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Anthropic comes for the midmarket software spend - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 22:38:27 GMT)Backed by private equity and banking giants, it will build custom AI systems for business bottlenecksThere’s gold in midmarket IT spend, and Anthropic - backed by private equity and banking heavyweights and tapping its Claude Partner Network - is coming for it.… |
OpenAI exec says company hopes to burn $50B of somebody else's money on compute this year - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:02:01 GMT)If the numbers are large enough, perhaps we won't question the mathAn executive for ChatGPT maker OpenAI said in court testimony on Tuesday that the AI model developer expects to burn $50 billion on computing power before the end of the year.… |
Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:31:06 GMT)GDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to themA LinkedIn feature the average non-paying user likely only glances past could end up setting a legal precedent in the EU regarding how companies treat customer data that they've processed. … |
Astera speaks softly and carries a big switch - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:05:07 GMT)High-speed connectivity without NVLink baggageAstera Labs unveiled an alternative to Nvidia's NVSwitch for building rack-scale AI systems on Tuesday, claiming it will work with nearly any accelerator.… |
Anthropic wants Claude to play with money, unleashes finance agents - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:44:41 GMT)Always bet on backpropagationIf you've ever read Anthropic's disclaimer that responses generated by Claude may contain mistakes and thought, "That's what I need to spice up financial operations," you're in luck.… |
IBM asks DBAs to trust AI to act on their behalf - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:29:10 GMT)With help from Google and Intel, Big Blue brings new automation to Db2IBM has added support for Google Vertex AI and Intel Gaudi to boost the AI-based management of its stalwart Db2 database.… |
ServiceNow clears agents for landing with new AI control tower - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:00:10 GMT)ServiceNow acquisitions Veza and Traceloop join to monitor agents and AI workflowsServiceNow announced an expansion of its AI Control Tower, transforming what began last year as a governance dashboard into what the company now describes as a command center for managing AI assets across an entire enterprise, including those running outside ServiceNow's own platform.… |
DIY mystery box will wow your friends by hinting at what the ionosphere is up to - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 16:46:54 GMT)A rough guide to when your signal will behave, or notShortwave radio enthusiasts are sure to know the problem: You're trying to tune in to your favorite global broadcast only to find that the signal is fuzzy. Is it you? Your equipment? It might just be the conditions in the ionosphere, which you'd know if you built this DIY device. … |
Attackers are cashing in on fresh 'CopyFail' Linux flaw - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:01:08 GMT)Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for longCISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.… |
More missions, less money, higher risk: NASA's back to the '90s playbook - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:33:07 GMT)Faster, better, cheaper is back and history suggests you can't get all three at the same timeOPINION NASA's budget and its new administrator's statements are evoking a ghost from the agency's past: Faster, better, cheaper.… |
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:08:14 GMT)Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in futureBun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he is "curious to see what a working version of this looks like."… |
Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:34:25 GMT)Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threatsReal estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after two cybercrime groups, ShinyHunters and Qilin, separately claimed responsibility for attacks on the company.… |
SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:20:10 GMT)ERP giant previously leaned on Databricks for integrationSAP has snapped up Dremio, a data integration and analytics provider, to extend the reach of its data analytics and AI agent-building tools into external data sources.… |
VMware claims Cloud Foundation on track for world domination - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:01:11 GMT)Delivers update aimed at reducing hardware bill shockVMware has announced an update to its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud suite and tried to make it fit the times by adding features that allow users to run with less hardware.… |
ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:15:34 GMT)Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touchedMore than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned.… |
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:04:22 GMT)Professor Fry's AI experiment shows light and dark sides of agentic techBritish mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."… |
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 11:43:51 GMT)Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob storiesRomance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.… |
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 11:34:23 GMT)CK Hutchison takes early cash as UK mobile tie-up moves ahead of scheduleVodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions.… |
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 10:00:13 GMT)Activating Windows will cost more than a couple of cheap carrier bagsBork!Bork!Bork! Things must be tough for UK grocery retailer Sainsbury's, judging by the state of Windows Activation on one of its self-service kiosks.… |
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:15:07 GMT)Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the changeThe UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.… |
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 08:30:14 GMT)If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?Opinion It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce.… |
Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 06:32:09 GMT)New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standardAntiques Code Show Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend.… |
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 04:53:26 GMT)Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining awayMicrosoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice.… |
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 02:12:16 GMT)Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOCAcademics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.… |
Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us' - (pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:14:11 GMT)The Iran war has been great for businessThe Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.… |
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.… |
