The Federal Aviation Administration continues to face an air traffic controller shortage, and it’s hoping that a new demographic of potential applicants can fill the ranks: Video gamers. That’s right, pilots! Soon the ranks of folks coordinating your safe takeoffs and landings may be filled by famously level-headed players of titles such as Call of…
Japan’s space exploration agency (JAXA) thinks a manufacturing process that didn’t properly take into account the qualities of an adhesive caused the December 2025 failure of a satellite launch using its locally developed H3 rocket. As The Register reported at the time, the H3’s second stage ignited late and shut down early, leading JAXA to…
Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers’ credentials and take over their systems. Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) CTO Christopher Robinson told The Register that…
ServiceNow’s latest product announcements show how hardcore the company has become about embedding AI across its go-to-market strategy. ServiceNow senior vice president John Aisien, who oversees forward-deployed engineering and strategic partnerships with companies like Anthropic and Microsoft, outlined the major moves in a conversation with The Register. “AI is now infused in every package that…
Once the AI darling of programmers everywhere, Anthropic’s Claude has been stumbling mightily, both in terms of cost and perceived quality. The service was down briefly on Monday with “a major outage,” service trouble that only amplifies growing discontent from customers that even a bot can see. The outage, which involved elevated error rates, affected…
Artificial intelligence has achieved mass adoption faster than the personal computer or the internet, reaching 53 percent of the population in just three years. The number of harmful AI incidents has increased correspondingly. And both experts and laypeople believe the impact will be felt in two areas: Elections and relationships. According to the 2026 AI…
As noted above, SFPD officers recovered a document from MORENO-GAMA. MORENO-GAMA appears to have sent a similar version of the document via email to individuals at his former college in Texas on April 10, 2026. The document was a three-part series that MORENO-GAMA apparently authored, which identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the…
Cloudflare is rebuilding Wrangler’s command-line tooling by adding commands for products and interfaces that still lack CLI support. And yes, AI agents are a big reason why. A single CLI tool for Cloudflare’s entire API surface and considerable software stack would be nice for human developers, undoubtedly. It doesn’t appear that meatbags stuck typing on…
Crooks are exploiting four Microsoft vulnerabilities – one patched 14 years ago and another tied to ransomware activity – according to America’s lead cyber-defense agency, which on Monday gave federal agencies two weeks to patch them. The four vulnerabilities added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on Monday are: CVE-2025-60710, a link-following vulnerability in…
Coachella kicked off on Friday, and as usual, it’s the place to be for online influencers looking to show off their memorable experiences at the festival. A quick scroll through my social media feeds has already shown me many uncannily attractive figures in glitzy outfits, posing for perfectly staged photographs with celebrities. Only some of…