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AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
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AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's ready
Meanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'
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The Register @theregister.com · 11h
HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years
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HPE's networking boss says AI will handle all trouble tickets without humans in two years
And you'll trust agents to do that for the same reason you no longer worry about automatic transmissions
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The Register @theregister.com · 12h
Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips
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Researchers work out how to control 2D semiconductor growth for future chips
Korean boffins use oxygen to stop crystals forming in the wrong places, aiming to get tech to commercial sector by 2030
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The Register @theregister.com · 10/10/2026
Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
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Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers
Attackers abusing rare Cyrillic and Latin letters to impersonate popular websites
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The Register @theregister.com · 10/10/2026
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
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EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch - not some new software
EU executive branch is building a sovereign backup with Element, not replacing Teams. Not yet anyway
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The Register @theregister.com · 10/10/2026
Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
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Stack Overflow survey finds devs hooked on AI, but not totally sold on its judgment
Source attribution matters to 79% of respondents – handy for a company licensing its Q&A archive to model builders
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The Register @theregister.com · 10/10/2026
Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
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Microsoft leans on open weight model from Chinese AI lab to challenge Jev
The first version of Microsoft-Decision-1 is based on Qwen3.5-9B, but the next will sport homegrown tech, Redmond reassures
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
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AWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4TB of OneDrive storage
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Microsoft 365 subscribers set to lose up to 4TB of OneDrive storage
What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft taketh away, again and again
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
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SpaceX to buy key spectrum that could help Starlink Mobile become major US cell carrier
Low-band frequencies can reach devices inside buildings, while 2 GHz orbiters could extend coverage beyond cell towers
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world
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Oracle lets AI agents do the work, provided you stay in Big Red's world
Analysts welcome Fusion Claw's tighter controls but warn of early adoption and cloud lock-in
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand
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Global PC shipments crater 20% as rising prices hammer demand
Buyers rushed to beat hikes earlier this year, but demand has since dried up as AI-fueled component shortages send costs soaring
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter drone X Bat is designed as a tail-sitter, taking off vertically before leveling off for normal flight, and landing vertically back on its launcher after the mission is over. www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026...
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US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway
Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
About those Citrix Netscaler flaws....... More here: www.theregister.com/security/202...
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ALT: Hey! Fancy Another One?
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway
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US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway
Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch
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Citrix gives NetScaler admins another critical reason to patch
No word on exploitation status, but a 9.5 severity score suggests time is of the essence
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
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Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude
New usage policy cracks down on cruelty to chatbot, alongside slightly more pressing matters of weapons development, surveillance, and election interference
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill
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Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill
Vegalabs says $21,168 in unused Azure credits expired as separate Marketplace charges piled up
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
BOFH: Smells like team spirit
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BOFH: Smells like team spirit
In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell
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Rejecting a promotion sent field service tech into support hell
Chap who took the job left a trail of wreckage – and invaluable case studies – in his incompetent wake
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes
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So long, Spokes: GitHub rewrites storage to restore reliability, just in time for agentic hordes
Octocats claim 35x write improvement
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
India’s tech giants shrug off changes to USA’s skilled visa program
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India’s tech giants shrug off changes to USA’s skilled visa program
As Microsoft denies alleged ‘fraud and abuse’ that sparked the tweaks
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
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Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI
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AI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI
Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage
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The Register @theregister.com · 09/10/2026
Keeping Our Secrets Secret
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Keeping Our Secrets Secret
Credential scanning looks like a solved problem. It isn't.
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
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US disrupts Chinese hacking tools as 7 govts warn of PRC spies stealing sensitive data worldwide
Infecting devices from 2021 until the FBI stepped in
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
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Nvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero
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There can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero
The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
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NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers
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High-severity Nvidia bug could crash GPU monitoring on exposed servers
The GPU giant released a fix for the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-47483
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal
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TSMC taps GlobalFoundries to bolster US silicon interposer production in $2B deal
Advanced packaging tech is essential to the domestic production of high-performance semiconductors used in AI datacenters
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster
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Gremlin now uses AI to break distributed systems faster
If there's one thing AI can do well, it's failing more quickly than the average SRE
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise
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Shai-Hulud worm makes jump to AI infrastructure with Tensorlake compromise
Credential-stealing malware detected within minutes of npm release, but impact remains unknown
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms
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Money trail backs leaked chats from extortion crew that walks into US law firms
Researchers corroborate parts of Silent Ransom Group dump detailing crypto payouts, cash brokers, and recruitment
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive
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Too many quantum startups, too little money to keep them alive
Gartner predicts more than half will fold by 2030, even as businesses begin testing the technology's usefulness
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90
Her team's code kept Apollo 11's landing on course when the guidance computer became overloaded
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Rust upstart reveals 'reimplementation' of Microsoft Office – with Claude on coding duty
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Rust upstart reveals 'reimplementation' of Microsoft Office – with Claude on coding duty
ArtCraft adds Word, Excel, and PowerPoint lookalikes to its open source lineup, but they're not ready for production
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
CrowdStrike finds possible bank hacker's CV among exposed AI logs
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CrowdStrike finds possible bank hacker's CV among exposed AI logs
Suspected Chinese speaker used Claude Code and agentic pentesting tool ARTEX in attacks on South Korean lenders
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny
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AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six others agree to changes, but the ICO isn't done asking questions
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price
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Samsung eyes $80B quarterly profit as memory buyers pay the price
AI demand fattens chipmakers' margins while cheaper PCs and phones become harder to produce profitably
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms
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UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms
Security pact promises information-sharing and coordinated disruption, but offers little detail on agencies or funding
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra
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Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra
What the f?
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks'
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Scientists get a new clue to the origin of solar wind 'switchbacks'
Understanding why our nearest star does what it does
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Cheapskates wouldn't pay for security help, got hit by ransomware, and went bust months later
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Cheapskates wouldn't pay for security help, got hit by ransomware, and went bust months later
The owner knew a guy...
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat
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It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat
The ALBATROSS has landed
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains
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ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains
Big tech has piled in with plenty of asks, but faces a fight as eight applicants want .api and seven seek .agi
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Ransomware fixer claimed he could decrypt files, allegedly defrauded clients instead
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Ransomware fixer claimed he could decrypt files, allegedly defrauded clients instead
Feds claim he charged clients more than ransoms, paid up, pocketed the difference
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The Register @theregister.com · 08/10/2026
Singapore’s central bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review
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Singapore’s central bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review
Failures of third-party services no excuse for island nation’s financial sector
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The Register @theregister.com · 07/10/2026
Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system
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Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system
But don't worry it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?
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The Register @theregister.com · 07/10/2026
OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties
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OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficulties
Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious
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