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Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly

1 hour 55 min ago
Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise

Microsoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.…

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Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find

Thu, 2026-04-09 23:05
Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures

Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.…

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Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch

Thu, 2026-04-09 19:29
Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that

If you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations.…

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Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs

Thu, 2026-04-09 19:03
Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel

Google will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitro NICs.…

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Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case

Thu, 2026-04-09 18:20
Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims

US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.…

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World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate

Thu, 2026-04-09 17:45
C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home

It's going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly compared with prior years.…

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AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them

Thu, 2026-04-09 17:30
Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered

AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.…

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'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree

Thu, 2026-04-09 17:11
Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in

A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.…

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Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement

Thu, 2026-04-09 17:00
FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too

Agriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.…

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Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

Thu, 2026-04-09 16:30
ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including the widely used Apache Spark analytics engine.…

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Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge

Thu, 2026-04-09 15:51
Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything

Exclusive Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.…

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Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare

Thu, 2026-04-09 15:20
UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline

A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.…

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OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape

Thu, 2026-04-09 14:54
Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions

OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.…

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Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets

Thu, 2026-04-09 14:30
Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload

Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.…

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Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process

Thu, 2026-04-09 14:00
No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue

Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.…

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Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market

Thu, 2026-04-09 13:38
Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction

America's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even higher prices this year.…

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Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse

Thu, 2026-04-09 13:00
Wash your mouth out with digital soap

Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an attacker-controlled result and putting millions of users at risk, researchers have shown.…

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Microsoft developer chief Julia Liuson is logging off

Thu, 2026-04-09 12:38
Departure may accelerate further AI-centric moves for programming tools

Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft's developer division (DevDiv), will resign at the end of June, though she will continue in an advisory role.…

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Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

Thu, 2026-04-09 11:52
The core product is solid and priced fairly

I've spent over a decade telling anyone who'd listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday – which lets you mount an S3 bucket as an NFS share – I did what any reasonable person would do: I spun up an EC2 instance and started trying to break it.…

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Zephyr Energy loses £700K in cyber hit that rerouted contractor payment

Thu, 2026-04-09 11:32
Attackers slipped into the process and redirected funds, leaving the company scrambling to recover the cash

UK-listed oil and gas outfit Zephyr Energy plc has admitted a cyber incident siphoned off roughly £700,000 after a single payment to a contractor was quietly redirected to an attacker-controlled account.…

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