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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 03/15/2026 > jury_out_on_whether_americans

Jury out on whether Americans approve or datacenters

3+ day, 50+ min ago  (571+ words) Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not. A survey by the Pew Research Center finds that a quarter of adults have…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 03/03/2026 > telecoms_coalition_6g

Western governments seek to lock down 6G before it exists

2+ week, 23+ hour ago  (456+ words) A group of Western governments has launched a fresh bid to shape 6G before it's even standardized, unveiling a set of security and resilience principles to bake supply chain controls and cyber safeguards into the next generation of mobile networks. The…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 02/23/2026 > gemini_users_say_their_chat

Gemini users say their chat histories have quietly vanished

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (344+ words) Over the past few days, complaints have stacked up from people who say months of conversations with Google's AI chatbot have simply vanished, with Reg readers noting the disappearances seemed to coincide with the rollout of Gemini 3.1. These complaints are…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 02/18/2026 > microsoft_copilot_data_loss_prevention

Copilot Chat bug bypasses DLP on 'Confidential' email

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (424+ words) The bot couldn't keep its prying eyes away. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been summarizing emails labeled "confidential" even when data loss prevention policies were configured to prevent it. Though there are data sensitivity labels and data loss prevention policies in…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 02/18/2026 > generating_passwords_with_llms

LLM-generated passwords 'fundamentally weak,' experts say

1+ mon, 2+ min ago  (724+ words) Generative AI tools are surprisingly poor at suggesting strong passwords, experts say. AI security company Irregular looked at Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and found all three GenAI tools put forward seemingly strong passwords that were, in fact, easily guessable. Prompting…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 02/11/2026 > tmobile_network_ai_translate_live_calls

T-Mobile's new network-based AI will translate live calls

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (530+ words) T-Mobile is claiming it's now the first wireless carrier to integrate generative AI "directly into a wireless network," and it's rolling out real-time call translation as the first feature delivered on top of its new AI-filled cellular network." To add…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 02/10/2026 > ai_agents_messaging_apps_data_leak

AI agents can spill secrets via malicious link previews

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (327+ words) AI agents can shop for you, program for you, and, if you're feeling bold, chat for you in a messaging app. But beware: attackers can use malicious prompts in chat to trick an AI agent into generating a data-leaking URL,…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 02/10/2026 > ipv6_generative_ai_experiment

AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in experiment

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (599+ words) APRICOT 2026 Indonesia's Universitas Islam conducted experiments that found using generative AI vastly reduces the cognitive load on network pros during IPv4 to IPv6 migrations, but that organizations may not be ready for both AI and the new network protocol. The CIO and…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 02/10/2026 > frankfurt_colocation_king

Frankfurt to dethrone London as colocation king by 2031

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (274+ words) London will lose its dominance in colocation datacenters this decade with Frankfurt claiming the top spot by 2031, according to the EU Data Centre Association (EUDCA). At a national level, Germany will overtake the UK, though Ireland will far outstrip both…...

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go.theregister.com > feed > www.theregister.com > 02/04/2026 > ai_bot_traffic_web_browsers

AI bot traffic closing in on human web visits, study finds

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (943+ words) The AI bot takeover of the internet continues apace, and the latest data suggests the surge is being driven less by model-training scrapes and more by the growing use of AI tools as a stand-in for web search. Tollbit, an…...