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'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops
A 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a “raise the roof” move when the woman called it “freaking crazy.”…
Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others
A group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users' credentials, according to Microsoft.…
After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date
Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…
Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire
The chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a £370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS).…
Microsoft veteran Rajesh Jha prepares to retire, triggers yet another reorg
Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.…
Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge
Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…
RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it
Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them.…
NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1
NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for a rollout to the pad on March 19.…
Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns
Ninety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today.…
Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting
Opinion A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.…
Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power
Britain's government is pushing ahead with nuclear planning and regulatory reforms, aiming to accelerate atomic projects that will power homes and datacenters.…
NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents
exclusive NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project's commitment to security.…
Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack
Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed.…
Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD
Bork!Bork!Bork! Today we visit the south of England, where Windows has fallen over, briefly granting unrestricted rail travel to one and all.…
Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them
Openreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid... if the water companies can be bothered to fix them.…
Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds
On Call Arrr! How is it Friday already? The Register can't explain where the week went, but we can deliver a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support SNAFUs.…
AI Burning Man happens next week – here's what <i>The Register</i> expects at GTC 2026
Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver.…
Prince of PDFs, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, to step down after 18 years
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has announced he intends to depart the company after 18 years as the prince of PDFs.…
Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China
Apple has cut the fees it charges Chinese developers to sell their apps and other digital goodies.…
Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes
As the US continues its strikes on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, speakers at Palantir's AIPCON event on Thursday said the company’s Maven Smart System product has shortened the time it takes the Department of Defense to select and hit targets on the battlefield during the conflict.…