Digital intruders exploited buggy SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) instances in December to break into victims' IT environments, move laterally, and steal high-privilege credentials, according to Microsoft researchers.…
Let's hope it's always sunny ... in Texas, at least for Google's sake. The Chocolate Factory plans to plow as much as $185 billion into new datacenters filled to the brim with the fastest AI accelerators money can buy in 2026. That means it's going to need a whole lot more power, and a decent chunk of it looks like it'll be solar.…
Healthcare researchers have found that AI chatbots could put patients at risk by giving shoddy medical advice.…
Don't want Discord to start treating your account like it belongs to an underage kid? Then you'd better be willing to fork over some PII - just months after the company's age verification partner had such data stolen. …
Anthropic's sensitive cubs and roaring cougars commercial trampled OpenAI's offerings in searches and site hit metrics during the Super Bowl, according to ad tracking firm EDO. However, the unknown player ai.com, which pitched the fantastical idea that "AGI is coming," won the day.…
Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says it recovered nearly all of the more than $40 billion worth of funds it mistakenly handed out to customers as part of a promotional campaign.…
It's a day with a name ending in Y, so you know what that means: Another OpenClaw cybersecurity disaster.…
An Anthropic researcher's efforts to get its newly released Opus 4.6 model to build a C compiler left him "excited," "concerned," and "uneasy."…
If you're running an online business, it helps to own a memorable domain. That's why a wealthy tech exec just paid $70 million to buy the hottest word you can own: AI.com.…
Salesforce has decided to stop developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service.…
Carl Eschenbach has stepped down as Workday CEO and been replaced by co-founder and executive Aneel Bhusri following a round of job cuts and share price volatility.…
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was one of the many organizations popped when attackers raced to exploit recent Ivanti vulnerabilities as zero-days.…
Microsoft suffered a service disruption over the weekend after a power incident at an Azure datacenter in the West US region affected Windows Update.…
SpaceX resumed launching Falcon 9 rockets this weekend after last week's second stage incident. At the same time, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company has shifted its focus to "building a self-growing city on the Moon" within a decade.…
European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.…
Taiwan's vice-premier has ruled out relocating 40 percent of the country's semiconductor production to the US, calling the Trump administration's goal "impossible."…
Brussels has accused Meta of breaking EU competition rules by locking rival AI chatbots out of WhatsApp, opening the door to emergency action that could force the tech giant to let competitors back onto the platform.…
FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers.…
European techies looking for the biggest payday are far better off in Switzerland than anywhere else, with average salaries eclipsing all other countries on the continent.…
Brits will soon pay more to legally watch the BBC's output than to subscribe to some of the world's biggest streaming services, after the UK government confirmed the TV license fee will climb to £180 a year from April.…
Brussels is digging into a cyber break-in that targeted the European Commission's mobile device management systems, potentially giving intruders a peek inside the official phones carried by EU staff.…
FOSDEM 2026 Amid growing interest in digital sovereignty and getting data out of the corporate cloud and into organizations' ownership, the Matrix open communication protocol is thriving.…
Opinion Thirty years is a big ol' chunk of anyone's life. It can take you from new parent to new grandparent, from bright young thing to mid-life crisis, and from shaver to graybeard. In the case of Todd C Miller, one thing hasn't changed. He's been the sole maintainer of the Linux sudo utility. He's not giving up just yet, but he needs help and no help has come.…
Who, Me? You can fool some of the people some of the time, but The Register tries to entertain all of its readers most of the time and especially early on Monday mornings, when we present a new installment of "Who, Me?" - the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace mayhem and mischief.…
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar [ 09-Feb-26 6:58am ]The rising price of memory has produced an interesting phenomenon: technologists wondering if the memory they have installed in home labs, or bottom drawers, might make them rich.…
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents [ 09-Feb-26 4:08am ]Asia In Brief The Commissioner of Police in the Indian city of Hyderabad, population 11 million, has called for AI agents to be issued with identity cards - or at least their digital equivalent.…
Linus Torvalds keeps his 'fingers and toes' rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0 [ 09-Feb-26 12:44am ]Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can't count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19.…
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks [ 08-Feb-26 10:25pm ]Infosec In Brief So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now, has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal.…
Three AI engines walk into a bar in single file... [ 08-Feb-26 3:00pm ]Developers looking to gain a better understanding of machine learning inference on local hardware can fire up a new llama engine.…
Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI - it's all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter [ 08-Feb-26 12:30pm ]Opinion The real opponent of digital sovereignty is "enterprise IT" marketing, according to one Red Hat engineer who ranted entertainingly about the repeated waves of bullshit the industry hype cycle emits.…
Machine learning could yield faster, cheaper lithium-ion battery development [ 08-Feb-26 9:25am ]Scientists have developed a machine learning method that could dramatically slash the cost and energy required to develop new lithium-ion batteries that the modern world is becoming increasingly reliant.…
Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend [ 07-Feb-26 3:00pm ]interview Don't trust; verify. According to AI researcher Vishal Sikka, LLMs alone are limited by computational boundaries and will start to hallucinate when they push those boundaries. One solution? Companion bots that check their work.…
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm [ 07-Feb-26 12:30pm ]A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…
Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines [ 07-Feb-26 9:30am ]Openreach is warning British businesses that the old phone network shuts down in less than a year - with half a million commercial lines still unmigrated.…
AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs [ 06-Feb-26 9:45pm ]The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss ... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused artists to hit the unemployment line.…
Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI [ 06-Feb-26 6:34pm ]It's no lightweight matter. DARPA is putting about $35 million in total funding on the table in the hope that it will spur researchers to work around fundamental physical constraints and build much larger-scale photonic circuits that do more of the computing with light, not electronics.…
Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP [ 06-Feb-26 5:44pm ]AIpocolypse Four tech megacorps intend to collectively fork out roughly $635 billion this year on capex, much of it for datacenters and AI infrastructure - more than the entire output of Israel's economy and well beyond all global cloud infrastructure services revenue generated last year.…
Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party [ 06-Feb-26 4:56pm ]Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…
DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records [ 06-Feb-26 4:36pm ]Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…
An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.…
A British supermarket says staff will undergo further training after a store manager ejected the wrong man when facial recognition technology triggered an alert.…
Microsoft has laid out a timeline for the disablement and shutdown of Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online.…
America's federal agencies have been told to hunt down and rip out aging firewalls, routers, and other network gatekeepers before attackers use them as skeleton keys into government systems.…
Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips [ 06-Feb-26 11:39am ]More than 30 Romanian railway employees accused of running a bribery and ticket resale racket allegedly tried to crowdsource their legal strategy from ChatGPT.…
Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook [ 06-Feb-26 11:15am ]NASA's Administrator has stated that smartphones will accompany the Crew-12 and Artemis II astronauts on their missions.…
DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom [ 06-Feb-26 10:53am ]AI-pocalypse Britain's welfare system is experimenting with AI to manage Universal Credit claimants - even as evidence piles up that artificial intelligence may soon be pushing more people onto benefits in the first place.…
UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat [ 06-Feb-26 10:15am ]In a budget-busting leap from SAP to Oracle, West Sussex County Council is trebling its raid on capital assets such as buildings to fund its "transformational" ERP project.…
Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork [ 06-Feb-26 9:30am ]BORK!BORK!BORK! When this vulture excuses himself from The Register's Australian eyrie for a little rest and recreation, I first avoid pyromaniac birds and carnivorous koalas, before settling into a bucolic beach town to catch a few waves, read a few books, and tune out from the world of tech.…
New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor [ 06-Feb-26 7:30am ]On Call Change is a constant - and so is On Call, the reader-contributed column The Register runs every Friday to share your tech support tales.…
Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees [ 06-Feb-26 5:22am ]Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) has introduced a competency test for students who take degrees in IT, to assess whether they emerge with skills employers will find useful.…
