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Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:15:10 GMT)Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creatorsOne in five UK firms have already moved AI workloads abroad due to high energy costs, in findings likely to alarm a government counting on AI to drive economic growth.… |
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:30:11 GMT)Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investmentA day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner increased its growth forecasts for global IT spending by nearly three percentage points.… |
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:32:11 GMT)Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of securityThe Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software defenders.… |
Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:54:02 GMT)Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AIMeta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on employees’ work computers.… |
Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:16:57 GMT)Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyoneAnthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it’s only a test for a small number of users.… |
Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:06:58 GMT)John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have beenOPINION Apple's pending leadership transition affords the company a rare opportunity to return to its roots and once again serve as a source of inspiration instead of frustration.… |
Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:30:09 GMT)NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspaceState-sponsored cyberattacks from Chinese intelligence and military agencies display "an eye-watering level of sophistication," UK National Cyber Security Centre CEO Richard Horne is expected to say in a less-than-cheery opening speech to kick off its annual conference.… |
Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:52:38 GMT)Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux MintThe latest point release of Zorin OS is here, as an interesting alternative to Linux Mint for those still searching for a replacement for Windows 10 as the dust settles over the ruins.… |
Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:26:33 GMT)Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot'If a cyberattack leads to a death, that's murder. A former FBI cyber division chief urged the US Justice Department to consider felony homicide charges against ransomware actors when attacks on hospitals lead to patient deaths.… |
More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:30:50 GMT)CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patchAmerica's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes.… |
Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:35:39 GMT)Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overallThe US and Starlink lead the way in the still-young direct-to-device (D2D) satellite market, where the number of connections recorded by Ookla rose nearly 25 percent between July 2025 and March 2026.… |
macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:50:06 GMT)Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered upA ClickFix campaign targeting macOS users delivers an AppleScript-based infostealer that collects credentials and live session cookies from 14 browsers, 16 cryptocurrency wallets, and more than 200 extensions.… |
Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:27:15 GMT)Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashesA new version of the Bun JavaScript runtime and toolkit is out with enhanced testing support and improved memory management. The latter is a critical issue to devs and follows complaints of memory leaks causing problems in production.… |
The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:45:43 GMT)Change is glacial, but the direction is clearIt might look like a map of the London Underground designed by a madman, but Gartner's newly-completed DBMS Market Share Ranks: 2011-2025 has an important message. The change may be glacial, but (most of the) dominant database vendors are slowly losing their grip on the market.… |
Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:27 GMT)Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 millionThe third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same.… |
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:29:13 GMT)One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resumeBlue Origin's New Glenn loss of a satellite has been classed as a "mishap" by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), triggering a mandatory investigation.… |
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:00:13 GMT)An $899 CPU? In this economy?Review Ever since AMD's cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better. With the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (DE), we finally have our answer.… |
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:17:43 GMT)CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2MVercel's CEO reckons the crooks behind its recent breach likely had a helping hand from AI, saying the attackers moved with "surprising velocity" and a deep understanding of the company's infrastructure.… |
Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:30:15 GMT)Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affectedA Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screenshots of what they claimed was company video surveillance footage to a cybercrime forum.… |
Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:52:04 GMT)No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a littleLondon's Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city's pervasive shoplifting problem… and it doesn't rely on live facial recognition (LFR).… |
England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:13:11 GMT)90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperworkMinisters are moving to turn England's patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill in a Monday vote.… |
Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:15:12 GMT)Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffeeWindows has always had a built-in portal to the very recent past: Task Manager's CPU usage meter.… |
Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:30:10 GMT)Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stoleUK enterprise software consultancy The Adaptavist Group is investigating a security breach after an intruder logged in with stolen credentials, while a ransomware crew claims it grabbed far more than the company is currently admitting.… |
Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:37:42 GMT)Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolmentJapanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated devices and environments.… |
Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:21:36 GMT)And China is loving itIranian media is claiming that the US used backdoors and/or botnets to disable networking equipment during the current war, and Chinese state media is dining out on the allegations.… |
NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won’t be ready for Moon landing - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:04:07 GMT)Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the messThe NASA Office of Inspector General, the aerospace agency’s auditor, fears that work on next-generation spacesuits won’t finish in time to use them for the planned Artemis III Moon landing mission in 2028.… |
Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:42:49 GMT)Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.Microsoft's GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code hosting biz figures out how it can meet its service commitments without breaking the bank.… |
Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:26:12 GMT)A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reportsUPDATED Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read other users' sensitive info, including credentials, chat history, and source code. However, the company’s story keeps changing: First it attributed the publicly exposed info to "intentional behavior" and "unclear documentation," then threw bug-bounty service HackerOne under the bus.… |
Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:07:31 GMT)The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitionsIt’s been a weekend filled with dizzying changes in the boardroom at datacenter wannabe Fermi America as it hopes eventually to expand its West Texas campus to about 17 gigawatts of behind-the-meter generation capacity.… |
World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:23:36 GMT)Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at AppleHave you heard? Apple's Tim Cook is stepping down after 15 years leading the iMaker's business. He'll become executive chairman and hand the reins over to John Ternus, a senior VP of hardware engineering, effective September 1.… |
Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:25:11 GMT)Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefitWhen Rockland County, New York, approved nearly $77 million in tax breaks for JPMorgan Chase's datacenter expansion in 2024, no one showed up to object. Two years and a whole lot of bit barns in the news cycle later, government watchdogs are calling foul over the project's lone permanent job.… |
Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:56:55 GMT)Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU lawOne app should not modify another app without asking for and receiving your explicit consent. Yet Anthropic's Claude Desktop for macOS installs files that affect other vendors' applications without disclosure, even before those applications have been installed, and authorizes browser extensions without consent.… |
Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:34:05 GMT)Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon SoftwareThe feature list for Linux kernel 7.1 is taking shape, and a standout addition has already landed: a new read-write NTFS driver.… |
Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:22:17 GMT)Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currencyA Scottish man linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime crew has pleaded guilty in the US to a phishing and SIM-swap scheme that stole at least $8 million in cryptocurrency.… |
You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:29:29 GMT)It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'It's illegal and impractical to construct a nuclear power plant in your backyard. But a DIY tritium nuclear battery is far less dramatic - just don't expect any appreciable amount of energy from it.… |
Schmoozebots: Study finds flattery will get AI everywhere - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:07:14 GMT)Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocompleteA study into how humans interact with chatbots suggests the fastest way to make an LLM feel human isn't making it smarter – it's making it seem nicer.… |
One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:50:46 GMT)US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal ordersUpdated The European Commission has awarded four contracts designed to advance cloud sovereignty in the EU, but one uses services from S3NS, a joint venture between Thales and Google Cloud, raising questions about its real independence.… |
New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:24:54 GMT)Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowballGoogle has introduced a new Android command-line interface built specifically for AI agents, claiming a 70 percent cut in token usage and three times reduction in task completion time.… |
Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:15:06 GMT)Out-of-band or out of control?Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band update to address the restart loop that hit some Windows Server devices after its April update.… |
AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:38:39 GMT)Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say expertsUK AI datacenter capacity could migrate away from London as power shortages, planning constraints and reduced reliance on low-latency connections to financial firms make other locations more attractive.… |
UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:13:03 GMT)Companies get to keep IP developed for government projectsThe UK government is opening £80 million in AI procurement talks with tech firms, drawing on its £500 million sovereign capability fund.… |
HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:25:32 GMT)Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdownHP is quietly pulling the plug on its Teradici-derived remote desktop business, shelving HP Anyware and its zero client hardware barely a few years after betting big on the tech as the backbone of its hybrid work push.… |
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:49:32 GMT)Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong placeBlue Origin's New Glenn rocket nailed the landing this weekend, but failed at the crucial part of delivering a satellite to a usable orbit.… |
Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:27:13 GMT)£330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platformThe UK government is considering ending Palantir's involvement in a central NHS data platform after coming under fire from MPs, unions, and campaigners.… |
Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:23:41 GMT)Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy useMPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid into a bottleneck.… |
AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:25:07 GMT)We've been here before. This time, we may not get outOpinion Fans of the creative arts often find out where creators gather to talk among themselves, then sneak in to eavesdrop on what those masters of the art talk about. Golden insights, daring concepts, cutting-edge thinking? Not a bit. Gossip, if you're lucky. Travel miseries, if you're not. Mostly, they talk about money.… |
Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:31:13 GMT)Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incidentVercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess.… |
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:01:09 GMT)You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstromWho, Me? Welcome to yet another Monday, and therefore to this week's edition of Who, Me? For those unfamiliar, it's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace messes, and how you tried to clean them up without dirtying your career prospects.… |
NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:52:05 GMT)Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdownNASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working lives of the Voyager probes.… |
Indonesia’s game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:07:30 GMT)PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more!Asia In Brief Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has suspended the nation’s game rating system (IGRS) after claims the service leaked developer creds and video of unreleased games.… |
