SAP refuses to budge on renewal discounts despite cloud growth slowdown [ 02-Feb-26 2:45pm ]SAP is refusing to change tack on renewal discounts despite lower-than-expected cloud forecasts prompting its biggest share price slide in five years.…
OpenClaw patches one-click RCE as security Whac-A-Mole continues [ 02-Feb-26 2:10pm ]Security issues continue to pervade the OpenClaw ecosystem, formerly known as ClawdBot then Moltbot, as multiple projects patch bot takeover and remote code execution (RCE) exploits.…
Microsoft spends billions on AI, converts just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users [ 02-Feb-26 2:01pm ]Only 3.3 percent of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users who touch Copilot Chat actually pay for it, an awkward figure that landed alongside Microsoft's $37.5 billion quarterly AI splurge and its insistence that the payoff is coming.…
Notepad++ update service hijacked in targeted state-linked attack [ 02-Feb-26 1:19pm ]A state-sponsored cyber criminal compromised Notepad++'s update service in 2025, according to the project's author.…
US TikTok service restored after cloud 'that doesn't go down' went down [ 02-Feb-26 1:03pm ]TikTok has restored US services after winter storms hit an Oracle datacenter - the same infrastructure that Big Red's founder Larry Ellison previously claimed doesn't go down.…
Microsoft's Sinofsky saw Surface fail coming - then hit up Epstein for advice on exit [ 02-Feb-26 11:30am ]Steven Sinofsky warned Microsoft that its flagship Surface was about to flop in public, then sought exit advice from Jeffrey Epstein as he negotiated his way out of Redmond.…
Help! Does anyone on the bus know Linux? [ 02-Feb-26 11:00am ]Bork!Bork!Bork! Most people would be perfectly happy to ride the bus without seeing ads. So this latest public error could be a blessing in disguise for passengers, if not for the bus company hoping to make money. Love it or hate it, this bit of borked digital signage looks to have run into a problem that only an open-source hero can solve.…
Infrastructure cyberattacks are suddenly in fashion. We can buck the trend [ 02-Feb-26 10:15am ]Opinion Barely a month into 2026, electrical power infrastructure on two continents has tested positive for cyberattacks. One fell flat as attempts to infiltrate and disrupt the Polish distribution grid were rebuffed and reported. The other, earlier attack was part of Operation Absolute Resolve, the US abduction of Venezuela's President Maduro from Caracas on January 3.…
Microsoft's 'atypical' emergency Windows patches are becoming awfully typical [ 02-Feb-26 9:30am ]Opinion Microsoft has had a bad start to the year. Two out-of-band updates in the weeks after the first Patch Tuesday of 2026 rattled administrators' already shaky faith in the company. But are things getting worse?…
Who, Me? Monday brings the shock of a return to work, a transition The Register always tries to ease by bringing you a new instalment of Who, Me?, the reader-contributed column in which your fellow readers admit to errors and disclose how they dodged the consequences.…
French consulting and tech services giant Capgemini has decided to offload Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS), the entity it uses for some work with the US government - including a controversial gig assisting immigration authorities.…
Oracle predicts investors poised to pump $50 billion into its cloud this year alone [ 02-Feb-26 5:01am ]Oracle has revealed it needs to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in cash to fund expansion of its cloud infrastructure, and its plan to raise that money…
India dangles 20-year tax holiday for clouds that serve offshore users [ 02-Feb-26 1:12am ]Asia In Brief India wants to offer big tech companies tax breaks that last decades.…
Open-source AI is a global security nightmare waiting to happen, say researchers [ 01-Feb-26 11:40pm ]Infosec in Brief As if AI weren't enough of a security concern, now researchers have discovered that open-source AI deployments may be an even bigger problem than those from commercial providers. …
AI security startup CEO posts a job. Deepfake candidate applies, inner turmoil ensues. [ 01-Feb-26 2:14pm ]Nearly every company, from tech giants like Amazon to small startups, has first-hand experience with fake IT workers applying for jobs - and sometimes even being hired. …
Sword of Damocles hangs over UK military's Ajax as minister says back it or scrap it [ 01-Feb-26 9:30am ]The British Army's ill-fated Ajax armored vehicle program now faces the prospect of being axed as the Ministry of Defence withdraws its initial operating capability status and reviews its future.…
NASA taps Claude to conjure Mars rover's travel plan [ 31-Jan-26 1:13pm ]Anthropic's Claude machine learning model has boldly planned what no Claude has planned before - a path across Mars for NASA's Perseverance rover.…
Broadcom 'bulldozes' VMware cloud partners as March deadline looms [ 31-Jan-26 9:30am ]exclusive Broadcom this week brought the hammer down on the Advantage Partner Program for VMware Cloud Service Providers (VCSPs) - and the clock is now ticking for any third parties working to close sales.…
January blues return as Ivanti coughs up exploited EPMM zero-days [ 30-Jan-26 10:01pm ]Ivanti has patched two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) product that are already being exploited, continuing a grim run of January security incidents for enterprise IT vendors.…
'Hey! I'm chatting here!' Fugazi answers doom NYC's AI bot [ 30-Jan-26 9:58pm ]Lying means dying, at least for one falsehood-peddling government AI. A Microsoft-powered chatbot that New York City rolled out to help business owners answer frequently asked questions - but was often wrong - has been silenced as the city grapples with a $12 billion budget shortfall.…
Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups [ 30-Jan-26 9:26pm ]A former Google software engineer has been convicted of stealing AI hardware secrets from the company for the benefit of two China-based firms, one of which he founded. The second startup intended to use these secrets to market its technology to PRC-controlled organizations.…
Thousands more Oregon residents learn their health data was stolen in TriZetto breach [ 30-Jan-26 6:32pm ]Thousands more Oregonians will soon receive data breach letters in the continued fallout from the TriZetto data breach, in which someone hacked the insurance verification provider and gained access to its healthcare provider customers across multiple US states.…
Feeling taxed by layoffs, IRS turns to AI helpers [ 30-Jan-26 6:01pm ]Tax season 2026 could be an interesting one as the IRS seeks to replace the staff it sent to the unemployment line with AI. Bots could handle tasks ranging from reviewing an org's request for tax-exempt status to processing amended individual filings.…
Backblaze says AI traffic and neoclouds could shape future networks [ 30-Jan-26 4:38pm ]Cloud storage firm Backblaze says that a sharp rise in AI-driven data traffic to neocloud operators may signal a shift from internet-style traffic patterns to large, high-bandwidth flows characteristic of large-scale model training and inference work.…
Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers [ 30-Jan-26 2:42pm ]Oracle is taking steps to "repair" its relationship with the MySQL community, according to sources, by moving "commercial-only" features into the database application's Community Edition and prioritizing developer needs.…
Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign [ 30-Jan-26 2:27pm ]Indirect prompt injection occurs when a bot takes input data and interprets it as a command. We've seen this problem numerous times when AI bots were fed prompts via web pages or PDFs they read. Now, academics have shown that self-driving cars and autonomous drones will follow illicit instructions that have been written onto road signs.…
Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please [ 30-Jan-26 1:42pm ]Countries intent on digital sovereignty will need to invest at least 1 percent of their entire gross domestic product (GDP) into AI infrastructure by 2029, according to analyst biz Gartner.…
OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop - two weeks' notice, take it or leave it [ 30-Jan-26 12:59pm ]OpenAI is sunsetting some of its ChatGPT models next month, a move it knows "will feel frustrating for some users."…
Phones down, brooms up: HashiCorp co-founder lectures business hopefuls [ 30-Jan-26 12:30pm ]HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto took to X this week to unveil the secret of workplace success: stay off your phone, sweep the floor, and clean the machines after that.…
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU‑native [ 30-Jan-26 11:45am ]Opinion I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our current government, we're simply not trustworthy.…
Bark!Bark!Bark! Sellafield Ltd is to use Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dogs in "routine, business-as-usual operations" amid the ongoing cleanup and decommissioning of the notorious UK nuclear site.…
A British state-owned bank is reconfiguring its modernization project, including considering reducing connections with legacy systems, as it tries to claw back schedule and budget overruns that are far beyond early plans.…
In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened [ 30-Jan-26 7:30am ]On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of weird and wonderful tech support jobs.…
Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols [ 30-Jan-26 7:00am ]MCP, A2A, ACP, or UTCP? It seems like every other day, orgs add yet another AI protocol to the agentic alphabet soup, making it all the more confusing. Below, we'll share what all these abbreviations actually mean and share why they are important for the future of AI.…
Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it [ 30-Jan-26 12:12am ]Java developers still struggle to secure containers, with nearly half (48 percent) saying they'd rather delegate security to providers of hardened containers than worry about making their own container security decisions.…
opinion Maybe everything is all about timing, like the time (this week) America's lead cyber-defense agency sounded the alarm on insider threats after it came to light that its senior official uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT.…
Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year [ 29-Jan-26 9:25pm ]Elon Musk's car company is getting ready to be Skynet. Tesla, facing an 11 percent decline in automotive revenue in Q4 2025, has committed to $20 billion in capex spending this year on manufacturing and compute infrastructure. The goal: build lots of humanoid robots.…
Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work [ 29-Jan-26 9:20pm ]Google has put the video gaming industry on notice with the rollout of Project Genie, an experimental AI world-model prototype that generates explorable 3D environments from text or image prompts.…
Agents gone wild! Companies give untrustworthy bots keys to the kingdom [ 29-Jan-26 6:31pm ]Corporate use of AI agents in 2026 looks like the Wild West, with bots running amok and no one quite knowing what to do about it - especially when it comes to managing and securing their identities.…
Dow Chemical says AI is the element behind 4,500 job cuts [ 29-Jan-26 6:23pm ]ai-pocalypse The jury is still out when it comes to determining how much job loss AI is causing. However, we now have another case study. Dow Chemical blames AI automation for its plans to cut 4,500 jobs, about 12.5 percent of its work force.…
Fossil fuel-fired power plant development is roaring back to life in the US thanks to the AI datacenter boom, with data from 2025 suggesting we're reaching the point where the renewable energy transition - and efforts to ease carbon emissions - may well be doomed.…
To stop crims, Google starts dismantling residential proxy network they use to hide [ 29-Jan-26 5:00pm ]Crims love to make it look like their traffic is actually coming from legit homes and businesses, and they do so by using residential proxy networks. Now, Google says it has "significantly degraded" what it believes is one of the world's largest residential proxy networks.…
AV vendor goes to war with security shop over update server scare [ 29-Jan-26 4:58pm ]A spat has erupted between antivirus vendor eScan and threat intelligence outfit Morphisec over who spotted an update server incident that disrupted some eScan customers earlier this month.…
Uncle Sam dangles nuclear campuses for states while watering down safety rules [ 29-Jan-26 4:33pm ]The Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting US states to host "Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses" to revitalize atomic power amid reports the agency has weakened safety rules governing the way nuclear sites operate.…
Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted [ 29-Jan-26 4:08pm ]Linux celeb Lennart Poettering has left Microsoft and co-founded a new company, Amutable, with Chris Kühl and Christian Brauner.…
IBM says AI is insane in the mainframe as z17 sales surge [ 29-Jan-26 3:43pm ]IBM's leader has trumpeted an AI-on-the-mainframe future as generative AI fills in the COBOL gap left by earlier generations of techies.…
ShinyHunters has added a fresh notch to its breach belt, claiming it has pinched more than 10 million records from Match Group, a US firm that owns some of the world's most widely used swipe-based dating platforms.…
Oracle could cut up to 30,000 jobs and sell health tech unit Cerner to ease its AI datacenter financing challenges, investment banker TD Cown has claimed, amid changing sentiment on Big Red's massive build-out plans.…
Tesla reported 2025 revenue of $94.8 billion, down 3 percent year-on-year and marking the first annual revenue decline since the electric car maker began publishing financial results in 2010.…
What good is a fix if you don't use it? Experts are urging security teams to patch promptly as vulnerability exploits now account for the majority of intrusions, according to the latest figures.…
