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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 techto 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.… |
Survey says no, American workers are not keen on Microsoft's AI - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:19:08 GMT)Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch partyThe Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has published research showing that US workers reckon Microsoft is using its productivity tools to lock their employers into the company's AI services.… |
SAP user group slams 'uncertainty' in ERP giant's API policy - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:41:13 GMT)Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations – including AI – that connect to SAP systemsAn influential SAP user group has criticized the vendor's API policy update, saying it lacks clarity and potentially prevents users from starting new projects and innovating on their SAP platforms.… |
Microsoft boss tells investors the company is working to 'win back fans' - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:00:12 GMT)But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya?Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told investors during an earnings call last night that the company needs to "win back" its fans.… |
Fewer users, fatter wallets is why Anthropic tops OpenAI in LLM revenue stakes - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:20:12 GMT)AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for themAnthropic is pulling in more LLM revenue than OpenAI, despite having a fraction of the users.… |
Nearly half of UK businesses pwned last year as phishing keeps doing the job like it's 2005 - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:35:10 GMT)Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support'Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page.… |
What type of 'C2 on a sleep cycle' do they leave behind? Novel Chinese spy group found in critical networks in Poland, Asia - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:00:08 GMT)Just in time for the Trump-Xi summitExclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries, and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024 and with activity uncovered as recently as this month.… |
Bug of the year (so far): Nasty cPanel vulnerability probably exploited as a 0-day - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:14:07 GMT)Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affectedEmergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it.… |
Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:29:10 GMT)Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ copsLondon cops are being told by their staff association to be "extremely cautious" about carrying work devices off duty, after the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed Palantir's technology to investigate hundreds of its own officers.… |
Britain's £6B armoured sickener Ajax cleared for duty despite injuring troops - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:45:12 GMT)Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselvesBritain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it.… |
Finance company stores DB credentials in helpfully labeled spreadsheet - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:00:12 GMT)Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protectionPWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately.… |
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:59:19 GMT)Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key managementMicrosoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure.… |
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:49:05 GMT)AI is driving more searches and adsGoogle Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.… |
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:15:56 GMT)Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demandIf you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs.… |
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:01:50 GMT)Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalationDevelopers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.… |
Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:47:45 GMT)The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s first quarter earnings call on Wednesday.… |
Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:11:05 GMT)ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strengthGPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks.… |
Microsoft's patch for a 0-day exploited by Russian spies fell short. Another Windows flaw is under attack - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:15:07 GMT)Second try's a charm?Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems.… |
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:35:11 GMT)Microsoft readies the axe once again for yesterday's securityMicrosoft has warned users still clinging to legacy TLS versions that the end is nigh for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 on POP3 and IMAP4 connections to Exchange Online.… |
Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:05:14 GMT)Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more infoDatabricks cannot shake a class action lawsuit targeting its LLM, which several book authors contend was created with a database that contained pirated versions of some of their copyrighted books – and about 196,000 titles in all.… |
Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:38:43 GMT)New sealed bootable container images and Stratis storage, tooFedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options.… |
Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 - (pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:05:55 GMT)Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk aboutThe first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to the occasional mystery incident.… |
