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Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred

43 min 43 sec ago
Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael pushed back on reports of a thaw in the department’s relationship with Anthropic: The two are not getting back together, even as Mythos draws interest from government agencies.…

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Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration

1 hour 40 min ago
SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

Amid the sensational NASA budget cut proposals taking place in the US at the moment, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has refined the Artemis III launch date to "late 2027."…

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Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

2 hours 16 min ago
Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

As both Apple and Google introduce unwelcome changes in their phone OSes, here's a quick reminder that you do have alternatives to the Gruesome Twosome.…

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CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos

2 hours 46 min ago
If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester

Forrester predicts that by decade's end, the rush toward agentic AI will grow so chaotic that CIOs will be forced into a new role as enforcer of order.…

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That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry

3 hours 24 min ago
Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock

Secondhand phones sales are booming - relatively speaking - and the industry has rising inflation, AI bloat, and consumers' growing apathy toward overpriced new handsets to thank for it.…

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First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed

4 hours 30 min ago
Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand

CISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already poking holes in one of the internet's most widely used hosting stacks.…

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Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'

4 hours 58 min ago
Lots of fixes, some performance tweaks. Fingers crossed there's no out-of-band patch to follow

Microsoft is following through on its promise to prioritize Windows stability with its April 30 non-security update.…

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OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that

5 hours 58 min ago
Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked

OpenAI is lining up a limited release of its new GPT-5.5-Cyber model to a handpicked circle of "cyber defenders," just weeks after taking a swipe at Anthropic for doing almost exactly the same thing.…

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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

6 hours 25 min ago
But unlike most junkers, it'll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev

An astronomy software dev claims a Falcon 9 upper stage will hit the Moon in August, traveling at several times the speed of sound.…

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Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

6 hours 35 min ago
313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming

Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.…

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UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

6 hours 57 min ago
Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters

The Department for Work and Pensions has gone shopping for covert cameras, live-streaming kit, and vehicle-based recording gear as it lines up a £2 million upgrade to watch fraud suspects in real time.…

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Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?

7 hours 40 min ago
Things that go bork in the night

Bork!Bork!Bork! What frightens you? What, as an IT professional, would make you shriek like a small child? What tech horrors are lurking under your bed?…

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Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed

8 hours 25 min ago
Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year

The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of £576 million as it starts a third round of engagement with suppliers.…

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DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it

9 hours 10 min ago
Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new techto support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing times exceeded 14 weeks in February.…

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User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave

10 hours 40 min ago
For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem

On Call Fridays can be a drag, but The Register has a formula to inject a little fun by delivering a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column in which we share your tech support stories.…

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Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’

10 hours 57 min ago
Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler

Qualcomm has quietly entered the market for custom hyperscale silicon, and datacenter CPUs…

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Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over

12 hours 45 min ago
In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has confirmed the demise of its mainframe business in the year 2035 and hinted it’s working on significant defense projects.…

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ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012

15 hours 25 min ago
$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), its first since 2012.…

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The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools

Thu, 2026-04-30 23:21
Mini Shai-Hulud caught spreading credential-stealing malware

The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package.…

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Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue

Thu, 2026-04-30 21:27
Stop the sprawl!

With the average Global Fortune 500 enterprise expected to run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 today, there’s plenty of room for chaos. Analyst firm Gartner says that, without proper governance, those agents will multiply and run amok.…

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