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Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:15:06 GMT)Out-of-band or out of control?Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band update to address the restart loop that hit some Windows Server devices after its April update.… |
AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:38:39 GMT)Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say expertsUK AI datacenter capacity could migrate away from London as power shortages, planning constraints and reduced reliance on low-latency connections to financial firms make other locations more attractive.… |
UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:13:03 GMT)Companies get to keep IP developed for government projectsThe UK government is opening £80 million in AI procurement talks with tech firms, drawing on its £500 million sovereign capability fund.… |
HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:25:32 GMT)Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdownHP is quietly pulling the plug on its Teradici-derived remote desktop business, shelving HP Anyware and its zero client hardware barely a few years after betting big on the tech as the backbone of its hybrid work push.… |
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:49:32 GMT)Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong placeBlue Origin's New Glenn rocket nailed the landing this weekend, but failed at the crucial part of delivering a satellite to a usable orbit.… |
Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:27:13 GMT)£330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platformThe UK government is considering ending Palantir's involvement in a central NHS data platform after coming under fire from MPs, unions, and campaigners.… |
Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:23:41 GMT)Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy useMPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid into a bottleneck.… |
AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:25:07 GMT)We've been here before. This time, we may not get outOpinion Fans of the creative arts often find out where creators gather to talk among themselves, then sneak in to eavesdrop on what those masters of the art talk about. Golden insights, daring concepts, cutting-edge thinking? Not a bit. Gossip, if you're lucky. Travel miseries, if you're not. Mostly, they talk about money.… |
Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:31:13 GMT)Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incidentVercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess.… |
'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:01:09 GMT)You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstromWho, Me? Welcome to yet another Monday, and therefore to this week's edition of Who, Me? For those unfamiliar, it's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace messes, and how you tried to clean them up without dirtying your career prospects.… |
NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:52:05 GMT)Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdownNASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working lives of the Voyager probes.… |
Indonesia’s game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:07:30 GMT)PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more!Asia In Brief Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has suspended the nation’s game rating system (IGRS) after claims the service leaked developer creds and video of unreleased games.… |
Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay - (pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:00:14 GMT)Aren't we all just prompting tokens of linguistic meaning and hoping the other person isn't bullshitting us?kettle It's a week of the year, which means there's been the discovery of yet another prompt injection attack that will force supposedly well-guarded AI bots to spill secrets by asking the right way. … |
I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns - (pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:07:07 GMT)Passing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturityOPINION AI vendors: "You need to use AI to fight AI threats (and do everything else in your corporate IT environment)." Also AI vendors: "That's not a security flaw; it's working as intended."… |
Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus - (pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:00:10 GMT)Non profit loses several staffers including its executive directorRuby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, is in "real financial jeopardy," according to a missive from its board members.… |
Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale - (pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:30:13 GMT)Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when neededNot only is hardware memory scarce these days, but context memory, the conversational data exchanged with AI models, can be an issue too.… |
Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest - (pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:30:10 GMT)From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tierUnless a customer pays for the most expensive enterprise license, or the law forbids it, Atlassian is going to collect their data to train its AI models. And you can't fully opt out.… |
Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:46:32 GMT)Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxesIntel brought a few more chips home from Taiwan this week, with a new round of budget-oriented Core Series 3 processors fabbed right in the US-of-A.… |
Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:38:02 GMT)The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a modelAnthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The company, on Friday, introduced a research preview service called Claude Design that creates visual assets, potentially putting some folks out of work.… |
CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:09:51 GMT)Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV listCISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw that's been quietly lurking for more than a decade.… |
Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:31:32 GMT)Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapseMilitaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to track one of its warships for less than the cost of some hagelslag and a coffee.… |
Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:56:26 GMT)We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visitMicrosoft Azure capacity woes are back, and worse than ever, judging by the complaints of UK users.… |
Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:29:09 GMT)Starts new one on boot loopsMore than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as "resolved."… |
NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:39:13 GMT)Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut loomsNASA is moving ahead with its contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite another attempt by the Trump administration to cut funding for the effort.… |
Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:45:12 GMT)Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck.… |
Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:08 GMT)University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fastApple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their iPhones for months, The Register understands.… |
Would you like fries with that terminal? - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:15:12 GMT)Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn'tBork!Bork!Bork! It was not so much Jack in the Box as Bork on the Screen at a US drive-through fast food outlet the other day. Luckily, a Reg reader was there to take it all in.… |
Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:30:13 GMT)Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for moneyThe UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout later leaving thousands of retirees waiting for payments, a senior civil servant has said.… |
Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:29:07 GMT)All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping asideOn Call Life is filled with random events, but The Register tries to make readers’ lives just a little more predictable by always using Friday morning to bring you a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.… |
Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:02:09 GMT)Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular softwareAnthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react.… |
IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:15:07 GMT)Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookupsThe IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.… |
Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:35:46 GMT)Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memoryMore than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates.… |
IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google - (pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:04:50 GMT)We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayerIPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google.… |
Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researchers say - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:45:37 GMT)Bug or feature?A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.… |
Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:35:09 GMT)Client connects to deepset's Haystack platformMozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. … |
NodeWeaver says its perpetual licensing beats VMware’s perpetual price hikes - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:08:29 GMT)'I think you can run this thing on a potato,' NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said.Broadcom's price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for customers running computing workloads in far-flung edge locations, from cruise ships to solar farms in Sub-Saharan Africa, and it is taking cost out of the hardware needed as well.… |
Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:25:43 GMT)Large organizations pushed toward metered pricingUPDATED More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal.… |
Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:48:25 GMT)If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyardLoud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying "not in my backyard."… |
North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:20:12 GMT)Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well'North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.… |
If you want into Anthropic's Claude club, you may have to show ID - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:49:59 GMT)Worse: Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on RedditAnthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks.… |
DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:15:32 GMT)Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claimsThe team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the "small changes" problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks, Snowflake, Google, and others.… |
Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:49:11 GMT)Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikesNorth America has some of the world's most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.… |
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:13:37 GMT)Fortune 500 companies and one US defense contractor got taken for $5m in four-year scamTwo Americans have been jailed for a combined 200 months for helping North Korea generate $5 million through fraudulent IT worker schemes.… |
Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:37:06 GMT)Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps upBrussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc's competition rulebook.… |
Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:17:27 GMT)When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on...Britain's government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.… |
Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:53:24 GMT)Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEsVisual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over color contrast and forced updates continue to overshadow the improvements.… |
Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:57:22 GMT)Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainerSecurity boffins say Anthropic's Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer's identity.… |
Textbook titan McGraw Hill on ransomware crew's reading list after 13.5M records exposed - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:49:35 GMT)Publisher claims misconfigured Salesforce-hosted page leaked dataTextbook giant McGraw Hill has landed on a ransomware crew's leak site after an alleged Salesforce-linked misconfiguration spilled 13.5 million records into the wild.… |
Swarm welcome: Britain lines up 120,000 drones for Ukraine - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:45:11 GMT)Giant UAV package will include strike, recon, logistics, and maritime systemsThe UK government says it will deliver at least 120,000 drones to Ukraine this year to help it fight against Russia.… |
Microsoft announces product it doesn't want anyone to buy - (pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:01:08 GMT)Just migrate already, would you? But if you can't, Redmond will take your cashMicrosoft will keep delivering security updates for old versions of Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server, after admitting that some customers aren't ready to make the move to newer products.… |
