April 2026

Loud, power hungry – opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban 2026-04-17 at 00:42 By Tobias Mann If there’s one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it’s a bit barn in their backyard Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear

North Korea targets macOS users in latest heist 2026-04-17 at 00:42 By Jessica Lyons Social engineering: ‘low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well’ North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users’ credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on

Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic 2026-04-17 at 00:42 By Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that’s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025. “PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the

Mozilla throws Thunderbolt at enterprise AI providers 2026-04-17 at 00:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo Client connects to deepset’s Haystack platform Mozilla has declared war on OpenAI, Microsoft, and other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. … This article is an excerpt from The Register

NodeWeaver says its perpetual licensing beats VMware’s perpetual price hikes 2026-04-17 at 00:08 By O’Ryan Johnson ‘I think you can run this thing on a potato,’ NodeWeaver CTO Alan Conboy said. Broadcom’s price increases and policy changes have led many VMware customers to look for other options. Nodeweaver is positioning itself as an alternative for

Anthropic squeezes enterprises by ejecting bundled tokens from seat deal 2026-04-16 at 23:25 By Thomas Claburn Large organizations pushed toward metered pricing More bad news for Claude users. Anthropic has revised its seat-based pricing for enterprise customers, shifting them to a new pricing plan upon contract renewal.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic ‘small changes’ problem in lakehouses 2026-04-16 at 19:49 By Lindsay Clark Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the “small changes” problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the

Iran has something America can only dream of: cheap broadband 2026-04-16 at 19:49 By Dan Robinson Shame about the internet blackouts and airstrikes North America has some of the world’s most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Brussels tells Google to hand rivals its search crown jewels as privacy row brews 2026-04-16 at 18:37 By Carly Page Includes a to-do list on search data sharing and platform access as DMA enforcement ramps up Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms,

Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned 2026-04-16 at 18:37 By Dan Robinson When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on… Britain’s government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every

Visual Studio 18.5 lands with AI debugging at a price, devs still feeling blue 2026-04-16 at 18:37 By Tim Anderson Latest version points to a shift in how Microsoft thinks about IDEs Visual Studio 2026 18.5 arrives with two headline changes – a smarter code suggestion system and an AI-powered debugger. Yet developer frustration over

Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod 2026-04-16 at 18:37 By Carly Page Forged metadata made AI reviewer treat hostile changes as though they came from known maintainer Security boffins say Anthropic’s Claude can be tricked into approving malicious code with just two Git commands by spoofing a trusted developer’s identity.…