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Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:43:50 GMT)Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choiceFirefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.… |
Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:44:59 GMT)Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gearThe Global Electronics Association (GEA) warns that the US ban on foreign-made network routers is impractical because few are made domestically, leaving consumers with little choice and delaying access to next-gen products, just as Wi-Fi 7 adoption should be ramping up.… |
CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:53:30 GMT)Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealersVisitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.… |
Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:33:30 GMT)Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goalsAmazon's board of directors is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would have the megacorp disclose more information on the impact of datacenters on its climate commitments.… |
Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:10:22 GMT)Forget about investment value! Call it a 'strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation,' says KPMGMost UK business leaders will keep AI at the top of their spending priorities, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not.… |
Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:30:08 GMT)Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilitiesOpinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."… |
Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:01:11 GMT)Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crimeThe UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.… |
Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:15:08 GMT)Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dryThe government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site has begun plans to replace its legacy SAP ERP – mainstream support for which ends in 2027 – via a £33 million award to the German vendor, without competition.… |
Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:30:07 GMT)Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are comingFewer than three-tenths of those required to sign up for quarterly software-based Making Tax Digital (MTD) reporting for the latest tax year that started this month have done so, according to HM Revenue & Customs.… |
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:00:06 GMT)The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the jobOn Call Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support incidents that crossed a line.… |
AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:04:14 GMT)Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomaniaAmazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full of interesting news about the cloud and e-tail giant.… |
South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:14:13 GMT)Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license backUniversal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.… |
Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly - (pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:28:32 GMT)Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices riseMicrosoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.… |
Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:05:31 GMT)Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosuresLarge language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.… |
Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:29:46 GMT)Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with thatIf you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations.… |
Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:03:41 GMT)Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for IntelGoogle will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitro NICs.… |
Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:20:15 GMT)Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victimsUS, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.… |
World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:45:25 GMT)C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle homeIt's going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly compared with prior years.… |
AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:30:10 GMT)Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numberedAI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.… |
'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:11:41 GMT)Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-inA new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.… |
Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:07 GMT)FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding tooAgriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.… |
Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:30:06 GMT)ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prizeThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including the widely used Apache Spark analytics engine.… |
Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:51:32 GMT)Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everythingExclusive Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.… |
Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:20:11 GMT)UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offlineA cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.… |
OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:54:41 GMT)Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitionsOpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.… |
Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:30:13 GMT)Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payloadHackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.… |
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:00:11 GMT)No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queueMicrosoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.… |
Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:38:09 GMT)Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinctionAmerica's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even higher prices this year.… |
Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:06 GMT)Wash your mouth out with digital soapApple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an attacker-controlled result and putting millions of users at risk, researchers have shown.… |
Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:38:38 GMT)Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming toolsJulia Liuson, president of Microsoft's developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role.… |
Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:52:19 GMT)The core product is solid and priced fairlyI've spent over a decade telling anyone who'd listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday – which lets you mount an S3 bucket as an NFS share – I did what any reasonable person would do: I spun up an EC2 instance and started trying to break it.… |
Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:32:51 GMT)Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cashUK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to a contractor was quietly redirected to an attacker-controlled account.… |
UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:50:01 GMT)DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pensionThe Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) is recruiting three directors general to lead aspects of the UK government's digital work, all on pay in excess of the prime minister's salary.… |
Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:15:13 GMT)As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enoughCapita has limited the online functionality of its Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS) member portal after confirming an "issue" briefly exposed the personal data of public sector workers.… |
UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:30:17 GMT)Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offensesThe British government is spending £15 million over the next three years to improve crime mapping in England and Wales, partly to allow more targeted policing of knife crime.… |
Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:45:10 GMT)Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedingsThe Microsoft and ValueLicensing legal tussle will enter an appeals phase this month, attracting the attention of a multibillion-pound class action against the Windows giant.… |
Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:00:08 GMT)Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these daysPWNED Welcome back to Pwned, the column where we share war stories from IT soldiers who shot themselves – or watched someone else shoot themselves – in the foot. Today's tale shows that even when you're setting up something as simple as fitness gear, there's no excuse for leaving security credentials lying around.… |
Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter - (pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:00:10 GMT)The time is maybeQuantum computing exists in a sort of superposition with regard to cryptography – it's both a pending threat and a technology of no immediate consequence for decryption.… |
Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:06:42 GMT)You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them!Nearly two years after extolling the virtues of open source AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is singing a different tune. … |
Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:35:54 GMT)South Korea’s biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coasterWestern Union has commenced a migration from VMware to Nutanix after deciding it didn’t want to do business with Broadcom.… |
Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:02:37 GMT)Helps employees present data in Confluence in various waysAtlassian is modernizing Confluence for the AI era, testing tools and agentic capabilities that give users the chance to turn their written notes into graphics and their ideas into software applications.… |
Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:09:51 GMT)If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data backinterview It's the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of that time working to intercept and stop cyber threats from the likes of China and Russia, Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP Cynthia Kaiser says she was a "latercomer to really wanting to focus on ransomware."… |
DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:52:10 GMT)Drawback: it’s radioactiveForget recharging or swapping out disposable AAs every day. What if you could power energy-hungry devices for months or even years at a time from a single, reasonably-sized battery? A Washington state-based fusion energy startup is helping to make that dream a reality for DARPA, which wants higher-power radioactive batteries for space. … |
Call your existing automation ‘zero-token architecture’ to become an instant agentic AI wiz - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:21:41 GMT)Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that’s trying to hide deep techAs businesses drink the agentic AI Kool-Aid and go looking for productivity enhancements, IT professionals can deliver by rebranding their existing automations as “zero-token architecture,” according to Kelsey Hightower, a former Google distinguished engineer and a notable early promoter of Kubernetes.… |
Nvidia's Rubin GPU is likely to be late thanks to memory shortage and technical challenges - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:31:20 GMT)China-bound Hopper accelerators are also likely to ship in smaller volumes than previously forecast, industry watchers sayNvidia's next-gen Rubin GPUs may end up shipping later and in smaller volumes than anticipated due to supply chain challenges, TrendForce warned on Wednesday.… |
RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:58:46 GMT)BAE says trials could offer cheaper way to counter uncrewed aerial threatsBAE Systems has successfully tested a laser-guided rocket system with a Typhoon fighter jet from Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) as a potential anti-drone weapon. It follows earlier trials in the US with the F-15E Strike Eagle.… |
Minnesota State payroll problems grew after Workday launch, auditors say - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:55:17 GMT)Sample testing found incorrect payments and delays after college system adopted new HR platformUpdated A Workday-based HR platform rollout at Minnesota State universities and colleges left faculty and staff with payroll errors.… |
Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication protocol - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:26:37 GMT)MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discoveryTo supercharge agents' ability to make scientific discoveries, DARPA is looking to improve cross-bot collaboration by developing a "science of AI communication" that will help the models work together to come up with better ideas. … |
Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:43:32 GMT)Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a libraryMicrosoft has set an end-of-support date of April 7, 2027, for ASP.NET Core 2.3, the only supported version on .NET Framework, even though .NET Framework (and the original ASP.NET) will continue to be supported.… |
Supermicro launches probe after staff charged with China export violations - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:15:35 GMT)Board-led inquiry follows indictment of two employees and a contractor over alleged diversion of Nvidia GPU serversSupermicro has launched an independent investigation after three people associated with the company were charged with violating US export restrictions on China.… |
