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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 platformA Workday-based HR platform rollout at Minnesota State universities and colleges likely left more than a thousand 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.… |
Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:42:51 GMT)To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't wantUpdated Amazon is rewarding long-time Kindle users by ditching support for aging devices, though it is trying to "minimize disruption" for existing customers by dangling a 20 percent discount for new models along with an eBook credit.… |
Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:29:43 GMT)Fresh and healthy, just like Windows 11 isn'tBork!Bork!Bork! You might say this bork was bread to fail, but at least it involves a version of Windows that most people actually like.… |
Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:30:48 GMT)ChipSoft's website remains down but emails are functioningA Dutch healthcare software vendor has been knocked offline following a ransomware attack, officials say.… |
Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:21:10 GMT)Market watcher says money is pouring into British atomic and fusion startups amid massive energy demandInvestors are backing nuclear power as a solution to fuel the UK's datacenter buildout, according to researchers tracking investment activity.… |
DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:29:53 GMT)Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platformThe UK's largest police force has awarded DXC Technology a contract worth up to £1 billion to develop and run a host of business process outsourcing services – including building a new Oracle ERP system.… |
NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:00:14 GMT)Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromisedMultiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher.… |
Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:15:10 GMT)Martin Gillow's 3D recreation lets users explore would-be Enigma successor's mechanics and enciphering logic onlineAn enthusiast has built a digital 3D model of the SG-41 cipher machine, replete with wheels, levers, and stepping logic, accessible via a browser.… |
UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:30:13 GMT)Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen upThe UK's hopes of fueling cutting-edge AI development and applications with a National Data Library (NDL) could be dashed unless it makes datasets easier to use.… |
Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:53:08 GMT)President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran warMicrosoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military operations.… |
Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the ‘easiest country to develop AI’ - (pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:48:21 GMT)Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoptionJapan’s Minister for Digital Transformation Hisashi Matsumoto has declared the nation will become the easiest place in the world to develop AI apps, thanks to legal changes that mean organizations won’t need to secure consent to use some personal information.… |
Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:50:06 GMT)Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad wayFor years, the infosec community’s biggest existential worry has been quantum computers blowing away all classical encryption and revealing the world’s secrets. Now they have a new Big Bad: an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities.… |
Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:30:24 GMT)Your PLCs aren't internet-connected, right? Right?!Iranian-affiliated actors have escalated intrusions targeting critical US water and energy facilities, in some cases disrupting operations, the FBI and American cyber defense agencies said on Tuesday.… |
Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:14:43 GMT)Also asserts it can beat Cisco's homebrew hypervisor for calling apps.NEXT Nutanix has teamed with Microsoft to bring cloudy desktops on-prem, using its extensive desktop virtualization (VDI) experience to make it work.… |
Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:32:59 GMT)Pair backs scraper blocking and standards to separate trusted agents from bad botsCiting the need to adapt to an internet increasingly serving the needs of AI agents without considering the needs of site owners, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering on efforts to control how AIs crawl the web and interact with web content.… |
AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:21:28 GMT)Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X]Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the Human[X] conference, welcomed attendees to the AI-focused bitshow in San Francisco with the promise that they would receive no certainty and no playbook.… |
Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:19:42 GMT)Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens?Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data.… |
Intel gets trapped in Elon’s reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:36:48 GMT)Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGIIn the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk's Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters. But hey, this idea must have legs, because now Intel has announced it is joining the aspiring Bond villain's initiative.… |
Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:30:28 GMT)Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now.NEXT Nutanix exists to abstract hardware into a pool of logical resources, leaving servers and storage forgotten by all but a few datacenter hardheads. But the company's annual .NEXT conference, which kicked off in Chicago on Tuesday, put hardware at the top of the agenda.… |
US cybercrime losses pass $20B for first time as AI boosts online fraud - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:59:11 GMT)Bots are now firmly in the toolbox, helping crooks scale old scamsCrims are taking advantage of AI to sharpen old scams. The FBI reported Monday that cybercrime losses hit a record $20.87 billion in 2025, with help from bots.… |
Russia's Fancy Bear still attacking routers to boost fake sites, NCSC warns - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:02:05 GMT)200 orgs and 5,000 devices compromised so far in Vlad's latest intelligence grab, Microsoft reckonsThe UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning about Russia's ongoing targeting of routers to steal passwords and other secrets.… |
Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:26:10 GMT)Fabled Q&A site for devs struggles with its future as AI takes over its original purposeStack Overflow, the once-popular dev community, has abandoned a planned redesign that was meant to refocus the site more on discussions than the question-and-answer format that built its reputation.… |
Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:53:39 GMT)Turns out deep space still looks better without AI helpingThe Artemis II mission has produced some stunning imagery as the spacecraft loops around the Moon on its journey from Earth and back.… |
Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:08:52 GMT)Motorola and Google top PIRG's latest scorecardSamsung and Apple phones are more difficult to repair than those from other makers, according to a report ranking devices by how easy to fix they are.… |
Only 28% of AI infrastructure projects fully pay off, survey finds - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:13:36 GMT)ITSM the area most likely to offer wins, according to Gartner researchTech leaders hoping AI might help save money and improve efficiency in IT infrastructure should know that only 28 percent of use cases fully succeed and offer return on investment (ROI).… |
White House seeks deep NASA cuts as Artemis II breaks spaceflight record - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:27:09 GMT)'Proposal resurrects an existential threat to US leadership in space science and exploration'First, the good news: the Artemis II crew has successfully swung around the far side of the Moon and surpassed Apollo 13's record for the farthest humans have traveled from Earth. Now the bad news: the White House is sharpening the budget blade once again.… |
No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:00:08 GMT)UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphoricallyThe UALink Consortium, a group of tech giants working on GPU networking standards to provide an alternative to Nvidia's NVLink and NVSwitch, has released new specs, but is still months away from shipping silicon.… |
Shots fired – literally – over proposal to build datacenter in Indianapolis - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:09:24 GMT)From a gun into the front door of a councilor who supports planDatacenter protests have taken an ugly turn in the US, with gunshots fired at the home of an Indianapolis councilor who recently lent his support to plans for a server farm in the area.… |
OpenInfra General Manager talks sovereignty, governments deploying tech 'kill switches' - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:27:13 GMT)Geopolitics enter the room as Thierry Carrez shows that there's more to Kubecon than AIKubecon Sovereignty was a big topic was at last week's Kubecon, and Thierry Carrez, the General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, shared strong feelings around it that included raising the idea that tech companies might be forced by their countries' governments to deploy "kill switches."… |
Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:31:14 GMT)Walled gardens make more sense when it's an AI-lligator infested swamp outsideOpinion When the first M1 Apple Silicon systems sprouted at the end of 2020, we loved the tech but not the walled garden it grew in. Apple had complete control over all its platforms and could set its own rules, but only to become more Apple-y. There was a whole world outside that area where Apple Silicon would never tread, even if Cupertino could iterate fast enough to keep up. Plus, Apple's appliance sensibility limited its expansion options, especially with performance dependent on its own silicon. … |
Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:35:11 GMT)Ofcom finds social media participation dropping as skepticism about digital life growsBritish adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online.… |
Yahoo<i>!</i> Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:21:54 GMT)Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stackLY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.… |
Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate and plans to use 3.5GW of new Google AI chips - (pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:09:00 GMT)Broadcom's building the silicon and is chuffed about that, but also notes Anthropic remains a riskBroadcom has announced that Google has asked it to build next-generation AI and datacenter networking chips, and that Anthropic plans to consume 3.5GW worth of the accelerators it delivers to the ads and search giant.… |
AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:03:49 GMT)CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root accessIn the latest chapter on leaky CUPS, a security researcher and his band of bug-hunting agents have found two flaws that can be chained to allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code and achieve root file overwrite on the network.… |
AI slop got better, so now maintainers have more work - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:16:32 GMT)Once AI bug reports become plausible, someone still has to verify themIf AI does more of the work but humans still have to check it, you need more reviewers. Now that AI models have gotten better at writing and evaluating code, open-source projects find themselves overwhelmed with the too-good-to-ignore output.… |
AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:27:27 GMT)'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticketIf you've noticed Claude Code's performance degrading to the point where you find you don't trust it to handle complicated tasks anymore, you're not alone.… |
Anthropic closes door on subscription use of OpenClaw - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:37:36 GMT)The company is having trouble meeting user demandOpenClaw is popular, but not with the people responsible for keeping Anthropic’s services online. The company has disallowed subscription-based pricing for users who use the open-source agentic tool with Claude to try to keep things moving.… |
Attackers exploited this critical FortiClient EMS bug as a 0-day - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:14:25 GMT)CISA added the flaw to KEV after Fortinet confirmed exploitation in the wildFortinet released an emergency patch over the weekend for a critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) bug believed to be under attack since at least March 31.… |
Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:36:05 GMT)After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUsIt's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. … |
Windows asks a networking question on a Stratford billboard - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:00:11 GMT)Glue and paper wouldn't have cared about discoverabilityBork!Bork!Bork! Today's entry in the pantheon of public whoopsies is not so much Windows falling over as someone sticking a network connection where it possibly doesn't belong.… |
The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:30:06 GMT)It's not just machines that need proper HVACWho, Me? The world is rapidly becoming a more uncertain place, but The Register tries to offer readers one small point of certainty by always delivering a fresh Monday morning instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your errors and elucidate your escapes.… |
Anthropic sure has a mess on its hands thanks to that Claude Code source leak - (pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:02:52 GMT)Pay no attention to that code behind the curtain, says Anthropic as it scrambles to defend its IPOKettle When it comes to circling up for this week's Kettle, what is there to discuss but Anthropic's accidental release of Claude Code's source code?… |
Researchers didn’t want to glamorize cybercrims. So they roasted them - (pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:00:13 GMT)True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselvesinterview Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest.… |
If an AI agent screws up while running your business, there's nobody to sue - (pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:11 GMT)Vendors tout the potential, but responsibility remains unclear"You can't blame it on the box," says the boss of a UK financial regulator. What about the people who sold you the box? Good luck with that, says a global tech analyst.… |
How Nvidia learned to embrace the light in its quest for scale - (pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:00:08 GMT)The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitableIf you thought Nvidia's GB200 rack systems were big, CEO Jensen Huang is just getting started. At GTC last month, the world's most valuable company revealed plans to use photonic interconnects to pack more than a thousand GPUs into a single mammoth system by 2028.… |
