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Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799 - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 21:46:13 GMT)The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computerThe Mac Mini is the latest victim of the AI-fueled RAM-pocalypse. Last week, Apple discontinued the 256 GB version of the system, which cost $599. To get in now, you'll need to drop at least $799 on a 512 GB version.… |
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 21:13:34 GMT)Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by defaultImagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code.… |
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:50:10 GMT)46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around themIt’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.… |
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:07:50 GMT)Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to spaceWe've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship systems. Lucky for you, one enterprising maker has created just the machine for the job.… |
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:28:48 GMT)It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don HoNotepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to be perfectly clear that, no matter how convincing the new project might look, it's not official. … |
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:39:08 GMT)The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in CupertinoFEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.… |
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:04:20 GMT)'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory of all the components in the environment. Enter AI-BOMs.… |
Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:03:06 GMT)Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challengesVMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.… |
If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 09:06:12 GMT)Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research showsYour voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media posts.… |
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 07:00:11 GMT)That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in troubleWho, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them.… |
Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 05:13:37 GMT)Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decadesIn the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites.… |
Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 02:35:29 GMT)Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, CanadaInformation security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech.… |
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs - (pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:33:04 GMT)PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surgeA Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.… |
Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better - (pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 23:00:07 GMT)Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. … |
Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark - (pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 13:05:11 GMT)In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemyAI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never.… |
Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’ - (pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 10:30:14 GMT)Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleetThe leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can continue to defend the nation and operate overseas.… |
Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise - (pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 08:34:07 GMT)PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?Parliament's spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from the usual diet of failure and overspend.… |
Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents - (pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 11:30:07 GMT)Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLMWith model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based pricing, that vibe-coded hobby project is about to get a whole lot more expensive. Fortunately, you're not without cost-saving options.… |
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs - (pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 09:24:07 GMT)Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load itThe DVSA's driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated users.… |
Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt - (pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:30:09 GMT)Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at onceBritain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up.… |
ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:39:10 GMT)CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'The chase is on. Atlassian reported its largest-ever quarter for taking share from a major IT service management provider, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said on the company's fiscal third-quarter earnings call Thursday, escalating its rivalry with ServiceNow.… |
Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:57:17 GMT)Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying itPentagon CTO Emil Michael pushed back on reports of a thaw in the department’s relationship with Anthropic: The two are not getting back together, even as Mythos draws interest from government agencies.… |
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:00:07 GMT)SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. DefinitelyAmid the sensational NASA budget cut proposals taking place in the US at the moment, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has refined the Artemis III launch date to "late 2027."… |
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 15:24:14 GMT)Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternativesAs both Apple and Google introduce unwelcome changes in their phone OSes, here's a quick reminder that you do have alternatives to the Gruesome Twosome.… |
CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:54:13 GMT)If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues ForresterForrester predicts that by decade's end, the rush toward agentic AI will grow so chaotic that CIOs will be forced into a new role as enforcer of order.… |
That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:16:56 GMT)Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stockSecondhand phones sales are booming - relatively speaking - and the industry has rising inflation, AI bloat, and consumers' growing apathy toward overpriced new handsets to thank for it.… |
First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:10:15 GMT)Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demandCISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already poking holes in one of the internet's most widely used hosting stacks.… |
Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans' - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:42:39 GMT)Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to followMicrosoft is following through on its promise to prioritize Windows stability with its April 30 non-security update.… |
OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:42:01 GMT)Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mockedOpenAI is lining up a limited release of its new GPT-5.5-Cyber model to a handpicked circle of "cyber defenders," just weeks after taking a swipe at Anthropic for doing almost exactly the same thing.… |
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:15:10 GMT)But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software devAn astronomy software dev claims a Falcon 9 upper stage will hit the Moon in August, traveling at several times the speed of sound.… |
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:05:59 GMT)313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep comingCanonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.… |
UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:43:07 GMT)Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudstersThe Department for Work and Pensions has gone shopping for covert cameras, live-streaming kit, and vehicle-based recording gear as it lines up a £2 million upgrade to watch fraud suspects in real time.… |
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright? - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:00:06 GMT)Things that go bork in the nightBork!Bork!Bork! What frightens you? What, as an IT professional, would make you shriek like a small child? What tech horrors are lurking under your bed?… |
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 09:15:06 GMT)Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a yearThe Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of £576 million as it starts a third round of engagement with suppliers.… |
DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 08:30:15 GMT)Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new tech to support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing times exceeded 14 weeks in February.… |
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:11 GMT)For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problemOn Call Fridays can be a drag, but The Register has a formula to inject a little fun by delivering a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column in which we share your tech support stories.… |
Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’ - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 06:43:19 GMT)Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscalerQualcomm has quietly entered the market for custom hyperscale silicon, and datacenter CPUs… |
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 04:55:52 GMT)In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has confirmed the demise of its mainframe business in the year 2035 and hinted it’s working on significant defense projects.… |
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 - (pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 02:15:40 GMT)$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scriptsThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), its first since 2012.… |
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:21:53 GMT)Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malwareThe wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package.… |
Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:27:22 GMT)Stop the sprawl!With the average Global Fortune 500 enterprise expected to run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 today, there’s plenty of room for chaos. Analyst firm Gartner says that, without proper governance, those agents will multiply and run amok.… |
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:49:00 GMT)Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less openUpdated Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google's decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as the Prompt API, is already being tested in Chrome and Microsoft Edge.… |
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:26:27 GMT)KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the startGive a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI to phish and it'll change the landscape, if KnowBe4's latest phishing trends report is accurate.… |
FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control' - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:30:53 GMT)One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekendChina's "hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control," according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division.… |
Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:54:07 GMT)Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on averageRemember the early days of the smartphone revolution when, even after six months, your phone felt outdated? Not anymore. Smartphone replacement cycles are getting longer as discretionary household budgets come under pressure from inflation, with demand for new devices expected to fall for the rest of this year.… |
Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:18:26 GMT)Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICsIf you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica's latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single chassis.… |
Google's fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:15:13 GMT)This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflowsIf you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool and is warning anyone running it in headless mode, or through GitHub Actions, to review their workflows.… |
French prosecutors link 15-year-old to mega-breach at state’s secure document agency - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:39:22 GMT)Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing onlineFrench prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from France Titres (ANTS), the agency handling secure documents.… |
Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:17:46 GMT)Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editorThe Rust-built Zed editor has reached version 1.0, released yesterday, with development led by former members of the Atom team at GitHub.… |
AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:02:53 GMT)When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the jobThe great memory shortage is having yet another effect, pushing enterprises into the waiting arms of the cloud operators as they can't secure enough on-prem compute themselves.… |
