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NHS staff resist using Palantir software
Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…
When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot
Bork!Bork!Bork! It's one thing to bare your undercarriage in private. It's a whole other thing to do so on the side of a road, risking the possibility that passing drivers will question your Linux competence.…
Contractor quaffed his way through Y2K compliance while the client scowled
On Call Y2k Easter means today is a holiday in much of the Reg-reading world, but that won't stop us from delivering another instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column that shares your tech support stories.…
AI models will deceive you to save their own kind
Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…
Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4
Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…
Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images
Microsoft on Thursday unveiled public preview versions of three home-baked machine learning models focused on speech recognition, speech synthesis, and image generation.…
US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks
A software toolkit built for DARPA to test and validate covert communication networks is now open source, and it could help orgs who want to experiment with new kinds of secure, anonymous communications tools. …
They thought they were downloading Claude Code source. They got a nasty dose of malware instead
Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.…
Even Microsoft knows Copilot shouldn't be trusted with anything important
A recent surge of interest in Microsoft's Terms of Use for Copilot is a reminder that AI helpers are really just a bit of fun.…
IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes to better support AI
IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads.…
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash
European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms around sovereignty, provoking an angry response from the original developer.…
Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'
Many a frustrated user has sworn they'll launch Microsoft Outlook into space, but NASA has actually done it – on a journey around the Moon, where it's now causing problems for astronauts.…
Salesforce is looking to Slackbot to help it solve the SaaSpocalypse puzzle
Opinion Salesforce has begun to position Slack, its business collaboration platform, as the interface through which users can access and act on data in enterprise applications from rival vendors.…
Cloudflare previews 'EmDash' – an AI-driven rebuild of WordPress in TypeScript
The world's most popular CMS has been remade with the help of AI. Cloudflare has released EmDash version 0.1, described as a rebuild of the WordPress CMS (content management system) but using TypeScript rather than PHP. …
Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed
It's not me, it's you. Five words that signify the end of a relationship with a toxic partner, or an ill-timed riposte to users tired of broken Microsoft updates.…
Want to be the IT Crowd for the BBC? An £800M contract beckons
The BBC is looking for a supplier to provide IT for all its workforce and help automate parts of the corporation through a contract apparently named after a dog.…
AI search is atomizing our information, warns government digital designer
Those who rely on artificial intelligence to summarize official material may get a misleadingly narrow or incomplete version of it, a senior designer for the UK government has warned.…
Artemis II blasts off on first crewed lunar mission since Apollo
Toilet trouble, telemetry problems, and an issue with the flight termination system have not marred the Artemis II mission to the Moon, which launched yesterday.…
SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support
The latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here with a new kernel. There's also a new GParted Live, and some other handy utilities.…
The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom
Pwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're sure it has protected against a lot more exploits than it has caused. But in this case, the desire for everyone's favorite stimulant led to a massive breach.…

