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Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk's X following repeated reports of harmful image generat…

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UK.gov launches cyber 'lockdown' campaign as 80% of orgs still leave door open

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards Britain is telling businesses to "lock the door" on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven't even found the latch.…

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Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It must be that fresh mountain air Bork!Bork!Bork!  Just picture it. You're at a Swiss train station, looking for information on your connecting line. You peer up at the sign hoping to find out how long you'll be waiting and whether you're standing …

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Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to dig it out from UK pensions backlog

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Outsourcer tells MPs AI is prioritizing cases as thousands of civil servants face delays Capita is banking on Microsoft Copilot to help rescue the backlog of cases it has inherited in taking over the UK Civil Service Pensions Scheme (CSPS).…

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Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive.…

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MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK's defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain's armed forces.…

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GitHub previews Agentic Workflows as part of continuous AI concept

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Won't replace traditional CI/CD – and still in early development – so use 'at your own risk' Agentic workflows - where an AI agent runs automatically in GitHub Actions - are now in technical preview, following their introduction at the Universe even…

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Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required A quartet of Japanese organisations plan to build “advanced ambient internet of things systems” using a newly approved ISO standard.…

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Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money fosdem 2026  Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it's not just the bandwidth costs that are killi…

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AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances

dinsdag 17 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC Amazon Web Services has enabled nested virtualization for a handful of EC2 instances.…

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Canada Goose ruffles feathers over 600K record dump, says leak is old news

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Fashion brand latest to succumb to ShinyHunters' tricks Canada Goose says an advertised breach of 600,000 records is an old raid and there are no signs of a recent compromise.…

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Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs Dutch police have arrested a man for "computer hacking" after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he di…

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FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry The US Federal Trade Commission has sent out a raft of civil investigative demands to Microsoft's competitors as it warms up a probe in…

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You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user credentials in the event that their servers are compromis…

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Oracle vows 'new era' for MySQL as users sharpen their forks

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Commit drought and governance gripes push Big Red to reset Oracle has promised a "decisive new approach" to MySQL, the popular open source database it owns, following growing criticism of its approach and the prospect of a significant fork in the co…

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X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is experiencing an outage, with users worldwide reporting that their timelines no longer show the usual information flow.…

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KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fine AIpocolypse  A partner at accounting and consultancy giant KPMG in Australia was forced to cough up a AU$10k ($7,084/ £5,195) fine after he used AI to ace…

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Secondhand laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Budget-conscious buyers in Europe voting with their wallet Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive.…

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NASA's fill-'er-up Moon rocket 'confidence' test sees mixed results

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plan was to turn SLS into Seal Leaks Stemmed... But the flow was off NASA engineers spent the weekend studying the data after another attempt to fill the agency's monster Space Launch System (SLS) produced mixed results.…

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FTC to probe whether Microsoft's cloud clout crosses the line

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Competitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry The US Federal Trade Commission has sent out a raft of civil investigative demands to Microsoft's competitors as it warms up a probe in…

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Why does the Windows 11 taskbar hurt me like that?

maandag 16 februari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Former Windows manager explains design decisions behind it A former Windows boss has explained why the taskbar in Windows 11 is the way it is and how he "fought hard" to stop Microsoft from removing customization options present in Windows 10.…

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