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Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy
Prices for memory used in routers and set-top boxes are surging nearly sevenfold thanks to AI, raising fresh fears that the industry's silicon binge could leave telcos scrambling to get customers online.…
Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown
The next blackout to plunge a G20 nation into chaos might not come courtesy of cybercriminals or bad weather, but from an AI system tripping over its own shoelaces.…
US is moving ahead with colocated nukes and datacenters
Nuclear-powered datacenters in the US are moving closer as a consortium prepares to build proposed facilities for the Department of Energy (DoE) at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).…
Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny
Ring has cut ties with Flock, citing resource constraints, mere months after the pair announced a partnership.…
Investors shove another $30B into the Anthropic money furnace
The AI bubble continues to inflate with Anthropic's announcement of $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion post-money valuation.…
Booster nozzle anomaly fails to stop ULA Vulcan Centaur reaching orbit
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur reached orbit on February 12 despite "a significant performance anomaly" that saw one of its four solid rocket boosters burn through its nozzle during ascent.…
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Bork!Bork!Bork! As if to demonstrate that whatever one operating system can do, Windows can do it better, bluer, and upside down, we present a bus stopping only at bork.…
MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'
Britain's state-backed savings bank has been dragged over the coals by Parliament's spending watchdog, which has branded its long-running digital overhaul a £3 billion "full-spectrum disaster."…
Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper
The Netherlands' largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people.…
OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much
Opinion I'm willing to be impressed by AI products, but Anthropic's AI‑built C compiler leaves me a bit cold. It's little more than a clever demo. It is not the moment when software engineering as we know it flips over and dies. Not even close.…
Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration
Skyrora is eyeing the wreckage of fellow British rocketeer Orbex following the latter's announcement that it will appoint administrators.…
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats
On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.…
Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way
APRICOT 2026 When members of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre got their chance to grill its leaders at yesterday’s annual general meeting, they didn’t hold back.…
Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales
Samsung and Micron say they’ve started shipping HBM4 memory, the faster and denser RAM needed to power the next generation of AI acceleration hardware.…
Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents
Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.…
AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO
ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the need to swivel-chair into multiple systems or escalate complaints, said Vasili Triant, CEO of UJET.…
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data
More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.…
OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon
Nvidia and AMD can take a seat. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model that will run on Cerebras Systems' dinner-place-sized AI accelerators, which feature some of the world's fastest on-chip memory.…
Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night
Waymo is rolling out its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, saying it's designed to avoid a repeat of past weather-related snafus. It's also causing controversy by putting the new kit on vehicles built by a Chinese automaker. …
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request
Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a requirement that contributions come from people. But that bot wasn't done with him.…