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Snowflake manager explains the 'Spider-Man' theory of AI agent data access
Snowflake is betting that the biggest bottleneck to building more and better AI agents isn't the models themselves but whether the data those agents depend on is clean, accessible, and governed, Snowflake’s director of product management James Rowland-Jones told The Register.…
Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown
In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…
Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India
Red Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla
Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.…
Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh
The Global Electronics Association (GEA) warns that the US ban on foreign-made network routers is impractical because few are made domestically, leaving consumers with little choice and delaying access to next-gen products, just as Wi-Fi 7 adoption should be ramping up.…
CPUID site hijacked to serve malware instead of HWMonitor downloads
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.…
Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint
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.…
Suits won't quit AI spending, even if they can't prove it's working
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.…
Project Glasswing and open source software: The good, the bad, and the ugly
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."…
Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers
The UK government is seeking views on radiofrequency jammers as it prepares legislation to ban the controversial devices.…
Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch
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.…
Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up
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.…
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a 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.…
AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load and is close to selling out AI capacity
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.…
South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
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.…
Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly
Microsoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.…
Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find
Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.…
Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch
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.…
Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs
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.…
Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case
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.…