India's top telco, Reliance Jio, has announced plans to spend $110 billion on datacenters to run AI workloads and says it will use them to deliver services with the same "extreme affordability" it brought to the mobile communications market.…
AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say academic researchers.…
Researchers at Proofpoint late last month uncovered what they describe as a "weird twist" on the growing trend of criminals abusing remote monitoring and management software (RMM) as their preferred attack tools.…
NASA has released the findings from its investigation of the ill-fated crewed Boeing Starliner mission of 2024, and while it still isn't sure of the root technical causes, it's admitted that trusting Boeing to do a thorough job appears to have been a mistake. …
If you want an even better AI model, there could be reason to celebrate. Google, on Thursday, announced the release of Gemini 3.1 Pro, characterizing the model's arrival as "a step forward in core reasoning."…
The US Congress' spending watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, has pressed the National Science Foundation's CIO to improve how the agency plans, manages, and procures technology.…
Thieves stole more than $20 million from compromised ATMs last year using a malware-assisted technique that the FBI says is on the uptick across the United States.…
Some AI advocates claim that bots hold the secret to mitigating climate change. But research shows that the reality is far different, as new datacenters cause power utilities to burn even more fossil fuels to meet their insatiable demand for energy.…
Opinion Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a singular mission to stand out among tech CEOs. Big talk on sales, profits, and tech potential is not enough. His gift for edgy one-liners takes him to places where execs of the past would have scarcely dared to go. Say hello to allusions to goose-stepping and innate Western superiority that we assume have audiences rolling in the aisles.…
Cybersecurity researchers say they've spotted the first Android malware strain that uses generative AI to improve performance once installed. But it may be only a proof of concept.…
Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed yesterday.…
Meta is among tech giants reportedly funding US politicians friendly to the AI industry, as concerns mount over a huge expansion in datacenter building and the effects of AI on everyday life.…
Cybersecurity conference DEF CON has added three men named in the Epstein files to its list of banned individuals. They are not accused of any criminal wrongdoing.…
Teach an AI agent how to fish for information and it can feed itself with data. Tell an AI agent to figure things out on its own and it may make things worse.…
The UK is bracketing "intimate images shared without a victim's consent" along with terror and child sexual abuse material, and demanding that online platforms remove them within two days.…
Bork!Bork!Bork! Today's bork is entirely human-generated and will send a shiver down the spine of security pros. No matter how secure a system is, a user's ability to undo an administrator's best efforts should not be underestimated.…
Artificial intelligence chatbots can be too chatty when answering questions on government services, swamping accurate information and making mistakes if told to be more concise, according to research.…
Interview Twenty-five years after 17 software developers gathered at a Utah ski resort to draft the the Agile Manifesto, artificial intelligence is once again reshaping how code gets written.…
Opinion Fifty years ago this month, I touched a computer for the first time. It was an experience that pegged the meter for me like no other - until last week.…
Poland's Ministry of Defence has banned Chinese cars - and any others include tech to record position, images, or sound - from entering protected military facilities.…
Indian think tank the Council for Research on International Economic Relations has found AI is not an immediate threat to the nation's IT services sector.…
Microsoft this week detailed new research aimed at preserving data in borosilicate glass plates for thousands of years longer than conventional media like hard drives or magnetic tape, without needing to worry about bit rot.…
Adidas has confirmed it is investigating a third-party breach at one of its partner companies after digital thieves claimed they stole information and technical data from the German sportswear giant.…
If you like the price of that server, PC, or storage array, you'd better act fast.…
Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator [ 18-Feb-26 9:24pm ]If you've ever wanted to make music but have neither the talent nor the inspiration, Google has the AI tool for you. Gemini will now generate a 30-second song for you directly from a text prompt, photo, or video. …
ShinyHunters allegedly drove off with 1.7M CarGurus records [ 18-Feb-26 8:40pm ]CarGurus allegedly suffered a data breach with 1.7 million corporate records stolen, according to a notorious cybercrime crew that posted the online vehicle marketplace on its leak site on Wednesday.…
Google digs deep to power AI expansion with 150 MW geothermal deal [ 18-Feb-26 7:41pm ]Datacenter power consumption has surged amid the AI boom, forcing builders to get creative in order to prevent their capex-heavy bit barns from running out of steam. But at least in some parts of the world, the answer to abundant clean energy may be hiding just a few thousand feet below the surface of the earth.…
Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read [ 18-Feb-26 7:32pm ]The bot couldn't keep its prying eyes away. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been summarizing emails labeled "confidential" even when data loss prevention policies were configured to prevent it.…
DARPA's autonomous missile-firing missile advances toward flight tests [ 18-Feb-26 7:07pm ]It's taken about five years, but DARPA's missile-launching missile has become the government's latest experimental X-plane and is advancing toward flight testing.…
Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops say [ 18-Feb-26 6:31pm ]Spanish police arrested a hacker who allegedly manipulated a hotel booking website, allowing him to pay one cent for luxury hotel stays. He also raided the mini-bars and didn't settle some of those tabs, police say.…
Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives [ 18-Feb-26 5:36pm ]Microsoft has finally ushered in the era of MIDI 2.0 for Windows 11, more than a year after first teasing the functionality for Windows Insiders.…
Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities [ 18-Feb-26 5:29pm ]TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with "Made in Vietnam" claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and for marketing its devices as secure despite reported firmware vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state-sponsored actors.…
German train line back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes [ 18-Feb-26 4:36pm ]If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country's national rail company says that its services were disrupted for hours because of a cyberattack.…
6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom [ 18-Feb-26 3:07pm ]A survey of almost 6,000 corporate execs across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia found that more than 80 percent detect no discernible impact from AI on either employment or productivity.…
Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way [ 18-Feb-26 2:06pm ]Generative AI tools are surprisingly poor at suggesting strong passwords, experts say.…
Tesla drops 'Autopilot' branding in California after DMV order [ 18-Feb-26 1:41pm ]Tesla has complied with an order by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and stopped using the term "Autopilot" in its marketing of electric vehicles, having already modified use of "Full Self-Driving" to clarify that it requires driver supervision.…
Cabinet Office probes digital ID minister over think tank's journalist investigation [ 18-Feb-26 1:17pm ]Josh Simons, the Cabinet Office minister responsible for the UK government's digital identity program, is being probed by the department for his actions running a Labour think tank that commissioned an investigation into journalists.…
Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop submissions [ 18-Feb-26 1:10pm ]Rémi Verschelde, a maintainer of the open source Godot game engine, is the latest to complain about the impact of "AI slop PRs [pull requests]", which he says "are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for Godot maintainers."…
Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable' [ 18-Feb-26 12:41pm ]Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project's author claims makes the "update process robust and effectively unexploitable."…
You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief [ 18-Feb-26 12:11pm ]Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter aircraft can be jailbroken "just like an iPhone," the Netherlands' defense secretary has claimed.…
Windows 11 Start menu makes unscheduled stop in Saint Moritz [ 18-Feb-26 12:00pm ]Bork!Bork!Bork! The curse of bork is not limited to obsolete operating systems or obscure hardware. Today's example of railway signage disruption is something bang up to date from the Swiss town of Saint Moritz.…
Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia [ 18-Feb-26 11:30am ]North American and Asian markets are enjoying the benefits of a transition to 5G Standalone (SA) mobile networks, but much of Europe lags behind, risking a growing disadvantage as new capabilities roll out.…
HackerOne 'updating' Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they're training AI [ 18-Feb-26 11:00am ]HackerOne has clarified its stance on GenAI after researchers fretted their submissions were being used to train its models.…
Microsoft asks UK Parliament to correct Trump sanction evidence [ 18-Feb-26 10:15am ]Exclusive Microsoft has said one of its leading spokespeople gave a testimony to the UK Parliament containing an "inaccuracy" with regard to its dealings with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to US sanctions.…
Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session [ 18-Feb-26 9:30am ]If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." We know that the "hobby" operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.…
Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone 'patent tax' case [ 18-Feb-26 6:09am ]The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal has indicated that it will find Qualcomm did not abuse its market power, leading consumer advocacy group Which? to withdraw a case it hoped would see Brits compensated for increased smartphone prices.…
Palo Alto CEO says AI isn't great for business, yet [ 18-Feb-26 4:52am ]If enterprises are implementing AI, they're not showing it to Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who on Tuesday said business adoption of the tech lags consumer take-up by at least a couple of years - except for coding assistants.…
Indian conglomerate Adani plans very slow $100 billion AI datacenter build [ 18-Feb-26 2:16am ]Giant Indian industrial conglomerate Adani has said it will spend up to $100 billion on AI datacenters to equip the nation with sovereign infrastructure, but will do so at slower pace than Big Tech tech companies plan to bring their own bit barns to Bharat.…
Anthropic's latest Sonnet gets better at using computers, amid bouts of existential angst [ 18-Feb-26 1:38am ]Anthropic has updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6 and claims the upgrade is better at coding and using computers, and also possesses improved reasoning and planning capabilities.…
China-linked attackers exploited a maximum-severity hardcoded-credential bug in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines as a zero-day since at least mid-2024. It's all part of a long-running effort to backdoor infected machines for long-term access, according to Dell and Google's Mandiant incident response team.…
