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Agents to check the work of the agents

All Things AI  AI is easy to use, but not quite as easy as just barking "Alexa! Make me an e-commerce site." And, no, adding "DON'T HALLUCINATE" to the instruction loop won't help.…

'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket

If you've noticed Claude Code's performance degrading to the point where you find you don't trust it to handle complicated tasks anymore, you're not alone.…

The company is having trouble meeting user demand

OpenClaw is popular, but not with the people responsible for keeping Anthropic’s services online. The company has disallowed subscription-based pricing for users who use the open-source agentic tool with Claude to try to keep things moving.…

CISA added the flaw to KEV after Fortinet confirmed exploitation in the wild

Fortinet released an emergency patch over the weekend for a critical FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) bug believed to be under attack since at least March 31.…

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs

It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. …

Bonsai 8B model is competitive with other 8B models but 14x smaller and 5x more energy efficient

PrismML, an AI venture out of Caltech, has released a 1-bit large language model that outperforms weightier models, with the expectation that it will improve AI efficiency and viability on mobile devices, among other applications.…

Glue and paper wouldn't have cared about discoverability

Bork!Bork!Bork!  Today's entry in the pantheon of public whoopsies is not so much Windows falling over as someone sticking a network connection where it possibly doesn't belong.…

It's not just machines that need proper HVAC

Who, Me?  The world is rapidly becoming a more uncertain place, but The Register tries to offer readers one small point of certainty by always delivering a fresh Monday morning instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your errors and elucidate your escapes.…

Pay no attention to that code behind the curtain, says Anthropic as it scrambles to defend its IPO

Kettle  When it comes to circling up for this week's Kettle, what is there to discuss but Anthropic's accidental release of Claude Code's source code?…

True-crime tales of criminals making fools of themselves

interview  Cybercrime crews have become almost mystical entities, with security vendors assigning them names like Wizard Spider and Velvet Tempest.…

The GPU king's move to optical scale-up was inevitable

If you thought Nvidia's GB200 rack systems were big, CEO Jensen Huang is just getting started. At GTC last month, the world's most valuable company revealed plans to use photonic interconnects to pack more than a thousand GPUs into a single mammoth system by 2028.…

The cloud service's woes reflect a crisis made worse by AI – under-investment in people

In 2024, federal cybersecurity evaluators reportedly dismissed Microsoft 365 Government Community Cloud High (GCC High) as garbage, although they used a more colorful term. To understand why, it helps to consider the history of the underlying Azure infrastructure.…

Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.…

Staff reportedly cite ethics concerns, privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much

Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…

This GRUB is not an advert for some tasty fried food

Bork!Bork!Bork!  It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.…

Discovered once last bug, and that briefcases can hold more beer than you might imagine

On Call Y2k  Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior

Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…

In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft

Many a frustrated user has sworn they'll launch Microsoft Outlook into space, but NASA has actually done it – on a journey around the Moon, where it's now causing problems for astronauts.…

Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages

Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…

About that partnership...

Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…