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Forget vibe coding - Microsoft wants to make vibe working the new hotness
Microsoft is jumping on the vibe coding bandwagon with "vibe working," its name for adding AI agents to the online Office suite to help you complete your work.…
Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst
As part of its $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI, Oracle may need to borrow roughly $100 billion over the next four years to build the datacenters required, according to KeyBanc's projections.…
ChatGPT wants teens to agree to let their parents spy on them
OpenAI says it is introducing parental controls to ChatGPT that will help improve the safety of teenagers using its AI chatbot. The only catch? Teens will have to allow their parents to connect to their accounts before the controls can take effect.…
UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests
The former head of MI5 says hostile cyberattacks and intelligence operations directed by The Kremlin indicate the UK might already be at war with Russia.…
Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis
Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…
Russia-backed Indian oil company loses bid to compel SAP support as sanctions bite
An Indian court has refused urgent relief to an SAP customer after the vendor withheld support due to EU sanctions introduced in the summer.…
Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'
The F-Droid project, which distributes open source apps for Android, will end if Google goes ahead with its plans to enforce developer registration for app installation, according to the project's board member Marc Prud'hommeaux.…
EU member states pile pressure on Brussels for Chips Act rethink
Momentum is gathering behind calls for a Chips Act 2.0 to strengthen Europe's competitiveness in the semiconductor sector amid growing geopolitical uncertainty over global markets and supply chains.…
Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has answered the question of why Microsoft insisted on running up a miniature Windows 3.1 rather than a diminutive Windows 95 to install the full-fat version of the latter.…
Engineers successfully reboost International Space Station after early Dragon abort
NASA and SpaceX have successfully raised the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) with a 15-minute burn of the Draco thrusters located in the trunk of the Dragon freighter.…
Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too
Legacy Update is a third-party Windows Update client which can update old, unsupported versions of Windows, from Windows 10 and 11 all the way back to Windows 2000.…
UK minister suggests government could ditch 'dangerous' Elon Musk's X
The UK government should consider the possibility of leaving social media platform X, a high-profile minister has suggested.…
Harrods blames its supplier after crims steal 430k customers’ data in fresh attack
Luxury London-based retailer Harrods is facing its second cybersecurity scandal in 2025, confirming criminals not only stole 430,000 customers' data in a fresh attack but have even made contact.…
Oh the joy: OpenNvidia may be the AI generation's WinTel
Opinion The OpenAI and Nvidia $100 billion partnership sure sounds impressive. $100 billion isn't chicken feed, even as more and more tech companies cross the trillion-dollar mark. But what does it really mean?…
Jaguar Land Rover gets £1.5B government jump-start after cyber breakdown
The UK government is stepping in with financial support for Jaguar Land Rover, providing it with a hefty loan as it continues to battle the fallout from a cyberattack.…
Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us
Opinion UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer directly addressed his new policy of mandatory digital ID in the country for 23 seconds in its effective launch speech.…
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
Comment Probably the single most common argument against switching to Linux is the absolute non-negotiable requirement of many organizations to have Microsoft Exchange. Here's a fascinating glimpse of the view from the other side.…
Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report
Feature The first transatlantic cable, laid in 1858, delivered a little over 700 messages before promptly dying a few weeks later. 167 years on, the undersea cables connecting the UK to the outside world process £220 billion in daily financial transactions. Now, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has told the government that it has to do a better job of protecting them.…
When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent
Opinion Last year, The Register reported on AI sleeper agents. A major academic study explored how to train an LLM to hide destructive behavior from its users, and how to find it before it triggered. The answers were unambiguously asymmetric — the first is easy, the second very difficult. Not what anyone wanted to hear.…
Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe
Who, Me? The Register has very few rules, but one we always observe on a Monday morning is to present a new installment of Who, Me? – the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of breaking the rules, without breaking your career in the process.…