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Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:11:36 GMT)Iranian worshippers got notifications saying 'help has arrived'Imagine your favorite app encouraging you to surrender during a war. That's happening right now in Iran.… |
Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:45:11 GMT)Don't expect to see compatible hardware before 2027GrapheneOS is headed to Motorola smartphones in 2027, pending hardware from the Lenovo-owned brand that satisfies the privacy-focused Android fork's requirements.… |
US struck Iran with copies of its own drones - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:17:15 GMT)Iran's own technology reverse engineered and used against it.The Pentagon has confirmed that US forces struck Iranian targets using weapons that are copies of Iran's own Shahed 136 suicide drones.… |
UK Businesses told to brace cyber defenses amid Iran conflict risk - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:44:26 GMT)NCSC urges all to review posture as escalating tensions increase risk of indirect digital spilloverThe UK's cybersecurity agency is warning British organizations to brace for potential digital blowback as the Middle East conflict spills further into the online world.… |
Qualcomm, Nvidia ready for 'AI-native' 6G, if only the world knew what it was - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:17:29 GMT)Meanwhile, formal 6G specs are still in the worksIt seems like just yesterday that the 5G rollout started. Now, at Mobile World Congress, major companies are already talking about commercializing 6G. Never mind that binding 6G standards haven't been nailed down yet.… |
Singapore eyes barge-based hydrogen power for datacenters - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:47:07 GMT)Saves real estate by putting the power on the waterDatacenters increasingly want dedicated power, and Singapore has a unique solution. Bridge Data Centres (BDC) and Concord New Energy (CNE) are working to put hydrogen power generators on barges, saying that this arrangement is particularly suited to the local environment.… |
Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:44:55 GMT)Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrationsThe Go team has approved generic methods, reversing a longstanding position in the language's FAQ. The proposal, from Go co-designer Robert Griesemer, now moves to implementation.… |
Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:14:55 GMT)Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince your Mac that upgrading is against policy.Averse to "liquid glass"? Are you happy enough with your Mac as it is? Try this local policy and banish those upgrade nag screens for a few months.… |
Fly me to the Moon: NASA reshuffles the Artemis card deck - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:06:39 GMT)Artemis III now to follow in Apollo 9's footsteps, 2028 landing still planned for Artemis IVNASA has reshuffled its Artemis program, pushing the first crewed lunar landing in more than half a century back to Artemis IV, with Artemis III performing a check-out of the lunar lander in Earth orbit.… |
SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:15:10 GMT)A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkidsData warehousing and analytics biz Teradata and SAP have ended their long-running legal dispute after the German ERP vendor agreed to cough up $480 million to bring the fighting to a close.… |
Memory scalpers hunt scarce DRAM with bot blitz - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:00:06 GMT)We can remember it for you wholesale, and sell it back to you for big bucksWeb scraping bots are increasing the pressure on the tech supply chain by scouring sites for DRAM, so their minders can snap up increasingly scarce inventory and resell it for a quick profit.… |
Scammers try to SIM-swap Dubai citizens hours after Iranian missile strikes - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:42:52 GMT)Vulnerable citizens targeted by criminals purporting to represent fake police crisis departmentScammers targeted Dubai citizens mere hours after missiles struck the city, attempting to gain access to their bank accounts, police have warned.… |
Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:33:05 GMT)More than a fifth of servers still on Windows Server 2016Windows 11 has leapt ahead of Windows 10 in market share, according to the latest Statcounter figures.… |
Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:45:08 GMT)A handy feature you can already try in recent versionsThe new beta of the next version of Firefox lets you view two web pages side by side, with a split you can drag with your mouse.… |
Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:58:15 GMT)Official monitoring shows connectivity collapsing to near-zeroIran's internet has plunged into a near-total blackout, with traffic down to around 1 percent of normal levels and connectivity described as "close to zero" as authorities curb access amid widening regional conflict.… |
Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:13:06 GMT)Soon turned out, we had a heart of glassOpinion There is more joy in heaven over a single report of genuinely new technology than in a thousand desperate AI marketing pitches. What the angels will make of Microsoft's Project Silica, a mixture of the two, is less clear.… |
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:30:13 GMT)Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with CollaboraThe Document Foundation (TDF) has pulled LibreOffice Online out of its "attic" – its term for retired projects – and is resuming development.… |
Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:30:15 GMT)Oh, the contortions required to debug strange errors!Who, Me? A weekend of unwinding is behind us, so The Register returns to work on Monday with a fresh installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that reveals how you got in a tangle, and then extricated yourself.… |
OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:27:53 GMT)Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrailsOpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of War (DoW) that allows use of its advanced AI systems in classified environments, and urged the Pentagon to make the same terms available to its rivals.… |
UK government's Vulnerability Monitoring System is working - fixes flow far faster - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:27:41 GMT)PLUS: Firefox adds XSS protection; Leadership turnover at CISA; FTC exempts some data collectionInfosec In Brief DNS vulnerabilities are being addressed 84 percent faster in the UK public sector thanks to an automated vulnerability scanning system established as part of a program kicked off early last year.… |
South Korea’s tax office apologizes for leaking seed phrase to seized crypto - (pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:51:38 GMT)Went from triumph at having busted tax dodgers to embarrassment at losing the proceedsSouth Korea’s National Tax Service has apologized after it leaked passwords to a stash of stolen crypto, which parties unknown used to make off with the digi-cash.… |
Lenovo shows off snap-together laptop with removable keyboard, screen, and ports - (pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:01:07 GMT)New ThinkPads also come in blue, get perfect fixability scoreIf you own a desktop computer, you're used to swapping parts and peripherals around, but most laptops are closed boxes with few ways to modify them. Lenovo's new ThinkBook Modular AI PC concept shows what happens when you can remove a screen, a keyboard, and even blocks of ports from a mobile PC.… |
AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war - (pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:49:04 GMT)PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!Asia In brief One of Amazon Web Services’ availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is offline after the facility was hit by unknown objects.… |
OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw - (pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:30:06 GMT)A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platformInterview Ideally, you shouldn't have to defend yourself against your own AI agent. But we don't live in an ideal world and an unrestrained agent can cause a ton of damage.… |
SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again - (pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:38:12 GMT)Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycleOpinion Say goodbye to the SaaS-pocalypse theory, which posits that advances in AI will bring the software-as-a-service market to its knees. Say hello to "a feedback loop with no natural brake." Or doomster porn, as others would have it.… |
Denizens of DEF CON are 'fed up with government' - (pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:11:10 GMT)Jake Braun thinks hackers need to create a 'Digital arsenal of democracy' to defend us allInterview Hackers – especially Jake Braun – are "fed up with government."… |
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every download - (pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:22:11 GMT)Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networksOpinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit, and Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn't have thought that was possible, but here I am.… |
Double whammy: Steaelite RAT bundles data theft, ransomware in one evil tool - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:59:15 GMT)Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knifeA new remote access trojan (RAT) being sold on cybercrime networks enables double extortion attacks on Windows machines by bundling ransomware and data theft, along with credential and cryptocurrency stealers, live surveillance, and a whole host of other illicit capabilities, all controllable from a centralized dashboard.… |
Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:39:31 GMT)Without a single 'You're Fired' jokeupdated President Trump has escalated Anthropic's dispute with the Defense Department with a social media post ordering the entire federal government purge the company's software from its systems. … |
PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:03:19 GMT)'This is perhaps the biggest challenge the industry has faced since its inception'The next wave of smartphones and PCs will have less memory and fewer capabilities, yet are likely to cost consumers 14 percent more as AI ambitions eat all available memory supplies, according to researchers at IDC.… |
Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:08:11 GMT)ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving dealsThe headlines say OpenAI on Friday announced $110 billion in new investment from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, though terms and conditions apply.… |
Suspected Nork digital intruders caught breaking into US healthcare, education orgs - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:59:20 GMT)Who is knocking at the Dohdoor?Digital intruders with possible links to North Korea have been infecting US education and healthcare sectors with a never-before-seen backdoor since at least December, according to security researchers.… |
Oak Ridge spawns institute to curb AI datacenter power surge - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:56:06 GMT)Lab aims to link power, cooling, and workload management to ease strain on the US gridOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hoping to turn its technical expertise to the problem of growing electricity demand from AI datacenters.… |
Microsoft HoloLens finds second home in the military after failing battlefield tests - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:07:53 GMT)Let’s hope air cargo checks don’t trigger the same headachesThe US Army's attempt to turn Microsoft HoloLens headsets into battlefield kit may have failed, but the AR goggles aren't going into the garbage. Instead, they're being repurposed for remote cargo inspection support.… |
Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:50:11 GMT)Are they shoe-ins for an award? Hard to sayIt is a sound evocative of high school: the characteristic squeak of sneakers on a basketball court. UK readers may, however, be familiar with the same sound from their trainers while playing badminton.… |
Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:36:01 GMT)Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings?Vibe-coding platform Lovable has been accused of hosting apps riddled with vulnerabilities after saying users are responsible for addressing security issues flagged before publishing.… |
Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but attacks surged to record highs - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:15:08 GMT)Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebrandedRansomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.… |
French DIY etailer ManoMano admits customer data stolen - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:15:07 GMT)Crooks claim they helped themselves to over 37M accounts during January hit on subcontractorUpdated French online marketplace ManoMano is warning customers their personal data was siphoned off after a cyberattack hit one of its customer support subcontractors – and criminals are already claiming the haul is far larger than the company's carefully worded notice suggests.… |
Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027 - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:30:15 GMT)Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodesJapan's fledgling foundry biz Rapidus has secured funding of $1.7 billion to help it progress to mass production of 2nm semiconductors by 2027, making it a potential rival for Taiwan's TSMC.… |
Cops back Dutch telco Odido after second wave of ShinyHunters leaks - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:54:12 GMT)Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumpsThe Netherlands' national police is backing Odido's refusal to pay a ransom after ShinyHunters leaked a second round of records belonging to the telco.… |
50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:13:14 GMT)To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this yearAbout 140 datacenters are in the queue to be connected to Britain's power grid, and their combined energy requirements are estimated to be more than the current peak electricity use for the entire country.… |
Half of German-speaking SAP users set to blow past 2027 ECC support deadline - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:14:11 GMT)Most DSAG members willing to pay a premium to stay on legacy platform until 2030About half of German-speaking SAP users on its legacy ECC ERP system are set to ignore the 2027 support deadline, according to a survey of users in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.… |
Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:45:13 GMT)French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rulesSopra Steria is suing the UK government, alleging it accepted a bid from rival Capita for an outsourcing contract worth up to £958.7 million that it failed to recognize as too low to comply with procurement rules.… |
Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:15:09 GMT)Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANAIn the middle of a mammoth migration off SAP's legacy ERP systems, global snack giant Mondelēz has found an alternative to the German vendor's tech as the main platform for understanding its complex, fragmented business processes.… |
UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:30:09 GMT)Typing 8x more than your peers? You better have the work to show for itAvon and Somerset Police this week confirmed a former officer was dismissed after she was found weighing her laptop keyboard down with photo frames to simulate activity.… |
Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:30:07 GMT)'I was no longer field support. I was collateral'On Call Friday has arrived, bringing a promise of fleeting freedom – and a new instalment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that retells your tales of tech support incidents that became memorable for all the wrong reasons.… |
NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a client device for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:53:12 GMT)Dell also joins the alternative to Windows 365 Link funMicrosoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.… |
China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:10:06 GMT)Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world dominationThe Chinese agency that has accused the USA of cyberattacks on its own infrastructure to make Beijing look bad is back with another theory: Washington’s actions against cryptocurrency crooks are just attempts to dominate the global financial system.… |
Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:33:48 GMT)AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of WarAnthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it can’t agree to Uncle Sam’s contract demand to remove guardrails on its AI in part because the tech can’t be trusted not to harm American civilians and warfighters.… |
Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:33:20 GMT)One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of deathTwitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Block has announced it will fire 40 percent of staff – around 4,000 people – because new "intelligence tools" the company is implementing “can do more and do it better.”… |
