1+ week, 3+ day ago  (334+ words) MPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid into a bottleneck. The UK's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has opened a short inquiry into whether so-called low-energy computing could rein…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (366+ words) Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck. For those not living in it daily, Plex is a media server platform that lets users…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (689+ words) A Scottish man linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime crew has pleaded guilty in the US to a phishing and SIM-swap scheme that stole at least $8 million in cryptocurrency. Tyler Robert Buchanan, 24, pleaded guilty in California to one count of…...

12+ hour, 18+ min ago  (481+ words) If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to rising component costs. Memory and storage prices have…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (412+ words) IPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google. The search and ads giant tracks the percentage of its users who access its services over IPv6 on a page that The Register has often seen used…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (531+ words) The US and Starlink lead the way in the still-young direct-to-device (D2 D) satellite market, where the number of connections recorded by Ookla rose nearly 25 percent between July 2025 and March 2026. Satellite phones have been around for many years (remember Iridium?), but only…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (263+ words) America's lead cyber-defense agency has warned that three Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager bugs are under attack, and given federal agencies just four days to patch the security holes. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added all three to…...

11+ hour, 39+ min ago  (384+ words) Anthropic is pulling in more LLM revenue than Open AI, despite having a fraction of the users. New stats from Counterpoint Research put Anthropic on top of the global LLM revenue table in Q1 2026, with a 31. 4 percent share, narrowly ahead of…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (412+ words) Yet another npm supply-chain attack is worming its way through compromised packages, stealing secrets and sensitive data as it moves through developers' environments, and it shares significant overlap with the open source infections attributed to Team PCP last month. Application…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (738+ words) Enterprise AI projects go off the rails when companies focus on the technology instead of the people. So says Matt Domo, co-founder of AWS's database division, founder of AI consultancy Fifth Vantage, and also author of a tome titled "Everybody…...