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IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show
IBM describes its coding agent thus: "Bob is your AI software development partner that understands your intent, repo, and security standards." Unfortunately, Bob doesn't always follow those security standards.…
New carbon capture tech could save us from datacenter doom
Researchers in Finland have found a new way to capture carbon dioxide from ambient air that they say is more efficient than existing methods, cheap to produce, reusable, and allows for easy recycling of captured CO₂. …
British Palantir rival, whose founder touted UK tech sovereignty, sells to Accenture
Accenture plans to buy UK-based AI firm Faculty, a Palantir competitor, and onboard the company’s CEO as Accenture’s new chief technology officer. The move suggests the two companies, while partners today, could start taking each others' business.…
SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs
WD Black and Blue SSDs are some of the most widely recognized client drives on the market, but their branding is about to disappear. Following Western Digital's flash-business spinoff, SanDisk announced it was retiring the beloved names and rebranding its NVMe lineup under the SANDISK Optimus banner.…
ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open
exclusive The European Space Agency on Wednesday confirmed yet another massive security breach, and told The Register that the data thieves responsible will be subject to a criminal investigation. And this could be a biggie.…
Stalkerware slinger pleads guilty for selling snooper software to suspicious spouses
The US government has secured a guilty plea from a stalkerware maker in federal court, marking just the second time in more than a decade that the US has managed to prosecute a consumer spyware vendor successfully. …
FAA signs radar deals to drag US air traffic control out of the 1980s
The US government has announced contracts for new radar infrastructure as part of its long-running effort to replace the country's aging air traffic control system.…
Historic NASA test towers face their final countdown
With less than a month to go until NASA attempts to send astronauts around the Moon, the agency is demolishing facilities that got it there the first time around.…
Luggable datacenter: startup straps handles to server with 4 H200 GPUs
Fancy having an AI system packed with Nvidia H200 GPUs that you can take with you from place to place? According to hardware maker Odinn, now you can, so long as you don't mind carrying a 35 kg (77 pound) box around.…
Microsoft scraps Exchange Online spam clamp after customers cry foul
Microsoft has backed away from planned changes to Exchange Online after customers objected to limits designed to curb outbound email abuse.…
Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025
The US state of Virginia forfeited $1.6 billion in tax revenue through datacenter exemptions in fiscal 2025 – up 118 percent on the prior year – as the AI-driven construction boom accelerates.…
GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger
Opinion Ever since Linux got a graphical desktop, you could middle-click to paste – but if GNOME gets its way, that's going away soon, and from Firefox too.…
Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions
The Post Office's Horizon computer system may have been deployed earlier than thought, potentially affecting which convictions get automatically quashed under legislation introduced to speed up justice in one of the biggest scandals in recent British history, MPs heard yesterday.…
Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack
The UK's Ministry of Justice spent £50 million ($67 million) on cybersecurity improvements at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) before the high-profile cyberattack it disclosed last year.…
Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath
Brit luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover has reported devastating preliminary Q3 results that lay bare the cascading consequences of a crippling cyberattack, revealing wholesale volumes collapsed more than two-fifths year-on-year.…
Recline of the machines: Terminator felled by dodgy battery
Bork!Bork!Bork! The baddest of AI bad guys, the Terminator, has confirmed what the vast majority of IT professionals already know. The machines are not about to rise, not until they can deal with that pesky battery voltage.…
HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations
Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank's app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog.…
UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go
The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is set to introduce a conversational AI platform it hopes will steer calls from citizens with queries about their benefits. The contract is worth up to £23 million.…
Lenovo shows off new laptops that twist and roll
If there was a kingdom of laptop screen flexibility, Lenovo would take the crown. Last year, the company released the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, with a mechanical screen that could roll out to increase its size from 14 to 16.7 inches. Now, it’s back with the ThinkPad Rollable XD concept laptop that expands from 13.3 to 16 inches at the touch of a button or a swipe, along with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 7 Auto Twist, which uses a motor to rotate its screen and follow you around the room.…
Ring embraces the end of the world, starts using home cameras to track wildfires
A year after a series of fires obliterated communities in Los Angeles, Amazon's Ring security service has announced a feature called Fire Watch intended to mitigate future wildfire risk.…