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Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/google_speeds_chrome_release_cadence/
Published: March 4, 2026 02:01
Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe Google will halve the time between releases of its Chrome browser to two weeks, across versions of the software for desktop operating systems,…
OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush
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Published: March 4, 2026 00:17
The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department OpenAI says GPT‑5.3 Instant, the latest addition to its GPT-5.3 family of models, is less inclined to moralize.…
Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts
Published: March 3, 2026 20:59
AI conversations for sale include sensitive health and legal details Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is…
BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/bunsenlabs_carbon/
Published: March 3, 2026 16:43
Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing BunsenLabs Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based distro forked from CrunchBang, and seven months after Debian 13 "Trixie" arrived, the project has released its latest version,…
Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it even exists
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Published: March 3, 2026 14:41
Telecoms coalition wants to avoid another 5G-style vendor scramble with early security guardrails A group of Western governments has launched a fresh bid to shape 6G before it's even standardized, unveiling a set of security and resilience principles to…
CIOs say AI adoption is moving faster than they can manage
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/cios_say_ai_adoption_too_fast/
Published: March 3, 2026 14:22
Risk management? Continuity plan if our provider disappears? We've heard of these things AI adoption is moving too rapidly say senior tech leaders, as the pressure to deploy clashes with risk management and compliance concerns.…
AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/open_vsx_aws/
Published: March 3, 2026 14:05
AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure in Europe…
Until last month, attackers could've stolen info from Perplexity Comet users just by sending a calendar invite
Published: March 3, 2026 14:01
AI browsing agent left local files open for the taking If you wanted to steal local files from someone using Perplexity's Comet browser, until last month you could just schedule the theft by sending your victim a calendar event.…
Bank of England says it can run £431M settlement system without Accenture
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Published: March 3, 2026 13:14
Deputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS As the last Accenture employee clocked off from supporting the Bank of England's £431 million Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, the Old Lady of…
Bootleg Windows, Office scheme crashes, triggers 22-month lockup for Florida woman
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Published: March 3, 2026 12:47
Heidi Richards paid more than $5M for certificate of authenticity labels in five years A Florida woman will spend nearly two years behind bars after being found guilty of fraudulently acquiring Microsoft certificate of authenticity (COA) labels and selling…
Microsoft reportedly eyes E7 tier to make AI agents pay their way - like the humans they'll replace
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Published: March 3, 2026 12:39
Redmond wants a monthly cut from every digital worker on your payroll. Agents don't need dental, they will need a SKU Microsoft is reportedly planning to license AI agents like employees - and charge accordingly.…
Chrome Gemini panel became privilege escalator for rogue extensions
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/google_chrome_bug_gemini/
Published: March 3, 2026 11:39
High-severity flaw let malicious add-ons access system via browser's embedded AI feature Security boffins have discovered a high-severity bug in Google Chrome that allowed malicious extensions to hijack its Gemini Live AI panel and inherit privileges they…
Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/claude_outage/
Published: March 3, 2026 05:25
Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code Anthropic’s AI service Claude is having artificially intelligent hiccups and availability problems across its basic chat service, API, and Claude Code offering.…
Huawei brings its flatpack AI datacenters, packed full of Chinese chips, to the world
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/huawei_takes_ai_datacenters_global/
Published: March 3, 2026 02:49
Claims it can build and deploy them fast, whether they run at speed is another matter As the AI boom rages, investors and buyers have thrown cash at anyone that even looks capable of selling them hardware capable of crunching tokens at speed. And now they…
Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/motorola_grapheneos/
Published: March 2, 2026 19:45
Don't expect to see compatible hardware before 2027 GrapheneOS is headed to Motorola smartphones in 2027, pending hardware from the Lenovo-owned brand that satisfies the privacy-focused Android fork's requirements.…
Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak
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Published: March 2, 2026 18:45
Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince your Mac that upgrading is against policy. Averse to "liquid glass"? Are you happy enough with your Mac as it is? Try this local policy and banish those upgrade nag screens for a few months.…
Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand
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Published: March 2, 2026 16:44
Approved proposal reverses earlier stance, even as survey highlights bigger frustrations The Go team has approved generic methods, reversing a longstanding position in the language's FAQ. The proposal, from Go co-designer Robert Griesemer, now moves to…
SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata
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Published: March 2, 2026 14:15
A joint venture from 2008 led to years of claims and counter-claims between the data whizzkids Data warehousing and analytics biz Teradata and SAP have ended their long-running legal dispute after the German ERP vendor agreed to cough up $480 million to…
Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell
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Published: March 2, 2026 12:33
More than a fifth of servers still on Windows Server 2016 Windows 11 has leapt ahead of Windows 10 in market share, according to the latest Statcounter figures.…
Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality
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Published: March 2, 2026 11:45
A handy feature you can already try in recent versions The new beta of the next version of Firefox lets you view two web pages side by side, with a split you can drag with your mouse.…
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/libreoffice_online_deatticized/
Published: March 2, 2026 09:30
Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora The Document Foundation (TDF) has pulled LibreOffice Online out of its "attic" – its term for retired projects – and is resuming development.…
OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/open_ai_dow_anthropic_ai_ethics/
Published: March 2, 2026 05:27
Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails OpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of War (DoW) that allows use of its advanced AI systems in classified…
AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war
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Published: March 1, 2026 22:49
PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more! Asia In brief One of Amazon Web Services’ availability zones in the United Arab Emirates is offline after the…
OpenClaw, but in containers: Meet NanoClaw
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/01/nanoclaw_container_openclaw/
Published: March 1, 2026 11:30
A smaller, security-conscious take on the viral AI agent platform Interview Ideally, you shouldn't have to defend yourself against your own AI agent. But we don't live in an ideal world and an unrestrained agent can cause a ton of damage.…
SaaS-pocalypse chatter is doomster pr0n. It would be nice if enterprise IT were boring again
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/01/saaspocalypse_opinion/
Published: March 1, 2026 08:38
Lost among the investor froth, someone has to do all the boring stuff. And they'll probably be around for the next spin of the hype cycle Opinion Say goodbye to the SaaS-pocalypse theory, which posits that advances in AI will bring the…
Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinion/
Published: February 28, 2026 08:22
Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks Opinion I'm at the Linux Foundation Members Summit, and Sonatype's CTO Brian Fox introduced me to a new open source problem. I wouldn't have thought that was possible, but here…
Trump orders purge of 'woke' Anthropic from government
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/trump_orders_purge_of_anthropic/
Published: February 27, 2026 22:56
Without a single 'You're Fired' joke updated President Trump has escalated Anthropic's dispute with the Defense Department with a social media post ordering the entire federal government purge the company's software from its systems. …
Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on
Published: February 27, 2026 20:08
ChatGPT maker announces $110B in new investment amid flurry of self-serving deals The headlines say OpenAI on Friday announced $110 billion in new investment from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, though terms and…
Lovable-hosted app littered with basic flaws exposed 18K users, researcher claims
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/lovable_app_vulnerabilities/
Published: February 27, 2026 16:36
Who's to blame – the vibey platforms or the humans who ignore security warnings? Vibe-coding platform Lovable has been accused of hosting apps riddled with vulnerabilities after saying users are responsible for addressing security issues flagged before…
50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access
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Published: February 27, 2026 13:13
To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year About 140 datacenters are in the queue to be connected to Britain's power grid, and their combined energy requirements are estimated to be more than the current peak…
Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/sopra_steria_sues_ukgov/
Published: February 27, 2026 11:45
French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules Sopra Steria is suing the UK government, alleging it accepted a bid from rival Capita for an outsourcing contract worth up to £958.7…
Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/mondelez_sap_migration_celonis/
Published: February 27, 2026 10:15
Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA In the middle of a mammoth migration off SAP's legacy ERP systems, global snack giant Mondelēz has found an alternative to the German vendor's tech as the main platform for…
AI agents need orchestration - not just intelligence
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Published: February 27, 2026 09:00
This virtual launch event could be the answer to your agentic problems Sponsored Post Most organizations chasing enterprise automation have already solved the easy part. They've built AI agents, deployed digital workers, connected a handful of systems.…
Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix
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Published: February 27, 2026 07:30
'I was no longer field support. I was collateral' On Call Friday has arrived, bringing a promise of fleeting freedom – and a new instalment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that retells your tales of tech support incidents that became…
NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a thin client for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/microsoft_dell_asus_windows_365/
Published: February 27, 2026 05:53
Dell also joins the basic devices for Windows 365 fun Microsoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.…
Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians
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Published: February 27, 2026 02:33
AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War Anthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it can’t agree to Uncle Sam’s contract demand to remove guardrails on its AI in part because the tech can’t be…
Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump
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Published: February 27, 2026 00:33
One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of death Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Block has announced it will fire 40 percent of staff – around 4,000 people – because new "intelligence…
New endowment hopes to raise a big pile of money for open source projects
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/open_source_endowment/
Published: February 27, 2026 00:29
Grants for critical, unappreciated projects Open source projects, ever short of funding, have a potential new source of revenue in the form of the Open Source Endowment (OSE).…
ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets
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Published: February 26, 2026 23:22
When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinate ServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company's own employee help desk.…
AI models still suck at math
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/ai_models_get_better_at/
Published: February 26, 2026 21:04
Just less than before, according to the ORCA test exclusive Current-day LLMs are prediction engines and, as such, they can only find the most likely solution to problems, which is not necessarily the correct one. Though popular models have mostly become…
Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough
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Published: February 26, 2026 20:57
Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleases The bot’s nagging will continue until morale improves. Burger King is rolling out a new employee-facing AI that, among other things, will listen to employees’ customer interactions to ensure…
Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/anthropic_claude_opus_3_blog/
Published: February 26, 2026 18:26
Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After…
Rapid AI-driven development makes security unattainable, warns Veracode
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Published: February 26, 2026 15:26
Report claims more vulnerabilities created than fixed as remediation gap widens Veracode has posted its annual State of Software Security report, based on data from 1.6 million applications tested on its cloud platform, finding that more vulnerabilities…
Top cloud providers to outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026
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Published: February 26, 2026 14:55
TrendForce says eight hyperscalers are set to pour $710B into servers and infrastructure The big cloud operators are ramping up investment in AI servers and infrastructure to meet demand for AI development and deployment, exacerbating the memory shortage…
Microsoft to auto-launch Copilot in Edge whenever you click a link from Outlook
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/copilot_pane_edge_outlook/
Published: February 26, 2026 14:28
Whac-A-Mole season continues as Redmond finds yet another corner to stuff its 21st century Clippy Microsoft has announced that its Edge browser will automatically open the Copilot side pane when users open links from Outlook.…
Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now
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Published: February 26, 2026 11:25
Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reach Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year - and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones.…
Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/debian_14_will_drop_gtk2/
Published: February 26, 2026 11:11
Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop Version 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need it, including FreePascal and its Lazarus IDE.…
Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions
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Published: February 26, 2026 09:30
Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unit The British government will expand the use of AI in courts in England and Wales as part of plans to make them work faster, justice minister David Lammy has told a Microsoft…
Microsoft ‘cooperating’ with Japanese antitrust probe
Published: February 26, 2026 07:33
It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play - along with a cute little monster Microsoft is “fully cooperating” with a probe by Japan’s Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the…
AMD puts $250 million into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs
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Published: February 26, 2026 06:43
Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woes AMD has struck another chips’n’stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter player Nutanix.…
Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse
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Published: February 26, 2026 03:22
Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…
Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution
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Published: February 26, 2026 00:33
Anthropic fixed the flaws - but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into…
LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/llms_killed_privacy_star/
Published: February 26, 2026 00:14
You'll find these days that there's no hiding place Add privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deanonymize internet users – even those…
AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios
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Published: February 25, 2026 21:59
Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same Today's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is not to play. So please don't hand…
Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/meta_smart_glasses_android_app/
Published: February 25, 2026 20:13
Academic urges users not to harass those suspected of snooping with (sp)eyewear Worried that someone wearing Meta's snooping spyware goggles could be creeping up on you? Android users now have access to an app that can warn them if someone is wearing such…
OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/openai_asks_its_friends_to/
Published: February 25, 2026 19:24
Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up. OpenAI has managed to make a name for itself with ChatGPT. But if it wants its new enterprise AI product Frontier to succeed, it's going to need help. According to an…
All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/pentagon_threatens_anthropic/
Published: February 25, 2026 18:43
AI firm drops key safety pledge as Pentagon dispute drags on US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made Anthropic an offer it may not be able to refuse. The Defense Department and the AI firm held a meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday, where the…
Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI
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Published: February 25, 2026 17:07
Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…
Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/jobseeking_nextjs_devs_attack/
Published: February 25, 2026 16:51
Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were directly…
Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/microsoft_boss_on_ai_content/
Published: February 25, 2026 16:30
Sometimes the 'S' word slips through even the best media training Is it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT pro has uttered when faced with a…
Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother
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Published: February 25, 2026 15:31
While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security It's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced earlier this month is…
Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training
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Published: February 25, 2026 15:24
Research points to skills gaps and weak oversight as barriers to return on investment Just 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn't living up to early expectations, a newly published study is blaming…
Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/
Published: February 25, 2026 12:30
It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience' The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.…
Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values
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Published: February 25, 2026 11:22
Galaxy S25 sheds 63% in 12 months as reseller questions LLM emphasis Smartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values.…
OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents
Published: February 25, 2026 10:01
Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according…
Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves
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Published: February 25, 2026 09:30
Dude, where's my operating system? Bork!Bork!Bork! Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "Operating System not found."…
The AI confidence gap that's costing IT leaders control
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Published: February 25, 2026 09:00
Companies pursuing AI face a gap between perception and practice Sponsored Post Remember the decades that we spent in an AI winter? Now, we're in an AI summer. According to JumpCloud's report, "The Dual Disconnect: Why Your AI Maturity Now Fails To…
Meta frees React to live in its own foundation
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/meta_sends_react_to_live/
Published: February 25, 2026 00:30
Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last…
It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/ai_chips_vc_funding_1point1billion/
Published: February 25, 2026 00:25
Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the…
Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
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Published: February 24, 2026 22:54
Protect the robot, sacrifice the human opinion I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!…
AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them
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Published: February 24, 2026 22:36
Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say…
Rogue devs of sideloaded Android apps beg for freedom from Google’s verification regime
Published: February 24, 2026 19:09
37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Play Soon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups…
GhostBSD to ditch Xorg for XLibre as Red Hat's Wayland crusade leaves X11 fans out in the cold
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Published: February 24, 2026 16:50
FreeBSD's friendliest desktop distro bets on the controversial fork GhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better support its flagship MATE desktop – as well as Xfce and the new Gershwin.…
Go library maintainer brands GitHub's Dependabot a 'noise machine'
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Published: February 24, 2026 16:31
When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's off A Go library maintainer has urged developers to turn off GitHub's Dependabot, arguing that false positives from the dependency-scanning tool "reduce security by causing alert fatigue."…
Microsoft gives Windows laggards the 'gift of time' wrapped in licensing fees
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Published: February 24, 2026 15:01
With Server 2016 and other OSes for the chop, security fixes can continue to flow for a price Microsoft is giving Windows customers the "gift of time" but expects compensation for its generosity.…
Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day
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Published: February 24, 2026 14:02
No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites Hosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe's largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from April 1.…
KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on
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Published: February 24, 2026 12:30
BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die The latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won't require systemd, and this version has improved OpenBSD support. FreeBSD…
West Midlands Police earn red card over Copilot's imaginary football match
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Published: February 24, 2026 11:32
Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decision UK Parliament has delivered the official postmortem on West Midlands Police's Copilot saga, and it reads like a case study in how not to mix generative AI with public order…
Intel backs SambaNova's $350M bid to challenge GPUs in AI inference
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Published: February 24, 2026 11:00
Upstart's 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia's B200 on speed and cost AI infrastructure company SambaNova has raised $350 million to advance its dataflow architecture, which it pitches as an alternative to GPU-based AI systems.…
UK tech hit by double trouble: Fewer foreign techies amid skills squeeze
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Published: February 24, 2026 10:21
Visa applications down, executives emigrating, and AI blamed for the rest The number of international workers applying for a visa to work in the UK's tech sector dropped 11 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, and was down 6 percent year-on-year, according to…
Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ landing in April
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Published: February 24, 2026 07:03
Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive Microsoft has teased a significant upgrade to its SharePoint collaborationware package.…
Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content - just like it did
Published: February 24, 2026 00:45
Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax are using 'distillation' to gin up their own models Having built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data.…
IBM stock dives after Anthropic points out AI can rewrite COBOL fast
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Published: February 23, 2026 23:53
Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2013 IBM’s share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the…
Google Antigravity falls to Earth under OpenClaw-fueled compute load
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Published: February 23, 2026 20:49
Company tries to curb strain by banning customer accounts for 'malicious' usage Google customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to find their accounts suspended for using the company's…
Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs
Published: February 23, 2026 18:01
Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes – not replace them with prompts Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must…
Indie web browser Ladybird flutters toward Rust with a little help from AI
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Published: February 23, 2026 17:43
Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance The independent Ladybird web browser project is changing course on its choice of programming languages, with LLM-based coding assistants helping to evaluate the shift.…
Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules
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Published: February 23, 2026 16:03
Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws A global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic…
Gemini users say their chat histories have quietly vanished
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Published: February 23, 2026 14:44
Complaints pile up from users after months of conversations disappear. Google insists it’s just a temporary bug Over the past few days, complaints have stacked up from people who say months of conversations with Google's AI chatbot have simply vanished,…
Altman: You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising 100 billion humans
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Published: February 23, 2026 14:31
OpenAI CEO takes really, really long view on energy efficiency AI is being unfairly targeted over its energy use, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims, as the naysayers ignore the vast amount of resources humans have consumed over millennia – not least to avoid…
AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign
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Published: February 23, 2026 11:41
Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riot Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new…
Feeling the burn: When open source developers decide to take a break
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Published: February 23, 2026 11:00
A week off for vacation? The nerve of some people Opinion If you want to see the definition of "workaholic," you can't do better than to look at your typical senior open source developer or maintainer. I should know, I'm a workaholic too. I know my kind.…
Infosys chair says AI will clean up legacy systems – then make more of them
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Published: February 23, 2026 04:13
PLUS: China’s sword-wielding humanoid robots; Australian court swamped by AI filings; Vietnam’s 25km overwater drone delivery; And more! Asia In Brief Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani has said the advent of AI means organizations no longer have any excuse…
Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day
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Published: February 23, 2026 00:56
Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…
The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense
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Published: February 20, 2026 23:31
The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand opinion Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a…
Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs
Published: February 20, 2026 21:54
Legal language change aims to make longstanding policy clear Anthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.…
Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE
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Published: February 20, 2026 19:32
Up to 8 exaFLOPS of super sparse AI compute Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.…