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Nvidia wraps its NemoClaw around OpenClaw for the sake of security - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:15:28 GMT)'OpenClaw is the operating system for personal AI,' insists Nvidia CEOgtc In Pixar's Toy Story, a trio little green aliens explain, "The claw chooses who will go and who will stay." The claw in that instance was a mechanical claw in a vending machine. … |
Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:04:08 GMT)Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're toldRobotics-assisted surgical tech firm Intuitive said that unauthorized intruders gained access to some of its internal IT business applications after stealing an employee's credentials during a phishing attack.… |
Nvidia powers further into the CPU market with new rack systems packing 256 Vera processors - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:35:32 GMT)The cubicals of the agentic AI age are coresGTC Intel and AMD take notice. At GTC on Monday, Nvidia unveiled its latest liquid-cooled rack systems. But unlike its NVL72 racks, this one isn't powered by GPUs or even Groq LPUs, but rather 256 of its custom Vera CPUs.… |
Nvidia slaps $20B Groq tech into massive new LPX racks to speed AI response time - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:30:56 GMT)GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than everGTC Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday. … |
Cybercrime has skyrocketed 245% since the start of the Iran war - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:40:30 GMT)Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts'Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses.… |
Vite team boasts 10-30x faster builds with Rust-powered Rolldown - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:23:13 GMT)Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projectsVite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds.… |
AI takes on Robotron: 2084, the original robot uprising simulator - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:50:09 GMT)Former Microsoft dev trains a model to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress testA former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt.… |
AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:40:06 GMT)Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitableAI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates.… |
Boffins hook fly brain map to virtual body, which starts looking for sugar - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:35:23 GMT)Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us aboutSan Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors.… |
Free Software Foundation calls for free-range LLMs rather than factory-farmed AI - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:19:33 GMT)F is for Free, FSF, and fat chanceUpdated The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models, urging it to set its LLMs free.… |
Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:27:46 GMT)iFixit opens Apple’s budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable componentsApple's latest MacBook may be cheap, but it also comes with something modern MacBooks haven't offered in years: a fighting chance of being repaired.… |
ServiceNow boss warns AI could push grad unemployment past 30% - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:59:34 GMT)McDermott argues digital workers will handle much of the grunt work once used to train junior staffUnemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI agents, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has said.… |
Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:30:14 GMT)Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California’s legal lunacyOpinion There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during account setup to protect minors online. The other is to note that the law is all the worst things a law can be.… |
Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:18:23 GMT)Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperworkCompanies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a "security issue" that exposed the personal details of company directors and other data to any logged in users.… |
Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:/ - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:37:24 GMT)'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utilityMicrosoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday.… |
UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:05:06 GMT)'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physicsThe UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus.… |
West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:15:08 GMT)Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from £2.6M to £41MWest Sussex County Council has once again delayed the implementation of Oracle Fusion for HR and payroll – set to replace an aging SAP system – following a series of setbacks that have seen expected costs swell to more than 15 times the original estimate.… |
Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn't paid a penny - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:30:09 GMT)System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for paymentsMore than a year after MPs warned that victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal were still waiting for compensation, Parliament says the system meant to pay them remains slow, bureaucratic, and flawed – meaning thousands of sub-postmasters are still fighting for payouts while taxpayers pick up the bill.… |
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:30:06 GMT)Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the busWho, Me? The world of work can be thankless, which is why The Register tries to brighten up the Monday return to toil by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column where you confess to your IT screw-ups and tell us how you got away with it.… |
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’ - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:24:04 GMT)Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprintAmazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service.… |
Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:35:29 GMT)Dark Dalek drama to stream this AprilFilm preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever.… |
India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants - (pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:57:33 GMT)PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo's biggest ever IaaS deal; and moreAsia in brief India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track” – and one of the ideas discussed was using AI to protect the beasts and workers.… |
Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:24:51 GMT)PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And moreInfosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.… |
Nvidia GTC will be full of surprises - just not for the consumer class - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:00:06 GMT)Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTCKettle It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday.… |
Jury out on whether Americans approve or disapprove of datacenters - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:34:14 GMT)Most don't think they are good for the environment.Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not.… |
Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs - (pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:30:15 GMT)Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidthWorkers who believe "leveraging cross-functional synergies" sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for corporate word salad also tend to perform worse at their jobs.… |
Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid - (pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:11:08 GMT)Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, tooAt the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain.… |
Claude charts a new course with charts, of course - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:36:24 GMT)Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive appsSeeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.… |
GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:09:00 GMT)Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is freeYou don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.… |
AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:13:39 GMT)A 'web of litigation'The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.… |
'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:48:24 GMT)An incident in MacauA 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a “raise the roof” move when the woman called it “freaking crazy.”… |
Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:17:19 GMT)And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracksA group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users' credentials, according to Microsoft.… |
After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:27:30 GMT)Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is overChrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.… |
Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:44:57 GMT)PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keysThe chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a £370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS).… |
Microsoft veteran Rajesh Jha prepares to retire, triggers yet another reorg - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:40:51 GMT)35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessionsMicrosoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.… |
Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:13:12 GMT)Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to ownCompanies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.… |
RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:02:49 GMT)Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint potLinux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them.… |
NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:48:22 GMT)'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch'NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for a rollout to the pad on March 19.… |
Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:39:54 GMT)Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to dateNinety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today.… |
Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:23:15 GMT)Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisisOpinion A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.… |
Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:18:25 GMT)It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2'Britain's government is pushing ahead with nuclear planning and regulatory reforms, aiming to accelerate atomic projects that will power homes and datacenters.… |
NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:50:11 GMT)Take your YOLO and box it upexclusive NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project's commitment to security.… |
Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:25:14 GMT)Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed.… |
Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:00:08 GMT)Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimesBork!Bork!Bork! Today we visit the south of England, where Windows has fallen over, briefly granting unrestricted rail travel to one and all.… |
Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:15:09 GMT)Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faultsOpenreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid... if the water companies can be bothered to fix them.… |
Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:30:06 GMT)Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again?On Call Arrr! How is it Friday already? The Register can't explain where the week went, but we can deliver a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support SNAFUs.… |
AI Burning Man happens next week –what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026 - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:30:06 GMT)From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in townNvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver.… |
Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:22:47 GMT)Didn’t say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost jobAdobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has announced he intends to depart the company after 18 years as the prince of PDFs.… |
Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:22:56 GMT)Beijing hinted it wasn’t happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a changeApple has cut the fees it charges Chinese developers to sell their apps and other digital goodies.… |
Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes - (pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:00:30 GMT)Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic FuryAs the US continues its strikes on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, speakers at Palantir's AIPCON event on Thursday said the company’s Maven Smart System product has shortened the time it takes the Department of Defense to select and hit targets on the battlefield during the conflict.… |
