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Remote or not, workers are drifting back toward the city - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:56:12 GMT)Global hiring data shows employees relocating nearer major hubs, reversing pandemic-era shiftThe post-pandemic shift away from cities has reversed since 2022, with return-to-office mandates playing a role, according to a new report on global hiring trends.… |
Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:29:06 GMT)Flatpak may be next, and the lobbying behind it is raising eyebrowsAfter weeks of debate, code to record user age was finally merged into the Linux world's favorite system management daemon.… |
Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:00:13 GMT)Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole timeArm unveiled its first homegrown silicon — yes, an actual chip, not another shake-n-bake blueprint — during an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, and said that flagship customer Meta is set to deploy the 136-core CPU at scale later this year.… |
Goodbye, Lunar Gateway: NASA ditches Moon station for Moon base - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:38:43 GMT)NASA boss Jared Isaacman has no intention of letting this setback delay the Artemis program, apparentlyNASA's ambitious plans to build a space station in orbit of the Moon are officially on hold, administrator Jared Isaacman said Tuesday, with the space agency instead skipping the orbital habitat in favor of building a permanent base on the Lunar surface. … |
Datadog bets DIY AI will mean it dodges the SaaSpocalypse - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:08:07 GMT)The theory is that its domain-specific model will beat generalist LLMs on results and economicsDatadog is close to releasing an updated AI model that it thinks will help it avoid the so-called SaaSpocalypse – customers using AI to build their own tools.… |
HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:27:07 GMT)Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider NaviaAlmost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.… |
Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:05:49 GMT)Microslop? Sorry, we meant MicrosoftMicrosoft is rolling out technology to transform OneDrive photos into AI-infused masterpieces. Or top up the bucket of slop, depending on your perspective.… |
Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:19:36 GMT)Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're StarlinkCiting national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.… |
Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents' - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:52:13 GMT)A knowledge database where AI agents read, add and score the items – what could go wrong?Mozilla is building cq - described by staff engineer Peter Wilson as "Stack Overflow for agents" - as an open source project to enable AI agents to discover and share collective knowledge.… |
Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:32:11 GMT)Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millionsA Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing victims millions of dollars.… |
Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:00:07 GMT)Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMsAntiX Linux is a heavily cut-down version of Debian 13, with a choice of init systems and ultralightweight GUIs. This means it's able to run usefully on older and lower-end PCs – and, of course, to run faster on modern ones.… |
SAP already shifting focus from ERP migration disaster in pursuit of AI-driven growth - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:15:11 GMT)New commercial models planned after cloud transition falls €2B behind targetSAP has begun to shift focus away from its failure to hit legacy software and cloud migration targets and onto the latest so-called "innovation" elements of its portfolio, such as AI.… |
Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's self-inflicted wounds - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:30:18 GMT)Sorry seems to be the hardest word at MicrosoftOpinion Has Microsoft finally reckoned with Windows 11's many failings - or has its OS chief, Pavan Davuluri, simply offered more soothing platitudes to users fed up with bugs and unwanted AI?… |
EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:45:15 GMT)Open letter warns tech is shaping what audiences see while slipping past regulationEurope's broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are fast becoming the next Big Tech gatekeepers, with little sign of Brussels stepping in.… |
Half of VMware users plan to reduce usage by 2028 - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:35:09 GMT)Silent exodus brewing but other customers say they feel trappedHalf of VMware users plan to reduce their use of the virtualization pioneer’s products by 2028, according to a survey by independent analyst firm Virtified.… |
Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson - who coined the term ‘metaverse’ - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:45:57 GMT)‘People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do’Science fiction author Neal Stephenson, who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, has argued he and others who believed immersive environments would require head-mounted hardware got it wrong.… |
Telling an AI model that it’s an expert programmer makes it a worse programmer - (pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:20:29 GMT)Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for factsMany people start their work with AI by prompting the machine to imagine it is an expert at the task they want it to perform, a technique that boffins have found may be futile.… |
Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:50:21 GMT)'It freakin' worked' says Rob Joyce - and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans missRSAC 2026 The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec community, according to former NSA cyber boss Rob Joyce.… |
Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China's Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:56:05 GMT)Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairsRSAC 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.… |
Snowflake's ongoing pitch: bring AI to data rather than data to AI - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:45:24 GMT)Customers are 'excited' says one solution providerSnowflake is putting cash and kinetic energy behind the idea that AI works best in its platform.… |
Lightning-fast exploits make it essential to patch fast, ask questions later - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:42:11 GMT)Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this yearStrengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. … |
If you love your boss, imagine how much more you'll love their AI twin - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:53:19 GMT)Digital twins of leaders may be plausible as novelty acts, but not really welcomeImagine that your boss is too busy to show up at that meeting you called so she sends a bot of herself instead. With a digital twin, even your company's CEO - the one who spends all his time on the corporate jet - could make an appearance at your powwow about the break room coffee machine. But would you want them there?… |
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 RSACRSAC 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-insRSAC 2026 Voice 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.… |
We tested Intel's new chips for cash-strapped hardcore PC users and they're impressive - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:00:10 GMT)More cores, higher clocks, lower pricesReview 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 muchUpdated Since 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.… |
