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Gym giant Basic-Fit confirms data on a million members stolen in cyberattack

Mon, 2026-04-13 11:22
Names, addresses, dates of birth, and bank details accessed, though not passwords

Basic-Fit, Europe's largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.…

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Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of 'Pay or leak'

Mon, 2026-04-13 10:41
Gang claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool

ShinyHunters is back, this time pinning Rockstar Games to its leak site and claiming it didn't so much hack its way in as walk through a door someone else left wide open.…

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Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future

Mon, 2026-04-13 10:00
Linux Foundation Europe boss predicts EU will run as fast as it can from US tech companies

Opinion You want to know who's even sicker of President Donald Trump than American liberals? European governments and companies who are realizing that putting all their eggs in one US basket was a stupid move.…

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NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round

Mon, 2026-04-13 09:27
Benchmarking contract lays groundwork for renegotiating £774M software agreement

NHS England is spending £46,000 on "benchmarking" as it gears up for what looks like the next round of negotiations behind one of the UK public sector's biggest software deals.…

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AI went viral among attorneys. We have the numbers on what happened next

Mon, 2026-04-13 08:44
Not viral as in cat videos. Viral as in we need a vaccine

Opinion For a sector at the heart of US economic growth, AI claims and counter-claims remain curiously hard to reconcile. Models are improving at the speed of light, AI firms claim, yet the message from the codeface remains that benefits are still more than balanced by the downsides.…

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France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead

Mon, 2026-04-13 08:01
Après ça, le déluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware

France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.…

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IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

Mon, 2026-04-13 07:00
Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible

Who, Me? The best part of the working day is lunchtime, but The Register tries to start Mondays in a pleasant fashion by bringing you a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your mistakes and detail your escapes.…

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China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework

Mon, 2026-04-13 02:09
PLUS: Toyota wheels out basketball bot; Arm scores AI server win with SK Telecom; India ponders payment pauses to foil fraudsters; And more!

Asia In Brief China’s National Data Administration last Friday published its action plan for AI in education which calls for upskilling of the nation’s citizens to ensure they can put the technology to work.…

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Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's bug-finding powers and their impact on release process

Mon, 2026-04-13 00:10
Makes Rust support official, adds code for ancient Alpha and SPARC CPUs

Linus Torvalds has released version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…

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Anthropic's mysterious Mythos AI threatens to upend the infosec world

Sun, 2026-04-12 23:12
Or it's a bunch of pre-IPO hype. Either way, we're giving it the once-over on this week's episode

Kettle Anthropic dropped a doozy on us this week with the launch of Mythos, an AI model it says is able to find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities with a shocking level of ability. …

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I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

Sun, 2026-04-12 14:45
AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that

Vibe coding works. I wish it didn't. But it does, well enough. And barring some revolution that overturns the new world disorder, machine learning cannot be undone.…

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Growing void between enterprise and frontier AI puts open weights models in the spotlight

Sun, 2026-04-12 10:51
Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary data

FEATURE Spring has sprung and that means another wave of open weights AI models from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, and Nvidia. But this time feels a bit different.…

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Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

Sun, 2026-04-12 08:01
Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode

A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode.…

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How Salesforce and ServiceNow are squaring off in the battle for the helpdesk

Sat, 2026-04-11 14:45
Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents

FEATURE Salesforce CEO and chief “SaaSquatch” Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company's ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud dad uses to talk about the art work his kids taped to the refrigerator.…

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Two different attackers poisoned popular open source tools - and showed us the future of supply chain compromise

Sat, 2026-04-11 11:11
Time to start dropping SBOMs

FEATURE Two supply chain attacks in March infected open source tools with malware and used this access to steal secrets from tens of thousands – if not more – organizations. We won't know the full blast radius for months.…

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Hungarian government creds left in the safe hands of 'FrankLampard'

Sat, 2026-04-11 08:30
Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts

Hungary's government has discovered the hard way that the biggest threat to national security might just be its own password choices.…

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Snowflake manager explains the 'Spider-Man' theory of AI agent data access

Fri, 2026-04-10 22:05
With access to great data comes great responsibility

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.…

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Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown

Fri, 2026-04-10 21:44
Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!

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.…

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Red Hat RHELocates its Chinese engineering team to India

Fri, 2026-04-10 21:40
Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing

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.…

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Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla

Fri, 2026-04-10 16:43
Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice

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.…

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