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Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.…

New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

Antiques Code Show  Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend.…

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?

Opinion  It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce.…

New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away

Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice.…

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC

Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.…

The Iran war has been great for business

The Iran war has been great for business

The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.…

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech.…

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer

The Mac Mini is the latest victim of the AI-fueled RAM-pocalypse. Last week, Apple discontinued the 256 GB version of the system, which cost $599. To get in now, you'll need to drop at least $799 on a 512 GB version.…

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default

Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution notice after user complaints that the bot was claiming credit for human-authored code.…

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…

Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

kettle  When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

FEATURE  In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.…