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Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has an urgent need for a new software system to help implement the Trump administration's deportation plans, and it's turning to longtime ICE supplier Palantir for a rush build job.…

Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI

Microsoft will soon let Copilot agents drive computers through the GUI just like humans – by clicking buttons, selecting menus, and even completing forms on screen.…

Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to int main(enter the void)...

In a fitting bit of irony, users of Cursor AI experienced the limitations of AI firsthand when the programming tool's own AI support bot hallucinated a policy limitation that doesn't actually exist.…

Just us or is AI increasingly appearing like an unwanted party guest?

Microsoft customers are claiming the Windows giant's Copilot AI service sometimes ignores commands to disable the thing, and thus turns itself back on like a zombie risen from the dead.…

It's now hitting govt, enterprise targets

On March 11 - Patch Tuesday - Microsoft rolled out its usual buffet of bug fixes. Just eight days later, miscreants had weaponized one of the vulnerabilities, using it against government and private sector targets in Poland and Romania.…

MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF?

Comment  The splintering of the global system for identifying and tracking security bugs in technology products has begun.…

AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done

Video  Crosswalk buttons in various US cities were hijacked over the past week or so to – rather than robotically tell people it's safe to walk or wait – instead emit the AI-spoofed voices of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg.…

Fiddling with the production database – what could possibly go wrong?

Who, Me?  Monday mornings are a nasty time of week that can be redeemed by two things: bantering about weekend sporting results, and reading another edition of "Who, Me?" – The Register's weekly column that shares your stories of dropping the ball at work but somehow recovering for at least an honorable draw.…

When it comes to sales and rebates, PC giant takes 'Keep Reinventing' seriously

HP Inc has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in the US that alleged it used deceptive pricing tactics on its website, including fake discounts and misleading limited-time offers.…

Oh. You expected serious suggestions?

It isn't just devices unable to upgrade to Windows 11 that are headed to digital landfill this year. The first version of Microsoft's Surface Hub is also destined for the tech trashcan as Windows 10 support ends. So, what do you do with a big black wall ornament?…

SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time

A NASA-led satellite mission has suggested that swirls and eddies in the middle of the ocean have a bigger influence on Earth's climate system than scientists previously realized.…

Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national security, right?

Updated  US government funding for the world's CVE program – the centralized Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database of product security flaws – ends Wednesday.…

Uncertainty is the new certainty

In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the globally used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program.…

Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified

CISA – the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – has issued an alert for those who missed Oracle grudgingly admitting some customer data was stolen from the database giant's public cloud infrastructure.…

Lad who 'stays in his bedroom on his computer' emerged ready to deliver brilliant tech support

On Call  It may be a holiday Friday in much of the Reg-reading world but that won't stop us from delivering another installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.…

'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

Exclusive  IBM, which employees wryly or ruefully say stands for I've Been Moved, is once again moving its employees.…

After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won

For the second time in less than a year, a federal judge has found that some parts of Google broke US antitrust law.…

Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA

Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked the security clearances of everybody at the company.…

Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim

Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation after a tech staffer at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) blew the whistle on the cost-trimming DOGE's activities at the employment watchdog – which the staffer claims included being granted superuser status in contravention of standard operating procedures, exfiltrating data, and seemingly leaking credentials to someone with a Russian IP address.…

As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit

Nvidia's troubles with the US government have just begun: The day after the Trump administration's export restrictions on its AI chips triggered a $5.5 billion charge, US elected officials are now demanding answers about how advanced silicon ended up in China. Meanwhile, CEO Jensen Huang has flown to China to try and smooth things over with the regime there.…