AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding
Amazon Web Services has created what it's calling an "agentic IDE" that it claims avoids the pitfalls of vibe coding.…
You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it
By now, the North Korean fake IT worker problem is so ubiquitous that if you think you don't have any phony resumes or imposters in your interview queue, you're asleep at the wheel.…
From A2A to MCP, a look at the protocols that might one day help AI automate you out of a job
We have protocols and standards for just about everything. It's generally helpful when we can all agree on how technologies should talk to one another. So, it was only a matter of time before the first protocols governing agentic AI started cropping up.…
EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute
A research paper commissioned by the European Parliament has called for an EU law to pay writers, musicians, and artists whose work has been used to train GenAI models.…
Apollo-Soyuz at 50: The Cold War space hug that nearly ended in gasping horror
It is 50 years since the last hurrah of the Apollo program, with a mission that saw the final launch of an Apollo vehicle, and a subsequent docking with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit.…
Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start
Opinion The 21st century is turning out weirder than we thought. For the entire history of art, for example, tools could be used and abused and would work more or less well, but generally helped the wishes and skills of the user. They did not plot against us. Now they can – and do.…
Google Indonesia tangled up in $600 million Chromebook corruption probe
Asia In Brief Indonesia’s government is investigating possible corruption during a $600 million program that saw around a quarter of a million Chromebooks installed in schools.…
GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan
Britain and France are to work more closely on technology to back up the familiar Global Positioning System (GPS), which is increasingly subject to interference in many regions around the world.…
UK's NCA disputes claim it's nearly three times less efficient than the FBI
The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has hit back at a think tank after it assessed its US counterpart, the FBI, to be nearly three times more effective.…
Junior developer's code worked in tests, destroyed data in production
Who, Me? Alas, the weekend is over, but The Register tries to make your entry to the working week a little more enjoyable by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? – the column in which you explain your worst slip-ups.…
Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government
The Information Technology Organization of Iran (ITOI), the government body that develops and implements IT services for the country, is looking for suppliers of cloud computing.…
Nvidia warns its GPUs – even Blackwells – need protection against Rowhammer attacks
Infosec In Brief Nvidia last week advised customers to ensure they employ mitigations against Rowhammer attacks, after researchers found one of its workstation-grade GPUs is susceptible to the exploit.…
CVSS 10 RCE in Wing FTP exploited within 24 hours, security researchers warn
Huntress security researchers observed exploitation of the CVSS 10.0 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Wing FTP Server on July 1, just one day after its public disclosure.…
Thousands of NASA senior staffers expected to quit after budget slashed
NASA senior staff are being offered the opportunity to leave voluntarily before the axes start swinging, and it seems likely that thousands will take the escape hatch.…
British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42
obituary Matt Trout will be missed by many, even though he was a divisive figure who featured several times on The Register.…
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment The new fork of the X.org X11 server is conservative… and we don't mean just technologically conservative.…
Looks like 1,300 Indeed and Glassdoor staffers will need their former employer's websites
Recruit Holdings, the Japanese job site conglomerate that owns recruitment job site Indeed and employer reviewer Glassdoor, has eliminated about 1,300 positions.…
AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds
Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite.…
Hegseth signs flying memo to expand military use of cheap drones in oddball video
video Flanked by a pair of buzzing drones that threatened to drown out his voice, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reached up to grab a memorandum hung from a third drone hovering above his head. …
Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show
ai-pocalypse Computer scientists say they've devised a way to remove image-based protection mechanisms developed to protect artists from unwanted use of their work for AI training.…
