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Fewer than 3 in 10 register for HMRC's Making Tax Digital shake-up
Fewer than three-tenths of those required to sign up for quarterly software-based Making Tax Digital (MTD) reporting for the latest tax year that started this month have done so, according to HM Revenue & Customs.…
Tech support chap's boss got him out of jail so he could finish a job
On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support incidents that crossed a line.…
AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load and is close to selling out AI capacity
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full of interesting news about the cloud and e-tail giant.…
South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access
Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.…
Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent, warns they’ll wake up slowly
Microsoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.…
Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find
Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.…
Anthropic will let your agents sleep on its couch
If you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations.…
Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs
Google will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitro NICs.…
Crypto? Huh. Good gawd y'all, what is it good for? $45M in this case
US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.…
World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate
It's going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly compared with prior years.…
AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them
AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.…
'Several dozen' high-value corporations hit by new extortion crew in helpdesk phishing spree
A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.…
Deere oh Deere: Tractor repair row heads for $99M settlement
Agriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.…
Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including the widely used Apache Spark analytics engine.…
Nutanix to add KubeVirt support to run VMs on K8s at the edge
Exclusive Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.…
Chevin pulls the handbrake on FleetWave software after security scare
A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.…
OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape
OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.…
Months-old Adobe Reader zero-day uses PDFs to size up targets
Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.…
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.…
Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market
America's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even higher prices this year.…

