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Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:01:07 GMT)Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricksCanada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise.… |
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:26:07 GMT)Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffsDutch police have arrested a man for "computer hacking" after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn't hand them back.… |
Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:48:14 GMT)Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to resetOracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the code.… |
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:20:14 GMT)Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular optionsAcademics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromised.… |
KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:54:08 GMT)Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fineAIpocolypse A partner at accounting and consultancy giant KPMG in Australia was forced to cough up a AU$10k ($7,084/ £5,195) fine after he used AI to ace an internal training course on... AI.… |
X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:22:13 GMT)'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwiseElon Musk-owned social media platform X is experiencing an outage, with users worldwide reporting that their timelines no longer show the usual information flow.… |
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:00:09 GMT)Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs moneyfosdem 2026 Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killing them.… |
Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:29:07 GMT)Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their walletSales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive.… |
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:02:12 GMT)The subtractive bias we're ignoringopinion Just as the community adopted the term "hallucination" to describe additive errors, we must now codify its far more insidious counterpart: semantic ablation.… |
FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:53:09 GMT)Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiryThe US Federal Trade Commission has sent out a raft of civil investigative demands to Microsoft's competitors as it warms up a probe into whether the cloud and software giant has an illegal monopoly across chunks of the enterprise tech market.… |
NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:48:44 GMT)Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was offNASA engineers spent the weekend studying the data after another attempt to fill the agency's monster Space Launch System (SLS) produced mixed results.… |
Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:39:06 GMT)High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandboxGoogle has quietly pushed out an emergency Chrome fix after attackers were caught exploiting the browser's first reported zero-day of 2026.… |
Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that? - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:24:56 GMT)Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind itA former Windows boss has explained why the taskbar in Windows 11 is the way it is and how he "fought hard" to stop Microsoft from removing customization options present in Windows 10.… |
Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:14:03 GMT)Lots of donations, but lots of pressure to go with itAlthough we're in mid-February, the Linux Mint project just published its January 2026 blog. This could be seen as one sign of the pressure on the creator of this very successful distro: although the post talks about forthcoming improved input localization support and user management, it also discusses the pressures of the project's semi-annual release schedule.… |
Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:46:51 GMT)Stricter rules for VPNs and AI chatbots also in the offing amid child safety pushUK prime minister Keir Starmer has set a "months" timeline for the long-brewing plan for a social media age limit, signaling the government is ready to pick a fight with Big Tech if that's what it takes.… |
DVSA seeks £95K digital chief to steer test booking system out of the ditch - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:25:33 GMT)Agency looks to cut waiting times and curb bot-driven slot reselling as it doubles down on IT overhaulThe UK's Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is recruiting a chief digital and information officer, partly to help sort out its bot-ridden practical driving test booking system.… |
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:14:13 GMT)The software doesn't show what files it's working onAnthropic has updated Claude Code, its AI coding tool, changing the progress output to hide the names of files the tool was reading, writing, or editing. However, developers have pushed back, stating that they need to see which files are accessed.… |
Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:31:10 GMT)Great concept, shame about the detailsOpinion If you've ever flipped over a power brick, you'll be familiar with the hieroglyphics of type approval. It's become less crazy over the years as things have got smaller and signage requirements softened, but at its peak tens of logos and acronyms of testing labs and national approvals covered the backside of PSUs in surrealist graffiti.… |
Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:30:09 GMT)02:00 AM is not the time to ignore procedures and rely on a shortcut to do a tricky jobWho, Me? Welcome to Monday! The Register hopes you arrive at your desk well-rested after a pleasant weekend, and not stressed out by working late as is the case in this week's instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader contributed column that chronicles your mistakes and escapes.… |
Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:39:06 GMT)Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloudCisco is getting close to releasing its own hypervisor, as an alternative to VMware for users of its calling applications – software like the Unified Communications Manager it suggests as an alternative to PBXs and other telephony hardware.… |
US appears open to reversing some China tech bans - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:35:08 GMT)PLUS: India demands two-hour deepfake takedowns; Singapore embraces AI; Japanese robot wolf gets cuddly; And moreAsia In Brief The United States may be about to change its policies regarding Chinese technology companies.… |
OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:56:23 GMT)Whatever comes next will be ‘core to OpenAI product offerings’Peter Steinberger, the creator of the tantalizing-but-risky personal AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI.… |
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:22:14 GMT)PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And moreInfosec in Brief The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber subsidiary Trenchant sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, according to a court filing last week.… |
GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:32:11 GMT)But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justiceai-pocalypse Legal scholars have found that OpenAI's GPT-5 follows the law better than human judges, but they leave open the question of whether AI is right for the job.… |
Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:30:14 GMT)It must be that fresh mountain airBork!Bork!Bork! Just picture it. You're at a Swiss train station, looking for information on your connecting line. You peer up at the platform sign hoping to find out how long you'll be waiting and whether you're standing in the right place. But instead of helpful info, you see "* Installation log files are stored in /tmp." Gee, thanks a lot!… |
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be? - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:15:06 GMT)What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit?In the Venn diagram of car owners whose vehicles have a certain amount of "character" and individuals who use Microsoft's applications, there is an intersection of people who accept a quirk or two but not an unexpected explosion.… |
Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:32:08 GMT)Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar courseHands-on Run real Windows in an automatically managed virtual machine, and mix Windows apps in their own windows on your Linux desktop.… |
How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:02:11 GMT)Just ask DeepSeekTwo of the world's biggest AI companies, Google and OpenAI, both warned this week that competitors including China's DeepSeek are probing their models to steal the underlying reasoning, and then copy these capabilities in their own AI systems.… |
Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:01:11 GMT)The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress alignAPRICOT 2026 For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used ping thousands of time each day to measure the time a packet of data required to make a round trip between two nodes on the internet.… |
Amazon-backed X-Energy gets green light for mini reactor fuel production - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:54:12 GMT)Startup expects to complete construction of its first fuel plant later this yearAmazon inched closer to its atomic datacenter dream on Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed its small modular reactor partner X-energy to make nuclear fuel for advanced reactors at a facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.… |
ServiceNow can't seem to keep its wallet closed, snaps up small AI analytics company - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:12:06 GMT)News of the deal came about two weeks after CEO Bill McDermott swore off any “large scale” M&A this year. A spokesperson called this deal a “tuck in.”Despite its CEO's insistence that it wasn't doing any "large scale" deals soon, ServiceNow has acquired yet another company. This time, the software firm has scooped up Pyramid Analytics, an Israeli corporation with data science and preparation expertise. The goal is to build additional context and semantics into its software stack.… |
Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:42:44 GMT)By partnering with CodePath, AI biz aims to modernize how people learn to programCan using AI teach you to code more quickly than traditional methods? Anthropic certainly thinks so. The AI outfit has partnered with computer science education org CodePath to get Claude and Claude Code into the hands of students, a time-tested strategy for seeding product interest and building brand loyalty.… |
Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:20:12 GMT)Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the worksRemember that giant green rack-sized blade server Oxide Computer showed off a couple of years back? Well, the startup is still at it, having raked in $200 million in Series-C funding this week as it prepares to bring a bevy of new hardware to market with updated processing power, memory, and networking.… |
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 (APNIC) 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.… |
