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One of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all

Mon, 2026-04-20 15:50
US-based cloud providers could have to disclose certain data under American legal orders

The European Commission has awarded four contracts designed to advance cloud sovereignty in the EU, but one uses services from S3NS, a joint venture between Thales and Google Cloud, raising questions about its real independence.…

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New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans

Mon, 2026-04-20 15:24
Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball

Google has introduced a new Android command-line interface built specifically for AI agents, claiming a 70 percent cut in token usage and three times reduction in task completion time.…

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Microsoft releases Windows Server update fix to fix its April update fixes

Mon, 2026-04-20 13:15
Out-of-band or out of control?

Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band update to address the restart loop that hit some Windows Server devices after its April update.…

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AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London

Mon, 2026-04-20 12:38
Bit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts

UK AI datacenter capacity could migrate away from London as power shortages, planning constraints and reduced reliance on low-latency connections to financial firms make other locations more attractive.…

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UK.gov kicks off half-a-billion quid sovereign AI venture with £80M invite

Mon, 2026-04-20 12:13
Companies get to keep IP developed for government projects

The UK government is opening £80 million in AI procurement talks with tech firms, drawing on its £500 million sovereign capability fund.…

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HP's remote desktop push retreats as Anyware heads for end of life

Mon, 2026-04-20 11:25
Workstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown

HP is quietly pulling the plug on its Teradici-derived remote desktop business, shelving HP Anyware and its zero client hardware barely a few years after betting big on the tech as the backbone of its hybrid work push.…

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

Mon, 2026-04-20 09:49
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

Mon, 2026-04-20 09:27
£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

Mon, 2026-04-20 09:23
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

Mon, 2026-04-20 08:25
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

Mon, 2026-04-20 07:31
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

Mon, 2026-04-20 07:01
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

Mon, 2026-04-20 05:52
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

Mon, 2026-04-20 02:07
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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