Anthropic promises its datacenters totally won't drive up your utility bill (2026/02/12) Compute it leases from Amazon, MIcrosoft, and Google... that's another story
Devilish devs spawn 287 Chrome extensions to flog your browser history to data brokers (2026/02/11) Add-ons with 37M installs leak visited URLs to 30+ recipients, researcher says
Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely (2026/02/11) Only for three days, though, then it's back to the misery feed
Lawmakers demand great wall to keep advanced chipmaking gear out of China (2026/02/11) Allies that don’t align on chip controls could face US component curbs, they argue
AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds (2026/02/11) Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster
T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation (2026/02/11) This AI is so network native, the telco tells us, that it all works on existing hardware - no datacenters involved
Posting AI-generated caricatures on social media is risky, infosec killjoys warn (2026/02/11) The more you share online, the more you open yourself to social engineering
Attending GTC? Join The Register for an exclusive dinner on scaling AI data platforms (2026/02/11) Promo Learn about how tech leaders are scaling AI in practice
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers (2026/02/11) Genetic study finds domestic pigs' year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Microsoft rolls out Windows 11 26H1, but you can't have it (2026/02/11) No known issues, no .NET Framework 3.5, but only for new Snapdragon X2 hardware right now
Were telcos tipped off to *that* ancient Telnet bug? Cyber pros say the signs stack up (2026/02/11) Curious port filtering and traffic patterns suggest advisories weren’t the earliest warning signals sent
Brussels drafts blueprint to spot and swat rogue drones (2026/02/11) Action Plan calls for EU-wide drills, industry forums, and expanded identification requirements
How Microsoft's legal eagles wrangled Happy Days for Windows 95 (2026/02/11) Has the OS also jumped the shark?
Doctors told to give Palantir's NHS data platform the cold shoulder (2026/02/11) 200,000-strong union says spy-tech firm's ICE work undermines patient trust
Payroll pirates are conning help desks to steal workers' identities and redirect paychecks (2026/02/11) Exclusive Attackers using social engineering to exploit business processes, rather than tunnelling in via tech
Apple's Creator Studio creates a subscription where free apps used to live (2026/02/11) Mac faithful aghast at helpful wallet-emptying suggestions
VMware scores early win in Siemens software licensing dispute (2026/02/11) Judge agrees with Virtzilla's argument that the case should be heard in the US, not Germany
Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution (2026/02/11) Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor
Only one in five Euro datacenters AI-ready as builders battle land and labor blues (2026/02/11) Report warns skills shortages and grid bottlenecks threaten to stall region's capacity push
River project swims against the Wayland tide with modular window management (2026/02/11) FOSDEM 2026 Breaking a big hard problem up into smaller ones? That'll never catch on