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Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:37:00 GMT)OneDrive, Office, Teams Free users greeted with phantom 'no internet' errors, restart may help if you're luckyMicrosoft has broken account sign-ins in Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 with a recent update, causing error messages in apps like OneDrive and Office.… |
UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:35:25 GMT)Cams statistically more likely to ID Black people, says new researchA UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a watchlist database.… |
Feds disrupt monster IoT botnets behind record-breaking DDoS attacks - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:07:26 GMT)Millions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyondThe US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, including traffic bursts topping 30 terabits per second.… |
Jaguar Land Rover's cyber bailout sets worrying precedent, watchdog warns - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:42:10 GMT)Lack of clear criteria risks encouraging firms to lean on state support instead of worrying about insuranceThe UK's cyber watchdog has warned that the government's £1.5 billion bailout of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) risks setting a troubling precedent for how Britain handles major cyber crises.… |
Supermicro co-founder arrested, charged over $2.5B Nvidia GPU sales to China - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:57:07 GMT)Indictment claims dummy servers and bogus docs used to slip past US export controlsA co-founder of Supermicro is among three people charged with diverting servers fitted with Nvidia GPUs worth $2.5 billion to Chinese customers in violation of US export controls.… |
UK to rethink tech buying after Palantir contracts - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:06:13 GMT)Government looks for sovereign tech as NHS deal nears break clauseThe UK government has promised a different approach to tech procurement following the award of controversial contracts to Palantir.… |
Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:15:14 GMT)Audit trails aplenty, but no price tag – and no clue how long your data sticks aroundOpinion Last week's UK government consultation on its plans for digital identity had quite a few things missing. It did not include a price estimate - something it said was due to decisions yet to be taken on the scheme's scope - or how long the government would keep "audit trail" records of ID checks.… |
Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:30:07 GMT)Beats getting roasted on the mailing listAI is coming to the Linux kernel in the form of a code review system - not code submissions.… |
While you're here, could you go out of your way to do an impossible job? - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:30:11 GMT)He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for a meddling security team's fear of USBOn Call Each Friday The Register offers a fresh installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.… |
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin applies to launch 51,000 datacenter satellites - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:14:47 GMT)‘Project Sunrise’ needs a network that doesn’t exist, a rocket that’s hardly flown, and FCC approvalJeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin has applied to launch up to 51,600 datacenter satellites.… |
Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:16:30 GMT)Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck’s human mods couldn’t join the dotsMeta has revealed it’s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than humans.… |
Alibaba has made 470,000 AI chips, admits they’re inferior and may always be - (pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:25:30 GMT)Sees optimizing its entire cloud around homebrew silicon as the way to competeChinese web giant Alibaba has revealed its T-Head chipmaking business has shipped 470,000 AI chips, and admitted they are currently inferior to rival products, but believes it can build a mutually optimized stack that makes performance gaps moot.… |
Decoding Nvidia's Groq-powered LPX and the rest of its new rack systems - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:41:36 GMT)From LPUs and GPUs to CPUs and switches, everything you need to know about Nvidia's latest kitGTC DEEP DIVE At Nvidia’s GTC conference this week, CEO Jensen Huang finally addressed a $20 billion question he’s dodged for months: Why spend so much to license AI chip startup Groq’s tech and hire away its engineers rather than build it themselves?… |
OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:13:00 GMT)Deal helps company build out its Codex teamIn a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for its Codex programming agent.… |
Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:30:49 GMT)Pair say review of studies, other evidence, proves more countries need to do like Australia and keep kids offlineThere is enough evidence going back far enough that it's reasonable to conclude social media platforms are responsible for population-level mental health harms. … |
Unknown attackers exploit yet another critical SharePoint bug - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:54:19 GMT)Last time: Beijing-backed snoops and ransomware crims. Who's next?Unknown baddies are abusing yet another critical Microsoft SharePoint bug to compromise victims' SharePoint servers, the US government warned.… |
Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:30:06 GMT)Chocolate Factory describes concession as an attempt to balance openess with safetyIt turns out you won't be limited to Google-verified apps an developers on Android after all. In the face of sustained community dissatisfaction with its developer verification requirement, Google has given Android users an out.… |
'Death sentence': EU cloud lobby takes Broadcom to Brussels over VMware partner purge - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:07:32 GMT)CISPE files antitrust complaint, demands interim measures to stop what it calls chip giant's 'ongoing abuse'A lobbying trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures blocking Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choice.… |
Fiber on the surface of the moon could help detect moonquakes - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:18:39 GMT)Better than seismometers?Fiber-optic cables could be used to detect moonquakes, offering a simpler way to gather seismic data to support future missions.… |
GNOME 50 debuts with X11 axed, Wayland front and center - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:54:01 GMT)Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028GNOME 50 is here, codenamed Tokyo after the location of the GNOME Asia Summit 2025, and the biggest change is in fact more or less invisible, unless you look for an options button on the login screen.… |
FBI director leaves open the possibility that it's buying location data again - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:43:05 GMT)Kash Patel says the FBI uses all the tools it has to accomplish its mission - even if those tools are questionableIt's been three years since an FBI director admitted to purchasing the location data of Americans, potentially in violation of the Constitution. Here we go again.… |
Lock down Microsoft Intune, feds warn after Stryker attack - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:00:20 GMT)Iran-linked attackers wiped employees' devices using IntuneThe US government has urged companies to better secure Microsoft Intune, an endpoint management tool that was abused in last week's cyberattack against med-tech firm Stryker.… |
PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:59:30 GMT)Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefitsYou'll use AI and like it too – if you work for PwC. Paul Griggs, US chief executive of the global professional services giant, has made clear there is no room at the corporation for AI skeptics.… |
UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:33:12 GMT)Creative pressure forces rethink as officials step back from default data useThe UK government has backed off plans to allow AI companies to access copyrighted material for free for training purposes by default.… |
Google says it will let UK publishers opt out of AI overviews - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:31:24 GMT)One search engine switch to rule them all in Google's response to UK competition watchdogThe UK's competition watchdog has published responses to its consultation over Google's strategic market status (SMS) covering search and search advertising services - and the tech biz is offering some concessions.… |
Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:22:57 GMT)It's still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/OQCon London A member of Anthropic's AI reliability engineering team spoke at QCon London on why Claude excels at finding issues but still makes a poor substitute for a site reliability engineer (SRE), constantly mistaking correlation with causation.… |
Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:15:11 GMT)New toggle strips away browser chrome if you wantBrowser maker Vivaldi has opened up a new front in the browser wars by making itself disappear.… |
Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:05:31 GMT)Annual billed sub scrubbed after 14 days? Expect to pay 50% of yearly priceBritain’s competition watchdog is opening an investigation into Adobe’s early cancellation fees on membership plans to ascertain if it breaks consumer law.… |
Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:00:14 GMT)Perks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notificationComplaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit card charges and invoices they never saw coming.… |
SAP's grand cloud escape plan €2B short of the runway - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:15:15 GMT)Strategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind targetFive years after launching its rescue plan to lift ERP users to the cloud and switch them to the latest software, SAP is off target by about €2 billion, The Register can reveal.… |
GOV.UK chatbot gets smarter but slower as LLMs improve - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:30:13 GMT)Accuracy jumps from 76% to 90% across public pilots, while users wait nearly 11 seconds for answersMore powerful large language models (LLMs) are helping make the UK government's in-development chatbot more accurate but are also slowing it down, according to the Government Digital Service (GDS).… |
Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:30:10 GMT)From mild vegetarianism to full-blown haterdom, there's a label for everythingOpinion Are you an AI hater, an AI vegan, or a slightly more moderate AI vegetarian? Or are you on the side of the clankers? A bot-licker, a prompt-fondler, a ChatNPC?… |
Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:54:29 GMT)Stitch gets voice input and an infinite canvasThe term “vibe coding” has become associated with use of AI coding assistants to create code that expresses a developer’s intent, even if the results are ropey and require plenty of extra work to put into production. Google’s now proudly adapted the term to describe the workings of its Stitch design tool.… |
Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:39:35 GMT)Micron plans to cash in, after already growing revenue $10 billion in a single quarterAutonomous cars will need 300 gigabytes of DRAM or more, and robots will need similar quantities, leading memory-maker Micron Technology to predict it has a long and happy future ahead of it.… |
Tencent says small clouds can’t get hardware, so big clouds can hike prices - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:47:43 GMT)Baidu joins the Chinese cloud price rise partyTwo more Chinese cloud giants have signalled price rises for their services, again due to the impact of AI on their supply chains.… |
Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market - (pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:28:08 GMT)Who knew questioning authority and signaling virtue would lead to growth?Anthropic has been killing it in the business market, success that appears to be at least partially attributable to pushback against the Pentagon.… |
Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:05:31 GMT)Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that?Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they’re doing, and shut them down if need be.… |
State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:39:04 GMT)Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a monthA new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.… |
Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:43:34 GMT)Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomesSometimes a compliment is no help at all. Chatbot flattery, a well-known and common problem, makes things worse for humans experiencing mental health issues.… |
ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:43:11 GMT)The law is the law, no matter who tells you to break itOne of your studios is about to make a game that you think will be a huge hit, and you don't want to pay the contractually required bonuses. What to do? One Korean CEO turned to ChatGPT to cook up a plan to get his company out of paying up to $250 million. It went about as well as you'd expect.… |
Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:14:06 GMT)Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to sayGTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage system vendor, while IBM integrated Watsonx and other offerings more tightly with GPUzilla's offerings. Seagate demonstrated a two-tier hybrid external KV Cache composed of SSDs and disk drives, as it did last year.… |
Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:44:39 GMT)PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor saysMicrosoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine.… |
Ransomware crims abused Cisco 0-day weeks before disclosure, says Amazon security boss - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:40:31 GMT)Interlock's post-exploit toolkit exposedRansomware criminals exploited CVE-2026-20131, a maximum-severity bug in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center software, as a zero-day vulnerability more than a month before Cisco patched the hole, according to Amazon security boss CJ Moses.… |
Ohio citizens tell hyperscalers to take their supersized datacenters elsewhere - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:08:33 GMT)Residents looking to ban server farms with capacity over 25 MWOhio residents are proposing a ban on datacenters with a capacity greater than 25 MW, the latest sign of growing opposition to massive server farms across the US.… |
Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:06:57 GMT)Friends and family support techs: get ready for permission changing and batch file creatingMicrosoft has published a handy guide for regaining access to a C:\ drive borked by a Samsung application, but it isn't for the faint of heart.… |
Meatbags vs machines: DeepMind plans hackathon to draw line between human and AI brains - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:51:16 GMT)What exactly is AGI? Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define itIf a bot actually achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI), how would we even know? Google DeepMind boffins have come up with what they say is an empirical, scientifically grounded framework to measure progress toward AGI, and they're looking for a few good devs to actually flesh it out. … |
Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:15:10 GMT)Good luck with thatThe latest release of the most widely used Linux init system is here, and between dropping init script support and AI-assisted coding, we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers.… |
Microsoft Copilot boss Mustafa Suleyman to chase superintelligence - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:01:22 GMT)Jacob Andreou takes reins in latest reshuffleMicrosoft has rearranged the deckchairs on the RMS Copilot, sending Mustafa Suleyman to seek out superintelligence, and putting Jacob Andreou in charge of Copilot across consumer and commercial.… |
North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:57:07 GMT)Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaboratorsResearchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information.… |
AI for software developers is in a 'dangerous state' - (pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:53:14 GMT)Strong forces tempting humans out of the AI loop, and reducing the experience needed to supervise and reviewQCon London AI is in a dangerous state where it is too useful not to use, but where by using it, developers are giving up the experience they need to review what it does, said a speaker at QCon London, a vendor-neutral developer conference underway this week.… |
