The Register
Apr 27 – May 3, 2026
Microsoft levels up Azure Local to make it fit for large-scale sovereign clouds (go.theregister.com)
Researchers move in the right direction, develop powerful GPS interference alarm (go.theregister.com)
Legacy TLS tour continues with Exchange Online blocking old versions from July 2026 (go.theregister.com)
Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models (go.theregister.com)
Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm (go.theregister.com)
Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet' (go.theregister.com)
The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific (go.theregister.com)
Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2026
ShinyHunters claim they have cruise giant Carnival's booty as 7.5M emails surface (go.theregister.com)
Governments on high alert after CISA snuffs out Firestarter backdoor on fed network (go.theregister.com)
UK gov pays public £550 to discuss Digital ID – then bans journalists from the room (go.theregister.com)
Stale gov.uk pages are feeding AI overviews old data and Brits are believing it (go.theregister.com)
Anthropic's super-scary bug hunting model Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger (go.theregister.com)
GitHub opts all CLI users into telemetry collection whether they want it or not (go.theregister.com)
Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 (go.theregister.com)
Forget one chip to rule them all: With TPU 8, Google has an AI arms race to win (go.theregister.com)
Murder, she wrote: Ex-FBI chief wants some ransomware crims charged with homicide (go.theregister.com)
macOS ClickFix attacks deliver AppleScript stealers to snarf credentials, wallets (go.theregister.com)
FAA grounds Blue Origin's New Glenn as it probes missed satellite delivery 'mishap' (go.theregister.com)
AI-assisted intruders pwned Vercel via OAuth abuse and a pilfered employee account (go.theregister.com)
Adaptavist Group breach spawns imposter emails as ransomware crew claims mega-haul (go.theregister.com)
Blue Origin nails the landing, but puts the payload satellite in the wrong orbit (go.theregister.com)
Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2026
Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams (go.theregister.com)
Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker (go.theregister.com)
Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned (go.theregister.com)
IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure (go.theregister.com)
Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day (go.theregister.com)
Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researcher says (go.theregister.com)
Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban (go.theregister.com)
Americans who masterminded Nork IT worker fraud sentenced to 200 months behind bars (go.theregister.com)
Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews (go.theregister.com)
Britain's atomic brain trust gives itself till 2030 to unpick fusion challenges (go.theregister.com)
IBM becomes first company to pay up under Trump administration's diversity blitz (go.theregister.com)
Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder (go.theregister.com)
Microsoft sends Outlook Lite to the great inbox in the sky as memory costs skyrocket (go.theregister.com)
Zombie Microsoft bugs rise from the dead, pave way for crims and ransomware scum (go.theregister.com)
Claude Code cache confusion as Anthropic tweaks defaults, but quotas still drain (go.theregister.com)
Apr 6 – Apr 12, 2026
Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla (go.theregister.com)
Britain's biggest nuclear site skips competition, hands SAP £33M to start ERP switch (go.theregister.com)
Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly (go.theregister.com)
Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions (go.theregister.com)
Artemis II snaps eclipse, Earthset shots on first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo (go.theregister.com)
AMD's AI director slams Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier since last update (go.theregister.com)
Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2026
Live and Let AI: Former CIA officer says human spies matter more in the LLM age (go.theregister.com)
Japanese shipper MOL wants a floating datacenter, and Hitachi just climbed aboard (go.theregister.com)
Microsoft reaches for yet another out-of-band patch to deal with latest update issue (go.theregister.com)
Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China (go.theregister.com)
Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive (go.theregister.com)
Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected' (go.theregister.com)
Supply chain blast: Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines (go.theregister.com)
SAP looking to pull more external data into its AI platform with Reltio acquisition (go.theregister.com)
Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC (go.theregister.com)
US foreign router ban criticized as ‘industrial policy disguised as cybersecurity’ (go.theregister.com)
Mar 23 – Mar 29, 2026
AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it - and be sure you speak its language (go.theregister.com)
Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (go.theregister.com)
Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours (go.theregister.com)
Datacenter batteries are selling out years in advance, because AI, says Panasonic (go.theregister.com)
AI supply chain attacks don’t even require malware…just post poisoned documentation (go.theregister.com)
Windows 95 let installers trash its files then fixed the mess behind their backs (go.theregister.com)
AI-pilled Arm CEO teases mystery products that will turn it into a money machine (go.theregister.com)
Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison (go.theregister.com)
Claude attacks were 'Rorschach test' for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss (go.theregister.com)
Intel's Core Ultra 270K, 250K Plus are an appeal to cash-strapped PC enthusiasts (go.theregister.com)
US chip testing firm shrugged off ransomware hit as minor - then came the data leak (go.theregister.com)
When it comes to catastrophic space weather, the UK is holding a cocktail umbrella (go.theregister.com)
Mar 16 – Mar 22, 2026
Cryptographers engage in war of words over RustSec bug reports and subsequent ban (go.theregister.com)
Salesforce snaps up the team who built calendar app Clockwise to work on Agentforce (go.theregister.com)
Starship may chauffeur Orion to the Moon, as NASA mulls ditching SLS after Artemis V (go.theregister.com)
Starmer's digital ID reboot raises same old questions as its Blair-era ancestor (go.theregister.com)
Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say (go.theregister.com)
Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering (go.theregister.com)
Competition watchdog cracks knuckles, probes legality of Adobe cancellation fee (go.theregister.com)
Microsoft startup credits are the gift that keeps on billing unsuspecting users (go.theregister.com)