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Ex-Microsoft engineer believes Azure problems stem from talent exodus

2 hours 11 min ago
The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people

In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term. To understand why, it helps to consider the history of the underlying Azure infrastructure.…

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PrismML debuts energy-sipping 1-bit LLM in bid to free AI from the cloud

4 hours 2 min ago
Bonasi 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient

PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications.…

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Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget

Fri, 2026-04-03 22:41
Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.…

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Netflix - yes Netflix - jumps on the AI bandwagon with video editor

Fri, 2026-04-03 20:42
Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene

A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies. Just imagine this. As the director of the multi-million dollar epic Car Crash III: Suddenest Impact, you've just finished filming the finale where your star, Cruz Control, drives straight into an onrushing semi.…

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NHS staff resist using Palantir software

Fri, 2026-04-03 16:36
Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much

Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…

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When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

Fri, 2026-04-03 10:00
This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food

Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.…

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Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled

Fri, 2026-04-03 06:28
Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

On Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

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AI models will deceive you to save their own kind

Thu, 2026-04-02 23:11
Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior

Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…

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Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4

Thu, 2026-04-02 21:15
Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages

Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…

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Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

Thu, 2026-04-02 20:07
About that partnership...

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…

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US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks

Thu, 2026-04-02 18:08
Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems

A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. …

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They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead

Thu, 2026-04-02 17:34
Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks

Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.…

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Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important

Thu, 2026-04-02 17:04
Terms admit it is for entertainment only and may get things wrong

A recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun.…

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IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI

Thu, 2026-04-02 16:32
Tie-up aims to widen Big Blue’s access to power-efficient compute

IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads.…

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Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

Thu, 2026-04-02 15:56
Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice Online amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'

European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms around sovereignty, provoking an angry response from the original developer.…

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Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

Thu, 2026-04-02 15:27
In space no one can you scream, at Microsoft

Many a frustrated user has sworn they'll launch Microsoft Outlook into space, but NASA has actually done it – on a journey around the Moon, where it's now causing problems for astronauts.…

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Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle

Thu, 2026-04-02 14:05
The chatbot will be a doorway to the company's other services

Opinion Salesforce has begun to position Slack, its business collaboration platform, as the interface through which users can access and act on data in enterprise applications from rival vendors.…

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Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript

Thu, 2026-04-02 14:04
Name is a joke but the project is real, said main engineer

The world's most popular CMS has been remade with the help of AI. Cloudflare has released EmDash version 0.1, described as a rebuild of the WordPress CMS (content management system) but using TypeScript rather than PHP. …

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Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

Thu, 2026-04-02 13:32
Patch Tuesday often gets blamed when a reboot merely exposes damage already done, according to Chen

It's not me, it's you. Five words that signify the end of a relationship with a toxic partner, or an ill-timed riposte to users tired of broken Microsoft updates.…

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Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons

Thu, 2026-04-02 11:48
Supplier will need to look after networks, email, tech support, tools and more – plus find cost savings

The BBC is looking for a supplier to provide IT for all its workforce and help automate parts of the corporation through a contract apparently named after a dog.…

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