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Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid's been placed
The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of £576 million as it starts a third round of engagement with suppliers.…
DVLA's 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new techto support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing times exceeded 14 weeks in February.…
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
On Call Fridays can be a drag, but The Register has a formula to inject a little fun by delivering a new instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column in which we share your tech support stories.…
Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
Qualcomm has quietly entered the market for custom hyperscale silicon, and datacenter CPUs…
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has confirmed the demise of its mainframe business in the year 2035 and hinted it’s working on significant defense projects.…
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), its first since 2012.…
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools
The wave of supply chain attacks aimed at security and developer tools has washed up more victims, namely SAP and Intercom npm packages, plus the lightning PyPI package.…
Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue
With the average Global Fortune 500 enterprise expected to run more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 today, there’s plenty of room for chaos. Analyst firm Gartner says that, without proper governance, those agents will multiply and run amok.…
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser
Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser
Mozilla has reiterated its opposition to Google's decision to build AI plumbing into its Chrome browser, though rather belatedly now that the technology, known as the Prompt API, is already being tested in Chrome and Microsoft Edge.…
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled
Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled
Give a man a phishing kit and he might get lucky a couple of times; teach an AI to phish and it'll change the landscape, if KnowBe4's latest phishing trends report is accurate.…
FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control'
FBI cyber boss: China's hacker-for-hire ecosystem 'out of control'
China's "hacker-for-hire ecosystem has gotten out of control," according to Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division.…