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Claude devs complain about surprise usage limits, Anthropic blames expiring bonus
Software developers who use Anthropic's Claude Code have been sounding the alarm for the past few days about changes in the AI service's usage limits.…
ServiceNow snags Microsoft vet to run legal amid M&A spree
ServiceNow has hired Hossein Nowbar as its chief legal officer and president, the company announced on Monday.…
ChatGPT is playing doctor for a lot of US residents, and OpenAI smells money
About sixty percent of American adults have turned to AI like ChatGPT for health or healthcare in the past three months. Instead of seeing that as an indictment of the state of US healthcare, OpenAI sees an opportunity to shape policy. …
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
I've been tracking AWS for a long time, with a specific emphasis on pricing. "What happens if AWS hikes prices" has always been something of a boogeyman, trotted out as a hypothetical to urge folks to avoid taking dependencies on a given provider.…
Congrats, cybercrims: You just fell into a honeypot
Resecurity offered its "congratulations" to the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters cybercrime crew for falling into its threat intel team's honeypot – resulting in a subpoena being issued for one of the data thieves. Meanwhile, the notorious extortionists have since removed their claims of gaining "full access" to the security shop's systems.…
Playing Koi: Palo Alto isn't saying if it will buy security start-up
Palo Alto Networks is on shopping spree. The company is reportedly considering a $400 million purchase of Israeli cybersecurity start up Koi, which raised $48 million in funding last year. …
Venezuela loses president, but gains empty Starlink internet offer
The US just invaded your country, kidnapped your president, and wants to take your oil. But good news, Venezuelans, Starlink claims you can get a month of free Internet, even though it doesn't say how that could work in a place where it doesn't offer service.…
Qualcomm is determined to cut a slice out of Intel's PC pie with latest Snapdragon chips
Qualcomm is trying to become a major player in the laptop processor space. Its Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips, along with a concerted effort to improve the Windows on Arm software ecosystem, have made it a credible alternative to Intel and AMD, although it's still stuck at below 1% market share. On Monday at CES in Las Vegas, the company showed the next step in this strategy: the next-gen Snapdragon X2 Plus chips, which are targeted at budget and mainstream systems.…
EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them
The EU has pledged to stand firm against US threats following fines levied against Amercian tech companies for breaching recently introduced digital laws.…
The last supported version of HP-UX is no more
The final version of HPE's own flavor of Unix, HP-UX 11i v3, is now out of support. It is the end of a line that started in 1982.…
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3.…
UK's long-delayed Emergency Services Network eyes satellites for help
Satellite phone services could play a part in Britain's troubled Emergency Services Network (ESN) project, including SpaceX's Starlink platform, to plug gaps in the coverage provided by terrestrial network tech.…
Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes
Capita has told users of its ailing UK civil service pension portal to wait until new chatbots go live before contacting it again about problems.…
New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack
New Zealand health minister Simeon Brown has ordered a review into the cyberattack at ManageMyHealth, which threatens the data of hundreds of thousands of Kiwis.…
Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it
Opinion At the end of last year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued five of the largest TV companies, accusing them of excessive and deceptive surveillance of their customers.…
Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble
Who, Me? How on earth is it 2026 already? The Register will ponder that existential matter after first presenting a new instalment of “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of things you shouldn’t do at work, and how you escape them unscathed.…
Trump admin sends heart emoji to commercial spyware makers with lifted Predator sanctions
infosec in brief The Trump administration has cleared a trio of individuals sanctioned by the Biden administration for involvement with the Intellexa spyware consortium behind the Predator surveillance tool, removing restrictions that had barred them from doing business with the US.…
Palo Alto Networks security-intel boss calls AI agents 2026's biggest insider threat
interview AI agents represent the new insider threat to companies in 2026, according to Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Intel Officer Wendi Whitmore, and this poses several challenges to executives tasked with securing the expected surge in autonomous agents.…
Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot
Naming a new programming language "Rue" sounds like an acknowledgment of doubt about the project's prospects, if you take "Rue" to mean "regret."…
Users prompt Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot to remove clothes in photos then 'apologize' for it
Grok, the AI chatbot owned and operated by Elon Musk's xAI, is facing a firestorm of outrage after users prompted it to create images of naked and scantily clad people from real photographs, some of whom are underage.…