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CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:09:51 GMT)Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV listCISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw that's been quietly lurking for more than a decade.… |
Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:31:32 GMT)Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapseMilitaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to track one of its warships for less than the cost of some hagelslag and a coffee.… |
Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:56:26 GMT)We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visitMicrosoft Azure capacity woes are back, and worse than ever, judging by the complaints of UK users.… |
Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:29:09 GMT)Starts new one on boot loopsMore than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as "resolved."… |
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:39:13 GMT)Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut loomsNASA is moving ahead with its contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite another attempt by the Trump administration to cut funding for the effort.… |
Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:45:12 GMT)Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck.… |
Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:08 GMT)University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fastApple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their iPhones for months, The Register understands.… |
Would you like fries with that terminal? - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:15:12 GMT)Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn'tBork!Bork!Bork! It was not so much Jack in the Box as Bork on the Screen at a US drive-through fast food outlet the other day. Luckily, a Reg reader was there to take it all in.… |
Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:30:13 GMT)Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for moneyThe UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout later leaving thousands of retirees waiting for payments, a senior civil servant has said.… |
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:29:07 GMT)All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping asideOn Call Life is filled with random events, but The Register tries to make readers’ lives just a little more predictable by always using Friday morning to bring you a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.… |
Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:02:09 GMT)Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular softwareAnthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react.… |
IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:15:07 GMT)Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookupsThe IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.… |
Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:35:46 GMT)Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memoryMore than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates.… |
IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:04:50 GMT)We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayerIPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google.… |
Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:45:37 GMT)Bug or feature?A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.… |
Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:35:09 GMT)Client connects to deepset's Haystack platformMozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. … |
NodeWeaver says its perpetual licensing beats VMware’s perpetual price hikes - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:08:29 GMT)'I think you can run this thing on a potato,' NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said.Broadcom's price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for customers running computing workloads in far-flung edge locations, from cruise ships to solar farms in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is taking cost out of the hardware needed as well.… |
Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:25:43 GMT)Large organizations pushed toward metered pricingUPDATED More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal.… |
Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:48:25 GMT)If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyardLoud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying "not in my backyard."… |
North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:20:12 GMT)Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well'North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.… |
If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:49:59 GMT)Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on RedditAnthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks.… |
DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:15:32 GMT)Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claimsThe team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks, Snowflake, Google, and others.… |
Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:49:11 GMT)Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikesNorth America has some of the world's most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.… |
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:13:37 GMT)Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scamTwo Americans have been jailed for a combined 200 months for helping North Korea generate $5 million through fraudulent IT worker schemes.… |
Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:37:06 GMT)Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps upBrussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc's competition rulebook.… |
Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:17:27 GMT)When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on...Britain's government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.… |
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:53:24 GMT)Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEsVisual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to overshadow the improvements.… |
Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:57:22 GMT)Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainerSecurity boffins say Anthropic's Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer's identity.… |
Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:49:35 GMT)Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked dataTextbook giant McGraw Hill has landed on a ransomware crew's leak site after an alleged Salesforce-linked misconfiguration spilled 13.5 million records into the wild.… |
Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:45:11 GMT)Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systemsThe UK government says it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year to help it fight against Russia.… |
Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:01:08 GMT)Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cashMicrosoft will keep delivering security updates for old versions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, after admitting that some customers aren't ready to make the move to newer products.… |
Obsolete Google nag drowns out vital bar information at Swedish concert hall - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:15:07 GMT)Backup and Sync may be dead, but it still knows how to kill the buzz before the ukuleles startBork!Bork!Bork! Sweden is arguably the home of bork – think the Swedish Chef from The Muppets – so we are delighted to note an example of the breed turning up north of Stockholm.… |
Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:30:11 GMT)Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budgetUK police tech buyers have awarded a £25 million no-competition contract for communications technology first commissioned in 2000, with the replacement project 12 years behind schedule and £3 billion over budget.… |
Server-room lock was nothing but a crock - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:00:10 GMT)Your cybersecurity is only as good as the physical security of the serversPWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we immortalize the worst vulns that organizations opened up for themselves. If you’re the kind of person who leaves your car doors unlocked with a pile of cash in the center console, this week’s story is for you.… |
QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:30:15 GMT)Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephantWhile Larry was producing most of the content for the "Request/Reponse" chapter for the next edition of our book, I took the lead on writing a section on QUIC, since I have closely followed its development.… |
Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:33:54 GMT)Private Shinkansen suites are pulling up to the station in OctoberSome Japanese bullet trains will soon be equipped with private suites that include windows with embedded 5G antennas and noise-cancelling technology that envelops passengers in a bubble of quiet.… |
Indian government investigating TCS after police sting finds sexual harassment - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:45:04 GMT)Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practicesPolice in the Indian city of Nashik conducted a sting operation at Tata Consultancy Services and allegedly found instances of sexual harassment and other revolting behavior.… |
Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:28:39 GMT)Browser fingerprinting is everywhereGoogle markets its Chrome browser by citing its superior safety features, but according to privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting – a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about their browser.… |
Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has actually found - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:33:35 GMT)Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mysteryLast week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and orgs are allowed to test the hyped up LLM to find security holes in their own products. But just how many problems have they really discovered?… |
Don't let the bot play doctor! AI gets early diagnoses wrong 80% of the time - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:07:21 GMT)'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advisePeople ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.… |
Customers revolt as GitHub Copilot 'fixes' rate limits - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:25:58 GMT)Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowanceMicrosoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a token counting bug that appears to have broken the company's pricing model.… |
Shoe company says it's getting into AI infrastructure and yes this is the top - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:06:13 GMT)Following in the footsteps of Long Island Iced TeaOPINION Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain.… |
Patch these critical Fortinet sandbox bugs that let attackers bypass login, run commands over HTTP - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:52:31 GMT)No reports of active exploitation (yet)Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.… |
Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:09:55 GMT)Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finishedNo one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.… |
Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:46:12 GMT)Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training dataNew research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.… |
Automotive data biz Autovista blames ransomware for service disruption - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:18:18 GMT)Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the providerAutovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia.… |
Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:40:11 GMT)Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves aroundAI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.… |
Windows takes a crash dump after one McDonald's order too many - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:14:21 GMT)We've all been thereBork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.… |
French cops free mother and son after 20-hour crypto kidnap ordeal - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:29:08 GMT)Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate titleA mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.… |
US states can't account for datacenter tax breaks. Literally - (pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:35:09 GMT)Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidiesMany US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs First.… |
