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After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date

1 hour 31 min ago
Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over

Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire

3 hours 14 min ago
PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys

The chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a £370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS).…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Microsoft veteran Rajesh Jha prepares to retire, triggers yet another reorg

3 hours 18 min ago
35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions

Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.…

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Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge

3 hours 45 min ago
Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own

Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it

3 hours 56 min ago
Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot

Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them.…

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NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1

4 hours 10 min ago
'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch'

NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for a rollout to the pad on March 19.…

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Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns

4 hours 19 min ago
Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to date

Ninety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today.…

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Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

4 hours 35 min ago
Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

Opinion A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.…

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Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power

4 hours 40 min ago
It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2'

Britain's government is pushing ahead with nuclear planning and regulatory reforms, aiming to accelerate atomic projects that will power homes and datacenters.…

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NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents

5 hours 8 min ago
Take your YOLO and box it up

exclusive NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project's commitment to security.…

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Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack

5 hours 33 min ago
Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026

Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed.…

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Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD

5 hours 58 min ago
Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes

Bork!Bork!Bork! Today we visit the south of England, where Windows has fallen over, briefly granting unrestricted rail travel to one and all.…

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Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them

6 hours 43 min ago
Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults

Openreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid... if the water companies can be bothered to fix them.…

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Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds

9 hours 28 min ago
Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again?

On Call Arrr! How is it Friday already? The Register can't explain where the week went, but we can deliver a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support SNAFUs.…

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AI Burning Man happens next week – here's what <i>The Register</i> expects at GTC 2026

10 hours 28 min ago
From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town

Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver.…

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Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years

12 hours 36 min ago
Didn’t say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has announced he intends to depart the company after 18 years as the prince of PDFs.…

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Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China

13 hours 36 min ago
Beijing hinted it wasn’t happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change

Apple has cut the fees it charges Chinese developers to sell their apps and other digital goodies.…

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Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes

15 hours 58 min ago
Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury

As the US continues its strikes on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, speakers at Palantir's AIPCON event on Thursday said the company’s Maven Smart System product has shortened the time it takes the Department of Defense to select and hit targets on the battlefield during the conflict.…

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Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets

Thu, 2026-03-12 23:49
Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy

AI agents work together to bypass security controls and stealthily steal sensitive data from within the enterprise systems in which they operate, according to tests carried out by frontier security lab Irregular.…

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Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us

Thu, 2026-03-12 22:39
Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer

Perplexity is ready to have enterprises use its AI service even if enterprises may still be wary of delegating tasks to software agents.…

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