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Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics

07.03.2026 13:12

Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits feature By now you've probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It's an apt description: power goes in and token...

Brits fear AI will strip the human touch from public services

07.03.2026 12:01

'There's a naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall' Brits are worried that AI will dehumanize public services, leading to less human contact and oversight as well as job losses, according to people quest...

60 years since humanity touched the surface of another planet

07.03.2026 10:30

Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.â¦

Oracle and OpenAI's Texas Stargate datacenter expansion reportedly on the skids

07.03.2026 01:51

Meta supposidly considering untapped capacity in deal brokered by Nvidia OpenAI and compute partner Oracle have reportedly abandoned a planned expansion of their flagship Stargate datacenter, after ne...

Anthropic bods rework AI damage yardstick, find scant labor impact

07.03.2026 01:07

It's the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine Anthropic economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory report that AI is not eliminating as many jobs as experts have predicted.Â â¦...

Donât blame AI yet for poor jobs numbers, analysts say

07.03.2026 00:24

US unemployment ticked up to 4.4% The US economy shed 92,000 jobs in February, a dramatic downturn from analyst expectations that it would add about 50,000 jobs. The shortfall stoked growing fears tha...

Firefox taps Anthropic AI bug hunter, but rancid RAM still flipping bits

06.03.2026 21:41

Now if only device makers would deliver higher quality components Thanks to Anthropic's AI and its bug-detecting abilities, Firefox users can now enjoy stronger security. Unfortunately, if browser cra...

Spyware disguised as emergency-alert app sent to Israeli smartphones

06.03.2026 19:56

Steals SMS messages, location data, contacts … and delivers it to Hamas-linked crew Hamas-linked attackers are dropping spyware disguised as an emergency-alert app on Israelis' smartphones via SMS m...

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

06.03.2026 16:15

Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSS Many web sites, social media services, and other platforms require age verification on the theory that it will protect kids from seeing inappro...

Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack

06.03.2026 16:04

Switchzilla says flaws could allow file overwrites or privilege escalation Just when network admins thought the Cisco SD-WAN patch queue might finally be shrinking, Switchzilla has confirmed miscreant...

Anthropic sues US government after unprecedented national security designation

06.03.2026 15:37

Brands Trump administration decision 'legally unsound' and has 'no choice but to challenge it in court' AI giant Anthropic says that it has "no choice" but to sue the US government after being officia...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smack Moon in 2032, boffins confirm

06.03.2026 15:35

Humanity and its neighbor safe from this menace at least Scientists have ruled out the possibility that the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 might hit the Moon on December 22, 2032.… ...

Washington reportedly moves to tighten leash on AI chip exports

06.03.2026 14:51

Draft rules could force Nvidia and AMD to seek government approval before selling abroad The Trump administration is reportedly planning new restrictions on GPU exports, aimed not only at controlling ...

Microsoft spots ClickFix campaign getting users to self-pwn on Windows Terminal

06.03.2026 14:37

Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselves A new twist on the long-running ClickFix scam is now tricking Windows users into launching Windows Terminal and ...

UK peers warn weakening AI copyright law could hammer creative industries

06.03.2026 14:31

House of Lords committee says ministers must not trade a £124B sector for promises of future tech growth Britain's creative industries will face significant damage unless the government strengthens A...

Microsoft kicks new Outlook opt-out deadline down the road to 2027

06.03.2026 13:41

Admins get another year before migration pressure ramps up Microsoft has delayed the opt-out phase for the new enterprise version of Outlook to 2027, giving administrators another 12 months to get rea...

Son of government contractor arrested after alleged $46M crypto heist from US Marshals

06.03.2026 13:02

FBI and French GIGN swoop on Saint Martin, John Daghita in cuffs The son of a government contractor was arrested in the Caribbean after allegedly stealing more than $46 million in seized cryptocurrenc...

Norway's Consumer Council takes aim at enshittification

06.03.2026 12:45

Its aim is wide, covering everything from social networks to GenAI Norway's Forbrukerrådet consumer council is taking aim at the creeping enshittification of modern life in a 100-page report – and ...

Microsoft finally gets around to fixing Windows 10 Recovery Environment after breaking it in October

06.03.2026 12:38

Released from the curse of the update bork fairy Microsoft has finally fixed a Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) bug it introduced in Windows 10's final update.…

UK Treasury not sure about ditching Oracle to join £1.7 billion shared services program it is funding

06.03.2026 12:27

It promised £1.15B… but finance ministry yet to show 'formal commitment' to adopt Workday SaaS, watchdog says The UK's Treasury is yet to fully commit to joining a multi-billion pound ERP and HR sh...

Transport for London says 2024 breach affected 7M customers, not 5,000

06.03.2026 11:22

Attackers accessed systems holding data tied to millions of Oyster and contactless users Transport for London has confirmed that a 2024 breach exposed the data of more than 7 million people – a far ...

UK mobilizes lawyers to keep report on Gatwick 'drone' chaos under wraps

06.03.2026 10:57

Seven-year Freedom of Information battle heads to tribunal Exclusive The UK's Department for Transport (DfT) is assembling government lawyers to fight the Information Commissioner's decision that it m...

Altman said no to military AI abuses – then signed Pentagon deal anyway

06.03.2026 10:01

OpenAI CEO's principles lasted about 12 hours before $200M check arrived Opinion A week ago today, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he'd draw the same lines as Anthropic. By that night, he'd signed a Depart...

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

06.03.2026 08:30

Discovering, and explaining, the bizarre cause was harder than the job he was sent to do On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells ta...

Microsoft previews tech to ease creation of keyboard-accessible websites

06.03.2026 06:24

‘focusgroup’ has nothing to do with market research, offers devs faster coding and faster websites for everyone Microsoft has started a preview of technology that eases the task of developing webs...

Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies

06.03.2026 04:33

Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war Iranian publisher Fars News Agency, which is aligned with the country’s government, has claimed the drone strikes on Amazon Web Services’ Middle East d...

China’s rubber-stamp parliament rubber stamps tech independence plan

06.03.2026 02:23

Call to do better with chips and put AI everywhere is more than rhetoric because China’s scientists are sprinting ahead China’s government has again made reducing reliance on imported digital tech...

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

06.03.2026 02:00

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called char...

Google says spyware makers and China-linked groups dominated zero-day attacks last year

06.03.2026 00:52

Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached an all-time high last year, with China-linked cyber-espionage groups r...

Okta CEO ‘paranoid’ as vibe coders stir SaaS-pocalypse fears

05.03.2026 23:16

It’s ok, Todd. You’re only paranoid if you’re wrong. Okta chairman and CEO Todd McKinnon said he believes it would be difficult for an LLM alone to replicate the quality of SaaS applications his...

TerraPower gets permission to build, not operate, sodium-cooled nuclear reactor

05.03.2026 21:44

Don't flip the switch until the NRC says you can, okay? Bill Gates-backed nuclear outfit TerraPower finally has approval to build its Natrium reactor. However, it may still face issues finding a stead...

Iran intelligence backdoored US bank, airport, software outfit networks

05.03.2026 19:53

MOIS-linked MuddyWater crew has a new, custom implant An Iranian cyber crew believed to be part of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been embedded in multiple US companies' ...

Munificent 7 vow to spare US households from AI's rising energy costs

05.03.2026 19:32

Bit tricky enforcing this. What's the penalty if they go up anyway? Seven of the top US AI companies and hyperscalers have officially agreed to protect American consumers from price hikes due to datac...

You can power a G-Wiz EV with 500 vapes, and this YouTuber proved it

05.03.2026 19:00

You made a time machine vapemobile ... out of a Delorean G-Wiz? The world would be a better place if all of us were as willing to upcycle as aggressively as YouTuber Chris Doel, who has demonstrated t...

Document Foundation urges EU to ditch Excel lock-in for cybersecurity law consultation

05.03.2026 18:50

LibreOffice steward says Commish undermines its own standards by asking for feedback via Excel spreadsheet The Document Foundation has taken a swipe at the European Commission over its consultation on...

Congress puts the ISS on life support until 2032, orders Moon base plan

05.03.2026 16:55

Authorization Act seeks to keep lights on until commercial stations are ready The NASA Authorization Act of 2026 has been approved, and alongside a directive for NASA to establish a permanent Moon bas...

Office EU waves sovereignty flag with a familiar stack under the bonnet

05.03.2026 15:43

Euro productivity suite appears to be hosted Nextcloud and Collabora Online In the battle of the online office suites, a new contender has entered the ring... but under the wrestler's mask, we think t...

Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations

05.03.2026 15:25

FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things Updated The US government is consulting with the telecoms industry about "reciprocity" in satellite services, in a m...

npmx package browser released as alpha to fix pain of using npmjs

05.03.2026 14:46

Project initiated by Nuxt lead Daniel Roe attracts wide support thanks to multiple issues with the official interface A new browser for the npm registry has launched in alpha, following grassroots dem...

Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience

05.03.2026 14:26

Embeds Edge into AI assistant, ignores questions about opt-in Microsoft is rolling out a Copilot update to Windows Insiders that embeds web browsing directly into the assistant, opening links in a sid...

UK watchdog eyes Meta's smart glasses after workers say they 'see everything'

05.03.2026 13:18

Contractors tasked with improving AI reportedly had access to intimate footage captured through wearables Britain's privacy watchdog is asking questions about Meta's AI-powered smart glasses after rep...

Solar superstorm gave ESA's Mars orbiters a handy science opportunity

05.03.2026 13:09

Veteran spacecraft overcome computer glitches as atmosphere 'flooded by electrons' Almost two years ago, a solar storm hit Earth, triggering auroras that were seen as far south as Mexico. The storm al...

CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes

05.03.2026 12:00

Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes Updated The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and CERN have jointly developed a "mouse-sized robot" to inspect parts of the Lar...

MoJ puts Prisoner Telephony Service replacement on hold yet again

05.03.2026 11:15

Project dialed back, BT asked to keep current system for another 54 months The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) will pay telco BT £94.6 million plus VAT to keep its in-cell Prisoner Telephony Service (PT...

UK still doodling digital pound while Brussels frets over payment sovereignty

05.03.2026 10:30

Geopolitical tensions turn up the pressure for European legislators The UK is still in the design phase of digital currency as the EU comes under political pressure to accelerate the development of a ...

Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI

05.03.2026 10:00

Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent rely on LLMs for help Most business leaders in the United Kingdom appear to have outsourced a lot of their decisionmaking to machine learning models, according to a...

Google embraces third party app stores and payments to put Epic Games case behind it

05.03.2026 05:48

Lower app store fees are on the way, plus an on-ramp for third party digital bazaars Google has spelled out changes it will make to the fees it charges developers who use its app store and payment ser...

Broadcom says AI companies can’t make their own silicon any time soon

05.03.2026 05:03

Offers booming customer accelerator biz as evidence, while VMware props up its software business Broadcom will soon deploy multiple gigawatts worth of custom accelerators at Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropi...

Intel numbers boss swears big Foundry wins are coming soon

05.03.2026 02:30

Meanwhile Chipzilla's 18A process tech could see external deployment after all Intel's Foundry division is near to sealing a deal for its advanced packaging technology that would contribute billions o...

'Hundreds' of Iranian hacking attempts have hit surveillance cameras since the missile strikes

05.03.2026 00:59

Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors' Multiple Iranian hacking crews have been targeting internet-connected surveillance cameras across Israel and other Middle Eastern...