the Information Commissioner's decision that it must release a document summarizing the lessons from the 2018 Gatwick drone chaos.… |
Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:01:46 GMT)OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrivedOpinion A week ago today, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he'd draw the same lines as Anthropic. By that night, he'd signed a Department of Defense deal that included no such AI protections. What's going on here?… |
Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:30:08 GMT)Discovering, and explaining, the bizarre cause was harder than the job he was sent to doOn Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of times when tech support turned troublesome.… |
Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:24:27 GMT)‘focusgroup’ has nothing to do with market research, offers devs faster coding and faster websites for everyoneMicrosoft has started a preview of technology that eases the task of developing websites with complex navigation elements that don’t need a pointing device to operate.… |
Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:33:44 GMT)Remember: Truth is the first casualty of warIranian publisher Fars News Agency, which is aligned with the country’s government, has claimed the drone strikes on Amazon Web Services’ Middle East datacenters were deliberate and had strategic significance.… |
China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:23:00 GMT)Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China’s scientists are sprinting aheadChina’s government has again made reducing reliance on imported digital technology a major goal.… |
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens - (pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:00:43 GMT)Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at riskEarlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license.… |
Google says spyware makers and China-linked groups dominated zero-day attacks last year - (pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:52:24 GMT)Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise techZero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached an all-time high last year, with China-linked cyber-espionage groups remaining the most prolific state-backed users, according to Google.… |
