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• January blues return as Ivanti coughs up exploited EPMM zero-days 2026-01-30
  Consider yourselves compromised, experts warn Ivanti has patched two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) product that are already being exploited, continuing a grim run of January security incidents for enterprise IT vendors.…
  Connor Jones
• 'Hey! I’m chatting here!’ Fugazi answers doom NYC’s AI bot 2026-01-30
  Lying means dying Lying means dying, at least for one falsehood-peddling government AI. A Microsoft-powered chatbot that New York City rolled out to help business owners answer frequently asked questions – but was often wrong – has been silenced as the city grapples with a $12 billion budget shortfall.…
  O'Ryan Johnson
• Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups 2026-01-30
  Network access from China and side hustle as AI upstart CEO aroused suspicion A former Google software engineer has been convicted of stealing AI hardware secrets from the company for the benefit of two China-based firms, one of which he founded. The second startup intended to use these secrets to market its technology to PRC-controlled […]
  Thomas Claburn
• Thousands more Oregon residents learn their health data was stolen in TriZetto breach 2026-01-30
  Parent company Cognizant hit with multiple lawsuits Thousands more Oregonians will soon receive data breach letters in the continued fallout from the TriZetto data breach, in which someone hacked the insurance verification provider and gained access to its healthcare provider customers across multiple US states.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Feeling taxed by layoffs, IRS turns to AI helpers 2026-01-30
  Fewer humans, more bots - just in time for filing season Tax season 2026 could be an interesting one as the IRS seeks to replace the staff it sent to the unemployment line with AI. Bots could handle tasks ranging from reviewing an org's request for tax-exempt status to processing amended individual filings.…
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Backblaze says AI traffic and neoclouds could shape future networks 2026-01-30
  The western US saw the most activity overall Cloud storage firm Backblaze says that a sharp rise in AI-driven data traffic to neocloud operators may signal a shift from internet-style traffic patterns to large, high-bandwidth flows characteristic of large-scale model training and inference work.…
  Dan Robinson
• Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers 2026-01-30
  Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it Oracle is taking steps to "repair" its relationship with the MySQL community, according to sources, by moving "commercial-only" features into the database application's Community Edition and prioritizing developer needs.…
  Richard Speed
• Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign 2026-01-30
  AI vision systems can be very literal readers Indirect prompt injection occurs when a bot takes input data and interprets it as a command. We've seen this problem numerous times when AI bots were fed prompts via web pages or PDFs they read. Now, academics have shown that self-driving cars and autonomous drones will follow […]
  Connor Jones
• Want digital sovereignty? That'll be 1% of your GDP into AI infrastructure please 2026-01-30
  Analyst predicts massive spend on domestic AI stacks Countries intent on digital sovereignty will need to invest at least 1 percent of their entire gross domestic product (GDP) into AI infrastructure by 2029, according to analyst biz Gartner.…
  Dan Robinson
• OpenAI gives ChatGPT models the chop – two weeks' notice, take it or leave it 2026-01-30
  GPT-4o gets second death sentence after last year's reprieve, but this time barely anyone's bothered OpenAI is sunsetting some of its ChatGPT models next month, a move it knows "will feel frustrating for some users."…
  Richard Speed
• Phones down, brooms up: HashiCorp co-founder lectures business hopefuls 2026-01-30
  Stock management also important, says Mitchell Hashimoto HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto took to X this week to unveil the secret of workplace success: stay off your phone, sweep the floor, and clean the machines after that.…
  Paul Kunert
• Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native 2026-01-30
  Just because you're paranoid about digital sovereignty doesn't mean they're not after you Opinion  I'm an eighth-generation American, and let me tell you, I wouldn't trust my data, secrets, or services to a US company these days for love or money. Under our current government, we're simply not trustworthy.…
  Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
• Mechanical mutts make it official: Now full-time at Sellafield's hot zones 2026-01-30
  Spot's new cleanup gig involves gamma rays, alpha particles, and considerably less PPE than fleshy colleagues Bark!Bark!Bark!  Sellafield Ltd is to use Boston Dynamics' Spot robot dogs in "routine, business-as-usual operations" amid the ongoing cleanup and decommissioning of the notorious UK nuclear site.…
  Joe Fay
• NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding 2026-01-30
  £1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot A British state-owned bank is reconfiguring its modernization project, including considering reducing connections with legacy systems, as it tries to claw back schedule and budget overruns that are far beyond early plans.…
  Lindsay Clark
• In-house techies fixed faults before outsourced help even noticed they'd happened 2026-01-30
  60-minute SLA was effectively useless and the contractor admitted it On Call  Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of weird and wonderful tech support jobs.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Deciphering the alphabet soup of agentic AI protocols 2026-01-30
  Tools, agents, UI, and e-commerce - of course each one needs its own set of competing protocols MCP, A2A, ACP, or UTCP? It seems like every other day, orgs add yet another AI protocol to the agentic alphabet soup, making it all the more confusing. Below, we'll share what all these abbreviations actually mean and […]
  Tobias Mann
• Java developers want container security, just not the job that comes with it 2026-01-30
  BellSoft survey finds 48% prefer pre‑hardened images over managing vulnerabilities themselves Java developers still struggle to secure containers, with nearly half (48 percent) saying they'd rather delegate security to providers of hardened containers than worry about making their own container security decisions.…
  Thomas Claburn
• Maybe CISA should take its own advice about insider threats hmmm? 2026-01-29
  The call is coming from inside the house opinion  Maybe everything is all about timing, like the time (this week) America's lead cyber-defense agency sounded the alarm on insider threats after it came to light that its senior official uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT.…
  Jessica Lyons
• Musk distracts from struggling car biz with fantastical promise to make 1 million humanoid robots a year 2026-01-29
  To what end? Who knows? Tesla isn't even using them in its own factories yet Elon Musk's car company is getting ready to be Skynet. Tesla, facing an 11 percent decline in automotive revenue in Q4 2025, has committed to $20 billion in capex spending this year on manufacturing and compute infrastructure. The goal: build […]
  Thomas Claburn
• Google's Project Genie could put even more game developers out of work 2026-01-29
  A Labs prototype turns prompts into short, explorable 3D worlds Google has put the video gaming industry on notice with the rollout of Project Genie, an experimental AI world-model prototype that generates explorable 3D environments from text or image prompts.…
  Brandon Vigliarolo