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Iran war drives urgent need to counter underwater attack drones
The UK and US are looking for technology to counter the threat posed by underwater drones to ships, harbors and other critical maritime infrastructure, and are asking industry for answers.…
Lloyds app glitch turned transactions into shared experience for 447k users
A botched overnight software update at Lloyds Banking Group left up to 447,000 customers briefly seeing other people's transactions in its mobile apps, with the bank now acknowledging the scale of the incident and compensating affected users.…
UK government admits Capita pension portal was crapita at launch
A UK government official has admitted Capita did not reach the expected level of performance following the disastrous launch of the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) web portal late last year.…
Engineer sabotaged hardware then complained when it didn't work
On Call Every week is special in its own way, and The Register celebrates that fact by using Friday mornings to deliver a fresh installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your memories of managing IT messes someone else made.…
Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys
Computer security boffins have conducted an analysis of 10 million websites and found almost 2,000 API credentials strewn across 10,000 webpages.…
India’s space program can't spend money fast enough, putting missions in peril
India’s space program has thousands of vacant roles it’s struggled to fill, isn’t spending money fast enough to meet its mission timelines, and may be undervaluing intellectual property it sells to the private sector.…
China’s not thrilled its AI experts want to leave the country
China appears to be unhappy about its brightest AI talent going offshore, either to visit or to sell their wares.…
Anthropic tweaks timed usage limits to discourage Claude demand during peak hours
Anthropic on Wednesday adjusted its opaque usage limits for Claude customers by reducing the power of the services it delivers during times of peak demand, in an effort to balance demand with its capacity to deliver service.…
AI companies lick their chops as FCC proposes forcing call center onshoring
Uncle Sam is trying to make American call centers great again. The question is whether they will be great because they're filled with local workers or whether this will provide yet another excuse for companies to turn customer service jobs over to AI.…
AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region
I received an email / billing notification from AWS this week that may be the most diplomatically crafted communication in the history of cloud computing. Here it is, stripped of the usual boilerplate around it:…
AMD’s new desktop CPU oozes cache out of all 16 cores
AMD aims to extend its lead in desktop gaming with a new CPU, dubbed the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition. This top-of-the-line part has 16 cores fed by an absolutely massive 208 MB pool of cache, with memory spread across both CCDs.…
'Empathetic' Salesforce bots to help those fired by uncaring humans
There’s a joke in Boston that goes: the people in Southie will steal your wallet and help you look for it.…
Using AI to code does not mean your code is more secure
As more people use AI tools to write code, the tools themselves are introducing more vulnerabilities.…
Apple's making more iPhone parts in the US. The iPhone itself? Not so much
Apple's American Manufacturing Program (AMP) is expanding, with new suppliers signed on to produce iPhone components - though those parts will still be shipped overseas for final assembly.…
Staff too scared of the AI axe to pick it up, Forrester finds
If your company isn't seeing great returns from its investment in AI, you might want to look at the humans tasked with deploying it and how you can motivate them. Right now, many employees fear AI-driven job losses and aren't well trained to use the tech, according to Forrester.…
Linear moves sideways to agentic AI as CEO declares issue tracking dead
The Linear cloudy issue tracker and project manager has introduced an AI agent and plans to add AI coding assistance, with CEO and co-founder Karri Saarinen declaring that "issue tracking is dead."…
AI bug reports went from junk to legit overnight, says Linux kernel czar
Interview I was at a press luncheon at KubeCon Europe this week when, to my surprise, who should sit down next to me but long-term Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman. Greg, who lives in the Netherlands these days, was there to briefly comment on AI, Linux, and security. We spoke about how, over the last month, AI-driven activity around Linux security and code review has "really jumped" in a way no one in the open source world saw coming.…
Three more charged over alleged Nvidia GPU smuggling scheme to China
The US has collared three more people for allegedly attempting to smuggle Nvidia GPUs to China, days after a Supermicro co-founder faced similar accusations.…
Brit lawmaker targeted by AI deepfake fails to get answers from US Big Tech
A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…
Digital euro goes full sovereignty mode, US cloud giants not on guest list
Europe is taking a small step toward breaking its reliance on US Big Tech by hiring only cloud operators headquartered in the EU to work on the backbone of the digital euro project.…