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Internet & Computing The Register 19/08/2026 08:16:23 AM Cloud Infrastructure Month 2026 AI Infrastructure Month 2026 The State of Storage 2026 CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70 Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data: Study Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, dev survey shows Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro Microsoft finally fixing File Explorer and the Context Menu Time to flex that Windows 10 muscle memory Government Teams users face another ******* month of filtered captions Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7% Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI $10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP AI and ml Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration SOFTWARE Mozilla adds ad blocking to Firefox for iOS Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads AI and ml Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI AI and Ml Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin DEVOPS GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate systems Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard PUBLIC SECTOR Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it 'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind' Rupert Goodwins Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney Corey Quinn Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another Rupert Goodwins Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical Rupert Goodwins Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 Corey Quinn The Star Wars cantina scene shows we need a new hope for the agentic web Mark Pesce How do you solve a problem like Capita? Lindsay Clark DEVOPS GitHub has Issues as repo downloads hit 50% error rate Copilot also wobbles as another outage tests developer patience OS PLATFORMS Windows 11 movable taskbar edges closer to general release Preview also brings compact icons, Start menu sizing, and the final shove for WMIC PUBLIC SECTOR Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures Initial £31M deal comes with scope to scale sharply during a major outbreak AI AND ml Agentic AI costs set to balloon fivefold by 2028 Cheaper tokens won't help when complex workflows consume so many more of them, Gartner warns SECURITY Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials AI and Ml Excel's Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone COLUMNISTS Be a hater all you want, AI's here to stay The good news? One of the worst bits, tech giants controlling it all, might soon be over COLUMNISTS Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that security Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI systems Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie AI + ML Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result software Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service SOFTWARE The what, why, and how of pull requests and source comments Microsoft veteran on knowing the difference and convincing approvers to accept a change SECURITY ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses Shai-Hulud variant poisons 444 packages, spreads via tarballs and dev-tool hooks OFFBEAT Lego's supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine Excellent internal detail cannot entirely disguise some penny-pinching choices CYBER-CRIME 1.6M RingCentral accounts' data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack Another one bites the dust offbeat Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine Kyiv wants tighter controls to keep foreign silicon out of Moscow's weapons OFFBEAT Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age Troublesome electromagnetic catapults look set to be replaced with old-fashioned technology SECURITY Autonomous AI attacks pose 'clear and present danger' to critical infrastructure Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn AI AND ML Less than a year on, Microsoft tells Mico to pipe down Copilot's gurning blob is leaving Voice for a new career in education BOFH BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza SECURITY Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed Unnamed third party spotted suspicious activity, with names, roles, and email addresses potentially affected AI and ML Claude Code returns blank thinking blocks, but reasoning still costs you Developers report model thinking blocks being returned empty or truncated SECURITY New Zealand says China tried using space investments to spy on local affairs Intelligence Service says finding domestic threats is harder due to proliferation of toxic content online Ai and ML OpenAI ditches Recall-style screenshot surveillance for friendly keylogging 'Computer History' records clicks and typing to build ChatGPT memories software Give Google the boot by building your own search engine Got $10 and a gig of storage space? Marlin lets you weight your crawl toward the parts of the web you actually care about ai and ml Microsoft's dueling Copilot apps have combined into a single entity Consumer and work experiences converge, while a few features face the chop OFFBEAT This JCB doesn't dig – it does 406 mph Pair of reworked production-based engines carry the Hydromax into the record books security Trump wants to grant private cyber firms a license to hack back Contractors could surveil and disrupt foreign criminal networks, provided they follow strict rules and put up $1M security The backup Microsoft never promised you SPONSORED FEATURE: Your M365 and Azure data might not be as safe as you think from ransomware; time for a reality check CYBER-CRIME Mystery attacker spent a year raiding Salesforce and ServiceNow portals Custom tools harvested whatever over-permissioned guest accounts would surrender Security AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon's charity data CRM provider confirms customer database was copied and probably downloaded in readable form Europe wants out from under US tech – but first it has to find the exits Report maps the weak points in cloud, identity, and public sector procurement European firms afraid of US tech kill switch but haven't made an escape plan Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester Digital sovereignty is real in Europe. The UK? Not so much Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road Confidential computing's trust mechanism is broken. The fix may not exist France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well Dutch chip startup claims all-European fab flow – with help from a very American friend offbeat Everything is better with pickles... except Windows Operating system indigestion pops up over chicken sandwich ad SECURITY Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results Developer spotted hostname and credential string lurking in autocomplete networks Cisco thinks Mythos means instant death for unsupported networking kit CEO says buyers are moving fast and shuffling budgets to replace old boxen security Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find Attackers could extract data, even working from inside a guest VM AI and ML OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you off-prem Rent-a-GPU outfit Nebius promises rapid 1 GW powerup plan isn't nebulous And it'll jump through every financial hoop it can to get there DEVOPS Node.js creator liberates Durable Objects from Cloudflare Same stateful trick, now with your own infrastructure security Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible Eight years on, we're still paying to hide the future glimpsed during speculative execution Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance Next-gen systems double per-chip performance while cramming 3x as many into a rack Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back Intel upsizes stock sale to $20B with spending plans still fuzzy Semiconductor giant says opaquely it will use the proceeds for 'general corporate purposes' London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25 AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice Connor Moucka pleads guilty over sprawling 2024 campaign that looted billions of records HPE extends validity of quoted hardware prices, possibly for months Suggests Big Green knows its component prices will remain steady Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate AMD's AI eggs are in too few baskets, Wall Street worries The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first CYBER-CRIME Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows Exploit Wednesday's back, baby ai and ml OpenWALDO aims to blow the doors off proprietary AI training models Contributors wanted: 167B transparent tokens have a long way to go against AI giants' trillions OFF-PREM CoreWeave revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B Neocloud says AI compute demand is becoming continuous, but so is the spending SECURITY Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak Nobody patched the CMS or read the alerts, and ACRO still cannot tell whether info was exfiltrated Security Akira ransomware scum blocked victim's security tools – and broke their own encryptor Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode science How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget Even two-tenths of a watt matters when your spacecraft launched in 1977 SECURITY Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine AI Agents in 2026: Navigating the deployment-confidence gap This webinar, drawing from a global survey of security leaders, will dissect the structural control gaps hindering safe AI adoption. PUBLIC SECTOR UK puts £14B cloud framework in place with SMEs promised a bigger slice Global players dominate the market. Will public sector buyers give local suppliers a look-in? columnists Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories

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