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Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:59:12 GMT)Nv-based integrated graphics for Wintel box also in the worksYour next laptop may have Nvidia inside – not in the form of a GPU, but as a system on a chip, complete with CPU. Team Green could be chipping away at Intel's marketshare and giving people Arm-based systems that compete with Apple's MacBook line.… |
Infosec community panics as Anthropic rolls out Claude code security checker - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:50:01 GMT)Not the first of its kindai-pocalypse Anthropic sent the infosec community into a tizzy on Friday when it rolled out Claude Code Security, a new feature that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches to fix the issues.… |
Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:01:42 GMT)Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with promptsMicrosoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base.… |
Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:43:52 GMT)Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistanceThe independent Ladybird web browser project is changing course on its choice of programming languages, with LLM-based coding assistants helping to evaluate the shift.… |
Artemis II headed back to the bay; helium issues force another delay - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:05:31 GMT)Sending humans around the Moon in February, er, March - now April 2026, maybeThe quest to return to the Moon has hit another snag. NASA is delaying Artemis II again, as interrupted helium flow to the rocket’s upper stage forces a rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and wipes out the March launch window.… |
Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:03:38 GMT)Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection lawsA global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic images can't pretend that data protection rules don't apply.… |
Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:17:34 GMT)Goal is to run software locally and stream only to owners' computersIf the sour taste has still not left your mouth after Ring's Super Bowl ad, there is a $10,000 prize for anyone who can find a security flaw in the company's cameras.… |
Gemini users say their chat histories have quietly vanished - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:44:38 GMT)Complaints pile up from users after months of conversations disappear. Google insists it’s just a temporary bugOver the past few days, complaints have stacked up from people who say months of conversations with Google's AI chatbot have simply vanished, with Reg readers noting the disappearances seemed to coincide with the rollout of Gemini 3.1.… |
O say, can you see: FCC pushes patriotic programming for US 250th - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:26:55 GMT)Stations urged to mark milestone with pro-America contentThe head of the Federal Communications Commission has called on broadcasters to start the day with the Star Spangled Banner or the Pledge of Allegiance to celebrate the US's 250th birthday.… |
Ex-Amazon UK boss lined up to chair Britain's competition watchdog - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:55:04 GMT)Business Secretary praises Doug Gurr's pro-growth agendaBritain's competition regulator has tapped former Amazon UK chief Doug Gurr as preferred candidate for chair – a notable appointment given the watchdog's active investigations into major cloud providers.… |
Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:56:30 GMT)OpenAI CEO takes really, really long view on energy efficiencyAI is being unfairly targeted over its energy use, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims, as the naysayers ignore the vast amount of resources humans have consumed over millennia – not least to avoid being eating by predators.… |
Suspected Anonymous members detained in Spain over post-flood DDoS blitz - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:26:30 GMT)Quartet accused of attacking public institutions, claiming the government was responsible for 2024 tragedySpanish police say four self-proclaimed members of Anonymous are in custody after allegedly carrying out several cyberattacks on public authorities in the wake of the 2024 DANA floods.… |
AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:41:47 GMT)Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riotCybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS.… |
Workaholic open source developers need to take breaks - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:00:14 GMT)A week off for vacation? The nerve of some peopleOpinion If you want to see the definition of "workaholic," you can't do better than to look at your typical senior open source developer or maintainer. I should know, I'm a workaholic too. I know my kind.… |
Hotel's rotary switchboard so retro it predates the concept of crashing - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:15:12 GMT)Analog curio nestled between fax and typewriter - this is a very different definition of 'legacy support'Bork!Bork!Bork! There are occasions when flicking a power switch can send a user into a world of bork-related pain, so it is sometimes worth taking a step back and reconsidering one's life choices.… |
Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:30:09 GMT)The only good password is no password at allPasswords turn 65 this year. They became a feature of computer users' lives in 1961, with MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Before then, sysops were real sysops. All jobs went through them, one at a time, and access by others was forbidden by laws written on blocks of stone.… |
Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:30:13 GMT)Rogue user showed them an excellent prank, which they put into productionWho, Me? Welcome to another installment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column in which you confess to crises you caused, and the course corrections that cured the chaos.… |
NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter’s ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:15:47 GMT)Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for helpNASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, to help the rolling robot navigate the Red Planet autonomously “for potentially unlimited distances.”… |
Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:13:36 GMT)PLUS: China’s sword-wielding humanoid robots; Australian court swamped by AI filings; Vietnam’s 25km overwater drone delivery; And more!Asia In Brief Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani has said the advent of AI means organizations no longer have any excuse to retain their legacy systems.… |
Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day - (pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:56:17 GMT)Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musingsLinus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.… |
Attacker gets into France's database listing all bank accounts, makes off with 1.2 million records - (pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:26:50 GMT)PLUS: Unpatched Ivanti boxes under attack; 0APT might not be a scam; AI gets better at helping cyber-scum; And moreInfosec In Brief An unknown attacker accessed the French government’s database listing every bank account in the country and made off with 1.2 million records.… |
UK council faces data breach claim after mishandling trans complaints - (pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:34:09 GMT)Confidential complainant details passed to local politician following debateA UK councillor has dubbed her local authority's data breach "crazy" after the personal details of individuals behind a series of complaints were revealed to her.… |
Government upgrades drones, deploys joystick tweakers to catch illegal dumpers - (pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:03:10 GMT)Electronic eyes are watching from above, ready to catch dumpers of smashed up couches in the actThe UK government is pulling together an elite squad of drone operators to crack down on the scourge of fly tippers and unauthorized dumpers across this ever less green and pleasant land.… |
Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone - (pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:27:08 GMT)Q3 figures show the trio drawing the most broadband complaints per 100,000 customersThe UK's telecoms regulator has named and shamed the companies it receives the most customer complaints about, with certain brands cropping up more than others.… |
SerpApi says Google is the pot calling the kettle black when it comes to scraping - (pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:56:04 GMT)'The DMCA was not designed to create walled gardens for tech giants'SerpApi, a Texas-based web scraping company, has asked a California court to dismiss Google's claim that that it bypassed digital locks to gather copyrighted content in Google Search results.… |
The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:31:20 GMT)The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demandopinion Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week. It's settled since, but it’s still up more than 30 percent on the week.… |
PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:10:32 GMT)About 100 customers affectedPayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.… |
Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:54:40 GMT)Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clearAnthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.… |
AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:05:10 GMT)4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attackSomeone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge. … |
SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:55:33 GMT)Good news: Team shows re-entry pollution can be measured. Bad news: There may be more of it comingThe SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come as Earth's atmosphere continues to become a heavily trafficked superhighway to space. … |
Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:32:16 GMT)Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI computeNvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.… |
ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:27:23 GMT)What happens in Vegas…Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.… |
Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:52:41 GMT)Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.… |
Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:43:16 GMT)Probe says SAAQ misled government and botched rollout caused province-wide disruptionA judge-led commission in Quebec has found that the state agency responsible for driver's licenses and license plates misled the Canadian government about a troubled SAP ERP project that ran more than C$245 million ($179 million/£132.6 million) over budget.… |
Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:30:20 GMT)Polish arrest leads to extradition and federal prison sentenceUkrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.… |
Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:15:07 GMT)Consultancy to monitor usage by meatbags with corporate aspirationsAccenture staff must demonstrate they have fully bought into the consultancy's AI vision if they want to get on.… |
Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:06:08 GMT)Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effortBuilding a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a decade of GitHub muscle memory.… |
Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:00:19 GMT)Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDsHard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage.… |
EFF policy says bots can code but humans must write the docs - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:55:56 GMT)'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome returnThe Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated comments and documentation.… |
CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:13:10 GMT)Hardcoded credential flaw in RecoverPoint already abused in espionage campaignUncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024.… |
From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:11:09 GMT)Security is 'dangerously behind' though, as devs 'treat it as something to solve later'25 years after the Agile Manifesto, a group of experts hosted by one its signatories met to consider the impact of AI on software development, concluding among other things that test-driven development has never been more important.… |
Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:45:49 GMT)Feds say trio conspired to siphon processor and cryptography IP, allegedly routing some data overseasTwo former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and security technology secrets and then trying to cover their tracks when the scheme began to unravel.… |
Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Now org gets £500k fine - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:25:24 GMT)Appeals judge overrules lower tribunal in latest battle of ICO against a breached retail giantThe UK's data protection watchdog has scored a small win in a lengthy legal battle against a British retail group that lost millions of data records during a 2017 breach.… |
HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:30:09 GMT)About half of exemption requests approved as 780,000 prepare for quarterly reporting in AprilThe UK tax collector has exempted 661 people from moving to quarterly software-based reporting under its Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme, about half the number who have applied.… |
Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:30:12 GMT)And a very awkward introduction to workplace cultureOn Call By the end of the working week, it's natural to feel the walls closing in a little, which is why every Friday morning The Register frees things up a little by publishing a new installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.… |
Snyk CEO bails, wants someone with more AI experience to replace him - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:07:25 GMT)Skill at buzzword bingo also required as company seeks innovative and disruptive visionaryThe CEO of code review platform provider Snyk has announced he will stand down so the company can find someone better-equipped to steer the company into the age of AI.… |
India’s top telco tackles AI with $110 billion build plan and proven fast market dominance playbook - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:11:08 GMT)Reliance Jio used super-cheap plans and own-brand phones to conquerIndia’s top telco, Reliance Jio, has announced plans to spend $110 billion on datacenters to run AI workloads and says it will use them to deliver services with the same “extreme affordability” it brought to the mobile communications market.… |
AI agents abound, unbound by rules or safety disclosures - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:01:15 GMT)MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscopeAI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say academic researchers.… |
Crims create fake remote management vendor that actually sells a RAT - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:46:21 GMT)$300 a month buys you a backdoor that looks like legit softwareResearchers at Proofpoint late last month uncovered what they describe as a "weird twist" on the growing trend of criminals abusing remote monitoring and management software (RMM) as their preferred attack tools.… |
NASA points fingers at Boeing and chaotic culture for Starliner debacle - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:01:59 GMT)Plenty of blame to go around, says IsaacmanNASA has released the findings from its investigation of the ill-fated crewed Boeing Starliner mission of 2024, and while it still isn't sure of the root technical causes, it's admitted that trusting Boeing to do a thorough job appears to have been a mistake. … |
