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Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession -- The maker of Claude faces headwinds as it rushes to go public

6 hours ago

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures -- KB5079391 pulled after some devices hit errors, adding to recent quality woes

1 hour ago

European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else -- Brussels notifying 'Union entities' whose data may've been snatched in websites breach

1 hour ago

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC - Opinion - Canny planning or dangerous compromise? Matt Brittin takes the hotseat at a pivotal moment

1 hour ago

FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines -- But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut -- Networks

51 minutes ago

Artemis II countdown begins as NASA prepares for crewed Moon flyby -- Orion's four astronauts edge toward liftoff for humanity's first lunar voyage in more than 50 years -- Science

1 hour ago

UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev -- Regulator says payments totaling £635K reached entity owned and controlled by a designated person -- Applications

2 hours ago

SAP looking to pull more external data into its AI platform with Reltio acquisition -- Merger positioned to boost appeal of ERP giant's Business Data Cloud -- Databases

3 hours ago

Citrix NetScaler bug exploited in days, may be multiple flaws in a trench coat -- Researchers say attackers are already looting vulnerable boxes -- Patches

4 hours ago

South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions eyes new shores for rack-scale invasion -- Funding round comes ahead of planned IPO -- Systems

3 hours ago

Microsoft Fabric Database Hub only a 'partial' solution for admins -- Could help break silos, but users should take wait-and-see approach to system limited to Microsoft DBs and DBaaS -- Databases

4 hours ago

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures -- KB5079391 pulled after some devices hit errors, adding to recent quality woes -- OSes

5 hours ago

Humanoid robots one tiny step closer to exterminating autoworkers' jobs -- Torso on a trolley tries its hands in warehouse role -- AI + ML

5 hours ago

European Commission admits attackers broke into public web systems, but says little else -- Brussels notifying 'Union entities' whose data may've been snatched in websites breach -- Cyber-crime

7 hours ago

Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC -- Opinion -- Canny planning or dangerous compromise? Matt Brittin takes the hotseat at a pivotal moment -- Personal Tech

8 hours ago

Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference -- Who, Me? -- Career-limiting stupidity and rudeness exposed, with terminal consequences -- Security

10 hours ago

Jen Easterly, cybersecurity's 'relentless optimist,' hopes feds come back to RSAC next year - RSAC 2026 - Ex-CISA boss also says no reason to panic about AI and security

6 hours ago

US foreign router ban criticized for being 'industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity' Public policy professor says it will make America less secure but hits Netgear's lobbying goals - Security - 30 Mar 2026 - | 30

1 hour ago

DXC staff to strike in Australia after some go without pay rise for five years -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: Iran war may slow APAC IT spend; Toshiba, Mitsubishi, talk chip biz combo; Fusion plasma control networks; And more! -- On-Prem

15 hours ago

AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it – and be sure you speak its language -- kettle -- This week on the Kettle, we predict that AI software development won't make you want to fire your devs anytime soon -- AI + ML

9 hours ago

The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed -- Secret CEO -- And developers should be confident it won't kill the craft -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze -- Alcohol turns up in most floral nectar, meaning pollinators are drinking tiny cocktails without ever getting drunk -- Science

1 day ago

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession -- The maker of Claude faces headwinds as it rushes to go public -- AI + ML

1 day ago

To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer -- Bork!Bork!Bork! -- Famous blue screens remind conference of security pros that this OS sometimes has bad days -- Bootnotes

2 days ago

Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion -- New campus to include on-site power generation -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right -- Sycophantic bots coach users into selfish, antisocial behavior, say researchers, and they love it -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Apple's last tower topples... and the others will follow -- Farewell, Mac Pro: Increasing integration means the end of expandable computers -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption -- Ratepayer Protection Pledge is unenforceable without hard numbers, Warren and Hawley argue -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Demonstrating The Scientific Usefulness Of Quantum Systems

3 days ago

We Need Servers – Lots Of Servers. . . .

3 days ago

Arm Comes Full Circle With Homegrown, AI-Tuned Server CPU

4 days ago

Riding The Memory Boom And Trying To Avoid The Bust

5 days ago

Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo - Who, Me? First came the facepalm, then the faceplant, then the loss of face

5 days ago

Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program -- Cross-signed code gets the cold shoulder as Redmond tightens trust -- OSes

3 days ago

Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit -- Private station hopefuls say ISS rethink is shaking confidence -- Science

3 days ago

AFC Ajax drops ball as flaws let hackers play admin with tickets and bans -- Vulns in Dutch football club's systems didn't just expose data – they let outsiders play with accounts, and even lift stadium bans -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

BOFH - : Are you ready to raise our expense account limits now? Episode 6 - Yet another AI sales creep ruined by PFY's manual reading tactics - BOFH - 27 Mar 2026 - | 50

8 hours ago

Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones -- US and UK forces seeking tech tender with an April 3 deadline -- Offbeat

3 days ago

Lloyds app glitch turned transactions into shared experience for 447k users -- A botched update mixed up transaction data across accounts, with thousands now receiving goodwill payouts -- Software

3 days ago

UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch -- PAC grilling reveals £239M bought a system that couldn't handle the work, the volumes, or placeholder text -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

3 days ago

JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming

4 days ago

Mozilla introduces cq: 'Stack Overflow for agents'

5 days ago

Avalonia bolts Linux and WebAssembly onto .NET MAUI

5 days ago

Enterprise infrastructure is entering an economic reset - Here's how to cope with the memory pricing squeeze - Partner Content

9 hours ago

Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work - On Call - The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat - On-Prem - 27 Mar 2026 - | 107

2 hours ago

Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys -- Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website code -- Research

3 days ago

India's space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril -- Satnav systems aren't well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open -- Public Sector

3 days ago

China's not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country -- Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisition -- Legal

3 days ago

Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours -- AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacity -- AI + ML

3 days ago

AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring -- You actually think companies are going to pay Americans to take customer service calls in the AI age? -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Explainer: Self-driving networks - Here's how your next network will look after itself - The Register Explainer

6 hours ago

Sony suspends memory card orders amid tight NAND supply

6 hours ago

Enterprise infrastructure is entering an economic reset

8 hours ago

Nvidia and its partners' KV Cache extenders

8 hours ago

Storage news ticker - 27 March

2 days ago

AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region -- Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here. -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

AMD's new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores -- Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans -- I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you your job back, but here's the form you fill out to collect benefits -- Public Sector

3 days ago

Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure -- Use of AI coding assistants has surged, but so has the number of vulnerabilities in AI-generated code -- Devops

3 days ago

Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America -- Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club? -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds -- Your AI rollout isn't failing – your employees just hate it -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead -- Agent will capture issues and eventually debug code -- Software

4 days ago

AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar - Interview - Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away - AI + ML - 26 Mar 2026 - | 48

6 hours ago

Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China - Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers - Systems - 26 Mar 2026 - |

4 days ago

Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech -- Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list -- Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push -- PaaS + IaaS

4 days ago

Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization -- Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong' -- AI + ML

4 days 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

3 days 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

1 month ago

UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful -- 300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life -- Public Sector

4 days ago

Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda -- CarStation/PlayMobile won't hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA -- Personal Tech

4 days ago

Indian government probes CCTV espionage operation linked to Pakistan -- Police found cameras pointing at infrastructure -- Security

4 days ago

Datacenter batteries are selling years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic -- Shifting production from automotive to compute and working on supercapacitors as another way to protect workloads -- On-Prem

4 days ago

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all -- As of April 24 you'll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out -- Devops

4 days ago

AI supply chain attacks don't even require malware...just post poisoned documentation -- A proof-of-concept attack on Context Hub suggests there's not much content santization -- Security

4 days ago

Scammers have virtual smartphones on speed dial for fraud -- They cleverly mimic most traits of a real phone -- Cyber-crime

4 days ago

Explainer: Why AI is breaking enterprise virtualization - Your virtualization infrastructure probably isn't AI-ready. But that's OK - HPE has the answer - The Register Explainer

6 hours ago

Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war - rsac 2026 - Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC... RSA - 25 Mar 2026 - | 15

4 days ago

Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI -- Forget the metaverse -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Oracle: AI agents can reason, decide and act - liability question remains -- Fusion Agentic Applications promise autonomous enterprise decisions. Gartner urges caution -- Applications

4 days ago

Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros -- Plus one actual physicist -- Science

5 days ago

OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become -- AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape? -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Firefox 149 adds a free VPN and finally plays nice with Linux dialogs -- In other browser news, Opera now caters to penguinista gamers -- Applications

5 days ago

Microsoft and Nvidia claim AI can speed approval of new atomic plants -- Effort includes permitting and planning -- AI + ML

5 days ago

NASA's lunar reboot is long on ambition, short on answers - Opinion - Exactly how will astronauts get to and from that moonbase? Science - 25 Mar 2026 - | 24

2 days ago

JetBrains shifts to agentic dev with Central, retires pair programming -- Bye-bye Code With Me as company focuses on other areas -- AI + ML

5 days ago

Dell slims down business laptops, fattens up cooling and battery life -- Pro line gets new naming convention and some serious upgrades -- Personal Tech

5 days ago

Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs -- I'll just clear up that up, shall I? -- OSes

5 days ago

HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away -- Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation -- Public Sector

5 days ago