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The future of software development: Now with less software development

2026-04-28T22:00:29.00Z

At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AI

More than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…

Oracle plans to power its New Mexico mega datacenter with a 2.45GW fuel cell farm

2026-04-28T21:58:58.00Z

No sense in OpenAI stressing over its cloud bills if Oracle can't get the lights on

Close on the heels of a report that OpenAI has missed revenue targets and may not be able to pay its future bills, compute partner Oracle is keeping calm and carrying on with a massive new datacenter complex in the New Mexico desert.…

Cloudera had US candidates send resumes to a fake email address, DoJ charges

2026-04-28T20:46:57.00Z

PERM filings require employers to show American workers had a fair shot at the role

The US Department of Justice has accused data and AI platform provider Cloudera of abusing a program designed to give permanent residency to foreign workers who take tough-to-fill positions by creating a parallel hiring process that dumped the applications of Americans to a non-functional email address. …

OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock

2026-04-28T19:21:50.00Z

Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you

OpenAI's top models are officially available on Amazon Web Services' Bedrock managed inference and agent platform.…

Don't pay Vect a ransom - your data's likely already wiped out

2026-04-28T18:36:31.00Z

'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker'

Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.…

Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects

2026-04-28T18:10:21.00Z

DoI offers up to $885M if they abandon offshore wind projects

As the Iran war pushes up energy prices, the Trump administration is paying offshore wind developers to walk away from projects and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.…

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative

2026-04-28T17:51:08.00Z

Talkie's training data stops at the end of 1930, and its creators hope it'll help us better understand how AI thinks

If you're tired of interacting with a bot that spews Nazi propaganda or refers to itself as MechaHitler, you could sign off of Elon Musk's xAI. Or, just to be sure, use an LLM whose training data ends in 1930, three years before the Nazis took power in Germany and nine years before World War II started.…

IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

2026-04-28T17:18:47.00Z

80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags

IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.…

Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps

2026-04-28T17:06:59.00Z

Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market

Amazon has announced two AI services pitched with typical techbro hyperbole, aimed at changing the way you work.…

Have I Been Pwned claims Pitney Bowes hit by 8.2M email address leak

2026-04-28T14:15:07.00Z

Names, phone numbers, physical addresses also included in Shiny Hunters alleged data dump

Logistics technology company Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines for US postage, is the latest scalp claimed by ShinyHunters and its ongoing spree of pay-or-leak attacks against major organizations.…

Despite proposed science cuts, NASA boss says 'We haven't canceled anything yet'

2026-04-28T13:30:10.00Z

That 'yet' is sure doing a lot of heavy lifting if the budget for science is slashed

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has appeared before the US House Appropriations Committee to explain the proposed Trump administration plan to cut $5.6 billion from the space agency's budget.…

Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon

2026-04-28T13:00:07.00Z

RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis

Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.…

Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

2026-04-28T12:30:12.00Z

DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini

Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its Android smartphone platform to something few users asked for – competing AI services.…

UK.gov's DCMS to new CDIO: Migrate from Google to Microsoft, overhaul ERP, build a team

2026-04-28T12:24:53.00Z

£125k and a pension await whoever can herd 6 departments onto single platform without losing will to live

Later today, prospective candidates will log onto a UK government call to convince themselves that £125k a year is worth the trouble of tackling a technological landscape swamped by colliding projects.…

Two men charged over series of arson attacks on 5G masts

2026-04-28T11:14:28.00Z

Pair accused of creating literal flame war as bonkers conspiracy theories grow

Two men face charges over a series of arson attacks on 5G masts spanning two years following a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) investigation.…

Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'

2026-04-28T10:32:32.00Z

Sign-in failures, unexpected sign-outs... just another day for users

Users of Microsoft Outlook on iOS are continuing to experience outages more than 24 hours after glitches first surfaced, despite Microsoft's assurances it rolled back the configuration change and restored services.…

SUSE's sovereignty pitch meets an inconvenient $6 billion question

2026-04-28T10:00:07.00Z

Linux vendor touts European independence at SUSECON as majority stakeholder quietly explores its options

European-based SUSE devoted much of the annual SUSECON event to its sovereignty-focused pitch - even as reports swirl that its majority stakeholder is exploring a $6 billion sale which could land the Linux vendor in American hands.…

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites back

2026-04-28T09:15:10.00Z

Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating

Opinion The days when you could jump from one frontier AI model to another at the drop of a hat are going away as vendor lock-in starts to kick in, and prices increase.…

UK govt dept sent a document 'in error.' Now it's being used in a £370M contract lawsuit

2026-04-28T08:30:09.00Z

Comparison between 2 vendors was never meant to be seen ... or made

The UK's pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it "inadvertently provided", a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract.…

Australia threatens tech companies with 2.25 percent tax if they don’t pay publishers

2026-04-28T07:20:24.00Z

Last time an idea like this came up, Meta packed up its toys and went home

Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media.…

‘AI deflation’ comes to India’s tech services giants and puts downward pressure on revenue

2026-04-28T05:34:57.00Z

Headcounts, however, are mostly holding up

AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants…

China blocks Zuck’s acquisition of AI outfit Manus

2026-04-28T02:09:58.00Z

Back to the drawing board for Meta's AI ambitions

China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus.…

Microsoft's GitHub shifts to metered AI billing amid cost crisis

2026-04-28T00:31:01.00Z

The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is coming to an end

Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp.…

Ongoing supply-chain attack 'explicitly targeting' security, dev tools

2026-04-27T23:33:51.00Z

Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump

Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

2026-04-27T21:29:25.00Z

Relax, the data's been recovered. Continue with your vibe coding

Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. …

The Navy's autonomous carrier-based refueling drone has finally flown

2026-04-27T20:26:40.00Z

After missing its 2025 target, Boeing's MQ-25A Stingray is one step closer to a carrier deck

The US Navy’s current carrier-based refueling aircraft may soon be getting help, as Boeing has completed the first flight of its autonomous tanker drone designed for carrier operations.…

The crypto-to-AI bandwagon jumpers' club just landed another member: Core Scientific

2026-04-27T18:58:06.00Z

They were doing it in Texas...

Core Scientific is trading coins for tokens, revealing plans on Monday to convert a 300-megawatt bitcoin mining operation in Pecos, Texas, to an 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus.…

Medical and utility tech companies admit digital breakins

2026-04-27T17:53:16.00Z

Itron, Medtronic disclose breaches in Friday filings

Digital intruders recently broke into two major tech suppliers - utility-technology firm Itron and medical-device maker Medtronic - according to filings with federal regulators.…

South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations

2026-04-27T17:24:08.00Z

Eish shame man! Maybe you shouldn't ask AI to set the rules for AI use?

South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.…

Friendster rises from the grave to make social media great again

2026-04-27T16:45:07.00Z

No ads, no algorithm, and you actually have to physically tap phones to add a friend

It's been more than a decade since social media platform Friendster went dark, but a new owner has brought it back from the dead - sort of - with the hope he can give exhausted users of modern platforms a reprieve. …

AI reality check: Here's what three companies learned building wallets, homes, and games

2026-04-27T16:20:09.00Z

Executives from Citi, Home Depot, and Capcom describe early work with AI agents

While AI agents have moved from experimental tools to customer-facing workers in a matter of months, the next challenge is governance and reliability once those agents touch real money, real shoppers, and real creative output.…

Meta to power its bit barns with energy from space

2026-04-27T15:47:41.00Z

Facebook provider also working with energy storage firm to keep 100 hours of juice on hand

With AI demand growing, Facebook parent Meta is looking for new ways to power its datacenters, with one ambitious project pledging to send solar power down from orbit. Another agreement offers Meta the opportunity to store enough power to keep its bit barns going, even when the grid is over capacity or down.…

Microsoft and OpenAI's open relationship is now official

2026-04-27T15:14:54.00Z

No. More. Exclusivity. Redmond keeps the ring until 2032, but OpenAI is free to see other clouds

Once tied tightly together, Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their agreement, making the Windows giant's license non-exclusive. In exchange, Microsoft will no longer owe OpenAI a revenue share.…

SpaceX dusts off Falcon Heavy for first flight in 18 months

2026-04-27T13:57:07.00Z

Side boosters to make simultaneous touchdown while center core takes one for the team

Updated SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in more than 18 months, kicking off what could be a busy time for the vehicle.…

Trump's Golden Dome gets $3.2B of contractors and an AI sprinkle

2026-04-27T13:03:09.00Z

Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors

The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.…

Cybersec is a thankless job: expanding workload and shrinking pay packet

2026-04-27T12:22:58.00Z

Global recruitment giant says 71% of human firewalls saw wages stagnate last year as threats and responsibilities grew

Cybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from recruiter Harvey Nash.…

Burglar alarm biz burgled: ADT confirms cyber intrusion after ShinyHunters extortion attempt

2026-04-27T11:34:09.00Z

Security giant says attackers grabbed 'limited set' of data. Crooks claim 10 million records

A home security biz getting digitally burgled is not a great look - but that's exactly where ADT finds itself. The company has confirmed a cyber intrusion following an extortion attempt by the ShinyHunters crew, which claims to have made off with more than 10 million records.…

Microsoft updates the Windows Update Experience: You can hit pause now

2026-04-27T11:19:25.00Z

Keep the patches away for as long as you like

Microsoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like.…

In the beginning was the Bork: 'Heart of the Earth' exhibit reveals Raspberry Pi in existential crisis

2026-04-27T10:12:06.00Z

Dynamic Earth's ancient rock holds not primordial crystal, but a tiny Linux box having a bad day

Bork!Bork!Bork! From the beginning of time, there has always been Bork. Lurking within the heart of this ancient rock is not a precious crystal or a rare fossil. No, it's a Raspberry Pi desktop and dialog.…

ICO chief John Edwards steps back as workplace probe quietly unfolds

2026-04-27T09:35:08.00Z

UK’s data watchdog confirms its boss has been off the job since February while an HR investigation runs

The UK's data watchdog is without its chief after John Edwards stepped aside from the Information Commissioner's Office while an independent workplace investigation examines unspecified HR matters.…

Watch out UK taxpayers: 28,000 HMRC staffers just got an AI copilot

2026-04-27T09:15:14.00Z

Microsoft Copilot now heading into ‘Official Sensitive’ work after winning back just 26 minutes a day in a trial

HMRC is betting big on Microsoft Copilot, rolling it out to tens of thousands of staff after a Whitehall trial estimated it saved each user roughly 26 minutes of time per day.…

Anthropic's magic code-sniffer: More Swiss cheese than cheddar, for now

2026-04-27T08:30:15.00Z

AI vuln-hunter finds what humans taught it to find. Funny that

Opinion In retrospect, calling it Mythos made it a hostage to fortune. Anthropic may have hoped that the name implied its AI code security model had mythical god-like powers, but there's an alternate reading. Another definition for Mythos is a set of beliefs of obscure origin which are incompatible with reality.…

PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch

2026-04-27T07:00:09.00Z

There was only one ESC from sneaky screenshots and fake BSODs

Who, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's Monday column that shares your stories of mistakes, occasional malice, and how you came out the other side.…

Google Cloud Next proves what we suspected: Everything is AI now

2026-04-27T00:01:15.00Z

Join us for this week's Kettle as we dive into GCN and the latest not-so-alarming revelations about Mythos

KETTLE If you needed further evidence that AI comes first in pretty much everything nowadays, look no further than this year's Google Cloud Next show, which happened last week.…

Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy

2026-04-26T14:48:10.00Z

Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits

What does AI cost? It's a simple question and an important one – the answer will determine the fate of companies and shape society. But it's also a question that can't be answered in a meaningful way without additional context.…

Go straight to sell! Windows second-chance setup hawks Microsoft services at IT's expense

2026-04-26T11:38:14.00Z

The OS trying to upsell you subscriptions is more than just an annoyance

opinion You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…

AI's not going to kill open source code security

2026-04-26T09:28:09.00Z

Cal.com considers AGPL a license to drill, but not everyone feels that way

Opinion Cal.com has closed its commercial codebase, abandoning years of AGPL-3.0 licensing in a move that has alarmed the developer community that helped build it and sent ripples through the broader open source world.…

Ex-AWS legend explains what enterprises need to make AI actually work

2026-04-25T13:07:06.00Z

AI transformation is about people and organization, not technology

Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people.…

Crime crew impersonates help desk, abuses Microsoft Teams to steal your data

2026-04-25T09:28:13.00Z

Coming in cold with custom Snow malware

A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…

DeepSeek's new models are so efficient they'll run on a toaster ... by which we mean Huawei's NPUs

2026-04-24T21:25:01.00Z

Now available in preview, DeepSeek V4 cuts inference costs to a fraction of R1

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek is back with a new open weights large language model that promises performance to rival the best proprietary American LLMs. Perhaps more importantly, it claims to dramatically reduce inference costs and it extends support for Huawei's Ascend family of AI accelerators.…