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Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
Opinion It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce.…
Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release
Antiques Code Show Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend.…
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice.…
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation
Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.…
Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'
The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.…
Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799
The Mac Mini is the latest victim of the AI-fueled RAM-pocalypse. Last week, Apple discontinued the 256 GB version of the system, which cost $599. To get in now, you'll need to drop at least $799 on a 512 GB version.…
Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work
Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code.…
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop
We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship systems. Lucky for you, one enterprising maker has created just the machine for the job.…
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to be perfectly clear that, no matter how convincing the new project might look, it's not official. …
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear
FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.…
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs
When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory of all the components in the environment. Enter AI-BOMs.…
Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner
VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.…
If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked
Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media posts.…
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them.…
Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back
In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites.…
Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout
Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech.…
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.…
Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better
kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …
Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark
AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never.…