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CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads

3 hours 33 min ago
Six-hour breach turned trusted links into a coin toss between legit tools and credential stealers

Visitors to the CPUID website were briefly exposed to malware this week after attackers hijacked part of its backend, turning trusted download links into a delivery mechanism for something far less welcome.…

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Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint

3 hours 53 min ago
Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals

Amazon's board of directors is urging shareholders to reject a proposal that would have the megacorp disclose more information on the impact of datacenters on its climate commitments.…

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Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working

4 hours 16 min ago
Forget about investment value! Call it a 'strategic enabler for enterprise‑wide transformation,' says KPMG

Most UK business leaders will keep AI at the top of their spending priorities, with 65 percent planning to maintain investment whether they see immediate measurable returns or not.…

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Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly

4 hours 56 min ago
Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilities

Opinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…

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Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

5 hours 25 min ago
Four-week call for evidence intended to help shape laws aimed at devices linked to crime

The UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.…

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Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch

7 hours 11 min ago
Sellafield says sticking with German giant is only way off legacy ECC before support runs dry

The government-owned company that runs the UK's most important nuclear site has begun plans to replace its legacy SAP ERP – mainstream support for which ends in 2027 – via a £33 million award to the German vendor, without competition.…

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Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up

7 hours 56 min ago
Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are coming

Fewer than three-tenths of those required to sign up for quarterly software-based Making Tax Digital (MTD) reporting for the latest tax year that started this month have done so, according to HM Revenue & Customs.…

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Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job

9 hours 26 min ago
The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job

On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support incidents that crossed a line.…

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AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load and is close to selling out AI capacity

11 hours 22 min ago
Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full of interesting news about the cloud and e-tail giant.…

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South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

13 hours 12 min ago
Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back

Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.…

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

15 hours 58 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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