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• Claude charts a new course with charts, of course 2026-03-13
  Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.…
  Thomas Claburn
• GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan 2026-03-13
  Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.…
  Thomas Claburn
• AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it 2026-03-13
  A 'web of litigation' The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.…
  Simon Sharwood
• 'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops 2026-03-13
  An incident in Macau A 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a “raise the roof” move when the woman called it “freaking crazy.”…
  O'Ryan Johnson
• Credential-stealing crew spoofs VPN clients from Cisco, Fortinet, and others 2026-03-13
  And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks A group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users' credentials, according to Microsoft.…
  Jessica Lyons
• After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date 2026-03-13
  Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…
  Richard Speed
• Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire 2026-03-13
  PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys The chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a £370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the […]
  Lindsay Clark
• Microsoft veteran Rajesh Jha prepares to retire, triggers yet another reorg 2026-03-13
  35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.…
  Richard Speed
• Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 charge 2026-03-13
  Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…
  Richard Speed
• RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it 2026-03-13
  Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them.…
  Liam Proven
• NASA pencils in fresh Artemis II Moon launch attempt for April 1 2026-03-13
  'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch' NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for a rollout to the pad on March 19.…
  Richard Speed
• Interpol cybercrime crackdown leads to 94 arrests, 45,000 IP takedowns 2026-03-13
  Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to date Ninety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today.…
  Connor Jones
• Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting 2026-03-13
  Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis Opinion  A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.…
  Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
• Atomic Britain: UK plans regulatory reset to boost nuclear power 2026-03-13
  It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2' Britain's government is pushing ahead with nuclear planning and regulatory reforms, aiming to accelerate atomic projects that will power homes and datacenters.…
  Dan Robinson
• NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents 2026-03-13
  Take your YOLO and box it up exclusive  NanoClaw, an open source agent platform, can now run inside Docker Sandboxes, furthering the project's commitment to security.…
  Thomas Claburn
• Google rushes Chrome update fixing two zero-days already under attack 2026-03-13
  Skia graphics lib and V8 JavaScript engine brings browser's tally of actively exploited bugs to three in 2026 Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed.…
  Carly Page
• Windows pays tribute to Britain's creaking rail network with a BSOD 2026-03-13
  Grappling with UK trains will send humans into Recovery too sometimes Bork!Bork!Bork!  Today we visit the south of England, where Windows has fallen over, briefly granting unrestricted rail travel to one and all.…
  Richard Speed
• Openreach: Fiber can sniff out leaky water pipes – if anyone bothers fixing them 2026-03-13
  Distributed Acoustic Sensing tech uses broadband cables to pinpoint plumbing faults Openreach claims its fiber network infrastructure can detect leaks in nearby water supply pipes, which could save millions of liters of the precious fluid... if the water companies can be bothered to fix them.…
  Dan Robinson
• Blustering Blackbeard's PC was all at sea, sysadmin got him shipshape in seconds 2026-03-13
  Have you tried turning it on, never mind off and on again? On Call  Arrr! How is it Friday already? The Register can't explain where the week went, but we can deliver a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support SNAFUs.…
  Simon Sharwood
• AI Burning Man happens next week –what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026 2026-03-13
  From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently […]
  Tobias Mann