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AI agents are 'gullible' and easy to turn into your minions - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:50:06 GMT)Zenity CTO demos 0-click AI agent exploits on stage at RSACRSA 2026 There's a very simple reason why just about every enterprise AI agent is vulnerable to zero-click attacks, according to Michael Bargury, CTO of AI security company Zenity.… |
SoftBank to build massive AI datacenter on former US nuclear weapons site - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:29:23 GMT)10GW server farm, 10GW of new generation, and $4.2bn grid upgrade. And someone else is paying for the uranium cleanupSoftbank's SB Energy is redeveloping Department of Energy (DoE) land in Ohio for a massive datacenter campus, adding extra generation facilities and power infrastructure alongside it.… |
Forget drones – the US Army just took delivery of a self-flying Black Hawk helicopter - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:22:17 GMT)Expendable military drones are so 2025The US Army just took receipt of what may be the coolest unmanned drone ever flown by the military: A full-sized Black Hawk helicopter. … |
Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:13:37 GMT)Broader platform coverage lands, if developers can tolerate the rough edgesAvaloniaUI has previewed MAUI support for Linux and WebAssembly browser applications — platforms Microsoft's own cross-platform .NET framework lacks — but low adoption and persistent bugs are likely to constrain uptake.… |
Google unleashes Gemini AI agents on the dark web - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:05:09 GMT)Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracyGoogle's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.… |
Smooth criminals talking their way into cloud environments, Google says - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:00:10 GMT)Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-insVoice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.… |
SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:29:14 GMT)In space, no one can hear you being pettySpaceX has fired back at Amazon with a letter to the US telecoms regulator, after Amazon objected to its plans for orbiting datacenters.… |
Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:45:28 GMT)US analytics firm handed access to sensitive intel, raising yet more questions about vendor lock-inUS data miner Palantir has quietly landed inside the UK's financial watchdog, plugging into a trove of sensitive data as Whitehall simultaneously insists it wants to wean itself off exactly this kind of dependency.… |
Intel's Core Ultra 270K, 250K Plus are an appeal to cash-strapped PC enthusiasts - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:10 GMT)More cores, higher clocks, and lower prices? What's not to like?Review It's a tough time to be a PC enthusiast. Between the memory crunch and the AI boom driving up prices on storage, DDR5, and GPUs, it's gotten prohibitively expensive to build a PC.… |
US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor – then came the data leak - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:33:15 GMT)Trio-Tech International initially said hack wasn't 'material,' but then stolen data was publishedTrio-Tech International initially shrugged off a ransomware attack at a Singapore subsidiary as immaterial, only to reverse course days later after discovering stolen data had been disclosed.… |
RSAC 2026: Uncle Sam backs out, and AI agents are everywhere - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:24:50 GMT)Infosec pros descend on San Franciscokettle When El Reg cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons joins infosec industry colleagues in San Francisco for RSAC 2026 this week, she's expecting agentic AI to be on everyone's lips - at least those who aren't busy gossiping about the lack of presence from any representatives of the US federal government.… |
Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:24:37 GMT)The era of reliability begins... right after this out-of-band patchMicrosoft has released an out-of-band update to resolve bugs introduced by a Windows patch just days after promising improved reliability.… |
NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle' - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:01:13 GMT)Draft Request for Proposals says you can move shuttle orbiter but you cannot break itNASA has issued a draft Request for Proposals to move a flown space vehicle, a step some lawmakers see as progress toward relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia to Houston, Texas.… |
The drone swarm is coming, and NATO air defenses are too expensive to cope - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:14:12 GMT)Ukraine's battlefield lessons show quantity and affordability now trump exquisite hardwareNATO is unprepared to deal with attacks by cheap, mass-produced drones and urgently needs layered, affordable air defense systems to counter the threat, taking a cue from the experience gained by Ukrainian forces over the past four years.… |
CMA dithers on cloud probe as Microsoft's meter runs on taxpayer dime - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:31:08 GMT)Every month of 'careful consideration' is another month Redmond laughs all the way to the bankHere's the uncomfortable truth: every week the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) hesitates on its decision on the outcome of its public cloud services market investigation, the meter keeps running and taxpayers continue to foot the bill.… |
Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:02:32 GMT)Your instinctive revulsion is spot on. Follow your noseOpinion Science is at its best when it makes manifest radical ideas that change our worldview. This is the flag all sane people salute, under which we march to war. Yet in our hearts, we know that the very tastiest science is that which confirms our prejudices and validates what we've known all along. Cornell University has just served up a plate of the finest yet. Tuck in.… |
When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:15:10 GMT)National Audit Office warns government has little idea of how to respond in the event of a major solar stormThe UK's National Audit Office (NAO) has warned the country is underprepared for a severe space weather event.… |
Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:30:12 GMT)First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of faceWho, Me? Monday is upon us, but before you use the new week to explore opportunity and adventure, The Register presents a new installment of Who, Me? It's our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of flops, failures, and foul-ups.… |
Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics' - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:40:41 GMT)Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add upElon Musk has put Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI in harness to build a chip fabrication outfit called "Terafab" capable of producing a terawatt's worth of computing power each year, then send most of it into space.… |
Microsoft: Removing some Copilots will improve Windows 11 - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:34:30 GMT)'Doze boss admits quality is down, promises smaller memory footprint and fixes for many well-known issuesMicrosoft has acknowledged that it needs to improve the quality of Windows 11 and outlined its plan to get the job done.… |
Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:43:26 GMT)PLUS: Singtel’s triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more!Asia In Brief Australia’s government on Monday announced a set of datacenter “expectations” to guide would-be bit barn builders who contemplate breaking ground down under.… |
Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks - (pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:12:06 GMT)PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!Infosec In Brief Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts and conduct phishing attacks, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last Friday.… |
CERN eggheads burn AI into silicon to stem data deluge - (pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:11:13 GMT)The operating system of the universe isn’t going to debug itselffeature CERN is nothing like today's agentic AI jockeys, who mostly rely on pre-set weights and generic TPUs and GPUs to generate their slop. CERN burns custom nanosecond-speed AI into the silicon itself just to eliminate excess data.… |
Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor - (pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:10:10 GMT)Decades of data suggest people who stick to a couple of brews fare better in terms of gray matterA decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it could also be quietly helping your brain hold it together.… |
Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat - (pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:30:07 GMT)Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flowsThe Free Software Foundation Europe says its electronic-payments provider Nexi Group unexpectedly "cancelled" its account – cutting the charity off from around 450 donors.… |
Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:07:17 GMT)Rust security maintainers contend Nadim Kobeissi's vulnerability claims are too muchSince February, cryptographer Nadim Kobeissi has been trying to get code fixes applied to Rust cryptography libraries to address what he says are critical bugs. For his efforts, he's been dismissed, ignored, and banned from Rust security channels.… |
Sorry, Amazon, you couldn't pick a worse time to bring a phone to market: IDC analyst - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:20:02 GMT)The market is contractingRight product, wrong time? Amazon is reported to be developing a new smartphone, its first since 2014, and, according to industry tracker IDC, it will face entrenched competition with better products and a market that is expected to contract by double digits.… |
Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:15:34 GMT)Just the team, not the techSalesforce's Agentforce team is getting an infusion of new talent by hiring the team behind Clockwise, a calendar scheduling app, but the app itself isn't sticking around.… |
WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:40:04 GMT)Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hostsWhatever OS you run, you have a better chance to run non-native apps. Running Linux virtualized on Windows is set to speed up slightly, and so is running Windows apps on top of 64-bit Linux and macOS.… |
Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:21:40 GMT)SpaceX's still-not-quite-orbital rocket tapped as lunar taxi. Musk's minicab anyone?NASA is reportedly considering using SpaceX's Starship to transport the Orion capsule to the Moon, with some sources calling it a done deal.… |
Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:37:00 GMT)OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're luckyMicrosoft has broken account sign-ins in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 with a recent update, causing error messages in apps like OneDrive and Office.… |
UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:35:25 GMT)Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new researchA UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a watchlist database.… |
Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:07:26 GMT)Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyondThe US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, including traffic bursts topping 30 terabits per second.… |
Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:42:10 GMT)Lack of clear criteria risks encouraging firms to lean on state support instead of worrying about insuranceThe UK's cyber watchdog has warned that the government's £1.5 billion bailout of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) risks setting a troubling precedent for how Britain handles major cyber crises.… |
Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:57:07 GMT)Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controlsA co-founder of Supermicro is among three people charged with diverting servers fitted with Nvidia GPUs worth $2.5 billion to Chinese customers in violation of US export controls.… |
UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:06:13 GMT)Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clauseThe UK government has promised a different approach to tech procurement following the award of controversial contracts to Palantir.… |
Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:15:14 GMT)Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks aroundOpinion Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a price estimate - something it said was due to decisions yet to be taken on the scheme's scope - or how long the government would keep "audit trail" records of ID checks.… |
Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:30:07 GMT)Beats getting roasted on the mailing listAI is coming to the Linux kernel in the form of a code review system - not code submissions.… |
While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job? - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:30:11 GMT)He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USBOn Call Each Friday The Register offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.… |
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:14:47 GMT)‘Project Sunrise’ needs a network that doesn’t exist, a rocket that’s hardly flown, and FCC approvalJeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has applied to launch up to 51,600 datacenter satellites.… |
Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:16:30 GMT)Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck’s human mods couldn’t join the dotsMeta has revealed it’s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than humans.… |
Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and may always be - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:25:30 GMT)Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to competeChinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival products, but believes it can build a mutually optimized stack that makes performance gaps moot.… |
Decoding Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:41:36 GMT)From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kitGTC DEEP DIVE At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang finally addressed a $20 billion question he’s dodged for months: Why spend so much to license AI chip startup Groq’s tech and hire away its engineers rather than build it themselves?… |
OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:13:00 GMT)Deal helps company build out its Codex teamIn a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for its Codex programming agent.… |
Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:30:49 GMT)Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offlineThere is enough evidence going back far enough that it's reasonable to conclude social media platforms are responsible for population-level mental health harms. … |
Unknown attackers exploit yet another critical SharePoint bug - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:54:19 GMT)Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next?Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.… |
Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:30:06 GMT)Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safetyIt turns out you won't be limited to Google-verified apps and developers on Android after all. In the face of sustained community dissatisfaction with its developer verification requirement, Google has given Android users an out.… |
'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:07:32 GMT)CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choice.… |
Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:18:39 GMT)Better than seismometers?Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.… |
GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:54:01 GMT)Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less invisible, unless you look for an options button on the login screen.… |
