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The idea of using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense
opinion Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week. It's settled since, but it’s still up more than 30 percent on the week.…
PayPal app code error leaked personal info and a 'few' unauthorized transactions
PayPal has notified about 100 customers that their personal information was exposed online during a code change gone awry, and in a few of these cases, people saw unauthorized transactions on their accounts.…
Anthropic: No, absolutely not, you may not use third-party harnesses with Claude subs
Anthropic this week revised its legal terms to clarify its policy forbidding the use of third-party harnesses with Claude subscriptions, as the AI biz attempts to shore up its revenue model.…
AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowledge. …
SpaceX's faulty Falcon spewed massive lithium plume over Europe, say scientists
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that burned up over Europe last year left a massive lithium plume in its wake, say a group of scientists. They warn the disaster is likely a sign of things to come as Earth's atmosphere continues to become a heavily trafficked superhighway to space. …
Cerebras plans humongous AI supercomputer in India backed by UAE
Nvidia rival Cerebras Systems' dinner plate-sized accelerators will power a new supercomputing cluster in India capable of 8 exaFLOPS of AI compute.…
ShinyHunters demands $1.5M not to leak Vegas casino and resort chain data
Las Vegas hotel and casino giant Wynn Resorts appears to be the latest victim of data-grabbing and extortion gang ShinyHunters.…
Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS
In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December - though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.…
Quebec vehicles agency spent C$245M over budget on SAP ERP it wasn't sure it needed
A judge-led commission in Quebec has found that the state agency responsible for driver's licenses and license plates misled the Canadian government about a troubled SAP ERP project that ran more than C$245 million ($179 million/ £132.6 million) over budget.…
Ukrainian gets five years for helping North Koreans secure US tech jobs
Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko will spend the next five years behind bars in the US for his involvement in helping North Korean IT workers secure fraudulent employment.…
Accenture tells staffers: If you want a promotion, use AI at work
Accenture staff must demonstrate they have fully bought into the consultancy's AI vision if they want to get on.…
Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play
Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a decade of GitHub muscle memory.…
Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame
Hard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage.…
LLM wrote it? Fine, but show us human documentation, demands EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated comments and documentation.…
CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch actively exploited Dell bug
Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024.…
From Agile to AI: Anniversary workshop says test-driven development ideal for AI coding
25 years after the Agile Manifesto, a group of experts hosted by one its signatories met to consider the impact of AI on software development, concluding among other things that test-driven development has never been more important.…
Ex-Google engineers accused of helping themselves to chip security secrets
Two former Google engineers and a third alleged accomplice are facing federal charges after prosecutors accused them of swiping sensitive chip and security technology secrets and then trying to cover their tracks when the scheme began to unravel.…
Attackers have 16-digit card numbers, expiry dates, but not names. Should org get £500k fine?
The UK's data protection watchdog has scored a small win in a lengthy legal battle against a British retail group that lost millions of data records during a 2017 breach.…
HMRC spares 661 from Making Tax Digital as rollout nears
The UK tax collector has exempted 661 people from moving to quarterly software-based reporting under its Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme, about half the number who have applied.…
Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos
On Call By the end of the working week, it's natural to feel the walls closing in a little, which is why every Friday morning The Register frees things up a little by publishing a new installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…