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US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:44:18 GMT)Omdia says education, consumer, commercial, and public sector demand will weaken through 2026US PC shipments are set to fall by 13 percent this year thanks to the ongoing memory and storage crisis, and things are not expected to get better until next year at the earliest, with budget PCs hardest hit.… |
Telnyx joins LiteLLM in latest PyPI package poisoning tied to Trivy breach - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:42:55 GMT)Also, EU probes Snapchat, RedLine suspect extradited, AstraZeneca leak claim surfaces, and moreinfosec in brief The cybercrime crew linked to the Trivy supply-chain attack has struck again, this time pushing malicious Telnyx package versions to PyPI in an effort to plant credential-stealing malware on developers’ systems.… |
FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:48:07 GMT)But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cutAmerica's telecoms regulator has unveiled new measures to speed the transition to modern high-speed networks, but critics argue the move could leave behind those in rural areas or with special needs.… |
Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:03:05 GMT)Orion's four astronauts edge toward liftoff for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than 50 yearsNASA is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon, with the Artemis II mission countdown set to begin tonight.… |
UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:09:11 GMT)Regulator says payments totaling £635K reached entity owned and controlled by a designated personThe UK government has fined an Apple subsidiary £390,000 for breaching sanctions on Russia after it sent more than £600,000 to a developer linked to a designated entity.… |
SAP looking to pull more external data into its AI platform with Reltio acquisition - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:36:13 GMT)Merger positioned to boost appeal of ERP giant's Business Data CloudSAP is to acquire master data management and data integration specialist Reltio with the promise of helping integrate data from outside the vendor's broad application portfolio into its AI platform.… |
Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:49:12 GMT)Researchers say attackers are already looting vulnerable boxesIn-the-wild exploitation of a critical Citrix NetScaler bug has begun less than a week after disclosure, with researchers warning that attackers are already poking and pillaging vulnerable boxes.… |
South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions eyes new shores for rack-scale invasion - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:01:07 GMT)Funding round comes ahead of planned IPOGPU-makers like Nvidia and AMD may dominate the AI infrastructure market, but there are still more than a few AI chip startups knocking around.… |
Microsoft Fabric Database Hub only a 'partial' solution for admins - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:23:11 GMT)Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaSMicrosoft's new Fabric Database Hub is a "partial solution" for enterprises relying on systems outside the vendor's portfolio, but within these confines, it could make databases more connected and manageable, say analysts reacting to the news.… |
Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:44:11 GMT)KB5079391 pulled after some devices hit errors, adding to recent quality woesMicrosoft has halted the rollout of a Windows update after some users encountered installation errors.… |
Humanoid robots one tiny step closer to exterminating autoworkers' jobs - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:00:15 GMT)Torso on a trolley tries its hands in warehouse roleThat's one small step for Humanoid, or rather a short factory floor traversal. The UK-based robotics biz says it has completed a proof-of-concept test showing its rolling robot can be deployed in a production environment to help with automotive manufacturing.… |
European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:15:13 GMT)Brussels notifying 'Union entities' whose data may've been snatched in websites breachThe European Commission has admitted that attackers broke into its public-facing web infrastructure and siphoned off data in a bare-bones disclosure that answers the what but ducks most of the how.… |
Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:03:14 GMT)Canny planning or dangerous compromise? Matt Brittin takes the hotseat at a pivotal momentOpinion The BBC has a new head honcho in waiting, the Director-General designate Matt Brittin. His job: helming one of the world's most famous and oldest international media brands, one with a vast and sensitive domestic position. His last job: President of EMEA Business and Operations at Google. You can imagine a greater culture clash, but you'll have to work at it.… |
Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:30:15 GMT)Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequencesWho, Me? The week before Easter may be a short one for many in the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from opening it with a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of things you did at work that had interesting consequences.… |
US foreign router ban criticized for being ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’ - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:31:17 GMT)Public policy professor says it will make America less secure but hits Netgear’s lobbying goalsThe United States’ ban on foreign-made SOHO routers won’t improve security, and only makes sense as “industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity,” according to Milton Mueller, Professor at the University of Georgia’s School of Public Policy and founder of its Internet Governance Project.… |
DXC staff to strike in Australia after some go without pay rise for five years - (pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:55:52 GMT)PLUS: Iran war may slow APAC IT spend; Toshiba, Mitsubishi, talk chip biz combo; Fusion plasma control networks; And more!Asia In Brief Staff at services giant DXC’s Australian outpost will go on strike this week after 14 months of negotiations over a new pay agreement failed.… |
AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it – and be sure you speak its language - (pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:00:07 GMT)This week on the Kettle, we predict that AI software development won't make you want to fire your devs anytime soonkettle Tell an AI to write you a poem and it'll do it, just in a way that requires a human touch to perfect; the same goes for writing code.… |
The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed - (pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:15:13 GMT)And developers should be confident it won't kill the craftSecret CEO In 1991, when I was 16, a Norwegian Exchange student gave an inspirational performance of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, in the original Norwegian, at my high school talent night. She delivered this performance with such gusto that every word of her performance stuck in my mind and, to this day, I can recite the Three Billy Goats Gruff in Norwegian.… |
Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze - (pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:30:14 GMT)Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunkBees and hummingbirds are effectively day-drinking on the job because their lunch is quietly fermenting.… |
Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession - (pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:01:10 GMT)The maker of Claude faces headwinds as it rushes to go publicAnthropic, riding a wave of goodwill after resisting demands from the US Defense Department to soften model safeguards, is reportedly planning to go public as soon as Q4 2026.… |
To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer - (pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:51:08 GMT)Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad daysBork!Bork!Bork! When is a bork not a bork? Perhaps when it's on a Microsoft stand at a US security conference.… |
Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:03:20 GMT)New campus to include on-site power generationBitcoin farmer turned bit barn builder Crusoe revealed plans to add 900 megawatts of capacity to its Abilene Texas datacenter campus on Friday to support Microsoft's AI ambitions.… |
Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:25:14 GMT)Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love itAI can lead mentally unwell people to some pretty dark places, as a number of recent news stories have taught us. Now researchers think sycophantic AI is actually having a harmful effect on everyone.… |
Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:35:54 GMT)Farewell, Mac Pro: Increasing integration means the end of expandable computersApple has discontinued the Mac Pro – but it's just the first of the tower computers to go. The rest will follow soon.… |
Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:40:47 GMT)Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argueUS senators are pushing to require datacenters and other large energy customers to report consumption, arguing the data is essential to hold them accountable to local communities.… |
Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:03:49 GMT)Cross-signed code gets the cold shoulder as Redmond tightens trustMicrosoft is removing trust for kernel drivers that haven't been through the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) in a bid to further secure the Windows kernel.… |
Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:15:15 GMT)Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidenceNASA's new Moon plan isn't the only policy shift causing concern. Parts of the commercial space industry are also uneasy about the agency's latest change of direction.… |
AFC Ajax drops ball as flaws let hackers play admin with tickets and bans - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:30:11 GMT)Vulns in Dutch football club's systems didn't just expose data – they let outsiders play with accounts, and even lift stadium bansDutch football giant AFC Ajax has admitted to a data breach after an attacker gained access to its internal systems, in an incident that looks less like a stray pass and more like the gates left wide open.… |
Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:17:32 GMT)US and UK forces seeking tech tender with an April 3 deadlineThe UK and US are looking for technology to counter the threat posed by underwater drones to ships, harbors and other critical maritime infrastructure, and are asking industry for answers.… |
Lloyds app glitch turned transactions into shared experience for 447k users - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:18:08 GMT)A botched update mixed up transaction data across accounts, with thousands now receiving goodwill payoutsA botched overnight software update at Lloyds Banking Group left up to 447,000 customers briefly seeing other people's transactions in its mobile apps, with the bank now acknowledging the scale of the incident and compensating affected users.… |
UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:30:08 GMT)PAC grilling reveals £239M bought a system that couldn't handle the work, the volumes, or placeholder textA UK government official has admitted Capita did not reach the expected level of performance following the disastrous launch of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) web portal late last year.… |
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:30:09 GMT)The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treatOn Call Every week is special in its own way, and The Register celebrates that fact by using Friday mornings to deliver a fresh installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your memories of managing IT messes someone else made.… |
Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:04:15 GMT)Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website codeComputer security boffins have conducted an analysis of 10 million websites and found almost 2,000 API credentials strewn across 10,000 webpages.… |
India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:42:56 GMT)Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain openIndia’s space program has thousands of vacant roles it’s struggled to fill, isn’t spending money fast enough to meet its mission timelines, and may be undervaluing intellectual property it sells to the private sector.… |
China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country - (pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:41:33 GMT)Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisitionChina appears to be unhappy about its brightest AI talent going offshore, either to visit or to sell their wares.… |
Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:15:37 GMT)AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacityAnthropic on Wednesday adjusted its opaque usage limits for Claude customers by reducing the power of the services it delivers during times of peak demand, in an effort to balance demand with its capacity to deliver service.… |
AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:11:07 GMT)You actually think companies are going to pay Americans to take customer service calls in the AI age?Uncle Sam is trying to make American call centers great again. The question is whether they will be great because they're filled with local workers or whether this will provide yet another excuse for companies to turn customer service jobs over to AI.… |
AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:39:13 GMT)Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.I received an email / billing notification from AWS this week that may be the most diplomatically crafted communication in the history of cloud computing. Here it is, stripped of the usual boilerplate around it:… |
AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:12:08 GMT)Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen partAMD aims to extend its lead in desktop gaming with a new CPU, dubbed the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition. This top-of-the-line part has 16 cores fed by an absolutely massive 208 MB pool of cache, with memory spread across both CCDs.… |
'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:41:23 GMT)I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t give you your job back, but here’s the form you fill out to collect benefitsThere’s a joke in Boston that goes: the people in Southie will steal your wallet and help you look for it.… |
Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:38:41 GMT)Use of AI coding assistants has surged, but so has the number of vulnerabilities in AI-generated codeAs more people use AI tools to write code, the tools themselves are introducing more vulnerabilities.… |
Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:09:49 GMT)Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club?Apple's American Manufacturing Program (AMP) is expanding, with new suppliers signed on to produce iPhone components - though those parts will still be shipped overseas for final assembly. Tim Apple may continue avoiding tariffs but he probably won't win a lot of brownie points with President Trump.… |
Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:33:50 GMT)Your AI rollout isn't failing – your employees just hate itIf your company isn't seeing great returns from its investment in AI, you might want to look at the humans tasked with deploying it and how you can motivate them. Right now, many employees fear AI-driven job losses and aren't well trained to use the tech, according to Forrester.… |
Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:32:26 GMT)Agent will capture issues and eventually debug codeThe Linear cloudy issue tracker and project manager has introduced an AI agent and plans to add AI coding assistance, with CEO and co-founder Karri Saarinen declaring that "issue tracking is dead."… |
AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:40:26 GMT)Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going awayInterview I was at a press luncheon at KubeCon Europe this week when, to my surprise, who should sit down next to me but long-term Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. Greg, who lives in the Netherlands these days, was there to briefly comment on AI, Linux, and security. We spoke about how, over the last month, AI-driven activity around Linux security and code review has "really jumped" in a way no one in the open source world saw coming.… |
Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:03:19 GMT)Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI serversThe US has collared three more people for allegedly attempting to smuggle Nvidia GPUs to China, days after a Supermicro co-founder faced similar accusations.… |
Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:49:29 GMT)Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so longA member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.… |
Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:00:14 GMT)Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash pushEurope is taking a small step toward breaking its reliance on US Big Tech by hiring only cloud operators headquartered in the EU to work on the backbone of the digital euro project.… |
Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:15:07 GMT)Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong'The Welsh government used Microsoft's Copilot to help write a review of an industry liaison body that it then scrapped, its chairman has told a Senedd committee.… |
UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful - (pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:30:05 GMT)300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home lifeThe UK government will trial different levels of restrictions on social media for under-16s with the help of 300 families, alongside a public consultation that has already gathered nearly 30,000 responses.… |
