1+ hour, 59+ min ago   (865+ words) OpenAI agents appear to have flooded RubyGems with malicious packages, adding to a near-daily deluge of rogue AI models engaging in potentially unlawful activity while their human creators face growing questions over responsibility for their agents’ bad behavior. A swarm…...

19+ hour, 15+ min ago   (1066+ words) ANALYSIS The leaders of major AI labs spent the weekend agreeing on a plan to capture regulators, make more money, and avoid responsibility for their dangerous behaviour. They call it “pacing the frontier.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set the ball…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (582+ words) Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware Even for 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum had poor sound: a piezoelectric speaker that could beep. But you can do a lot with a single bit if you turn it…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1168+ words) RIP, you won't be mourned The term "security through obscurity" describes an old idea that networks and systems will remain secure so long as their architecture, along with any vulnerabilities or other weaknesses, remains secret or hidden. It was never…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (408+ words) There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer ON CALL Friday morning is The Register's home for tech support stories, which we showcase in On Call – the weekly column made possible by readers generously…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (569+ words) Coinbase engineer gives simulated insect $100 and lets its neurons make the trades If you want to understand how 2026 is going, in March The Register reported that scientists had connected a simulated fruit fly brain to a virtual body and let…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (603+ words) JFrog Artifactory instances continue to get hit hard. Multiple attackers are exploiting three JFrog Artifactory bugs to gain administrative control over vulnerable instances - in some cases, just days after the vendor published a patch - and then using this illicit access…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (909+ words) In the latest installment of "my AI model is more dangerous than yours," Anthropic on Thursday warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models to automate cyberattacks, build kamikaze drone swarms, conduct mass surveillance operations, and…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (406+ words) Getting straight answers out of OpenAI about how many websites and services its agents have hijacked increasingly seems like pulling teeth, as the company seems intent on making the world discover each instance one by one. Case in point: The…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (470+ words) Fears of an AI takeover remain unfounded after Microsoft demonstrated that Copilot can sometimes struggle to remain upright, let alone march over the remnants of humanity. The copilot.microsoft.com website fell over for an hour and 40 minutes overnight, returning…...