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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.… |
Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:49:32 GMT)Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policyAI agents work together to bypass security controls and stealthily steal sensitive data from within the enterprise systems in which they operate, according to tests carried out by frontier security lab Irregular.… |
Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:39:04 GMT)Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computerPerplexity is ready to have enterprises use its AI service even if enterprises may still be wary of delegating tasks to software agents.… |
District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:32:01 GMT)Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unansweredAmerican parents of school-aged children may want to pay attention to where their cars are parked and for how long, as license plate reader data is now being cited by at least one school district when challenging whether students live where they say they do.… |
Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:17:10 GMT)It's safe and secure, Redmond insists, but don't expect medical adviceMicrosoft wants to store your healthcare data so that its AI "delivers personalized health insights that you can act on," but without the liability that comes with actual medical advice.… |
White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:01:30 GMT)Franchise isn't the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propagandaAnime mainstay Yu-Gi-Oh has criticized the White House for using a clip from the TV show in videos promoting US military action.… |
Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:41:14 GMT)OEM delays have become patient care delaysWhen patient care is delayed in a hospital because something is broken, biomedical technicians would like you to understand that it's not usually their fault.… |
Operation Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:23:38 GMT)International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countriesCops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy service used by criminals to compromise hundreds of thousands of routers worldwide and carry out digital fraud, costing businesses and consumers millions.… |
Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:00:39 GMT)Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal '26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do moreOracle has increased funding for its restructuring plans for the current financial year by $500 million, with some observers anticipating a spate of job losses.… |
Musk makes the Macrohard joke again - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:33:07 GMT)The idea being that fleets of AI agents could emulate the 'function of entire companies'Elon Musk wheeled out his "Macrohard" dad joke again in the form of a supposed fleet of "Digital Optimus" agents that he claims would be capable of "emulating the function of entire companies."… |
Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:36:14 GMT)Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra planDevelopers using Google's Antigravity agentic AI coding tool are complaining about higher prices following an announcement yesterday that the company is evolving its AI plans.… |
Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92 - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:23:55 GMT)Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all timeObit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and to his friends as Tony, he was not only one of the greatest minds in the history of programming – he also came up with a number of the field's pithiest quotes.… |
NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:47:50 GMT)Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injuryNASA's Van Allen Probe A has re-entered Earth's atmosphere eight years earlier than expected, with a 1 in 4,200 chance that its components could cause injury.… |
CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:34:55 GMT)No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosuresThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that hackers are exploiting a max-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in workflow automation platform n8n.… |
Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:22:57 GMT)Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder'Alphabet is spinning out its US Google Fiber business and combining it with Astound Broadband as part of a joint venture with private equity investor Stonepeak.… |
Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:14:24 GMT)US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contractMedical and legal rights campaigners are warning that the Palantir data platform, designed to be at the heart of England's health system, risks enabling UK immigration and policing departments to access confidential patient information.… |
Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:50:41 GMT)Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments… just not their ownUpdated Customers of three major UK banks woke on Thursday to find incorrect transactions appearing in their apps, a problem later attributed to a technical glitch.… |
Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:32:13 GMT)All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you're goingBork!Bork!Bork! Smart mirrors are all the rage. However, rather than a list of headlines and tasks to do today, an unhappy Windows installation can make a smart mirror seem very dumb indeed.… |
Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:59:34 GMT)DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materialsBritain has taken the first steps towards producing its own ultrahigh temperature materials, regarded as vital for applications including hypersonic vehicles, space, and advanced propulsion systems.… |
So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:15:15 GMT)Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hookThe British government is consulting on reforms to prioritize "strategically important" grid connections – including datacenters – amid reports of delays stretching more than a decade on some projects.… |
Whitehall seeks lone C++ coder to keep airport passenger model flying - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:30:08 GMT)Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubsThe UK's Department for Transport is offering up to £100,000 over three years for access to a C++ programmer who can keep a module of its airport usage model up in the air.… |
Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - even the Professional edition - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:10:40 GMT)Out of the Copilot and into the fireUpdated Windows shops have something new to worry about: a virtual Xbox lurking inside Windows 11, including the Professional edition.… |
Meta reveals four Broadcom-built custom AI chips, claims some outperform commercial silicon - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:49:37 GMT)Deploying them by the gigawatt but still can’t flag obvious AI slopSocial networking giant Meta has revealed details of four previously unknown custom chips powering its AI services.… |
China’s CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds - (pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:37:09 GMT)Like deleting data, exposing keys, and loading malicious content - which may be why Beijing has reportedly banned itChina’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team has warned locals that the OpenClaw agentic AI tool poses significant security risks.… |
Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:37:27 GMT)Company is ‘reshaping our skill mix’ amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispersAustralian collaborationware company Atlassian has announced it will shed ten percent of staff – around 1,600 people.… |
Perplexity Comet hurtling toward Amazon ban - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:26:18 GMT)Court issues preliminary injunction but delays it to allow an appealPerplexity's AI browser Comet has been banned from accessing Amazon's website after the e-commerce giant obtained a court-ordered preliminary injunction.… |
Iran plots 'infrastructure warfare' against US tech giants - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:18:44 GMT)State news published a list of nearly 30 sites that could be targetedIran has reportedly designated Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, and Palantir facilities as legitimate targets of retaliatory strikes, according to an Al Jazeera report citing Iran’s state-affiliated Tasnim news agency.… |
Iran-linked cyber crew says they hit US med-tech firm - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:40:12 GMT)Meanwhile, Verifone says 'no evidence' to support the digital intruders' claimsA hacking crew with ties to Iran's intelligence agency claimed to be behind a global network outage at med-tech firm Stryker on Wednesday, and said the cyberattack was in response to the US-Israel airstrikes.… |
Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows - (pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:41:56 GMT)I see you're trying to kill children. Would you like some help with that?You might expect a bot to have guardrails that prevent it from helping you plan a crime, but your expectations might be too high. According to a study, eight of ten major commercial chatbots will help you prepare to conduct a school shooting.… |
