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MPs brand NS&I's £3B IT overhaul a 'full-spectrum disaster'
Britain's state-backed savings bank has been dragged over the coals by Parliament's spending watchdog, which has branded its long-running digital overhaul a £3 billion "full-spectrum disaster."…
Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper
The Netherlands' largest mobile network operator (MNO) has admitted that a breach of its customer contact system may have affected around 6.2 million people.…
OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much
Opinion I'm willing to be impressed by AI products, but Anthropic's AI‑built C compiler leaves me a bit cold. It's little more than a clever demo. It is not the moment when software engineering as we know it flips over and dies. Not even close.…
Skyrora circles Orbex wreckage as UK rocket rival heads for administration
Skyrora is eyeing the wreckage of fellow British rocketeer Orbex following the latter's announcement that it will appoint administrators.…
Enforcing piracy policy earned helpdesk worker death threats
On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells your tech support tales.…
Multistakeholder internet governance can be messy. APNIC wants it that way
APRICOT 2026 When members of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre got their chance to grill its leaders at yesterday’s annual general meeting, they didn’t hold back.…
Samsung says it's first to ship HBM4, a day after Micron revealed its own sales
Samsung and Micron say they’ve started shipping HBM4 memory, the faster and denser RAM needed to power the next generation of AI acceleration hardware.…
Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents
Cloudflare has turned its attention from erecting bot barriers to dangling bot bait.…
AI to make call center agents 'superheroes,' not unemployed, says industry CEO
ai-pocalypse AI will not replace the people in the call center, but it will rejigger the software stack to make agents more capable of solving customer issues without the need to swivel-chair into multiple systems or escalate complaints, said Vasili Triant, CEO of UJET.…
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users' API keys, emails, other sensitive data
More than 30 malicious Chrome extensions installed by at least 260,000 users purport to be helpful AI assistants, but they steal users' API keys, email messages, and other personal data. Even worse: many of these are still available on the Chrome Web Store as of this writing.…
OpenAI dishes out its first model on a plate of Cerebras silicon
Nvidia and AMD can take a seat. On Thursday, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first model that will run on Cerebras Systems' dinner-place-sized AI accelerators, which feature some of the world's fastest on-chip memory.…
Waymo launching China-made van that won't fail in rain, snow, or gloom of night
Waymo is rolling out its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, saying it's designed to avoid a repeat of past weather-related snafus. It's also causing controversy by putting the new kit on vehicles built by a Chinese automaker. …
AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request
Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a requirement that contributions come from people. But that bot wasn't done with him.…
Who's the bossware? Ransomware slingers like employee monitoring tools, too
Your supervisor may like using employee monitoring apps to keep tabs on you, but crims like the snooping software even more. Threat actors are now using legit bossware to blend into corporate networks and attempt ransomware deployment.…
Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract
Oracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program.…
$8K laundry bot knows when to hold ’em, knows when to fold ’em, and knows it has help standing by
Nobody likes folding laundry, but you really have to hate it to spend $7,999 on a robot that'll fold it for you with a whole heap of limitations – including company employees getting the occasional peep at your tough-to-fold unmentionables.…
Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'
Elon Musk has framed the recent exodus of talent from his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, as a necessary growing pain, saying the company's evolution "required parting ways with some people."…
'Another dark day': Users slam Microsoft over Polyglot Notebooks deprecation
Microsoft has abruptly announced the deprecation of Polyglot Notebooks with less than two months' notice, throwing the future of the .NET Interactive project into doubt.…
Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware
Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability affecting every iOS version since 1.0, used in what the company calls an "extremely sophisticated attack" against targeted individuals.…
Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree
Exploding memory prices are pushing corporate buyers to fast-track PC purchases before costs climb further.…