TheRegister

Subscribe to TheRegister feed TheRegister
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Updated: 1 hour 25 min ago

Apple's budget-friendly MacBook Neo is bursting with color and compromise

Wed, 2026-03-04 19:20
Cupertino grabs an aging A18 Pro from parts bin to power its latest attempt at an entry-level MacBook

You'll soon be able to get a MacBook that's cheaper than many budget PCs. Apple on Wednesday unveiled the MacBook Neo, a $599 exercise in cost cutting powered by the same silicon as an iPhone 16 Pro.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

AI doctor's assistant is easily swayed to change prescriptions, give bad medical advice

Wed, 2026-03-04 18:33
Spread false medical info, supersize drug orders, and more!

A healthcare AI with the power to manage prescriptions is rather open to mind-altering suggestions, according to security experts. …

Categories: Linux fréttir

AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now

Wed, 2026-03-04 18:07
Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover

After aerial strikes damaged AWS datacenters in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Snowflake, Red Hat, and IoT platform EMQX have told customers to open their disaster recovery playbook and move to new bit barns.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

LexisNexis confirms data breach at Legal & Professional arm, some customer records affected

Wed, 2026-03-04 16:04
Crooks claim 2 GB haul from AWS instance via React2Shell exploit

Data analytics giant LexisNexis has confirmed its Legal & Professional division suffered a data breach days after the Fulcrumsec cybercrime crew claimed responsibility for the hack.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Ex-NASA chief gives Isaacman's Moon reboot a thumbs up, stays schtum on the awkward bits

Wed, 2026-03-04 15:34
Jim Bridenstine says 'adjustments' to Artemis program were needed

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has won an endorsement from his predecessor Jim Bridenstine, who praised Isaacman's shake-up of the perpetually delayed Artemis program.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command

Wed, 2026-03-04 14:37
London GPU farm dances to National Grid's tune in five-day trial, critical workloads not disrupted

A UK datacenter has successfully demonstrated it can reduce the amount of power drawn by AI infrastructure in response to grid events, without disrupting critical workloads.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Kaspersky dismisses claims Coruna iPhone exploit kit is connected to NSA-linked operation

Wed, 2026-03-04 14:18
Follows suggestions iPhone-pwning toolset bears hallmarks of zero-days that targeted Russian diplomats

Russian cybersecurity outfit Kaspersky is waving away claims that an iPhone exploit kit recently uncovered by Google was developed by the same people who were behind a group of zero-days that allegedly compromised thousands of Russian diplomats in a 2023 campaign.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts

Wed, 2026-03-04 14:06
The card game bridge could be a bridge too far for Mountain View's AI

Google has released Android Studio Panda 2, a feature drop including an AI agent that can create apps from scratch and an AI-driven version upgrade assistant.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

NIMBY pushback begins to bite US datacenter buildout

Wed, 2026-03-04 14:00
New capacity under construction falls for first time since 2020 as permitting, zoning, and power hurdles mount

New datacenter capacity under construction in primary US markets declined in the second half of 2025, as community opposition increasingly disrupted planning approvals - a dynamic commercial real estate firm CBRE says is reshaping the industry.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

Wed, 2026-03-04 13:40
Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection

Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has changed over the decades.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed

Wed, 2026-03-04 13:06
Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor

Gram is a new text editor written in Rust, created by removing almost all the fancy features from Zed… and it has already seemingly caused Zed Industries to change its terms of use service, according to Gram's developer.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

UK digital ID brief quietly moves to new minister after resignation

Wed, 2026-03-04 12:28
James Frith takes reins from Josh Simons, who quit even though he was cleared over journalist vetting scandal

Labour MP James Frith has taken over the ministerial roles held by Josh Simons after he resigned over his handling of a report on journalists while running a think tank.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

Wed, 2026-03-04 11:44
Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again

An Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which trails AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in market share but counts the social media behemoth among its customers.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Capita's £370M Whitehall outsourcing deal challenged as 'abnormally low'

Wed, 2026-03-04 11:08
Rival bidder Sopra Steria launched legal claim over DWP procurement

Capita confirmed today it won a business process outsourcing deal for multiple UK government departments for £370 million over ten years, less than 40 percent of the estimated value outlined during the tender stage.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Users fume over Outlook.com email 'carnage'

Wed, 2026-03-04 10:31
Email flow slowed or stopped by mysterious forces at Microsoft

Microsoft spent last week rejecting emails to Outlook recipients after what appears to be either a fault or overzealous blocking rules, a situation a source described as "carnage."…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform

Wed, 2026-03-04 09:33
Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft

The chair of the competition markets authority's cloud inquiry has quit, citing the slow pace of implementing recommendations outlined in a report it published in 2025 to boost market dynamics in Britain's cloud computing market.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

One vendor is happy RAM prices are high: VMware

Wed, 2026-03-04 06:45
Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM

The high price of memory and solid-state storage has almost everyone worried – but not VMware, because the most innovative new feature in the Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) private cloud suite it launched last year is memory tiering tech that allows offload of data from RAM to NVMe drives.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

European Space Agency and China both achieve gigabit links to geostationary satellites

Wed, 2026-03-04 04:31
Raises hopes birds 40,000km away can be reprogrammed, for science or military purposes

The European Space Agency and the Institute of Optoelectronics at China’s Academy of Sciences both claim they’ve achieved gigabit links to satellites in geostationary orbit.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Google feels the need for security speed, so will ship Chrome updates every two weeks

Wed, 2026-03-04 02:01
Retains eight-weekly Extended Stable releases but warns fortnightly updates are the best way to stay safe

Google will halve the time between releases of its Chrome browser to two weeks, across versions of the software for desktop operating systems, Android, and iOS.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush

Wed, 2026-03-04 00:17
The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department

OpenAI says GPT‑5.3 Instant, the latest addition to its GPT-5.3 family of models, is less inclined to moralize.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Pages