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Cloudflare can remember it for you wholesale

21 hours 12 min ago
Agent Memory stores AI chat scraps off to the side and recalls them when needed

Not only is hardware memory scarce these days, but context memory, the conversational data exchanged with AI models, can be an issue too.…

Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest

22 hours 12 min ago
From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier

Unless a customer pays for the most expensive enterprise license, or the law forbids it, Atlassian is going to collect their data to train its AI models. And you can't fully opt out.…

Intel eases reliance on TSMC with 'Merica-made Core Series 3 processors

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 14:46
Stripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes

Intel brought a few more chips home from Taiwan this week, with a new round of budget-oriented Core Series 3 processors fabbed right in the US-of-A.…

Anthropic mocks up Claude Design to draft fancy new pink slips for marketing teams

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 13:38
The bar for creating visual assets has been lowered to the ability to converse with a model

Anthropic is known for its industry-leading Claude Code that writes programs, but why stop there? The company, on Friday, introduced a research preview service called Claude Design that creates visual assets, potentially putting some folks out of work.…

CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug under active attack

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 10:09
Bug hiding in plain sight for over a decade lands on KEV list

CISA is sounding the alarm on a newly-exploited Apache ActiveMQ bug, ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks as attackers circle a flaw that's been quietly lurking for more than a decade.…

Opsec oopsie: Dutch navy frigate location outed by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 09:31
Or, how public information and a €5 tracker exposed an avoidable opsec lapse

Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices, so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to track one of its warships for less than the cost of some hagelslag and a coffee.…

Users complain that UK Azure is having capacity problems

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 07:56
We hear Sweden is lovely place for workloads to visit

Microsoft Azure capacity woes are back, and worse than ever, judging by the complaints of UK users.…

Microsoft closes book on rogue Windows Server 2025 upgrades

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 05:29
Starts new one on boot loops

More than a year after giving administrators an unwelcome surprise with a security update that turned out to be a Windows Server 2025 upgrade, Microsoft has marked the incident as "resolved."…

NASA gets the ball rolling on its part in Europe's jinxed Mars rover mission

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 04:39
Rosalind Franklin moving again, though another budget cut looms

NASA is moving ahead with its contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA) long-delayed Rosalind Franklin Mars rover despite another attempt by the Trump administration to cut funding for the effort.…

Attention data hoarders: Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 03:45
Users who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15

Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck.…

Locked-out iPhone user tells The Reg that Apple is scrambling to fix character flaw passcode bug

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 03:00
University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast

Apple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their iPhones for months, The Register understands.…

Would you like fries with that terminal?

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 02:15
Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't

Bork!Bork!Bork!  It was not so much Jack in the Box as Bork on the Screen at a US drive-through fast food outlet the other day. Luckily, a Reg reader was there to take it all in.…

Capita won disastrous UK pensions gig after acing performance checks

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 01:30
Top civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money

The UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout later leaving thousands of retirees waiting for payments, a senior civil servant has said.…

Support tech caught by 'Technician Aura': the bug that only hides when you're watching

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 00:29
All that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside

On Call  Life is filled with random events, but The Register tries to make readers’ lives just a little more predictable by always using Friday morning to bring you a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

Fri, 04/17/2026 - 00:02
Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software

Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react.…

IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure

Thu, 04/16/2026 - 23:15
Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups

The IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.…

Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day

Thu, 04/16/2026 - 21:35
Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory

More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates.…

IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google

Thu, 04/16/2026 - 19:04
We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer

IPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google.…

Anthropic won't own MCP 'design flaw' putting 200K servers at risk, researcher says

Thu, 04/16/2026 - 15:45
Bug or feature?

A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic's official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.…

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers

Thu, 04/16/2026 - 14:35
Client connects to deepset's Haystack platform

Mozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. …

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