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Wednesday, April 22, 2026 12:35 PM ET

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Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs -- Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI

3 hours ago

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan -- Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone

3 hours ago

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it

1 day ago

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping -- Change is glacial, but the direction is clear

3 hours ago

Thunderbird in hand worth 2 Outlooks as fresh FOSS fave and Firefox arrive -- Still here, still changing, still relevant, still your best choice -- Applications

31 minutes ago

You can now run WSL on Windows 95, in case you're crazy, too -- 'I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time,' says dev behind unholy abomination -- OSes

57 minutes ago

NASA reckons the Artemis II heat shield performed like a champ -- Good news for future missions as initial findings agree with agency's design decision -- Science

2 hours ago

Grafana offers AI assistant for free, warns users not to go mad -- Observability biz bets on business analytics wedge as Loki put on long-overdue diet -- Devops

3 hours ago

Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 -- Latest hardware sports dock for graphic card, power sipping battery -- Personal Tech

4 hours ago

Google claims to have all the answers for enterprise AI agent sprawl - Google Cloud Next - As biz agentic bot-wrangling intensifies, company says AI orchestration, security and infrastructure tools on the way - AI + ML - 22 Apr 2026 - | 2

2 hours ago

Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight the baddies -- Along with a bunch of new services to make sure those same agents don't cause chaos -- Security

4 hours ago

Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win -- x86 gets the boot as Google pairs up its TPUs with some Arm-based Axion cores -- AI + ML

4 hours ago

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records -- Gov admits 'incident' as forum sellers boast of fresh haul covering up to a third of the population -- Cyber-crime

5 hours ago

Scotland Yard can keep using live facial recognition on people in London, say judges -- Judges say cops face-slurping not a problem under current human rights laws -- Security

3 hours ago

UK tribunal sends £2B claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging for licensing to trial -- Legal action claims tech giant charges more for Windows Server when it's not on Azure -- PaaS + IaaS

5 hours ago

Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs -- Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption -- Databases

6 hours ago

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition tested: Gratuitous overkill with a price to match - Review - An $899 CPU? In this economy?

57 minutes ago

Forget call centers, local energy prices mean Britain's latest offshoring wave is AI projects -- Brit firms look to run tech overseas as govt tries to support 'sovereign' creators -- AI + ML

7 hours ago

Oil crisis? What oil crisis? IT spending de-coupled from wider war shock -- Gartner sees accelerating growth in IT spending, powered by cloud and AI infrastructure investment -- On-Prem

7 hours ago

Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn't spot -- Mozilla CTO says AI means developers finally have a chance to get on top of security -- Software

10 hours ago

Apple has an opportunity to rediscover humanity in its push toward AI - OPINION - John Ternus can remake Apple the way it should have been - On-Prem - 21 Apr 2026 - | 19

1 hour ago

Nation-states want to cause harm, not just steal cash - stop handing your cyber defenses to the cheapest contractor -- NCSC boss says China's whole-of-state cyber machine has become Britain's peer competitor in cyberspace -- Security

19 hours ago

Zorin OS 18.1 released - and the Lite edition reappears -- Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux Mint -- OSes

19 hours ago

Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide -- Lawmakers decry CISA cuts: 'We are shooting ourselves in the foot' -- Security

20 hours ago

More Cisco SD-WAN bugs battered in attacks -- CISA gives federal agencies 4 days to patch -- Patches

23 hours ago

Phone-to-satellite use goes into orbit, growing 25% in 8 months -- Still only a tiny slice of mobile activity overall -- Networks

1 day ago

Imagine An Army Of AI Minions Handling Incident Response

1 day ago

AI Will Soon Drive A Third Of TSMC's Business

1 day ago

Bechtolsheim & Friends Breathe Life Into Pluggable Optics One Last Time

5 days ago

How HPC And AI Digital Twins Accelerate Quantum Error Correction

5 days ago

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet - Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law

57 minutes ago

macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets -- Data from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, 200+ extensions hoovered up -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks -- Bun is fast as a toolkit but can leak memory in production, causing slowdowns and crashes -- Software

1 day ago

Yet another ex-ransomware negotiator admits turning rogue after payoff from crimelords -- Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' -- One of two second stage engines misbehaved, administration must sign off report before flights resume -- Science

1 day ago

AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account - CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |

1 day ago

Crook claims to leak 'video surveillance footage' of companies -- Mexican IT services firm admits it was hacked, but says client operations weren't affected -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Anthropic bakes memory fixes into Bun 1.1.13 as developers complain of leaks

2 hours ago

Google previews Android CLI for new world of agentic development

19 hours ago

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue

5 days ago

Headless 360: Salesforce's latest pitch to let AI do the dev work

6 days ago

Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure - Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure - Partner Content

15 hours ago

Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters -- No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little -- Security

1 day ago

England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one -- 90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Task Manager's CPU meter is an obituary for the recent past, says the engineer who built it -- Spoiler: There's no magic value. Just a timer, some kernel calls, and too much coffee -- OSes

1 day ago

Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul - Fake emails already doing the rounds as ransomware crew boasts about what it allegedly stole - Cyber-crime - 21 Apr 2026 - |

1 day ago

Panasonic creates device-locked QR codes to speed facial biometric capture -- Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment

1 day ago

Iran claims US used backdoors to knock out networking equipment during war -- And China is loving it

1 day ago

NeuBird plans a bright future for incident response - Imagine an army of AI minions handling investigations behind the scenes - Sponsored Feature

1 day ago

Google's cloud storage gets faster and smarter for AI

3 hours ago

Dell turns up PowerMax dial to 11

2 hours ago

WD's chief product bod peers into the AI data system future

7 hours ago

Wasabi gets quarter billion credit facility

1 day ago

NASA Inspector fears new spacesuits won't be ready for Moon landing -- Dud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess -- Science

1 day ago

Trump-branded datacenter project fails to make itself great, again -- The struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions -- On-Prem

1 day ago

Chase got a spiff of $77 million to create one job with New York datacenter -- Official involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Scot becomes second Scattered Spider-linked crook to plead guilty in US -- Tyler Buchanan admits role in scheme that stole at least $8 million in virtual currency -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Schmoozebots: Study finds flattery will get AI everywhere -- Excessive friendliness may cause users to forget they're talking to a very confident autocomplete -- AI + ML

1 day ago

One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all - Updated - US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders - PaaS + IaaS - 20 Apr 2026 - | 31

2 hours ago

New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans -- Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball -- Software

2 days ago

Cloud-smart strategy helps Interactive meet GenAI demands -- Hybrid cloud strategies emerge as the foundation for secure, AI-ready enterprises

5 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

26 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

Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes -- Out-of-band or out of control? -- OSes

2 days ago

AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London -- Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts -- On-Prem

2 days ago

UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite -- Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects -- AI + ML

2 days ago

HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life -- Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Anthropic tests how devs react to yanking Claude Code from Pro plan -- Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone

9 hours ago

Claude Desktop changes app access settings for browsers you don't even have installed yet -- Installation and pre-approval without consent looks dubious under EU law

1 day ago

Vibe coding upstart Lovable denies data leak, cites 'intentional behavior,' then throws HackerOne under the bus - UPDATED - A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports

31 minutes ago

Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch -- Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.

22 hours ago

World's blandest man steps down from CEO job to spend more time in tastefully appointed home -- Tim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple

22 hours ago

Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs -- Zuck reportedly needs to capture workers' keystrokes to build AI

2 hours ago

The spaghettified DBMS chart that shows Oracle's crown is slowly slipping -- Change is glacial, but the direction is clear

1 hour ago

You too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the house -- It won't provide much juice, but its creator calls it a 'nanowatt nuclear power plant'

4 hours ago

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver -- Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software

4 hours ago

Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit -- Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place -- Science

2 days ago

Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break -- £330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform -- PaaS + IaaS

13 hours ago

Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing -- Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Here's why most AI initiatives crash at pilot stage - Those that don't have one thing in common - Sponsored Feature

2 days ago

AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in -- Opinion -- We've been here before. This time, we may not get out -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise -- Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident -- Security

2 days ago

'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild -- Who, Me? -- You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom -- Bootnotes

2 days ago

NASA working on 'Big Bang' upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer -- Tests scheduled for May can't come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown -- Science

2 days ago

Indonesia's game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles -- Asia In Brief -- PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more! -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay -- kettle -- Aren't we all just prompting tokens of linguistic meaning and hoping the other person isn't bullshitting us? -- Security

2 days ago

I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns -- OPINION -- Passing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturity -- Security

3 days ago

Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus - Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director - Devops - 19 Apr 2026 - | 24

1 day ago

Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale -- Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Atlassian's new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest -- From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier -- SaaS

4 days ago

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors -- Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes -- Systems

4 days ago

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams -- The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model -- AI + ML

4 days ago