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Most devs don't trust AI-generated code, but fail to check it anyway

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Developer survey from Sonar finds AI tool adoption has created a verification bottleneck Talk about letting things go! Ninety-six percent of software developers believe AI-generated code isn't functionally correct, yet only 48 percent say they alway…

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CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money From disposable electric candy to voice-activated refrigerators without physical handles, CES was crammed full of enshittified, intrusive, insecure, and wasteful technolo…

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CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money CES 2026  From disposable electric candy to voice-activated refrigerators without physical handles, CES was crammed full of enshittified, intrusive, insecure, and wastefu…

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Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

New nuclear capacity won’t show up until around 2030 Meta is writing more checks for nuclear investment, even though the new capacity tied to those deals is unlikely to come online until around 2030. The company says it will need the new power to ru…

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CES 2026 worst in show: AI girlfriends, a fridge that won't open unless you talk to it, and more

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money. CES 2026  From disposable electric candy to voice-activated refrigerators without physical handles, CES was crammed full of enshittified, intrusive, insecure, and wastef…

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Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

No naming that tune and no album covers Microsoft is celebrating the resurgence of interest in physical media in the only way it knows how… by halting the Windows Media Player metadata service.…

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Putinswap: France trades alleged ransomware crook for conflict researcher

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Basketball player accused of aiding cybercrime gang extradition blocked in exchange for Swiss NGO consultant France has released an alleged ransomware crook wanted by the US in exchange for a conflict researcher imprisoned in Russia.…

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Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else The Desktop Classic System is a rather unusual hand-built flavor of Debian featuring a meticulously configured spatial desktop layout and a pleasingly 20th-century look and f…

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CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago CISA has added a pair of security holes to its actively exploited list, warning that attackers are now abusing a maximum-severity bug in HPE's OneView management …

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As agents run amok, CrowdStrike's $740M SGNL deal aims to help get a grip on identity security

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Authentication is basically solved. Authorization is another thing entirely... CrowdStrike has signed a $740 million deal to buy identity security startup SGNL. The move underscores the growing threat of identity-based attacks as companies struggle …

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Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

No naming that tune and no album covers Microsoft is celebrating the resurgence of interest in physical media in the only way it knows how… by halting the Windows Media Player metadata service.…

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QR codes a powerful new phishing weapon in hands of Pyongyang cyberspies

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

State-backed attackers are using QR codes to slip past enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins, the FBI says North Korean government hackers are turning QR codes into credential-stealing weapons, the FBI has warned, as Pyongyang's sp…

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Copper supplies set to peak just as tech needs more

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Analysts say production will top out this decade while global electrification keeps ramping Concerns are mounting over copper supplies, with a fresh study warning that demand will likely outstrip production within a decade, threatening to constrain …

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NASA decides to bring Crew-11 home early after astronaut health scare

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Medical issue forces mission curtailment and leaves station short-handed NASA is bringing the Crew-11 astronauts back to Earth early after one encountered a medical issue that could not be dealt with aboard the orbiting outpost.…

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Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs – you're not changing anybody's mind

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such' Today, it is hard to escape LLM bots and the endless slop they emit, but the Linux kernel might be largely safe... for now.…

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China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild Chinese-linked cybercriminals were sitting on a working VMware ESXi hypervisor escape kit more than a year before the bugs it relied on were made public.…

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The Microsoft 365 Copilot app rebrand was bad, but there are far worse offenders

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The software wasn't actually renamed, but you couldn't be blamed for being confused Opinion  Wait? What? I was just cruising along the information superhighway – yes, I'm old, deal with it – when I spotted a Y Combinator story announcing, "Microsoft…

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Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Extremophile bacteria could help turn Martian dirt into building material for human habitats Tough microbes able to survive extreme environments on Earth could be the key to constructing buildings to allow humans to survive on Mars, according to a r…

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Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing'

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions Grok has yanked its image-generation toy out of the hands of most X users after the UK government openly weighed a ban over the AI feature that "undressed"…

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Nothing to declare at border control except a Windows 7 certificate error

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The queue might move on, but the software never did Bork!Bork!Bork!  Today's bork - on a UK border control wait-time screen - is doubly unfortunate. Tired passengers get no clue how long until someone checks their passport, and of all organizations …

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Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on

vrijdag 9 januari 2026 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts The Bank of England has trebled the amount it is spending on its Oracle systems integrator amid efforts to migrate business applications to the cloud.…

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