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Keep it simple, stupid: Agentic AI tools choke on complexity
Agents may be the next big thing in AI, but they have limits beyond which they will make mistakes, so exercise extreme caution, a recent research paper says.…
Internet spent Q4 '25 losing fights with cables, power, and itself
The internet spent the closing months of 2025 being knocked over by cut cables, broken power grids, bad weather, military strikes, and the occasional self-inflicted technical wound, according to Cloudflare's latest global traffic data.…
KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd
KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – meaning that it won't work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports.…
Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy
Alaska Air's CEO says IT outages last year damaged the company on multiple fronts despite "triple redundancies" built into its disaster recovery plan.…
Knee-Deep in the CAD: Boffin gets Doom running inside a design modeler
Not content with rendering Doom in PCB design software or playing it on an oscilloscope, engineer Mike Ayles has got the 1990s shooter running in a computer-aided design (CAD) modeler.…
Sandia boffins let three AI agents loose in the lab. Science, not chaos, ensued
Boffins at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs are working to develop cheap and power efficient LEDs to replace lasers. One day, they let a trio of AI assistants loose in their lab.…
EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images
The European Commission has launched an investigation into X amid concerns that its GenAI model Grok offered users the ability to generate sexually explicit imagery, including sexualized images of children.…
Data thieves borrow Nike's 'Just Do It' mantra, claim they ran off with 1.4TB
Nike says it is probing a possible breach after extortion crew WorldLeaks claimed to have lifted 1.4TB of internal data from the sportswear giant and posted samples on its leak site.…
Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates
Microsoft is investigating reports that its January 2026 security updates are leaving some Windows 11 machines stuck in a boot loop, adding another entry to this month's bumper post–Patch Tuesday borkage list.…
When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype
Opinion AI-integrated development environment (IDE) company Cursor recently implied it had built a working web browser almost entirely with its AI agents. I won't say they lied, but CEO Michael Truell certainly tweeted: "We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor."…
Moscow likely behind wiper attack on Poland’s power grid, experts say
Russia was probably behind the failed attempts to compromise the systems of Poland's power companies in December, cybersecurity researchers claim.…
Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small
Opinion The Net is born free, but everywhere is in chains. This is a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 book The Social Contract where he said the same about humans, but it's nonetheless true. The Net is built out of open, free protocols and open, free code. Yet it and we are bound by the rulemakers who build the services and set the laws of the places we go and the things that we do, not to our advantage.…
Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update
Microsoft dropped a weekend treat for administrators with yet another out-of-band update to deal with Outlook freezes and broken cloud storage.…
Oracle AI sailed the world on Royal Navy flagship via cloud-at-the-edge kit
Britain's Royal Navy is using Oracle Cloud edge infrastructure to operate AI-driven defenses on the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.…
UK digital ID goes in-house, government swears it isn't an ID card
The UK government has revealed some thinking about digital identity in response to written questions from MPs, while continuing to say next to nothing about the scheme's cost.…
Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam
Who, Me? Everyone makes mistakes, but only The Register celebrates them every week in "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that shares your worst workplace moments then records how you bounced back.…
Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 uncovers 76 zero-days, pays out more than $1M
infosec in brief T'was a dark few days for automotive software systems last week, as the third annual Pwn2Own Automotive competition uncovered 76 unique zero-day vulnerabilities in targets ranging from Tesla infotainment to EV chargers.…
No one talking about a datacenter could be a sign one is coming
feature Applied Digital CEO Wes Cummins said when his company decides on a location for a datacenter, he asks town officials to sign non-disclosure agreements to stop politicians from leaking insider information.…
Emmabuntüs DE 6: A newbie-friendly Linux to help those in need
Emmabuntüs is just another Linux distro, but it's one guided by ethics more than tech. With exceptional help, documentation, beginner-friendly tooling and accessibility, there's a lot to like.…
Future of UK's multibillion Ajax armored vehicle program looks shaky
The future of the British Army's troublesome Ajax armored vehicle program has again been called into question after the official in charge was removed and use of Ajax halted over its effects on personnel.…