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And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger....

Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company expects RAM's contribution will rise through the year....

Analyst firm bemoans peak insanity' among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth server farms Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached peak insanity," because orbiting facilities can't be run economically or satisfy demand for compute power on Earth....

Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic AI while keeping the fundamentals of the HR platform strong....

Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October....

Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the opportunity to challenge Nvidia's dominance despite all the talk of an AI bubble....

Protect the robot, sacrifice the human opinion I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!...

Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren't What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough....

Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down....

SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of If you run SolarWinds' Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root....

iGiant also ramping US chip and AI server production Your next Mac might be made in the US of A. Apple this week revealed plans to manufacture its most affordable Macintosh computer at a new Foxconn facility in Texas....

37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Play Soon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups think that the Chocolate Factory should keep its nose out of third-party app stores and have asked its leadership to reconsider....

New ransomware of choice, same critical targets North Korea's Lazarus Group appears to have added another tool to its kit. It has begun using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks targeting at least one US healthcare organization and an unnamed victim in the Middle East, according to Symantec and Carbon Black threat hunters....

Manufacturers like John Deere have resisted broader access to proprietary repair software Soon, farmers could have easier access to the tools and software needed to repair their tractors. A recent Iowa House committee vote advancing a right-to-repair bill could bring changes benefiting thousands of farmers in the US' second-largest agricultural state, supporters say....

FreeBSD's friendliest desktop distro bets on the controversial fork GhostBSD plans to move to the XLibre X11 server to better support its flagship MATE desktop - as well as Xfce and the new Gershwin....

When a one-line fix triggers thousands of PRs, something's off A Go library maintainer has urged developers to turn off GitHub's Dependabot, arguing that false positives from the dependency-scanning tool "reduce security by causing alert fatigue."...

The House of Zen signed a nearly identical deal with OpenAI last fall AMD just signed a mega chip deal with Meta that appears almost identical to the one it signed with OpenAI last fall. And just like all cross-industry agreements between AI and chip makers of late, this one comes with some circular financing, too....

With Server 2016 and other OSes for the chop, security fixes can continue to flow for a price Microsoft is giving Windows customers the "gift of time" but expects compensation for its generosity....

No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites Hosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe's largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from April 1....

Social media giant retorts it doesn't want to collect 'private' data, and plans to appeal The UK's data protection regulator has fined social media giant Reddit 14.47 million ($19.5 million) over its use of children's data....

BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die The latest KDE desktop environment is out. Among other things, it comes with a pledge that it won't require systemd, and this version has improved OpenBSD support. FreeBSD 15.1's installer offers KDE too....

Public prosecutor mulls sentencing following investigations into two separate attacks Two South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul's public bike service, Ttareungyi....

Parliament committee finds AI BS helped shape a real-world decision UK Parliament has delivered the official postmortem on West Midlands Police's Copilot saga, and it reads like a case study in how not to mix generative AI with public order decision-making....

Upstart's 5th-gen RDU aims to undercut Nvidia's B200 on speed and cost AI infrastructure company SambaNova has raised $350 million to advance its dataflow architecture, which it pitches as an alternative to GPU-based AI systems....

Visa applications down, executives emigrating, and AI blamed for the rest The number of international workers applying for a visa to work in the UK's tech sector dropped 11 percent between Q2 and Q3 2025, and was down 6 percent year-on-year, according to consultancy RSM UK....

We like our surface-to-air weapons affordable Britain has joined a handful of European allies in a program to develop low-cost air defense systems, including autonomous drones or missiles, with project delivery of the first elements scheduled for as early as 2027....

Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive Microsoft has teased a significant upgrade to its SharePoint collaborationware package....

As Pure Storage adopts a watered-down name for a rebrand Logowatch Cisco and the vendor formerly known as Pure Storage have let their designers and marketers loose on the internet to explain some recent decisions....

Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax are using 'distillation' to gin up their own models Having built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data....

Big Blue has been saying this itself since 2023 IBM's share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language....

'This is a warning. We know you live right here' Two US residents have sued several Homeland Security agencies and officials, including Secretary Kristi Noem, for allegedly using surveillance tools to harass them, branding them as "domestic terrorists," and even showing up at their homes based on license-plate recognition....

What do Taylor Swift and Drake's release days have to do with road deaths? More than you'd think Who doesn't like streaming music while driving? Unfortunately, new research suggests that when major albums drop and streaming spikes, traffic fatalities rise too....

Company tries to curb strain by banning customer accounts for 'malicious' usage Google customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to find their accounts suspended for using the company's Antigravity agent development app and Gemini services with third-party agent tools like OpenClaw and OpenCode....

Nv-based integrated graphics for Wintel box also in the works Your next laptop may have Nvidia inside - not in the form of a GPU, but as a system on a chip, complete with CPU. Team Green could be chipping away at Intel's marketshare and giving people Arm-based systems that compete with Apple's MacBook line....

Not the first of its kind ai-pocalypse Anthropic sent the infosec community into a tizzy on Friday when it rolled out Claude Code Security, a new feature that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches to fix the issues....

Russinovich and Hanselman say firms must train juniors to fix agent mistakes - not replace them with prompts Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that senior software engineers must mentor junior developers to prevent AI coding agents from hollowing out the profession's future skills base....

Project ditches Swift and translates C++ with LLM assistance The independent Ladybird web browser project is changing course on its choice of programming languages, with LLM-based coding assistants helping to evaluate the shift....

Sending humans around the Moon in February, er, March - now April 2026, maybe The quest to return to the Moon has hit another snag. NASA is delaying Artemis II again, as interrupted helium flow to the rocket's upper stage forces a rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and wipes out the March launch window....

Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws A global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic images can't pretend that data protection rules don't apply....

Goal is to run software locally and stream only to owners' computers If the sour taste has still not left your mouth after Ring's Super Bowl ad, there is a $10,000 prize for anyone who can find a security flaw in the company's cameras....

Complaints pile up from users after months of conversations disappear. Google insists it's just a temporary bug Over the past few days, complaints have stacked up from people who say months of conversations with Google's AI chatbot have simply vanished, with Reg readers noting the disappearances seemed to coincide with the rollout of Gemini 3.1....

Stations urged to mark milestone with pro-America content The head of the Federal Communications Commission has called on broadcasters to start the day with the Star Spangled Banner or the Pledge of Allegiance to celebrate the US's 250th birthday....

Business Secretary praises Doug Gurr's pro-growth agenda Britain's competition regulator has tapped former Amazon UK chief Doug Gurr as preferred candidate for chair - a notable appointment given the watchdog's active investigations into major cloud providers....

OpenAI CEO takes really, really long view on energy efficiency AI is being unfairly targeted over its energy use, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims, as the naysayers ignore the vast amount of resources humans have consumed over millennia - not least to avoid being eating by predators....

Quartet accused of attacking public institutions, claiming the government was responsible for 2024 tragedy Spanish police say four self-proclaimed members of Anonymous are in custody after allegedly carrying out several cyberattacks on public authorities in the wake of the 2024 DANA floods....

Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riot Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS....

A week off for vacation? The nerve of some people Opinion If you want to see the definition of "workaholic," you can't do better than to look at your typical senior open source developer or maintainer. I should know, I'm a workaholic too. I know my kind....

Analog curio nestled between fax and typewriter - this is a very different definition of 'legacy support' Bork!Bork!Bork! There are occasions when flicking a power switch can send a user into a world of bork-related pain, so it is sometimes worth taking a step back and reconsidering one's life choices....

The only good password is no password at all Passwords turn 65 this year. They became a feature of computer users' lives in 1961, with MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Before then, sysops were real sysops. All jobs went through them, one at a time, and access by others was forbidden by laws written on blocks of stone....

Rogue user showed them an excellent prank, which they put into production Who, Me? Welcome to another installment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column in which you confess to crises you caused, and the course corrections that cured the chaos....