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GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:00:22 GMT)After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slideMicrosoft's code hosting shack Github has published a lengthy mea culpa about its availability and reliability woes - one that includes the words "we are sorry."… |
GoDaddy customer claims registrar transferred 27-year-old domain without any security checks - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:09 GMT)32 phone calls, 17 email chains, a 5-day ordeal, and no help during the daddy of all stuffups, claim those affectedGoDaddy is currently investigating claims that it handed complete control of a valid 27-year-old domain to another customer, without requiring them to pass any authentication processes or upload any supporting documents.… |
AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:15:14 GMT)Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIsSAP is prohibiting the use of its APIs to integrate with AI systems outside its endorsed architectures, raising concerns that it is locking out third-party AI tools from customers' SAP data.… |
Bork in Prague: SUSE's keynote gods demand their tribute - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:30:10 GMT)Linux vendor touts European independence while rate limits, Chromium popups, and cold sparks steal the showBORK!BORK!BORK! The keynote gods are a fickle bunch, as SUSE discovered at its annual shindig in Prague. What should have been a slick edge demo instead served up error pages to unsuspecting attendees, while keynote presentations attracted some unwelcome visitors.… |
30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:32:14 GMT)Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClawThirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.… |
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’ - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:46:20 GMT)Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhereHashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.… |
Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’ - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:15:26 GMT)Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our speciesYour next holiday memory might involve humanoid robots losing your luggage.… |
The future of software development: Now with less software development - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:00:29 GMT)At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AIMore than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.… |
Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:58:58 GMT)No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights onClose on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.… |
Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:46:57 GMT)PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the roleThe US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. … |
OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:21:50 GMT)Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near youOpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.… |
Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:36:31 GMT)'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.… |
Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:10:21 GMT)DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projectsAs the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.… |
Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:51:08 GMT)Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinksIf you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War II started.… |
IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:18:47 GMT)80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flagsIBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.… |
Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:06:59 GMT)Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise marketAmazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.… |
Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:15:07 GMT)Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dumpUpdated Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.… |
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:30:10 GMT)That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashedNASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.… |
Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:07 GMT)RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassisTenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.… |
Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:30:12 GMT)DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as GeminiThose pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services.… |
UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:24:53 GMT)£125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to liveLater today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k a year is worth the trouble of tackling a technological landscape swamped by colliding projects.… |
Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:14:28 GMT)Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories growTwo men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.… |
Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change' - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:32:32 GMT)Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for usersUsers of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services.… |
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:07 GMT)Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its optionsEuropean-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.… |
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:15:10 GMT)Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinatingOpinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.… |
UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:30:09 GMT)Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or madeThe UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.… |
Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:20:24 GMT)Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went homeAustralia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.… |
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:34:57 GMT)Headcounts, however, are mostly holding upAI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants… |
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:09:58 GMT)Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitionsChina has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.… |
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis - (pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:31:01 GMT)The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an endMicrosoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.… |
Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:33:51 GMT)Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dumpSoftware security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.… |
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:29:25 GMT)Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe codingJer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. … |
The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:26:40 GMT)After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deckThe US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.… |
The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:58:06 GMT)They were doing it in Texas...Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.… |
Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:53:16 GMT)Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filingsDigital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.… |
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:24:08 GMT)Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use?South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.… |
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:45:07 GMT)No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friendIt's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead - sort of - with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. … |
AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:20:09 GMT)Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agentsWhile AI agents have moved from experimental tools to customer-facing workers in a matter of months, the next challenge is governance and reliability once those agents touch real money, real shoppers, and real creative output.… |
Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:47:41 GMT)Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on handWith AI demand growing, Facebook parent Meta is looking for new ways to power its datacenters, with one ambitious project pledging to send solar power down from orbit. Another agreement offers Meta the opportunity to store enough power to keep its bit barns going, even when the grid is over capacity or down.… |
Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:14:54 GMT)No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other cloudsOnce tied tightly together, Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their agreement, making the Windows giant's license non-exclusive. In exchange, Microsoft will no longer owe OpenAI a revenue share.… |
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:57:07 GMT)Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the teamUpdated SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than 18 months, kicking off what could be a busy time for the vehicle.… |
Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:03:09 GMT)Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptorsThe United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.… |
Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:22:58 GMT)Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grewCybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from recruiter Harvey Nash.… |
Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:34:09 GMT)Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million recordsA home security biz getting digitally burgled is not a great look - but that's exactly where ADT finds itself. The company has confirmed a cyber intrusion following an extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters crew, which claims to have made off with more than 10 million records.… |
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:19:25 GMT)Keep the patches away for as long as you likeMicrosoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like.… |
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:12:06 GMT)Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad dayBork!Bork!Bork! From the beginning of time, there has always been Bork. Lurking within the heart of this ancient rock is not a precious crystal or a rare fossil. No, it's a Raspberry Pi desktop and dialog.… |
ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:35:08 GMT)UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runsThe UK's data watchdog is without its chief after John Edwards stepped aside from the Information Commissioner's Office while an independent workplace investigation examines unspecified HR matters.… |
Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:15:14 GMT)Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trialHMRC is betting big on Microsoft Copilot, rolling it out to tens of thousands of staff after a Whitehall trial estimated it saved each user roughly 26 minutes of time per day.… |
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:30:15 GMT)AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny thatOpinion In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Mythos is a set of beliefs of obscure origin which are incompatible with reality.… |
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:00:09 GMT)There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODsWho, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column that shares your stories of mistakes, occasional malice, and how you came out the other side.… |
