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GPUzilla's $20B acquihire paves to way to AI agents that halucinate faster than ever GTC Nvidia will use Groq's language processing units (LPUs), a technology it paid $20 billion for, to boost the inference performance of its newly-announced Vera Rubin rack systems, CEO Jensen Huang revealed during his GTC keynote on Monday....

Hacktivists use proxy services from Russia, China for 'billions of designed-for-abuse connection attempts' Cybercrime has skyrocketed since the start of the Iran war, according to Akamai, which reports a 245 percent increase in everything from credential harvesting attempts to automated reconnaissance traffic aimed at banks and other critical businesses....

Native code build tools now dominate for TypeScript or JavaScript projects Vite 8.0 has been released, and it uses Rust-built Rolldown as its single bundler, replacing both esbuild and Rollup, to enable faster builds....

Former Microsoft dev trains a model to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test A former Microsoft engineer is training AI to beat 1982's Robotron: 2084, an arcade game where a lone human must overcome endless waves of robots following a cybernetic revolt....

Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable AI is apparently good for the bottom line if your business is crime. Financial fraud schemes carried out with the help of artificial intelligence are 4.5 times more profitable than those that aren't enhanced, according to Interpol's latest estimates....

Early demo hints at a future sci-fi writers warned us about San Francisco startup Eon Systems claims that it has created the first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain that can control a virtual body and produce recognizable behaviors....

F is for Free, FSF, and fat chance Updated The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has rattled a saber at Anthropic over the use of its materials in training the AI vendor's models, urging it to set its LLMs free....

iFixit opens Apple's budget system, discovers something missing from MacBooks: replaceable components Apple's latest MacBook may be cheap, but it also comes with something modern MacBooks haven't offered in years: a fighting chance of being repaired....

McDermott argues digital workers will handle much of the grunt work once used to train junior staff Unemployment rates among recent graduates could climb above 30 percent because so many early career routine tasks will be performed by AI agents, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott has said....

Toothbrushes, Turing and the truth give the lie to California's legal lunacy Opinion There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during account setup to protect minors online. The other is to note that the law is all the worst things a law can be....

Back button blunder in WebFiling service run by Companies House revealed confidential paperwork Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a "security issue" that exposed the personal details of company directors and other data to any logged in users....

'Access denied' errors hit certain Windows 11 machines running vendor utility Microsoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday....

'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics The UK government is splashing out 45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus....

Already five years late, project delayed another six months after price tag swells from 2.6M to 41M West Sussex County Council has once again delayed the implementation of Oracle Fusion for HR and payroll - set to replace an aging SAP system - following a series of setbacks that have seen expected costs swell to more than 15 times the original estimate....

System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for payments More than a year after MPs warned that victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal were still waiting for compensation, Parliament says the system meant to pay them remains slow, bureaucratic, and flawed - meaning thousands of sub-postmasters are still fighting for payouts while taxpayers pick up the bill....

Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the bus Who, Me? The world of work can be thankless, which is why The Register tries to brighten up the Monday return to toil by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column where you confess to your IT screw-ups and tell us how you got away with it....

Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint Amazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service....

Dark Dalek drama to stream this April Film preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever....

PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo's biggest ever IaaS deal; and more Asia in brief India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track" - and one of the ideas discussed was using AI to protect the beasts and workers....

PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more Infosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack....

Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTC Kettle It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday....

Most don't think they are good for the environment. Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not....

Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth Workers who believe "leveraging cross-functional synergies" sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for corporate word salad also tend to perform worse at their jobs....

Biological computing is messy and gassy - It's now cloudy, too At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs' datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain....

Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens....

Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan....

A 'web of litigation' The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization....

An incident in Macau A 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a raise the roof" move when the woman called it freaking crazy."...

And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks A group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users' credentials, according to Microsoft....

Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm....

PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys The chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a 370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS)....

35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone....

Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry....

Zram versus zswap - two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Linux has two ways to do memory compression - zram and zswap - but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them....

'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch' NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for a rollout to the pad on March 19....

Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to date Ninety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today....

Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis Opinion A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer....

It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap - you can have 2' Britain's government is pushing ahead with nuclear planning and regulatory reforms, aiming to accelerate atomic projects that will power homes and datacenters....

Take your YOLO and box it up exclusive NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project's commitment to security....

Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026 Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed....

Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes Bork!Bork!Bork! Today we visit the south of England, where Windows has fallen over, briefly granting unrestricted rail travel to one and all....

Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults Openreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid... if the water companies can be bothered to fix them....

Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again? On Call Arrr! How is it Friday already? The Register can't explain where the week went, but we can deliver a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support SNAFUs....

From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver....

Didn't say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has announced he intends to depart the company after 18 years as the prince of PDFs....

Beijing hinted it wasn't happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change Apple has cut the fees it charges Chinese developers to sell their apps and other digital goodies....

Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury As the US continues its strikes on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, speakers at Palantir's AIPCON event on Thursday said the company's Maven Smart System product has shortened the time it takes the Department of Defense to select and hit targets on the battlefield during the conflict....

Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy AI agents work together to bypass security controls and stealthily steal sensitive data from within the enterprise systems in which they operate, according to tests carried out by frontier security lab Irregular....

Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer Perplexity is ready to have enterprises use its AI service even if enterprises may still be wary of delegating tasks to software agents....

Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered American parents of school-aged children may want to pay attention to where their cars are parked and for how long, as license plate reader data is now being cited by at least one school district when challenging whether students live where they say they do....