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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters auditioning female voices to sharpen social engineering

2026-02-26 12:35:21                theregister.com

Telegram posts promise up to $1,000 per call as gang refines IT helpdesk ruse Prolific cybercrime crew Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLSH) is reportedly recruiting women in the hope of improving its social engineering success.…

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NASA safety watchdog says it's time to rethink Moon landing

2026-02-26 12:25:56                theregister.com

Report highlights too many firsts in Artemis III mission The latest report from NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) raises questions about the mission objectives for Artemis III.…

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Five Eyes warn: Patch your Cisco SD-WAN or risk root takeover

2026-02-26 11:39:55                theregister.com

A rare joint alert from all five spy agencies means serious business The Five Eyes intelligence alliance is urgently warning defenders to patch two Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerabilities used in attacks.…

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Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now

2026-02-26 11:25:27                theregister.com

Analyst warns soaring DRAM and NAND costs could push entry-level devices out of reach Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year - and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones.…

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Debian 14 will drop Gtk2 – unless Ardour rides to the rescue

2026-02-26 11:11:13                theregister.com

Many dependent apps, including FreePascal and Lazarus, face the chop Version 2 of the widely used Gtk toolkit will be dropped from the next Debian release. The problem is that many things still need it, including FreePascal and its Lazarus IDE.…

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Moon's mighty magnetic field was a 5,000-year titanium blip

2026-02-26 10:37:11                theregister.com

So say Oxford boffins who found 'bias' related to Apollo rock samples created false impression Scientists at the University of Oxford say they may have cracked the puzzle of the Moon's magnetic field and settled a debate that has raged since the Apollo missions returned with rock samples.…

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Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution

2026-02-26 10:19:24                theregister.com

Anthropic fixed the flaws – but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.…

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Nvidia hasn't made a cent in China lately – and might not need to given $120B profit

2026-02-26 10:19:01                theregister.com

GPU giant sees yet more growth coming soon, most of it in the datacenter Nearly three months after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to sell its H200 accelerator in China, the GPU giant is still waiting for Beijing to allow them in and for any revenue to materialize.…

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Microsoft 'cooperating' with Japanese antitrust probe

2026-02-26 10:16:59                theregister.com

It looks like the same cloudy software licenses that offend Europe may be in play – along with a cute little monster Microsoft is "fully cooperating" with a probe by Japan's Fair Trade Commission, which wants to know if the software giant has violated the nation's anti-monopoly laws.…

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GCHQ dangles up to £130K for a CISO to fight the world's most capable adversaries

2026-02-26 10:13:59                theregister.com

No pressure GCHQ is looking to recruit a chief information security officer (CISO), a job it describes as "one of the most influential cybersecurity leadership roles in the UK," at a salary of £96,981 to £130,000.…

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AMD puts $250M into Nutanix to get it building an AI stack for its GPUs

2026-02-26 09:54:38                theregister.com

Cloudy stack vendor says VMware refugees have started to arrive in large numbers, just in time to collide with supply chain woes AMD has struck another chips 'n' stock deal, this time with software-defined datacenter player Nutanix.…

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Britain's creaking courts to use Copilot for transcriptions

2026-02-26 09:30:11                theregister.com

Ministry of Justice wowed by Ontario's paperless system, announces £12M for AI unit The British government will expand the use of AI in courts in England and Wales as part of plans to make them work faster, justice minister David Lammy has told a Microsoft AI event.…

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Salesforce CEO 'SaaSquatch' Benioff says his company will monster the SaaSpocalypse

2026-02-26 03:22:05                theregister.com

Selling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…

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Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

2026-02-26 01:02:26                theregister.com

Analyst firm bemoans ‘peak insanity’ among those who think circling servers can replace down-to-earth clouds Analyst firm Gartner thinks talk of placing datacenters in space has reached “peak insanity,” because orbiting facilities can’t be run economically or satisfy demand for compute power on Earth.…

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LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far

2026-02-26 00:14:15                theregister.com

You'll find these days that there's no hiding place Add privacy to the list of potential casualties caused by the proliferation of AI, because researchers have found that large language models (LLMs) can be used to deanonymize internet users – even those who use pseudonyms – more efficiently than human sleuths.…

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HP says memory’s contribution to PC costs just doubled to 35 percent

2026-02-25 23:46:38                theregister.com

Speeds up qualification of new suppliers to get more cheap parts into PCs, faster HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter. And the company expects RAM’s contribution will rise through the year.…

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AIs are happy to launch nukes in simulated combat scenarios

2026-02-25 21:59:43                theregister.com

Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same Today's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, the only way to win is not to play. So please don't hand them the codes. …

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Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents

2026-02-25 20:41:03                theregister.com

UNC2814 historically targets governments and telcos A China-linked crew found a unique formula for attacking telcos and government orgs across the Americas, Asia, and Africa in its latest round of intrusions. Google's threat intelligence, along with unnamed industry partners, disrupted the gang, which used the Chocolate Factory's own spreadsheet tools as part of its exploits.…

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Hide from Meta's spyglasses with this new Android app

2026-02-25 20:13:34                theregister.com

Academic urges users not to harass those suspected of snooping with (sp)eyewear Worried that someone wearing Meta's snooping spyware goggles could be creeping up on you? Android users now have access to an app that can warn them if someone is wearing such smart glasses in their vicinity by using Bluetooth.…

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AMD challenges Intel with an 84-core Epyc processor aimed at telcos, edge

2026-02-25 19:50:09                theregister.com

Chips are likely Zen 5's last hurrah before Venice makes its debut later this year AMD's edgiest Epyc chips are officially getting a Zen 5 refresh with the introduction of its 8005-series processors codenamed Sorano.…

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OpenAI asks its friends to tell their friends about Frontier

2026-02-25 19:24:04                theregister.com

Agent-making tool that mimics human workers is about to get its enterprise close up. OpenAI has managed to make a name for itself with ChatGPT. But if it wants its new enterprise AI product Frontier to succeed, it's going to need help. According to an analyst, the company is smart to partner with the world's biggest consultants to push Frontier, which can create and control role-based AI agents throughout an organization.…

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All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic

2026-02-25 18:43:41                theregister.com

AI firm drops key safety pledge as Pentagon dispute drags on US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has made Anthropic an offer it may not be able to refuse. The Defense Department and the AI firm held a meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday, where the government tried to compel the house of Claude to lift some restrictions on military use of its tech. However, recent changes to the company's safety policy suggest it may be willing to be more flexible than it's letting on. …

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Hardly anybody bought Samsung's last smartphones for AI. It hopes this year's models change that

2026-02-25 18:13:58                theregister.com

But only Qualcomm can power the most alluring features hands on  Just 20 percent of punters who bought Samsung's 2025 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, cited AI as the main reason for their purchase. With this year's S26 models, the Korean giant hopes to improve that number.…

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Cloudflare experiment ports most of Next.js API 'in one week' with AI

2026-02-25 17:07:58                theregister.com

Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…

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Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware

2026-02-25 16:51:54                theregister.com

Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were directly tied to observed compromises.…

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Microsoft boss on AI content: 'Nobody wants anything that is sloppy'

2026-02-25 16:30:13                theregister.com

Sometimes the 'S' word slips through even the best media training Is it OK to say "slop" again? Microsoft boss Satya Nadella took to the stage on the London leg of the company's AI tour and said the words that many an IT pro has uttered when faced with a Copilot rollout: "Nobody wants anything that is sloppy in terms of AI creation."…

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Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother

2026-02-25 15:31:29                theregister.com

While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security It's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced earlier this month is now included.…

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Execs love AI, just not enough to pay for user training

2026-02-25 15:24:02                theregister.com

Research points to skills gaps and weak oversight as barriers to return on investment Just 4 percent of businesses achieved a return on their AI investments, yet rather than admit AI isn't living up to early expectations, a newly published study is blaming the users for not doing enough.…

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Ex-L3Harris exec jailed 7 years for selling exploits to Russia

2026-02-25 14:56:22                theregister.com

Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the US The former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.…

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Wynn Resorts takes attacker's word for it that stolen staff data was deleted

2026-02-25 14:15:05                theregister.com

Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers' word that they've since deleted it.…

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Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

2026-02-25 13:22:47                theregister.com

Orbit decay accelerates as solar activity rises, with no approved mission yet to raise the telescope's altitude A newly released plot of the Hubble Space Telescope's altitude shows just how quickly the observatory has descended in recent years.…

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DVSA drives up online theory test contract value to £700M with no explanation

2026-02-25 13:15:06                theregister.com

Agency that can't keep bots out of its booking system more than doubles size of services agreement The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency has more than doubled the maximum offer on the table for a new online theory test service to £700 million.…

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Worried Europeans can now cut Azure's phone cord completely

2026-02-25 13:14:45                theregister.com

As transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour.…

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Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

2026-02-25 12:30:15                theregister.com

It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience' The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.…

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Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

2026-02-25 12:23:31                theregister.com

Overhauling immigration system a 'significant change for millions of travelers,' government admits Many British citizens who hold another nationality are being barred from entering the UK unless they have a British passport or a £589 certificate as a result of the Home Office's efforts to digitize travel documents.…

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Recycling biz reckons AI features are destroying smartphone resale values

2026-02-25 11:22:10                theregister.com

Galaxy S25 sheds 63% in 12 months as reseller questions LLM emphasis Smartphone makers love touting AI, but the technology may be quietly destroying resale values.…

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OpenAI says Chinese cops used ChatGPT to plan and track smear ops against opponents

2026-02-25 10:01:09                theregister.com

Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious uses of its models.…

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Gatwick shuttle screen suffers pre-flight nerves

2026-02-25 09:30:13                theregister.com

Dude, where's my operating system? Bork!Bork!Bork!  Airports and computers remain uneasy travel companions. At London Gatwick, the inter-terminal shuttle briefly demonstrated why, with one information screen declaring: "Operating System not found."…

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Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day

2026-02-25 08:30:01                theregister.com

No, customers aren't laughing either as pressure from memory shortages bites Hosting biz Hetzner, one of Europe's largest datacenter operators, is warning customers that prices are scheduled to jump by as much as 50 percent from April 1.…

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Threat intelligence supply chain is full of weak links, researchers find

2026-02-25 05:49:36                theregister.com

And they're being stressed by geopolitical concerns that threaten to slow important data-sharing efforts Researchers from Georgia Tech have found that the supply chain for threat intelligence data is susceptible to adversarial action, and proposed a method to improve data sharing that they think will make it stronger.…

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Workday CEO's AI talk can't shake off weaker sales forecast

2026-02-25 01:02:12                theregister.com

Claims HR company can escape the SaaSpocalypse with its core expertise Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri has used the first quarterly earnings announcement since he returned to the big chair to reassure investors the company is building more capable agentic AI while keeping the fundamentals of the HR platform strong.…

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Meta frees React to live in its own foundation

2026-02-25 00:30:10                theregister.com

Organizations using the front-end JavaScript framework can expect vendor-neutral governance Meta has turned over control of React, React Native, and associated projects like JSX to the newly formed React Foundation, fulfilling a commitment made last October.…

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It's only Tuesday and AI chip startups have already soaked up $1.1B in funding

2026-02-25 00:25:16                theregister.com

Fears of an AI bubble haven't tempered vulture capitalists' enthusiasm for silicon AI chip startups collectively walked away with more than a billion dollars of new capital on Tuesday, showing that venture capitalists are still excited about the opportunity to challenge Nvidia's dominance despite all the talk of an AI bubble.…

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Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI

2026-02-24 22:54:13                theregister.com

Protect the robot, sacrifice the human opinion  I've been watching AWS explain away outages for the better part of a decade. And this is hard!…

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Discord drama delays age verification debut until the second half of 2026

2026-02-24 22:37:43                theregister.com

Cofounder promises transparency and full technical explanation of plans, which aren't actually changing Discord is delaying age verification checks for a little while after its plan inspired a lot of hand-wringing among the community. But it's not backing down. …

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AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them

2026-02-24 22:36:53                theregister.com

Discovery is getting cheaper. Validation and patching aren’t What good is finding a hole if you can't fix it? Anthropic last week talked up Claude Code's improved ability to find software vulnerabilities and propose patches. But security researchers say that's not enough.…

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Patch these 4 critical, make-me-root SolarWinds bugs ASAP

2026-02-24 19:55:07                theregister.com

SolarWinds + file transfer software = what attackers' dreams are made of If you run SolarWinds’ Serv-U, you should patch promptly. Four critical vulnerabilities in the file transfer software can allow attackers to execute code as root.…

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'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing

2026-02-24 19:26:56                theregister.com

iGiant also ramping US chip and AI server production Your next Mac might be made in the US of A. Apple this week revealed plans to manufacture its most affordable Macintosh computer at a new Foxconn facility in Texas.…

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Rogue devs of sideloaded Android apps beg for freedom from Google’s verification regime

2026-02-24 19:09:12                theregister.com

37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Play Soon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups think that the Chocolate Factory should keep its nose out of third-party app stores and have asked its leadership to reconsider.…

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Microsoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint experience’ with added AI

2026-02-24 19:04:42                theregister.com

Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive Microsoft has teased a significant upgrade to its SharePoint collaborationware package.…