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Attackers finally get around to exploiting critical Microsoft bug from 2024 - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:45:15 GMT)As if admins haven't had enough to do this weekIgnore patches at your own risk. According to Uncle Sam, a SQL injection flaw in Microsoft Configuration Manager patched in October 2024 is now being actively exploited, exposing unpatched businesses and government agencies to attack.… |
Trump's Genesis Mission gets its first set of 26 sure-to-succeed objectives - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:18:15 GMT)DoE bets AI can speed fusion, unlock decades of nuclear data, and probe fundamental physicsThe Trump administration has outlined the first 26 goals for its project to inject AI into the government's scientific research, and everything from securing critical minerals to discovering a unified theory of physics is on the table. … |
AMD climbs in desktop and server CPUs while Intel battles supply squeeze - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:45:51 GMT)Q4 figures reveal shifting market share across PCs and cloud infrastructureIntel continues to lose market share to rival AMD across server, desktop, and mobile processors, and this has been noticeable in PCs thanks to supply constraints on Chipzilla's processors.… |
Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:03:06 GMT)Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costsPrices for memory used in routers and set-top boxes are surging nearly sevenfold thanks to AI, raising fresh fears that the industry's silicon binge could leave telcos scrambling to get customers online.… |
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:38:08 GMT)Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warnsThe next blackout to plunge a G20 nation into chaos might not come courtesy of cybercriminals or bad weather, but from an AI system tripping over its own shoelaces.… |
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:26:54 GMT)Bitbarn nuke campus to be sited at Idaho National LaboratoryNuclear-powered datacenters in the US are moving closer as a consortium prepares to build proposed facilities for the Department of Energy (DoE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).… |
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:05:58 GMT)Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl adRing has cut ties with Flock, citing resource constraints, mere months after the pair announced a partnership.… |
Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:02:11 GMT)$380B valuation for a company that's yet to turn a profit? Sure, why notThe AI bubble continues to inflate with Anthropic's announcement of $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation.… |
Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:24:09 GMT)Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force missionUnited Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur reached orbit on February 12 despite "a significant performance anomaly" that saw one of its four solid rocket boosters burn through its nozzle during ascent.… |
ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴ - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:14:10 GMT)One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reachBork!Bork!Bork! As if to demonstrate that whatever one operating system can do, Windows can do it better, bluer, and upside down, we present a bus stopping only at bork.… |
MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster' - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:31:14 GMT)Watchdog says savings bank botched tech revamp, warning taxpayers remain exposed after years of delaysBritain's state-backed savings bank has been dragged over the coals by Parliament's spending watchdog, which has branded its long-running digital overhaul a £3 billion "full-spectrum disaster."… |
Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:45:13 GMT)Names, addresses, bank account numbers accessed – but biz insists passwords and call data untouchedThe Netherlands' largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people.… |
OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:00:13 GMT)Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won overOpinion I'm willing to be impressed by AI products, but Anthropic's AI‑built C compiler leaves me a bit cold. It's little more than a clever demo. It is not the moment when software engineering as we know it flips over and dies. Not even close.… |
Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:30:09 GMT)Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceportUpdated Skyrora is eyeing the wreckage of fellow British rocketeer Orbex following the latter's announcement that it will appoint administrators.… |
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:27:12 GMT)Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murderOn Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.… |
Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:13:37 GMT)Regional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languagesAPRICOT 2026 When members of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre got their chance to grill its leaders at yesterday’s annual general meeting, they didn’t hold back.… |
Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:45:37 GMT)This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as plannedSamsung and Micron say they’ve started shipping HBM4 memory, the faster and denser RAM needed to power the next generation of AI acceleration hardware.… |
Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:12:09 GMT)Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown?Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.… |
AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:06:14 GMT)Gartner says using AI to fix customer gripes could cost more than using humans by 2030ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the need to swivel-chair into multiple systems or escalate complaints, said Vasili Triant, CEO of UJET.… |
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:59:07 GMT)Are you a good bot or a bad bot?More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.… |
OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:32:01 GMT)GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 acceleratorsNvidia and AMD can take a seat. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model that will run on Cerebras Systems' dinner-place-sized AI accelerators, which feature some of the world's fastest on-chip memory.… |
Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:36:35 GMT)And hey, maybe the overseas remote operators senators fret about won’t be needed quite so oftenWaymo is rolling out its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, saying it's designed to avoid a repeat of past weather-related snafus. It's also causing controversy by putting the new kit on vehicles built by a Chinese automaker. … |
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:47:03 GMT)Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its wayToday, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a requirement that contributions come from people. But that bot wasn't done with him.… |
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:07:13 GMT)As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enoughYour supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now using legit bossware to blend into corporate networks and attempt ransomware deployment.… |
Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:40:15 GMT)Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platformOracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program.… |
$8K laundry bot knows when to hold ’em, knows when to fold ’em, and knows it has help standing by - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:10:34 GMT)Not-onamous by a long shotNobody likes folding laundry, but you really have to hate it to spend $7,999 on a robot that'll fold it for you with a whole heap of limitations – including company employees getting the occasional peep at your tough-to-fold unmentionables.… |
Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution' - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:46:07 GMT)12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks MoonwardsElon Musk has framed the recent exodus of talent from his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, as a necessary growing pain, saying the company's evolution "required parting ways with some people."… |
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:23:07 GMT)Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidanceMicrosoft has abruptly announced the deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks with less than two months' notice, throwing the future of the .NET Interactive project into doubt.… |
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:01:13 GMT)Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals'Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an "extremely sophisticated attack" against targeted individuals.… |
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:31:13 GMT)DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clockExploding memory prices are pushing corporate buyers to fast-track PC purchases before costs climb further.… |
NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:35:08 GMT)Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fineNASA has ended most science operations on its Swift observatory to keep the spacecraft in orbit a little longer.… |
Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:59:09 GMT)Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycleCybercriminals are turning supply chain attacks into an industrial-scale operation, linking breaches, credential theft, and ransomware into a "self-reinforcing" ecosystem, researchers say.… |
The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:30:09 GMT)That's not a good ideaOpen Source Policy Summit 2026 SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS – but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn't practice what it preaches. It's not alone.… |
UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:58:19 GMT)Legal teeth sold separatelyThe UK government claims a new Telecoms Consumer Charter will stop customers being hit by unexpected bill increases and offer clearer pricing when signing up to deals.… |
Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:15:12 GMT)Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor dealsThe UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is offering between £270,000 to £300,000 for a senior digital leader who will oversee more than £4.6 billion in spending and more than 3,000 specialist staff.… |
The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:29:20 GMT)Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothingMost UK government departments have spent little or nothing with social media platform X since July 2024 following an unpublished 2023 evaluation by the Cabinet Office. But the Department for Education has bucked the trend, spending £27,118.… |
Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:00:08 GMT)Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the riseA Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America's critical infrastructure used Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks against US organizations, the company says.… |
Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 06:03:29 GMT)Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkersAPRICOT 2026 Starlink can sometimes shift data more quickly than is possible on terrestrial networks, and improves connectivity in remote areas. But the space broadband service also presents new technical and regulatory challenges, according to speakers who took to the stage on Tuesday at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) in Jakarta, Indonesia.… |
Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:45:45 GMT)Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave crestingCisco has increased the prices for its hardware to cover the increased cost of memory and says the resulting bigger bills are not changing customers’ buying habits.… |
Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:07:06 GMT)Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devicesAmid its ongoing promotion of AI’s wonders, Microsoft has warned customers it has found many instances of a technique that manipulates the technology to produce biased advice.… |
Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:47:13 GMT)Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another storyModel-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters.… |
Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:23:08 GMT)Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher saysThey know where you've been and they're going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions that allegedly exfiltrate browsing history data for an estimated 37.4 million installations.… |
Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:50:14 GMT)Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feedMeta has decided to let Threads users make custom tweaks to its all-important algorithm, but don't expect your preferences to stick and do expect to bring your best manners.… |
Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:09:24 GMT)Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argueBanning sales to Chinese-government-affiliated companies, apparently, is not enough. A bipartisan group of American lawmakers this week called on the Trump administration to enact a blanket ban on the sale of equipment used in the production of advanced semiconductors to all of China.… |
AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:51:06 GMT)Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmasterA Harvard Business Review study is answering the question ‘what will employees do if AI saves them time at work?’ The answer: more work.… |
T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:28:13 GMT)This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involvedT-Mobile is claiming it's now the first wireless carrier to integrate generative AI "directly into a wireless network," and it's rolling out real-time call translation as the first feature delivered on top of its new AI-filled cellular network. … |
Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:56:40 GMT)The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineeringIf you've seen the viral AI work pic trend where people are asking ChatGPT to "create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me" and sharing it to social, you might think it's harmless. You'd be wrong.… |
Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:50:33 GMT)Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practicePromo AI projects fail at scale not because models don't work or GPUs lack performance. They fail because data can't keep pace.… |
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:57:26 GMT)Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boarBack in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.… |
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:15:06 GMT)No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right nowMicrosoft has released Windows 11 26H1 but is warning the vast majority of users that it is not for them.… |
