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Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit

2 hours 16 min ago
Wouldn't be the first time a Jeff Bezos company left a package in the wrong place

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket nailed the landing this weekend, but failed at the crucial part of delivering a satellite to a usable orbit.…

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Palantir's NHS future in doubt as ministers eye contract break

2 hours 38 min ago
£330M deal leaves service with no ownership of software built to connect trusts to the platform

The UK government is considering ending Palantir's involvement in a central NHS data platform after coming under fire from MPs, unions, and campaigners.…

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Growing AI power slurpage prompts MPs to examine low-energy computing

2 hours 42 min ago
Committee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use

MPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid into a bottleneck.…

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AI quota inflation is no token effort. It's baked in

3 hours 41 min ago
We've been here before. This time, we may not get out

Opinion Fans of the creative arts often find out where creators gather to talk among themselves, then sneak in to eavesdrop on what those masters of the art talk about. Golden insights, daring concepts, cutting-edge thinking? Not a bit. Gossip, if you're lucky. Travel miseries, if you're not. Mostly, they talk about money.…

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Next.js developer Vercel warns of customer credential compromise

4 hours 34 min ago
Blames outfit called Context.ai, which reckons an agentic OAuth tangle caused the incident

Vercel, the company that created the open source Next.js web development framework, has a data leak that led to compromise of some customer credentials, and blamed an outfit called Context.ai for the mess.…

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'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild

5 hours 5 min ago
You can't fix what you can't see – especially when your workspace is a maelstrom

Who, Me? Welcome to yet another Monday, and therefore to this week's edition of Who, Me? For those unfamiliar, it's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace messes, and how you tried to clean them up without dirtying your career prospects.…

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NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer

6 hours 14 min ago
Tests scheduled for May can’t come soon enough after VGER 1 power glitch led to instrument shutdown

NASA has revealed it’s working on a plan called “The Big Bang” that it hopes will extend the working lives of the Voyager probes.…

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Indonesia’s game rating system paused amid claims it leaked developer creds and glimpses of major new titles

9 hours 58 min ago
PLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more!

Asia In Brief Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has suspended the nation’s game rating system (IGRS) after claims the service leaked developer creds and video of unreleased games.…

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Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay

Sun, 2026-04-19 23:00
Aren't we all just prompting tokens of linguistic meaning and hoping the other person isn't bullshitting us?

kettle It's a week of the year, which means there's been the discovery of yet another prompt injection attack that will force supposedly well-guarded AI bots to spill secrets by asking the right way. …

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I meant to do that! AI vendors shrug off responsibility for vulns

Sun, 2026-04-19 11:07
Passing the buck, and the blame, down the road shows lack of AI companies' maturity

OPINION AI vendors: "You need to use AI to fight AI threats (and do everything else in your corporate IT environment)." Also AI vendors: "That's not a security flaw; it's working as intended."…

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Ruby Central in 'real financial jeopardy' following RubyGems maintainer ruckus

Sun, 2026-04-19 08:00
Non profit loses several staffers including its executive director

Ruby Central, a nonprofit that supports the Ruby programming language ecosystem, in is "real financial jeopardy," according to a missive from its board members.…

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Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

Sat, 2026-04-18 08:30
Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed

Not only is hardware memory scarce these days, but context memory, the conversational data exchanged with AI models, can be an issue too.…

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Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

Sat, 2026-04-18 07:30
From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier

Unless a customer pays for the most expensive enterprise license, or the law forbids it, Atlassian is going to collect their data to train its AI models. And you can't fully opt out.…

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Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

Fri, 2026-04-17 21:46
Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes

Intel brought a few more chips home from Taiwan this week, with a new round of budget-oriented Core Series 3 processors fabbed right in the US-of-A.…

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Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

Fri, 2026-04-17 20:38
The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model

Anthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The company, on Friday, introduced a research preview service called Claude Design that creates visual assets, potentially putting some folks out of work.…

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CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack

Fri, 2026-04-17 17:09
Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list

CISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw that's been quietly lurking for more than a decade.…

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Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

Fri, 2026-04-17 16:31
Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse

Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to track one of its warships for less than the cost of some hagelslag and a coffee.…

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Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

Fri, 2026-04-17 14:56
We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit

Microsoft Azure capacity woes are back, and worse than ever, judging by the complaints of UK users.…

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Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Fri, 2026-04-17 12:29
Starts new one on boot loops

More than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as "resolved."…

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NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission

Fri, 2026-04-17 11:39
Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms

NASA is moving ahead with its contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite another attempt by the Trump administration to cut funding for the effort.…

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