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Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based pricing, that vibe-coded hobby project is about to get a whole lot more expensive. Fortunately, you're not without cost-saving options....

Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it The DVSA's driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated users....

Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up....

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements' The chase is on. Atlassian reported its largest-ever quarter for taking share from a major IT service management provider, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said on the company's fiscal third-quarter earnings call Thursday, escalating its rivalry with ServiceNow....

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it Pentagon CTO Emil Michael pushed back on reports of a thaw in the department's relationship with Anthropic: The two are not getting back together, even as Mythos draws interest from government agencies....

SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely Amid the sensational NASA budget cut proposals taking place in the US at the moment, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has refined the Artemis III launch date to "late 2027."...

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones - but you have alternatives As both Apple and Google introduce unwelcome changes in their phone OSes, here's a quick reminder that you do have alternatives to the Gruesome Twosome....

If software writes software the risk is systematic failure at scale". Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester Forrester predicts that by decade's end, the rush toward agentic AI will grow so chaotic that CIOs will be forced into a new role as enforcer of order....

Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock Secondhand phones sales are booming - relatively speaking - and the industry has rising inflation, AI bloat, and consumers' growing apathy toward overpriced new handsets to thank for it....

Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand CISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already poking holes in one of the internet's most widely used hosting stacks....

Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow Microsoft is following through on its promise to prioritize Windows stability with its April 30 non-security update....

Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked OpenAI is lining up a limited release of its new GPT-5.5-Cyber model to a handpicked circle of "cyber defenders," just weeks after taking a swipe at Anthropic for doing almost exactly the same thing....

But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev An astronomy software dev claims a Falcon 9 upper stage will hit the Moon in August, traveling at several times the speed of sound....

313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant....

Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters The Department for Work and Pensions has gone shopping for covert cameras, live-streaming kit, and vehicle-based recording gear as it lines up a 2 million upgrade to watch fraud suspects in real time....

Things that go bork in the night Bork!Bork!Bork! What frightens you? What, as an IT professional, would make you shriek like a small child? What tech horrors are lurking under your bed?...

Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of 576 million as it starts a third round of engagement with suppliers....

Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right' The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new techto support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing times exceeded 14 weeks in February....

For once, Oracle ERP wasn't the problem On Call Fridays can be a drag, but The Register has a formula to inject a little fun by delivering a new instalment of On Call - the reader-contributed column in which we share your tech support stories....

Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler Qualcomm has quietly entered the market for custom hyperscale silicon, and datacenter CPUs...

In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can contribute to global stability' Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has confirmed the demise of its mainframe business in the year 2035 and hinted it's working on significant defense projects....

$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), its first since 2012....

Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package....

Stop the sprawl! With the average Global Fortune 500 enterprise expected to run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 today, there's plenty of room for chaos. Analyst firm Gartner says that, without proper governance, those agents will multiply and run amok....

Mozilla fears wiring an AI API into Chrome will make the web less open Updated Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google's decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as the Prompt API, is already being tested in Chrome and Microsoft Edge....

KnowBe4 says 86% of phishing it tracked used AI, and inboxes are only the start Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI to phish and it'll change the landscape, if KnowBe4's latest phishing trends report is accurate....

One alleged cyber contractor was extradited to the US over the weekend China's "hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control," according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division....

Analyst says handsets now stay in pockets for 4.2 years on average Remember the early days of the smartphone revolution when, even after six months, your phone felt outdated? Not anymore. Smartphone replacement cycles are getting longer as discretionary household budgets come under pressure from inflation, with demand for new devices expected to fall for the rest of this year....

Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs If you thought 800 Gbps Ethernet was fast, just wait. Celestica's latest switches cram 64 1.6 Tbps ports into a single chassis....

This CVSS 10.0 RCE vuln has been patched, automatically for some, so better check those workflows If you use Gemini CLI, watch out: Google has patched a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in its command-line AI tool and is warning anyone running it in headless mode, or through GitHub Actions, to review their workflows....

Two computer crime allegations follow up to 18M lines of data surfacing online French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old on April 25 over the alleged theft of millions of records from France Titres (ANTS), the agency handling secure documents....

Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor The Rust-built Zed editor has reached version 1.0, released yesterday, with development led by former members of the Atom team at GitHub....

When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job The great memory shortage is having yet another effect, pushing enterprises into the waiting arms of the cloud operators as they can't secure enough on-prem compute themselves....

Lock-in worries threaten to dampen the E7 launch party The Coalition for Fair Software Licensing has published research showing that US workers reckon Microsoft is using its productivity tools to lock their employers into the company's AI services....

Concerns over new rules might stop customers from adopting innovations -including AI - that connect to SAP systems An influential SAP user group has criticized the vendor's API policy update, saying it lacks clarity and potentially prevents users from starting new projects and innovating on their SAP platforms....

But why did those fans go away in the first place, Satya? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told investors during an earnings call last night that the company needs to "win back" its fans....

AI boom splits between companies hoarding eyeballs and those actually charging for them Anthropic is pulling in more LLM revenue than OpenAI, despite having a fraction of the users....

Turns out the real problem is not AI but staff still clicking on dodgy emails from 'IT support' Nearly half of UK businesses are still getting breached, and in many cases, the attacker's big breakthrough is an employee clicking "sure, why not" on a fake login page....

Just in time for the Trump-Xi summit Exclusive A novel China-linked threat group infiltrated more than a dozen critical networks in Poland, Asian countries, and possibly beyond, beginning in December 2024 and with activity uncovered as recently as this month....

Emergency patches out now for those managing the millions of domains assumed to be affected Emergency patches are available for a critical vulnerability in cPanel and WHM that allows attackers to bypass authentication and gain root access to servers managed using it....

Federation warns members to ditch work devices off duty as force uses AI to probe 600+ cops London cops are being told by their staff association to be "extremely cautious" about carrying work devices off duty, after the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) deployed Palantir's technology to investigate hundreds of its own officers....

Investigation finds no single cause for soldiers falling ill, just bad bolts, cold air, and apparently the soldiers themselves Britain's notorious Ajax armored vehicles are being accepted back from the manufacturer after investigations found no single cause for the symptoms plaguing crews, meaning soldiers will need to grin and bear it....

Great idea, guys. Let's keep all of the data in an Excel file with weak password protection PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we recount the adventures of IT explorers who found their own pile of quicksand and then jumped right into it. This week's story involves keeping sensitive information in a very vulnerable place and then not protecting it adequately....

Can now use SANs for storage, and adds a local control plane and key management Microsoft has given its Azure Local on-prem cloud a major makeover to make it fit for duty powering large-scale sovereign infrastructure....

AI is driving more searches and ads Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues....

Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs....

Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw....

The Trainium train keeps a-rollin' Amazon is now among the top three datacenter chip businesses in the world, as its semiconductor business surpassed a $20 billion annual run rate ... and it would be closer to $50 billion if it included itself among the customers, CEO Andy Jassy said during the company's first quarter earnings call on Wednesday....

ORNL says portable detector kit can separate real GPS signals from fake ones even at equal strength GPS spoofing, which sends fake satellite-like signals, and GPS jamming, which drowns receivers in noise, are increasingly serious problems. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have created what they say is the most effective system yet for detecting GPS interference, which could help blunt such attacks....

Second try's a charm? Microsoft and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that attackers are exploiting a zero-click Windows flaw that can expose sensitive information on vulnerable systems....