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Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract

12.02.2026 18:40

Big Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform Oracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program.�...

$8K laundry bot knows when to hold âem, knows when to fold âem, and knows it has help standing by

12.02.2026 18:10

Not-onamous by a long shot Nobody likes folding laundry, but you really have to hate it to spend $7,999 on a robot that'll fold it for you with a whole heap of limitations â including company emp...

Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'

12.02.2026 15:46

12-strong founding team down to 6 as boss looks Moonwards Elon Musk has framed the recent exodus of talent from his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, as a necessary growing pain, saying the compan...

'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation

12.02.2026 15:23

Visual Studio Code extension faces March shutdown with no transition guidance Microsoft has abruptly announced the deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks with less than two months' notice, throwing the fut...

Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

12.02.2026 15:01

Flaw abused 'in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals' Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an...

Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree

12.02.2026 14:31

DRAM doubles, NAND jumps 70% as corporate buyers race the clock Exploding memory prices are pushing corporate buyers to fast-track PC purchases before costs climb further.…

NASA pauses most Swift science ops to buy time for reboost mission

12.02.2026 13:35

Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine NASA has ended most science operations on its Swift observatory to keep the spacecraft in orbit a little longer.…

Supply chain attacks now fuel a 'self-reinforcing' cybercrime economy

12.02.2026 12:59

Researchers say breaches link identity abuse, SaaS compromise, and ransomware into a cascading cycle Cybercriminals are turning supply chain attacks into an industrial-scale operation, linking breache...

The big FOSS vendors don't eat their own dogfood – they pay for proprietary groupware

12.02.2026 12:30

That's not a good idea Open Source Policy Summit 2026 SUSE recommends that companies should run on FOSS – but an accidental revelation from a company exec, live on stage, reveals it doesn't practice...

UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks

12.02.2026 11:58

Legal teeth sold separately The UK government claims a new Telecoms Consumer Charter will stop customers being hit by unexpected bill increases and offer clearer pricing when signing up to deals.…...

Feeling brave? Ministry of Defence seeks £300K digital boss to manage £4.6B spend

12.02.2026 11:15

Whoever gets it will steer UK department's IT, AI strategy, and megabucks vendor deals The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is offering between £270,000 to £300,000 for a senior digital leader who will ...

The UK government isn't spending much taxpayer cash on X

12.02.2026 10:29

Department for Education dropped £27,118. The rest, little to nothing Most UK government departments have spent little or nothing with social media platform X since July 2024 following an unpublished...

Google: China's APT31 used Gemini to plan cyberattacks against US orgs

12.02.2026 08:00

Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America's critical infrastructure used Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, ...

Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators

12.02.2026 07:03

Low-earth orbit broadband is a no-brainer for remote area connectivity, but a brain teaser for lawmakers and networkers APRICOT 2026 Starlink can sometimes shift data more quickly than is possible on ...

Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care

12.02.2026 05:45

Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting Cisco has increased the prices for its hardware to cover the increased cost of memory and says the res...

Microsoft warns that poisoned AI buttons and links may betray your trust

12.02.2026 02:07

Businesses are embedding prompts that produce content they want you to read, not the stuff AI makes if left to its own devices Amid its ongoing promotion of AI’s wonders, Microsoft has warned custom...

Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill

12.02.2026 01:47

Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story Model-maker and SaaS-y AI outfit Anthropic has committed to covering any increases in energy prices paid by consumers cause...

Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers

11.02.2026 22:23

Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says They know where you've been and they're going to share it. A security researcher has identified 287 Chrome extensions tha...

Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely

11.02.2026 21:50

Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed Meta has decided to let Threads users make custom tweaks to its all-important algorithm, but don't expect your preferences to stick and d...

Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China

11.02.2026 21:09

Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue Banning sales to Chinese-government-affiliated companies, apparently, is not enough. A bipartisan group of American...

AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds

11.02.2026 20:51

Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster A Harvard Business Review study is answering the question ‘what will employees do if AI saves them time at work?’ The answer: ...

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

11.02.2026 20:28

This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved T-Mobile is claiming it's now the first wireless carrier to integrate generative AI "...

Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn

11.02.2026 19:56

The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering If you've seen the viral AI work pic trend where people are asking ChatGPT to "create a caricature of me and my job based on...

Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms

11.02.2026 18:50

Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practice Promo AI projects fail at scale not because models don't work or GPUs lack performance. They fail because data can't keep pace.…...

Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers

11.02.2026 17:57

Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs"...

Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it

11.02.2026 17:15

No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now Microsoft has released Windows 11 26H1 but is warning the vast majority of users that it is not for them.…...

Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up

11.02.2026 16:41

Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sent Telcos likely received advance warning about January's critical Telnet vulnerability before i...

Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones

11.02.2026 14:51

Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements The European Commission wants to see stronger EU-wide cooperation over malicious drones via a new action...

How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95

11.02.2026 14:22

Has the OS also jumped the shark? Microsoft's Raymond Chen has revealed an unexpected use for the company's lawyers: securing permission from the cast of Happy Days so a Weezer music video could ship ...

Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder

11.02.2026 14:03

200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust British doctors are being urged to pull back from the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) after their union called on members ...

Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks

11.02.2026 14:00

Attackers using social engineering to exploit business processes, rather than tunnelling in via tech Exclusive When fraudsters go after people's paychecks, "every employee on earth becomes a target," ...

Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live

11.02.2026 13:47

Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions Apple fanbois are realizing what the Creator Studio subscription means for its productivity apps, and many are unhappy with the direction of ...

VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute

11.02.2026 12:39

Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the case should be heard in the US, not Germany VMware appears to have secured an early procedural win in the case it brought against German industrial gian...

Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution

11.02.2026 12:31

Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be...

Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues

11.02.2026 12:17

Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity push Only 20 percent of datacenters are considered AI-ready across Europe and the Middle East, despite the growin...

River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management

11.02.2026 12:00

Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on FOSDEM 2026 Isaac Freund's River compositor brings a little old-fashioned modularity and customizability to the brave new Wayla...

Reviving a CIDCO MailStation – the last Z80 computer

11.02.2026 11:15

If launching it was crazy in 1999, then what's trying to use it today? FOSDEM 2026 Michal Pleban knows his old kit inside out, and his talk on the CIDCO MailStation was one of the most interesting of ...

Legacy systems blamed as ministers promise no repeat of Afghan breach

11.02.2026 10:30

UK government grilled over progress made to prevent a second life-threatening leak Legacy IT issues are hampering key technical measures designed to prevent highly sensitive data leaks, UK government ...

As OpenAI and Claude fight over ads, Google says ‘show me the money’

11.02.2026 08:41

The Chocolate Factory isn't showing ads in Gemini, but AI Mode is fair game As OpenAI walks the advertising tightrope to balance revenue gains against credibility and safety, ad kingpin Google is roar...

Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum'

11.02.2026 04:46

Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections The Open Compute Project (OCP) wants to develop specs for distributed datacenters and has decided the...

Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie

11.02.2026 01:58

Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck Cisco is on track to deliver its unified management tool Cloud Control later in 2026, but while its users wait for that moment it’s pumping out plenty m...

AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show

11.02.2026 01:24

'Claude DXT's container falls noticeably short of what is expected from a sandbox' LayerX, a security company based in Tel Aviv, says it has identified a zero-click remote code execution vulnerability...

Market for gear that stops GPUs losing their cool is red hot as Trane gulps down LiquidStack

11.02.2026 01:08

Great time to be a liquid cooling startup GPUs are so hot right now – literally and metaphorically – that they’re driving mergers and acquisitions in the datacenter cooling industry.…...

Microsoft's Valentine's gift to admins: 6 exploited zero-day fixes

10.02.2026 23:10

Roses are red, violets are blue ... now get patching What better way to say I love you than with an update? Attackers exploited a whopping six Microsoft bugs as zero-days prior to Redmond releasing so...

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency

10.02.2026 22:45

Someday Microsoft wants you to know that it has found a new way of saving power at its datacenters using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) power delivery systems. And good news: it'll be possible...

AI can predict your future salary based on your photo, boffins claim

10.02.2026 22:24

Academics look at problematic algorithm to inform regulatory discussion A picture is worth a thousand words or, perhaps, a hundred thousand dollars in extra salary. Academics claim that personality tr...

Cadence heard you wanted some AI in your AI so it used AI to design an AI chip

10.02.2026 21:31

Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Altera among the first to trial EDA giant's AI chip design agent The idea of machines that can build even better machines sounds like sci-fi, but the concept is becoming a realit...

AI agents spill secrets just by previewing malicious links

10.02.2026 18:55

Zero-click prompt injection can leak data when AI agents meet messaging apps, researchers warn AI agents can shop for you, program for you, and, if you're feeling bold, chat for you in a messaging app...

Kyndryl to review accounting practices as several execs leave

10.02.2026 18:25

CFO and general counsel both step down IBM services spin-out Kyndryl said it was reviewing its accounting practices after it announced revenue below market expectations and the departure of its CFO.�...

AFRINIC says it's back on track and will soon deliver the plan that proves it

10.02.2026 17:55

As the governance policy designed to protect regional internet registries nears completion APRICOT 2026 After years of strife, the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is weeks away from signi...