Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default Imagine working your butt off on a project, only to have VS Code put an attribution into your commit that says Copilot helped you, even if it did not. Microsoft has reversed a change that added a default AI attribution not...
46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them
46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In...
Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space
Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship...
It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, develo...
The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino
The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.…
'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'
'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect' When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory of all the components in the environment. Enter...
Why no cloud storage architecture was designed for what agentic AI is about to demand
Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges
Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.…
Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media ...
That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bri...
Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites.…
Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organiza...
PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.…
Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond? kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …