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Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:29:25 GMT)Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe codingJer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. … |
The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:26:40 GMT)After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deckThe US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.… |
The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:58:06 GMT)They were doing it in Texas...Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.… |
Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:53:16 GMT)Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filingsDigital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.… |
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:24:08 GMT)Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use?South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.… |
Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:45:07 GMT)No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friendIt's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead - sort of - with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. … |
AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:20:09 GMT)Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agentsWhile AI agents have moved from experimental tools to customer-facing workers in a matter of months, the next challenge is governance and reliability once those agents touch real money, real shoppers, and real creative output.… |
Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:47:41 GMT)Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on handWith AI demand growing, Facebook parent Meta is looking for new ways to power its datacenters, with one ambitious project pledging to send solar power down from orbit. Another agreement offers Meta the opportunity to store enough power to keep its bit barns going, even when the grid is over capacity or down.… |
Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:14:54 GMT)No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other cloudsOnce tied tightly together, Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their agreement, making the Windows giant's license non-exclusive. In exchange, Microsoft will no longer owe OpenAI a revenue share.… |
SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:57:07 GMT)Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the teamUpdated SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than 18 months, kicking off what could be a busy time for the vehicle.… |
Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:03:09 GMT)Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptorsThe United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.… |
Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:22:58 GMT)Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grewCybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from recruiter Harvey Nash.… |
Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:34:09 GMT)Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million recordsA home security biz getting digitally burgled is not a great look - but that's exactly where ADT finds itself. The company has confirmed a cyber intrusion following an extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters crew, which claims to have made off with more than 10 million records.… |
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:19:25 GMT)Keep the patches away for as long as you likeMicrosoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like.… |
In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:12:06 GMT)Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad dayBork!Bork!Bork! From the beginning of time, there has always been Bork. Lurking within the heart of this ancient rock is not a precious crystal or a rare fossil. No, it's a Raspberry Pi desktop and dialog.… |
ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:35:08 GMT)UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runsThe UK's data watchdog is without its chief after John Edwards stepped aside from the Information Commissioner's Office while an independent workplace investigation examines unspecified HR matters.… |
Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:15:14 GMT)Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trialHMRC is betting big on Microsoft Copilot, rolling it out to tens of thousands of staff after a Whitehall trial estimated it saved each user roughly 26 minutes of time per day.… |
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:30:15 GMT)AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny thatOpinion In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Mythos is a set of beliefs of obscure origin which are incompatible with reality.… |
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:00:09 GMT)There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODsWho, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column that shares your stories of mistakes, occasional malice, and how you came out the other side.… |
Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now - (pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:01:15 GMT)Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about MythosKETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week.… |
Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy - (pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:48:10 GMT)Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fitsWhat does AI cost? It's a simple question and an important one – the answer will determine the fate of companies and shape society. But it's also a question that can't be answered in a meaningful way without additional context.… |
Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense - (pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:38:14 GMT)The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyanceopinion You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”… |
AI's not going to kill open source code security - (pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:28:09 GMT)Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that wayOpinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.… |
Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work - (pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:07:06 GMT)AI transformation is about people and organization, not technologyEnterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.… |
Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data - (pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:28:13 GMT)Coming in cold with custom Snow malwareA previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.… |
DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:25:01 GMT)Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.… |
Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:22:41 GMT)New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloadsUbuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon," the latest LTS release from Canonical, arrives with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, and drops the Xorg option from Ubuntu Desktop while still running X11 applications through Xwayland.… |
Pentagon wants to water down drone program with autonomous subs - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:34:13 GMT)What, you didn't expect autonomous military craft to stay in the sky forever?Drones: they're not just for the sky anymore. DARPA is seeking compact deep-ocean autonomous craft developed faster, smaller, and cheaper than today's full-ocean-depth AUV systems.… |
US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:03:14 GMT)Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhereAmerica's telco regulator has clarified its ban on foreign-made routers also includes mobile hotspots and domestic routers that use a 5G cellular connection to the internet.… |
ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:35:52 GMT)Leak-site bragging meets breach hunters as Have I Been Pwned flags millions of recordsCarnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise company, is dealing with choppy waters after Have I Been Pwned flagged what it claimed were 7.5 million unique email addresses all allegedly tied to one of its subsidiaries. … |
Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:46:07 GMT)Latest in long-running pwning of Cisco kit found in mystery Fed agencyA US federal agency was successfully targeted by a previously unknown backdoor malware called Firestarter, according to CISA cybersnoops and their UK counterparts – neither of which disclosed the agency's name.… |
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:15:10 GMT)One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old driversOne tactic to deal with LLM-powered vulnerability detection is simple – just speed up the removal of old code. If it's gone, it no longer matters if it's buggy.… |
OpenTelemetry co-founder tools up for project graduation party - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:43:07 GMT)We gotta get boring to get graduatedGrafanacon The co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project says its maintainers may need to turn to AI tools to get some elements robust enough for the project as a whole to graduate.… |
Microsoft tackles quality control issues. Just kidding, it's encouraging experienced workers to leave - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:13:12 GMT)Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walkMicrosoft has committed to improving the quality and reliability of Windows, and a step on the path to that goal is… encouraging a chunk of its US staff to leave the company.… |
Intel bets the farm on AI inference to drag CPU back to the top table - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:50:36 GMT)Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chipsIntel is betting on AI to reverse its fortunes, wagering that inference and agentic workloads will restore the CPU to the center of compute - even as its chip manufacturing struggles persist.… |
Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:16 GMT)After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the NeoverseMeta plans to deploy tens of millions of Amazon Web Services' Graviton 5 CPU cores as part of a multi-year collaboration that will make the social network among the largest-ever consumers of the cloud giant’s homegrown silicon.… |
Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:47:52 GMT)Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missivesMicrosoft's update to harden Remote Desktop against phishing attacks has arrived. When users open a Remote Desktop (.rdp) file, they should now see a warning listing all requested connection settings - or they would if it was displaying correctly.… |
It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:41:54 GMT)OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobsBlack Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic's Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of AI-powered security startup RunSybil and OpenAI's first security hire.… |
Trump to UK: Stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsunami - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:45:12 GMT)Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that don’t quite add upDonald Trump has threatened to whack the UK with a "big tariff" if it doesn't scrap its tax on large US tech firms, reviving a long-running spat over who gets to skim the proceeds from Silicon Valley's global empire.… |
Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:15:13 GMT)Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the borderGreece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union's biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the system's implementation on 10 April.… |
UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:30:07 GMT)Nothing says 'We want honest opinions' like a 36,000-letter mailshot with no awkward questions allowedMembers of the UK government’s People’s Panel on Digital ID will spend two weekends in Birmingham and three evenings on Zoom discussing how Britain should build a national digital identity system, earning £550 plus expenses for their trouble.… |
Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:45:15 GMT)Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choiceA computer glitch in a Spanish betting shop triggered a chain of events that ended with the store manager being kidnapped and held for €50,000 ($58,000) in ransom, allegedly by one of the shop's own employees.… |
To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:00:15 GMT)Won't somebody think of the children not being hit by a load of building materials?On Call Delivering excellent tech support can sometimes require heavy lifting, a feat The Register celebrates each Friday with a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of hoisting glitchy tech back to full function.… |
Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:56:22 GMT)FAST16 could be the first cyberweapon, and its effects could be with us todayBlack Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation software and therefore represents an attempt at sabotage, and suggests it was created years before the Stuxnet worm that aimed to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges.… |
Weak security means attackers could disable all of a city's public EV chargers - (pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:10:33 GMT)Demonstrated in China, probably applicable elsewhereBlack Hat Asia Developers of rented internet of things infrastructure – stuff like public EV chargers and shared e-bikes – are prioritizing user convenience over security, and leaving themselves exposed to wide-scale denial of service attacks on their services.… |
Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:26:57 GMT)System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general declineClaude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.… |
Dev targeted by sophisticated job scam: 'I let my guard down, and ran the freaking code' - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:38:27 GMT)Legit-looking website, camera-on interviews, jokes about backdoors ... it workedEXCLUSIVE It all started with a LinkedIn message, as so many employment scams do these days.… |
Solid-state batteries hold more juice, but keep cracking up. Now researchers know why - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:15:12 GMT)Two teams, similar diagnosis: Ceramic electrolytes still refusing to cooperateWith more capacity and faster charging, solid-state batteries could be the next big thing in energy. And good news: researchers may have pinned down one major reason these batteries still fail before they can reach widespread commercial use.… |
Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:47:49 GMT)Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothingAnthropic's release last week of Opus 4.7 came with stronger safeguards to prevent misuse. Unfortunately, these safeguards have also managed to thwart legitimate use.… |
Chinese attackers are pwning your infrastructure to use in attacks, 10 countries warn - (pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:25:11 GMT)All the Typhoons, everywhere, all at onceA majority of China-linked threat actors are using compromised routers and IoT devices worldwide, turning this gear into proxy networks to carry out further intrusions, steal sensitive data, and disrupt victim organizations’ operations, according to a joint 10-country advisory.… |
