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UK tax collector falls short on digital efficiency, watchdog says
The UK’s tax collector is yet to reach the levels of efficiency its investment in digital services has led auditors to expect, according to a new report.…
ISP help desk manager fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke
On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register’s Friday reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…
Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory
Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has confirmed it will use humanoid robots to make Nvidia servers in America.…
Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million
Singaporean super-app company Grab has dumped 200 cloudy Mac Minis and replaced them with physical machines, a move it expects will save $2.4 million over three years.…
Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people
Microsoft has joined the ranks of tech giants chasing superintelligent artificial intelligence, but the company's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s vision is markedly different from that articulated by other industry leaders…
Gootloader malware back for the attack, serves up ransomware
Gootloader JavaScript malware, commonly used to deliver ransomware, is back in action after a period of reduced activity.…
Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe
opinion Look out, Jensen! With its TPUs, Google has shown time and time again that it's not the size of your accelerators that matters but how efficiently you can scale them in production.…
OpenAI CFO says can keep afloat without federal bailout
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says that her company is not seeking federal loan guarantees after suggesting the opposite in an on-stage interview at a Wall Street Journal event.…
Cisco warns of 'new attack variant' battering firewalls under exploit for 6 months
Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that aren't under active exploitation - yet.…
Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October
ai-pocalypse A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into the end of the year that we've seen since 2003. …
Union brands Rockstar’s leak claim “a distraction” as protests hit Take-Two London
Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…
FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute
A convicted identity thief has lost his appeal against Uncle Sam after claiming federal agents destroyed a seized hard drive containing cryptocurrency worth more than $345 million.…
Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software
Opinion The agentic era remains a fantasy world. Software agents, the notional next frontier for generative AI services, cannot escape the gravity of their contradictions, legal ambiguities, and competitive pressures. Not everyone, especially not competing businesses, wants a bot representing the customer.…
Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters
Lenovo says that traditional datacenters are not fit for purpose, and must evolve to future-proof businesses across EMEA. This is based on research, but the PC and server biz has come up with some wacky possible designs, including one that is almost literally in the clouds.…
Vibe coding named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant
Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?…
Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet
Ready to have your agent talk to my agent and arrange a sale? Microsoft has published a simulated marketplace to put AI agents through their paces and answer a question for the new age: Would you trust AI with your credit card?…
You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will
123456. admin. password. For years, the IT world has been reminding users not to rely on such predictable passwords. And yet here we are with another study finding that those sorts of quickly-guessable, universally-held-to-be-bad passwords are still the most popular ones.…
Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence
Microsoft has officially confirmed that Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence, with Intune as the primary focus for innovation.…
SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach
SonicWall has blamed an unnamed, state-sponsored collective for the September break-in that saw cybercriminals rifle through a cache of firewall configuration backups.…
Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge
Colt Data Centre Services has secured approval to invest £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in three hyperscale data centers at its Hayes Digital Park campus in west London.…