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Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help
Capita has sought Microsoft's help after the launch of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) left users facing a malfunctioning website designed to process important financial information.…
Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance
Updated Routine Cloudflare maintenance went awry this morning, knocking over the company's dashboard and API and sending sites around the world into error screens.…
Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what's real on the net?
Opinion Liars, cranks, and con artists have always been with us. It's just that nowadays their reach has gone from the local pub to the globe.…
Vendor's secret 'fix' made critical app unusable during business hours
On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday column that tries to improve the health of the tech support ecosystem by sharing readers' sickening stories of bringing broken tech back from the brink.…
Proxmox delivers its software-defined datacenter contender and VMware escape hatch
Open source virtualization project Proxmox has delivered the first full and stable release of its Datacenter Manager product, making it a more viable alternative as a private cloud platform.…
HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge
HPE has revealed its revenue from servers and hybrid cloud products has gone backwards but insisted that’s nothing to worry because it’s now poised to profit from its acquisition of Juniper Networks.…
An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense
Anthropic could have scored an easy $4.6 million by using its Claude AI models to find and exploit vulnerabilities in blockchain smart contracts.…
Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU
re:invent Amazon on Thursday unveiled Graviton5, its densest, highest performance CPU yet, cramming 192 processor cores into a single socket and promising new levels of AWS performance.…
PRC spies Brickstromed their way into critical US networks and remained hidden for years
Chinese cyberspies maintained long-term access to critical networks – sometimes for years – and used this access to infect computers with malware and steal data, according to Thursday warnings from government agencies and private security firms.…
OpenAI turns the screws on chatbots to get them to confess mischief
Some say confession is good for the soul, but what if you have no soul? OpenAI recently tested what happens if you ask its bots to "confess" to bypassing their guardrails.…
Hegseth needs to go to secure messaging school, report says
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth definitely broke the rules when he sent sensitive information to a Signal chat group, say Pentagon auditors, but he's not the only one using insecure messaging, and everyone needs better training.…
Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases
Vetting staff who handle sensitive government systems is wise, and so is cutting off their access the moment they're fired. Prosecutors say a federal contractor learned this the hard way when twin brothers previously convicted of hacking-related offenses allegedly used lingering access to delete nearly 100 government databases, including systems tied to Homeland Security and other agencies, within minutes of being terminated.…
We'll beat China to the Moon, NASA nominee declares
The US must return astronauts to the Moon before China mounts its first crewed landing there, NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman predicted on Wednesday. He also vowed that the country will not endure another gap in its human-spaceflight capabilities as the International Space Station approaches retirement.…
Server prices set to jump 15%, PCs 5%, as memory costs spike - channel sources
Exclusive Server and PC prices are climbing sharply as hardware manufacturers grapple with soaring memory component costs, multiple supply chain sources have told The Register.…
Snowflake jumps on agentic AI train with Anthropic tie-up
Anthropic and Snowflake announced a deal that will allow the deployment of AI agents capable of complex, multi-step analysis inside Snowflake's governed data environments.…
Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job
If you didn't get your dream job, you might be able to blame your internet provider. Technical glitches on video calls in healthcare, job interviews, and parole hearings can affect real-world decisions, a study has found. The researchers suggest new technologies may even be making the problem worse.…
EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform
The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot.…
Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative
Palantir has always been a company marked by ambition, and it's embarking on what might be its most ambitious project yet with Chain Reaction, a new multi-industry, AI-powered software suite designed to eliminate energy bottlenecks for datacenters.…
Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse
Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime networks.…
Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits
Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explorer in the latest round of updates.…