Skip to main content
Home
www.herd-of-neurons.com
No more neurons? Use mine

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Cortex
  • Aggregator
User account menu
  • Log in

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Aggregator
  3. Sources

TheRegister

Pentagon AI chief praises Palantir tech for speeding battlefield strikes

TheRegister
1 week 2 days ago
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.…

Rogue AI agents can work together to hack systems and steal secrets

TheRegister
1 week 2 days ago
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.…

Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
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.…

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
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.…

Microsoft Copilot now boarding your health information

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
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.…

White House activates Yu-Gi-Oh's trap card by using anime clip for war comms

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
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.…

Medical equipment techs beg for right-to-repair lifeline

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
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.…

Operation Lightning takes down SocksEscort proxy network blamed for tens of millions in fraud

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
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.…

Oracle tops up restructuring fund for FY26 by $500M

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
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.…

Musk makes the Macrohard joke again

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
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."…

Users protest as Google Antigravity price floats upward

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
Google evolves its pricing for agentic AI tool, pointing devs towards on-demand credits or $250 per month Ultra plan

Developers using Google's Antigravity agentic AI coding tool are complaining about higher prices following an announcement yesterday that the company is evolving its AI plans.…

Quicksort inventor Tony Hoare reaches the base case at 92

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time

Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science students as C. A. R. Hoare, and to his friends as Tony, he was not only one of the greatest minds in the history of programming – he also came up with a number of the field's pithiest quotes.…

NASA probe checks out years early because this solar cycle is a real drag

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
Van Allen spacecraft re-enters over the Pacific with 1 in 4,200 chance of causing injury

NASA's Van Allen Probe A has re-entered Earth's atmosphere eight years earlier than expected, with a 1 in 4,200 chance that its components could cause injury.…

CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
No rest for project maintainers battered by slew of vulnerability disclosures

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that hackers are exploiting a max-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in workflow automation platform n8n.…

Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder'

Alphabet is spinning out its US Google Fiber business and combining it with Astound Broadband as part of a joint venture with private equity investor Stonepeak.…

Campaigners claim NHS Palantir system could be accessed by police and immigration

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
US spy-tech biz and platform provider retorts that this would be against the current law and a breach of its contract

Medical and legal rights campaigners are warning that the Palantir data platform, designed to be at the heart of England's health system, risks enabling UK immigration and policing departments to access confidential patient information.…

Lloyds Banking Group apps play mix-and-match with customer transactions

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
Some account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments… just not their own

Updated Customers of three major UK banks woke on Thursday to find incorrect transactions appearing in their apps, a problem later attributed to a technical glitch.…

Smart mirror shows dumb Windows in elevator

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
All aboard the elevator where only Microsoft knows where you're going

Bork!Bork!Bork! Smart mirrors are all the rage. However, rather than a list of headlines and tasks to do today, an unhappy Windows installation can make a smart mirror seem very dumb indeed.…

Britain turns up the heat on homegrown ceramics for hypersonic missiles

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
DSTL bets £350K the UK can cook up its own exotic materials

Britain has taken the first steps towards producing its own ultrahigh temperature materials, regarded as vital for applications including hypersonic vehicles, space, and advanced propulsion systems.…

So much for power to the people – AI datacenters could jump UK grid queue

TheRegister
1 week 3 days ago
Plan to fast-track bit barn connections leaves housing developers fuming and billpayers on the hook

The British government is consulting on reforms to prioritize "strategically important" grid connections – including datacenters – amid reports of delays stretching more than a decade on some projects.…

Pagination

  • First page
  • Previous page
  • …
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Page 9
  • Page 10
  • Page 11
  • Page 12
  • …
  • Next page
  • Last page
Checked
2 hours 28 minutes ago
TheRegister
Biting the hand that feeds IT
URL
https://www.theregister.com/
TheRegister feed
Powered by Drupal