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Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work

3 hours 30 min ago
The 600 km drive to fix the mess was a special treat

On Call Every week is special in its own way, and The Register celebrates that fact by using Friday mornings to deliver a fresh installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your memories of managing IT messes someone else made.…

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Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys

3 hours 56 min ago
Global bank's devs have some cleaning up to do after cloud creds found in website code

Computer security boffins have conducted an analysis of 10 million websites and found almost 2,000 API credentials strewn across 10,000 webpages.…

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India’s space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril

6 hours 17 min ago
Satnav systems aren’t well, IP is being sold too cheap, and thousands of roles remain open

India’s space program has thousands of vacant roles it’s struggled to fill, isn’t spending money fast enough to meet its mission timelines, and may be undervaluing intellectual property it sells to the private sector.…

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China’s not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country

9 hours 19 min ago
Urges scientists to avoid major conference, and looks unkindly on Meta's Manus acquisition

China appears to be unhappy about its brightest AI talent going offshore, either to visit or to sell their wares.…

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Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours

Thu, 2026-03-26 22:15
AI biz makes some Claude conversations more costly to manage capacity

Anthropic on Wednesday adjusted its opaque usage limits for Claude customers by reducing the power of the services it delivers during times of peak demand, in an effort to balance demand with its capacity to deliver service.…

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AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring

Thu, 2026-03-26 22:11
You actually thing companies are going to pay Americans to take customer service calls in the AI age?

Uncle Sam is trying to make American call centers great again. The question is whether they will be great because they're filled with local workers or whether this will provide yet another excuse for companies to turn customer service jobs over to AI.…

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AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region

Thu, 2026-03-26 21:39
Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.

I received an email / billing notification from AWS this week that may be the most diplomatically crafted communication in the history of cloud computing. Here it is, stripped of the usual boilerplate around it:…

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AMD’s new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores

Thu, 2026-03-26 21:12
Turns out massive caches are good for more than games. House of Zen boasts 5-13% perf boost over prior-gen part

AMD aims to extend its lead in desktop gaming with a new CPU, dubbed the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition. This top-of-the-line part has 16 cores fed by an absolutely massive 208 MB pool of cache, with memory spread across both CCDs.…

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'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans

Thu, 2026-03-26 20:41
I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t give you your job back, but here’s the form you fill out to collect benefits

There’s a joke in Boston that goes: the people in Southie will steal your wallet and help you look for it.…

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Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure

Thu, 2026-03-26 19:38
Use of AI coding assistants has surged, but so has the number of vulnerabilities in AI-generated code

As more people use AI tools to write code, the tools themselves are introducing more vulnerabilities.…

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Apple's making more iPhone parts in the US. The iPhone itself? Not so much

Thu, 2026-03-26 17:09
Maybe that's why Tim didn't get an invitation to the President's tech bro club?

Apple's American Manufacturing Program (AMP) is expanding, with new suppliers signed on to produce iPhone components - though those parts will still be shipped overseas for final assembly.…

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Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds

Thu, 2026-03-26 16:33
Your AI rollout isn't failing - your employees just hate it

If your company isn't seeing great returns from its investment in AI, you might want to look at the humans tasked with deploying it and how you can motivate them. Right now, many employees fear AI-driven job losses and aren't well trained to use the tech, according to Forrester.…

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Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead

Thu, 2026-03-26 14:32
Agent will capture issues and eventually debug code

The Linear cloudy issue tracker and project manager has introduced an AI agent and plans to add AI coding assistance, with CEO and co-founder Karri Saarinen declaring that "issue tracking is dead."…

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AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar

Thu, 2026-03-26 13:40
Greg Kroah-Hartman can't explain the inflection point, but it's not slowing down or going away

Interview I was at a press luncheon at KubeCon Europe this week when, to my surprise, who should sit down next to me but long-term Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. Greg, who lives in the Netherlands these days, was there to briefly comment on AI, Linux, and security. We spoke about how, over the last month, AI-driven activity around Linux security and code review has "really jumped" in a way no one in the open source world saw coming.…

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Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China

Thu, 2026-03-26 13:03
Prosecutors say trio used Thai front companies to reroute high-end AI servers

The US has collared three more people for allegedly attempting to smuggle Nvidia GPUs to China, days after a Supermicro co-founder faced similar accusations.…

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Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech

Thu, 2026-03-26 11:49
Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long

A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…

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Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list

Thu, 2026-03-26 11:00
Central bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push

Europe is taking a small step toward breaking its reliance on US Big Tech by hiring only cloud operators headquartered in the EU to work on the backbone of the digital euro project.…

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Welsh government used Copilot for review to justify closing organization

Thu, 2026-03-26 10:15
Microsoft's Clippy for 21st century deployed to evaluate returns? Industry Wales chair brands it just 'wrong'

The Welsh government used Microsoft's Copilot to help write a review of an industry liaison body that it then scrapped, its chairman has told a Senedd committee.…

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UK wants to know if banning under-16s from social media does anything useful

Thu, 2026-03-26 09:30
300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life

The UK government will trial different levels of restrictions on social media for under-16s with the help of 300 families, alongside a public consultation that has already gathered nearly 30,000 responses.…

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Go for a walk, man: Sony's drive to create a car parked by partner Honda

Thu, 2026-03-26 06:24
CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA

Sony and Honda have broken up, meaning their joint vision to deliver a revolutionary electric vehicle won’t happen.…

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