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Friday, April 10, 2026 1:42 PM ET

Register UK - Technology

BOFH: If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them - Episode 7 - How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data?

1 hour ago

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access -- Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back

3 hours ago

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job - On Call - The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job

1 hour ago

How JumpCloud unifies IT management to tame shadow AI - Identity is the secret to ensuring enterprise network visibility in a world of shadow AI

14 days ago

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they'll wake up slowly -- Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise

4 hours ago

Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla -- Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice -- AI + ML

54 minutes ago

Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh -- Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gear -- Personal Tech

2 hours ago

CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads - Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers - Security - 10 Apr 2026 - |

4 hours ago

Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint -- Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals -- PaaS + IaaS

4 hours ago

Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working -- Forget about investment value! Call it a 'strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation,' says KPMG -- AI + ML

5 hours ago

Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly - Opinion - Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities - Security - 10 Apr 2026 - | 4

2 hours ago

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers -- Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crime -- Security

6 hours ago

BOFH - : If the meatbags can't agree on aircon, AI will decide for them - Episode 7 - How were we to know Bikram Choudhury was in the training data? BOFH - 10 Apr 2026 - | 33

19 minutes ago

Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch -- Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dry -- Databases

8 hours ago

Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up -- Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are coming -- Public Sector

9 hours ago

Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job - On Call - The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job - Columnists - 10 Apr 2026 - | 63

37 minutes ago

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity -- Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania -- Systems

9 hours ago

Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers - Updated - To 'minimize disruption,' Bezoscorp offers a 20% discount on new hardware you didn't want

23 hours ago

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they'll wake up slowly -- Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise -- PaaS + IaaS

17 hours ago

Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find -- Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures -- AI + ML

18 hours ago

Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch -- Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that -- AI + ML

22 hours ago

Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs - Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel - PaaS + IaaS - 09 Apr 2026 - |

22 hours ago

Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case -- Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims -- Cyber-crime

22 hours ago

World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate -- C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home -- CxO

1 day ago

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them -- Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered -- AI + ML

1 day ago

'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree -- Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement -- FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller - ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize - Software - 09 Apr 2026 - |

20 hours ago

CoreWeave Takes As Much Financial Engineering As It Does Datacenter Design

20 hours ago

Contemplating Meta's Homegrown MTIA Compute Engine Roadmap

1 day ago

Most Neoclouds, Sovereigns, And Enterprises Will Buy, Not Build, Their AI Stacks

2 days ago

Broadcom And Google Benefit Mightily From Anthropic's Meteoric Growth

2 days ago

The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe - Who, Me? It's not just machines that need proper HVAC

2 days ago

Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge -- Exclusive -- Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything -- Virtualization

1 day ago

Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare -- UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline -- Security -- 09 Apr 2026

18 hours ago

Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets -- Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market -- Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse -- Wash your mouth out with digital soap -- Security

1 day ago

Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

7 days ago

Ruby Central report reopens wounds over RubyGems repo takeover

8 days ago

Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'

9 days ago

Contracts are in C++26 despite disquiet over their value

9 days ago

Unpacking AI security in 2026 from experimentation to the agentic era - Cut through the noise and understand the real risks, responsibilities, and responses shaping enterprise AI today. Webinar Promo

9 hours ago

Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off -- Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools -- Software

1 day ago

Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment -- Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

UK.gov's top tech jobs pay more than prime minister earns -- DSIT hiring directors general with packages reaching £260K plus pension -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Capita's pension portal exposes civil servants' private data -- As if the backlog, the bugs, and the chatbot fixes weren't enough -- Public Sector

1 day ago

UK to spend £15M on AI-powered crime mapping in knife violence crackdown -- Home Office hopes tech will help cops target hotspots as ministers push to halve offenses -- AI + ML

1 day ago

How Gartner will help accelerate and scale your AI strategy - Feeling stuck with your AI initiatives? Gartner has the answer - Sponsored Post

1 day ago

SK Hynix shipping 321-layer SSD for Dell's AI PC

1 hour ago

Everpure says TurboQuant turns KV cache into a storage problem

1 hour ago

Lenovo closes Infinidat acquisition to boost enterprise storage

3 hours ago

Storage news ticker – April 9

20 hours ago

Microsoft software resale appeal catches eye of £3.5B class action -- Court of Appeal hearing in ValueLicensing dispute may shape parallel proceedings -- Applications

1 day ago

Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era -- Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways -- AI + ML

1 day ago

DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months -- Drawback: it's radioactive -- Science

1 day ago

Nvidia's Rubin GPU is likely to be late thanks to memory shortage and technical challenges -- China-bound Hopper accelerators are also likely to ship in smaller volumes than previously forecast, industry watchers say -- Systems

1 day ago

RAF eyes cheap drone-killer as Typhoon jet tests laser-guided rockets -- BAE says trials could offer cheaper way to counter uncrewed aerial threats -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Minnesota State payroll problems grew after Workday launch, auditors say - Updated - Sample testing found incorrect payments and delays after college system adopted new HR platform - SaaS - 08 Apr 2026 - | 10

1 day ago

Why flexibility will define the future of functionality -- Enterprise infrastructure choices shouldn't have to be hostages to compromise. Cisco FlashStack with Nutanix sets out to break the deadlock

1 month ago

Resilient, continuously active data – with no compromise -- When the gap between data generation and action is a strategic liability, it's time for a fix

1 month ago

Unlocking the hidden power of unstructured data with AI -- Hyland is helping enterprises turn their fragmented, unstructured data into governed, AI-ready intelligence

2 months ago

Talk ain't cheap: DARPA offers grants for new AI-to-AI communication protocol -- MATHBAC program wants better machine-to-machine chatter for scientific discovery -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Microsoft calls time on ASP.NET Core 2.3 on .NET Framework -- Tangled tale nears end as Redmond classifies it as a tool, not a library -- Software

2 days ago

Supermicro launches probe after staff charged with China export violations - Board-led inquiry follows indictment of two employees and a contractor over alleged diversion of Nvidia GPU servers - Systems - 08 Apr 2026 - |

2 days ago

Showing the Windows 10 desktop was the yeast they could do - Bork!Bork!Bork! Fresh and healthy, just like Windows 11 isn't - Offbeat - 08 Apr 2026 - | 32

1 day ago

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions -- The core product is solid and priced fairly

19 hours ago

Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process -- No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue

10 hours ago

OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape -- Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions

16 hours ago

Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter -- The time is maybe

10 hours ago

Western Union zaps VMware and moves to Nutanix -- South Korea's biggest theme park is also riding the VM migration roller coaster

20 hours ago

Sticky-note security turned gym into hall of '80s horrors -- Even fitness equipment is vulnerable to mischief makers these days

7 hours ago

Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief -- If they don't know what they're doing, you might never get your data back

17 hours ago

Meta's latest model is as open as Zuckerberg's private school -- You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the proprietary models, not join them!

20 hours ago

Call your existing automation 'zero-token architecture' to become an instant agentic AI wiz -- Kubernetes luminary Kelsey Hightower thinks IT pros need to get smart about thriving in a world that's trying to hide deep tech

17 hours ago

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access -- Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back

37 minutes ago

Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack -- ChipSoft's website remains down but emails are functioning -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Investors are going nuclear to keep UK's AI datacenters fed -- Market watcher says money is pouring into British atomic and fusion startups amid massive energy demand -- On-Prem

2 days ago

DXC lands Metropolitan Police outsourcing deal that could climb to £1B -- Supplier will support the current Oracle E-Business Suite and lead migration to a new Oracle Fusion SaaS platform -- Databases

2 days ago

How to navigate the storage crunch in the AI era - Watch this webinar and stop playing guessing games with your AI storage - Webinar Promo

2 days ago

NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams -- Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised -- Security

2 days ago

Virtual SG-41 project brings Nazi cipher machine to life in the browser -- Martin Gillow's 3D recreation lets users explore would-be Enigma successor's mechanics and enciphering logic online -- Offbeat

2 days ago

UK's grand plan to fuel AI with public data faces uphill battle -- Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen up -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones -- President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the 'easiest country to develop AI' -- Opting out of personal data use won't be an option because Minister says that's a 'very big obstacle' to AI adoption -- Public Sector -- 08 Apr 2026

2 days ago

Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos -- Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way -- Security -- 07 Apr 2026

2 days ago

Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns -- Your PLCs aren't internet-connected, right? Right?! -- Security -- 07 Apr 2026

2 days ago

Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem to make them usable -- .NEXT -- Also asserts it can beat Cisco's homebrew hypervisor for calling apps -- Virtualization

2 days ago

Cloudflare, GoDaddy team up to curb AI bot brigades -- Pair backs scraper blocking and standards to separate trusted agents from bad bots -- AI + ML

2 days ago

AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped -- Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X] -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks -- Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens? -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Intel gets trapped in Elon's reality distortion field as it joins in megafab delusions -- Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI -- Systems

2 days ago