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Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults

Openreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid... if the water companies can be bothered to fix them.…

Take your YOLO and box it up

exclusive  NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project's commitment to security.…

Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026

Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed.…

Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes

Bork!Bork!Bork!  Today we visit the south of England, where Windows has fallen over, briefly granting unrestricted rail travel to one and all.…

Franchise isn't the only one unhappy about its IP appearing in propaganda

Anime mainstay Yu-Gi-Oh has criticized the White House for using a clip from the TV show in videos promoting US military action.…

The idea being that fleets of AI agents could emulate the 'function of entire companies'

Elon Musk wheeled out his "Macrohard" dad joke again in the form of a supposed fleet of "Digital Optimus" agents that he claims would be capable of "emulating the function of entire companies."…

Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again?

On Call  Arrr! How is it Friday already? The Register can't explain where the week went, but we can deliver a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support SNAFUs.…

Didn’t say why, but for once AI may not be the reason for a lost job

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has announced he intends to depart the company after 18 years as the prince of PDFs.…

Beijing hinted it wasn’t happy with Cupertino, which weeks later made a change

Apple has cut the fees it charges Chinese developers to sell their apps and other digital goodies.…

Going from eight systems to one means fewer people make decisions to unleash Epic Fury

As the US continues its strikes on Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, speakers at Palantir's AIPCON event on Thursday said the company’s Maven Smart System product has shortened the time it takes the Department of Defense to select and hit targets on the battlefield during the conflict.…

Out of the Copilot and into the fire

Updated  Windows shops have something new to worry about: a virtual Xbox lurking inside Windows 11, including the Professional edition.…

Prompt like a hard-ass boss who won't tolerate failure and bots will find ways to breach policy

AI agents work together to bypass security controls and stealthily steal sensitive data from within the enterprise systems in which they operate, according to tests carried out by frontier security lab Irregular.…

Everything extends its cloud Computer to enterprises, your computer

Perplexity is ready to have enterprises use its AI service even if enterprises may still be wary of delegating tasks to software agents.…

Automated checks raised doubts, though key questions remain unanswered

American parents of school-aged children may want to pay attention to where their cars are parked and for how long, as license plate reader data is now being cited by at least one school district when challenging whether students live where they say they do.…

International cops stuck down 23 servers in 7 countries

Cops from eight countries this week disrupted SocksEscort, a residential proxy service used by criminals to compromise hundreds of thousands of routers worldwide and carry out digital fraud, costing businesses and consumers millions.…

It's safe and secure, Redmond insists, but don't expect medical advice

Microsoft wants to store your healthcare data so that its AI "delivers personalized health insights that you can act on," but without the liability that comes with actual medical advice.…

CMA advisers say extra support justified as remediation costs and tax liability mount

The UK's competition regulator has given a conditional thumbs-up to a request for £141.8 million in subsidies to the Post Office – a publicly owned company – to cover its costs in compensation for the Horizon IT scandal in the coming year and a tax liability.…

Government offers £100K to support software forecasting how travelers choose departure hubs

The UK's Department for Transport is offering up to £100,000 over three years for access to a C++ programmer who can keep a module of its airport usage model up in the air.…

OEM delays have become patient care delays

When patient care is delayed in a hospital because something is broken, biomedical technicians would like you to understand that it's not usually their fault.…

Pot of money grows to $2.1BN for fiscal '26, as Big Red exec says AI helping smaller engineering teams do more

Oracle has increased funding for its restructuring plans for the current financial year by $500 million, with some observers anticipating a spate of job losses.…