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Move comes against backdrop of disasterclass Super Bowl ad Ring has cut ties with Flock, citing resource constraints, mere months after the pair announced a partnership....

$380B valuation for a company that's yet to turn a profit? Sure, why not The AI bubble continues to inflate with Anthropic's announcement of $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation....

Fiery mid-flight incident not enough to derail US Space Force mission United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur reached orbit on February 12 despite "a significant performance anomaly" that saw one of its four solid rocket boosters burn through its nozzle during ascent....

One destination passengers were definitely not hoping to reach Bork!Bork!Bork! As if to demonstrate that whatever one operating system can do, Windows can do it better, bluer, and upside down, we present a bus stopping only at bork....

Watchdog says savings bank botched tech revamp, warning taxpayers remain exposed after years of delays Britain's state-backed savings bank has been dragged over the coals by Parliament's spending watchdog, which has branded its long-running digital overhaul a 3 billion "full-spectrum disaster."...

Names, addresses, bank account numbers accessed - but biz insists passwords and call data untouched The Netherlands' largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people....

Fanboys think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Devs aren't nearly as won over Opinion I'm willing to be impressed by AI products, but Anthropic's AIbuilt C compiler leaves me a bit cold. It's little more than a clever demo. It is not the moment when software engineering as we know it flips over and dies. Not even close....

Scottish rival Skyrora already eyeing the assets, including Highland spaceport Updated Skyrora is eyeing the wreckage of fellow British rocketeer Orbex following the latter's announcement that it will appoint administrators....

Years later, he read about his antagonist doing time for murder On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales....

Regional internet registry that serves half of humanity wants more perspectives in more languages APRICOT 2026 When members of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre got their chance to grill its leaders at yesterday's annual general meeting, they didn't hold back....

This bodes well for Nvidia getting Vera Rubin out the door next quarter as planned Samsung and Micron say they've started shipping HBM4 memory, the faster and denser RAM needed to power the next generation of AI acceleration hardware....

Why serve up tough HTML when you can offer tasty Markdown? Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait....

Gartner says using AI to fix customer gripes could cost more than using humans by 2030 ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the need to swivel-chair into multiple systems or escalate complaints, said Vasili Triant, CEO of UJET....

Are you a good bot or a bad bot? More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing....

GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark may be a mouthfull, but it's certainly fast at 1,000 Tok/s running on Nvidia rival's CS3 accelerators Nvidia and AMD can take a seat. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model that will run on Cerebras Systems' dinner-place-sized AI accelerators, which feature some of the world's fastest on-chip memory....

And hey, maybe the overseas remote operators senators fret about won't be needed quite so often Waymo is rolling out its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, saying it's designed to avoid a repeat of past weather-related snafus. It's also causing controversy by putting the new kit on vehicles built by a Chinese automaker....

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a requirement that contributions come from people. But that bot wasn't done with him....

As if snooping on your workers wasn't bad enough Your supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now using legit bossware to blend into corporate networks and attempt ransomware deployment....

Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform Oracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program....

Not-onamous by a long shot Nobody likes folding laundry, but you really have to hate it to spend $7,999 on a robot that'll fold it for you with a whole heap of limitations - including company employees getting the occasional peep at your tough-to-fold unmentionables....

12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards Elon Musk has framed the recent exodus of talent from his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, as a necessary growing pain, saying the company's evolution "required parting ways with some people."...

Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance Microsoft has abruptly announced the deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks with less than two months' notice, throwing the future of the .NET Interactive project into doubt....

Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals' Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an "extremely sophisticated attack" against targeted individuals....

DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock Exploding memory prices are pushing corporate buyers to fast-track PC purchases before costs climb further....

Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine NASA has ended most science operations on its Swift observatory to keep the spacecraft in orbit a little longer....

Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle Cybercriminals are turning supply chain attacks into an industrial-scale operation, linking breaches, credential theft, and ransomware into a "self-reinforcing" ecosystem, researchers say....

That's not a good idea Open Source Policy Summit 2026 SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS - but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn't practice what it preaches. It's not alone....

Legal teeth sold separately The UK government claims a new Telecoms Consumer Charter will stop customers being hit by unexpected bill increases and offer clearer pricing when signing up to deals....

Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is offering between 270,000 to 300,000 for a senior digital leader who will oversee more than 4.6 billion in spending and more than 3,000 specialist staff....

Department for Education dropped 27,118. The rest, little to nothing Most UK government departments have spent little or nothing with social media platform X since July 2024 following an unpublished 2023 evaluation by the Cabinet Office. But the Department for Education has bucked the trend, spending 27,118....

Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America's critical infrastructure used Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks against US organizations, the company says....

Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers APRICOT 2026 Starlink can sometimes shift data more quickly than is possible on terrestrial networks, and improves connectivity in remote areas. But the space broadband service also presents new technical and regulatory challenges, according to speakers who took to the stage on Tuesday at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) in Jakarta, Indonesia....

Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting Cisco has increased the prices for its hardware to cover the increased cost of memory and says the resulting bigger bills are not changing customers' buying habits....

Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices Amid its ongoing promotion of AI's wonders, Microsoft has warned customers it has found many instances of a technique that manipulates the technology to produce biased advice....

Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers caused by its power-hungry datacenters....

Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you've been and they're going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions that allegedly exfiltrate browsing history data for an estimated 37.4 million installations....

Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed Meta has decided to let Threads users make custom tweaks to its all-important algorithm, but don't expect your preferences to stick and do expect to bring your best manners....

Allies that don't align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue Banning sales to Chinese-government-affiliated companies, apparently, is not enough. A bipartisan group of American lawmakers this week called on the Trump administration to enact a blanket ban on the sale of equipment used in the production of advanced semiconductors to all of China....

Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster A Harvard Business Review study is answering the question what will employees do if AI saves them time at work?' The answer: more work....

This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved T-Mobile is claiming it's now the first wireless carrier to integrate generative AI "directly into a wireless network," and it's rolling out real-time call translation as the first feature delivered on top of its new AI-filled cellular network....

The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering If you've seen the viral AI work pic trend where people are asking ChatGPT to "create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me" and sharing it to social, you might think it's harmless. You'd be wrong....

Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practice Promo AI projects fail at scale not because models don't work or GPUs lack performance. They fail because data can't keep pace....

Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone....

No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now Microsoft has released Windows 11 26H1 but is warning the vast majority of users that it is not for them....

Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren't the earliest warning signals sent Telcos likely received advance warning about January's critical Telnet vulnerability before its public disclosure, according to threat intelligence biz GreyNoise....

Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements The European Commission wants to see stronger EU-wide cooperation over malicious drones via a new action plan. Proposals include a central counter-drone test facility, changing the current rules governing civilian use, and a development boost to Europe's own drones and counter-drone systems....

Has the OS also jumped the shark? Microsoft's Raymond Chen has revealed an unexpected use for the company's lawyers: securing permission from the cast of Happy Days so a Weezer music video could ship on the Windows 95 CD....

200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust British doctors are being urged to pull back from the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) after their union called on members to stop non-clinical use of the Palantir-built system....

Attackers using social engineering to exploit business processes, rather than tunnelling in via tech Exclusive When fraudsters go after people's paychecks, "every employee on earth becomes a target," according to Binary Defense security sleuth John Dwyer....

Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions Apple fanbois are realizing what the Creator Studio subscription means for its productivity apps, and many are unhappy with the direction of travel....