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GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain
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Published: April 29, 2026 11:00
After Hashicorp co-founder blasts the source shack and numbers slide Microsoft's code hosting shack Github has published a lengthy mea culpa about its availability and reliability woes - one that includes the words "we are sorry."…
AI clause in new SAP API policy has partners worried over lock-in
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Published: April 29, 2026 09:15
Expert says it could push customers and partners to work with undocumented APIs SAP is prohibiting the use of its APIs to integrate with AI systems outside its endorsed architectures, raising concerns that it is locking out third-party AI tools from…
30 ClawHub skills secretly turn AI agents into a crypto swarm
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Published: April 29, 2026 06:32
Yet another reason not to feast on OpenClaw Thirty ClawHub skills published by a single author are silently co-opting AI agents and creating a mass cryptocurrency mining swarm – without any malware or user consent.…
Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’
Published: April 29, 2026 04:46
Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto has decided GitHub is so unstable it is “no longer a place for serious work,” and will therefore move his current project elsewhere.…
Future holiday horror: ‘A robot lost my luggage in Tokyo’
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/japan_airport_robot_trial/
Published: April 29, 2026 02:15
Haneda airport will start testing humanoid robots, because everything that gets a plane flying was designed for our species Your next holiday memory might involve humanoid robots losing your luggage.…
The future of software development: Now with less software development
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Published: April 28, 2026 22:04
At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…
OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock
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Published: April 28, 2026 19:21
Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you OpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.…
Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative
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Published: April 28, 2026 17:51
Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's…
IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability
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Published: April 28, 2026 17:18
80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the…
Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps
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Published: April 28, 2026 17:06
Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.…
Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon
Published: April 28, 2026 13:00
RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.…
Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids
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Published: April 28, 2026 12:30
DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI…
UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team
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Published: April 28, 2026 12:24
£125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k a year is worth the trouble of tackling a…
Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'
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Published: April 28, 2026 10:32
Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration…
SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/sovereignty_its_all_about_the/
Published: April 28, 2026 10:00
Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is…
Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back
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Published: April 28, 2026 09:15
Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices…
UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/dwp_sent_document_in_error/
Published: April 28, 2026 09:07
Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in…
‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue
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Published: April 28, 2026 05:34
Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…
China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus
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Published: April 28, 2026 02:09
Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…
Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/microsofts_github_shifts_to_metered/
Published: April 28, 2026 00:31
The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…
Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database
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Published: April 27, 2026 21:29
Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding Jer (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…
The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/core_scientific_ai/
Published: April 27, 2026 18:58
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.…
South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/south_africa_yanks_ai_policy/
Published: April 27, 2026 17:24
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.…
AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games
Published: April 27, 2026 16:20
Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agents While 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…
Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space
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Published: April 27, 2026 15:47
Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand With 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…
Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official
Published: April 27, 2026 15:14
No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other clouds Once tied tightly together, Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their agreement, making the Windows giant's license non-exclusive. In exchange, Microsoft will no…
Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/from_a_massive_skills_gap/
Published: April 27, 2026 12:22
Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew Cybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from…
Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now
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Published: April 27, 2026 11:19
Keep the patches away for as long as you like Microsoft 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.…
Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot
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Published: April 27, 2026 09:15
Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial HMRC is betting big on Microsoft Copilot, rolling it out to tens of thousands of staff after a Whitehall trial estimated it saved each user…
Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now
Published: April 27, 2026 08:30
AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that Opinion 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…
It's time to make agentic automation scalable
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Published: April 27, 2026 08:00
Enough experimentation, already. WorkHQ promises real-world agentic benefits Sponsored Post IT landscapes are a little like archaeological digs. There are layers of automation that can't communicate, blocking any serious multi-agent workflow. Fragmented…
PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
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Published: April 27, 2026 07:00
There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs Who, 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
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Published: April 27, 2026 00:01
Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next…
Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy
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Published: April 26, 2026 14:48
Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits What 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…
Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense
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Published: April 26, 2026 11:38
The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance opinion 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:…
Hot take: AI's not going to kill open source code security
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Published: April 26, 2026 09:28
Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way Opinion 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…
Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work
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Published: April 25, 2026 13:07
AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…
DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs
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Published: April 24, 2026 21:25
Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1 Chinese 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,…
Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps
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Published: April 24, 2026 17:22
New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads Ubuntu 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…
More ancient Linux device support faces the chop
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Published: April 24, 2026 14:15
One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers One 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.…
Open Telemetry founder tools up for project graduation party
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Published: April 24, 2026 13:43
We gotta get boring to get graduated Grafanacon The founder of the Open Telemetry 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
Published: April 24, 2026 13:13
Windows giant offers buyouts to eligible staffers willing to walk Microsoft 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
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Published: April 24, 2026 12:50
Chipzilla hopes agents, robots, and edge devices make CPUs cool again... now it has to build the chips Intel 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…
Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores
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Published: April 24, 2026 12:00
After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse Meta 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…
Microsoft beefs up Remote Desktop security with ... hard-to-read messages
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Published: April 24, 2026 11:47
Ailing scaling blamed by Windows-maker for unreadable missives Microsoft'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…
It's a myth that you need Mythos to find bugs: Open source models can do it just as well
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Published: April 24, 2026 11:41
OpenAI's first security hire, Ari Herbert-Voss, thinks more automated bug finding will improve security without costing jobs Black Hat Asia Open source models can find bugs as effectively as Anthropic's Mythos, according to Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO of…
Trump to UK: stop taxing our big beautiful tech corps or face tariff tsuanmi
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Published: April 24, 2026 10:45
Oval Office resident rants about Blighty's Digital Services Tax with threats that but don’t quite add up Donald 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…
Greece relaxes Euro biometric border entry rules amid airport chaos
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Published: April 24, 2026 09:15
Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border Greece 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…
Betting shop bug ends in kidnap plot as staff turn ransom artists
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Published: April 24, 2026 07:45
Computer glitch spawns duplicate jackpots, disgruntled punters, and one very bad career choice A 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…
Anthropic admits it dumbed down Claude when trying to make it smarter
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Published: April 23, 2026 23:26
System changes and bugs overlapped to create the impression of general decline Claude users who complained about the AI service producing lower-quality responses over the past month weren’t imagining it.…
Claude Opus 4.7 has turned into an overzealous query cop, devs complain
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/claude_opus_47_auc_overzealous/
Published: April 23, 2026 20:47
Rising refusal rate from Acceptable Use Classifier leaves customers paying for nothing Anthropic'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.…
Google explains why its all-in-one AI stack embraces competitors
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Published: April 23, 2026 17:13
'Differentiated, but open' Google Cloud Next Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans said that the company holds a structural advantage over its largest rivals in the race to win value from AI agents in the enterprise, arguing that no competitor currently combines…
Microsoft gives your Word documents an AI co-author you didn’t ask for
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Published: April 23, 2026 15:55
Also rolls out agentic Copilot in Excel and PowerPoint, letting 21st century Clippy lend a... hand Microsoft is giving Copilot the power to stop suggesting edits and start making them.…
Datadog digs down into GPU efficiency as AI costs soar
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Published: April 23, 2026 15:33
Down to you to work out the value Datadog has added GPU monitoring to its observability stack, giving AI-hungry organizations more insight into exactly what's happening on their most expensive silicon.…
Stop measuring AI training costs in GPU hours
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Published: April 23, 2026 15:00
Why idle time, checkpointing, and cluster failures are quietly inflating your training budget Partner Content The cost of training today’s large-scale foundation models is often reduced to a single number: the price of a GPU hour. It's a convenient…
Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70%
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Published: April 23, 2026 14:57
Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions The supply crunch gripping the storage market has pushed Everpure – the artist formerly known as Pure Storage – to reassure customers it won't make things worse.…
American farms have a new steward for their safety net, disaster programs... Palantir
Published: April 23, 2026 13:26
Wins $300M deal over Salesforce, IBM because of 'integration with existing USDA systems,' among other things Palantir has won a $300 million contract from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support the National Farm Security Action Plan (NFSAP) and…
AI now gobbling up power and management chips for servers
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/ai_now_gobbling_up_power/
Published: April 23, 2026 12:59
Bad news for multiple general server components as vendors switch to more lucrative gear The chip shortage is spreading to power and management controller silicon, threatening server shipments as vendors prioritize capacity for higher-margin AI server…
Hybrid clouds have two attack surfaces and you’re not paying enough attention to either
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/wac_flaws_hybrid_cloud_security/
Published: April 23, 2026 12:15
Windows Admin Center flaws mean on-prem can attack cloud, and vice-versa Black Hat Asia Israeli researchers found a series of flaws in Microsoft's Windows Admin Center (WAC) and suggest this shows hybrid cloud management tools are a two-way attack surface…
Musk bets Tesla's AI future on Intel node that isn't finished yet
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Published: April 23, 2026 11:43
EV maker leaning on still-in-development 14A process for Terafab, says it needs to build own silicon Elon Musk used Tesla's latest earnings call to reveal plans to build AI chips on Intel's not-yet-finished 14A process – a bet on silicon that doesn't…
AI bats away ping-pong challenge as rise of the machines continues
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Published: April 23, 2026 11:15
Sony project claims a significant breakthrough with applications in task requiring speed and accuracy Rise of the Machines The ancient games of chess and Go are now mere staging posts in the journey toward robots demonstrating their superior performance…
Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/stale_govuk_pages_are_feeding/
Published: April 23, 2026 08:45
Whitehall content teams play whack-a-mole with zombie pages as Google hoovers up the lot AI overviews from the likes of Google are serving up false summaries of UK government information by drawing on stale GOV.UK pages, according to content designers at…
Kubernetes sets a new standard for release notes with Japanese poetry, also kills Ingress NGINX
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Published: April 23, 2026 01:55
Release team explains links between Version 1.36 and classic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa Kubernetes issued a new release called “Haru” on Wednesday, and the release notes and logo might be more interesting than the software.…
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger
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Published: April 22, 2026 22:11
Hackpocalypse deferred Anthropic's Mythos model is purportedly so good at finding vulnerabilities that the Claude-maker is afraid to make it available to the general public for fear that criminals will take advantage. But early analysis shows that Mythos…
OpenAI now lets you screenshot your privacy in the foot
Published: April 22, 2026 19:56
Make your model smarter through self-surveillance Those who cannot remember Microsoft Recall are condemned to repeat it. …
GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/github_opts_all_cli_users/
Published: April 22, 2026 18:33
Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvement Users of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform has quietly begun collecting…
Linux may get a hall pass from one state age-check bill, but Congress plays hall monitor
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/linux_us_state_age_verificaiton_laws/
Published: April 22, 2026 17:55
Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containers The prospect of OS-level age checks applying to open source systems is a serious concern for FOSS advocates. Campaigners appear to have secured proposed exemptions for open…
Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran
Published: April 22, 2026 16:40
Report also slams multiple vendors for poor data integration and egress fees Workday, Rippling, and Salesforce-owned Slack rank among the worst performers for enterprise data movement, according to a new industry benchmark tracking the speeds needed to…
Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive
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Published: April 22, 2026 16:06
Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice If you're stuck without access to tech support – say, half way to the Moon – then you're better off with a single install of Thunderbird than any number of Outlooks.…
You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/wsl_windows95/
Published: April 22, 2026 15:29
'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination The Windows Subsystem for Linux is an invaluable tool, but anyone wanting to run it on a Windows 9x system would find themselves out of luck until now.…
Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad
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Published: April 22, 2026 12:57
Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet Grafana is offering its AI assistant for free to open source and on-prem users — though on stage at its Barcelona user conference this week, CEO Raj Dutt joked they…
Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl
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Published: April 22, 2026 12:03
As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the way Google Cloud Next Google has overhauled its enterprise AI strategy in the wake of the agentic push across the biz landscape, rebranding…
Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies
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Published: April 22, 2026 12:01
Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos Google Cloud chief operating officer Francis deSouza has summed up his company's security strategy du jour as follows: "You need to use AI to fight AI."…
Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win
Published: April 22, 2026 12:00
x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores Google unveiled two new in-house AI accelerators at its annual Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday: one designed to speed up training and another aimed at driving…
France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records
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Published: April 22, 2026 11:30
Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population France's National Agency for "Secure" Documents is explaining a potential data spill just as crooks online claim they've nicked a third of the country's ID…
UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial
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Published: April 22, 2026 11:08
Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure A UK Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has dismissed Microsoft's objections to a collective action lawsuit brought by UK-based cloud licensees, clearing the way for…
Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs
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Published: April 22, 2026 10:00
Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption Over the past few years, database and analytics vendors have hopped on a bandwagon that may take us all to a destination where common data queries are free from…
Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects
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Published: April 22, 2026 09:15
Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators One in five UK firms have already moved AI workloads abroad due to high energy costs, in findings likely to alarm a government counting on AI to drive economic growth.…
Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock
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Published: April 22, 2026 08:30
Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment A day after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the US/Israel/Iran war was creating the worst energy crisis ever faced by the world, Gartner…
Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot
Published: April 22, 2026 04:32
Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security The Mozilla Foundation has revealed it tested Anthropic’s bug-finding “Mythos” AI model and feels the results it experienced represent a watershed moment for software…
Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
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Published: April 22, 2026 02:54
Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers’ keystrokes to build AI Meta, the company built on watching everything its billions of users do online so it can keep them clicking on ragebait and targeted ads, is reportedly now installing surveillance software on…