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Claude is getting worse, according to Claude
Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic's Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with "a major outage," service trouble that only amplifies growing discontent from customers that even a bot can see.…
How ServiceNow gets customers to gorge at the AI trough
ServiceNow's latest product announcements show how hardcore the company has become about embedding AI across its go-to-market strategy.…
Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets
Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.…
Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller
The Federal Aviation Administration continues to face an air traffic controller shortage, and it's hoping that a new demographic of potential applicants can fill the ranks: Video gamers. …
Oracle job cuts and AI spending could impact support, raise prices
Oracle customers have been warned to watch for changes in support and pricing as Larry Ellison’s company makes huge datacenter spending commitments to support its AI ambitions.…
Claude Code cache confusion as Anthropic tweaks defaults, but quotas still drain
Anthropic last month reduced the TTL (time to live) for the Claude Code prompt cache from one hour to five minutes for many requests, but said this should not increase costs despite users reporting faster depleting quotas.…
Notepad sheds Copilot from toolbar as Microsoft gives subtlety a try
Copilot is on its way out of Notepad, but a return to the basic text editor is not on the cards.…
Booking.com warns reservation data may have checked out with intruders
Booking.com is warning customers that their reservation details may have been exposed to unknown attackers, in the latest reminder that the travel giant still can't quite keep a lid on the data flowing through its platform.…
Microsoft attempts to untangle 'confusing' Windows Insider program
Microsoft is giving the Windows Insider program another makeover in the hope of making it less baffling.…
Veterans Affairs has lost track of software licenses amid $985M bill
A federal spending watchdog has found the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) faced "challenges" in understanding the correct number of licenses it should hold for the top five vendors in its $985 million annual software expenditure.…
UK defense startup to supply drone interceptors for Britain and allies
Britain is set to buy interceptors from a homegrown startup to counter Iranian Shahed-style attack drones, equipping both its own armed forces and allies in the Persian Gulf region.…
Adobe finally patches PDF pest after months of abuse
Adobe has released a fix for an Acrobat and Reader zero-day that attackers had been exploiting for months.…
Gym giant Basic-Fit confirms data on a million members stolen in cyberattack
Basic-Fit, Europe's largest gym chain, has confirmed data including the bank details of around a million customers was stolen from its systems.…
Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of 'Pay or leak'
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.…
Digital sovereignty isn't just a buzzword – it's the future
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.…
NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round
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.…
AI went viral among attorneys. We have the numbers on what happened next
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.…
France’s digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead
France’s Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) will drop Windows desktops, and adopt Linux instead.…
IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it
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.…
China wants AI to prepare school lessons and mark homework
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.…

