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Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but attacks surged to record highs

Fri, 2026-02-27 16:15
Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebranded

Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.…

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French DIY etailer ManoMano admits customer data stolen

Fri, 2026-02-27 15:15
Crooks claim they helped themselves to over 37M accounts during January hit on subcontractor

French online marketplace ManoMano is warning customers their personal data was siphoned off after a cyberattack hit one of its customer support subcontractors – and criminals are already claiming the haul is far larger than the company's carefully worded notice suggests.…

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Japan's Rapidus lands $1.7B to chase 2nm chip production by 2027

Fri, 2026-02-27 14:30
Government and 32 private-sector backers fund push to take on TSMC and Samsung at leading-edge nodes

Japan's fledgling foundry biz Rapidus has secured funding of $1.7 billion to help it progress to mass production of 2nm semiconductors by 2027, making it a potential rival for Taiwan's TSMC.…

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Cops back Dutch telco Odido after second wave of ShinyHunters leaks

Fri, 2026-02-27 13:54
Company refuses to pay ransom as attackers threaten larger daily dumps

The Netherlands' national police is backing Odido's refusal to pay a ransom after ShinyHunters leaked a second round of records belonging to the telco.…

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50 GW of datacenter demand queues up for UK grid access

Fri, 2026-02-27 13:13
To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year

About 140 datacenters are in the queue to be connected to Britain's power grid, and their combined energy requirements are estimated to be more than the current peak electricity use for the entire country.…

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Half of German-speaking SAP users set to blow past 2027 ECC support deadline

Fri, 2026-02-27 12:14
Most DSAG members willing to pay a premium to stay on legacy platform until 2030

About half of German-speaking SAP users on its legacy ECC ERP system are set to ignore the 2027 support deadline, according to a survey of users in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.…

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Sopra Steria sues UK government over £958M Capita outsourcing award

Fri, 2026-02-27 11:45
French firm claims DWP failed to identify rival's bid was 'abnormally low' and alleges govt breached procurement rules

Sopra Steria is suing the UK government, alleging it accepted a bid from rival Capita for an outsourcing contract worth up to £958.7 million that it failed to recognize as too low to comply with procurement rules.…

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Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul

Fri, 2026-02-27 10:15
Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA

In the middle of a mammoth migration off SAP's legacy ERP systems, global snack giant Mondelēz has found an alternative to the German vendor's tech as the main platform for understanding its complex, fragmented business processes.…

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UK copper fired after faking keyboard taps using photo frame

Fri, 2026-02-27 09:30
Typing 8x more than your peers? You better have the work to show for it

Avon and Somerset Police this week confirmed a former officer was dismissed after she was found weighing her laptop keyboard down with photo frames to simulate activity.…

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Engineer held hostage by client who asked for the wrong fix

Fri, 2026-02-27 07:30
'I was no longer field support. I was collateral'

On Call Friday has arrived, bringing a promise of fleeting freedom – and a new instalment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that retells your tales of tech support incidents that became memorable for all the wrong reasons.…

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NUC, NUC! Who’s there? ASUS with a thin client for Microsoft’s cloudy PCs

Fri, 2026-02-27 05:53
Dell also joins the basic devices for Windows 365 fun

Microsoft has found some friends to make desktop devices that boot into its Windows 365 cloud PCs.…

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China’s ‘The US hacks itself to make us look bad’ theorists return with a crypto conspiracy

Fri, 2026-02-27 04:10
Apparently Uncle Sam busted Binance to shore up the dollar, balance the budget, and achieve world domination

The Chinese agency that has accused the USA of cyberattacks on its own infrastructure to make Beijing look bad is back with another theory: Washington’s actions against cryptocurrency crooks are just attempts to dominate the global financial system.…

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Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians

Fri, 2026-02-27 02:33
AI upstart won’t remove Claude’s guardrails to stay onside with Dept. of War

Anthropic has fired back at the US Department of War, arguing that it can’t agree to Uncle Sam’s contract demand to remove guardrails on its AI in part because the tech can’t be trusted not to harm American civilians and warfighters.…

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Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump

Fri, 2026-02-27 00:33
One massive round of firings is apparently better for morale than a drip-drip-drip of death

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s financial services company Block has announced it will fire 40 percent of staff – around 4,000 people – because new "intelligence tools" the company is implementing “can do more and do it better.”…

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New endowment hopes to raise a big pile of money for open source projects

Fri, 2026-02-27 00:29
Grants for critical, unappreciated projects

Open source projects, ever short of funding, have a potential new source of revenue in the form of the Open Source Endowment (OSE).…

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Fujitsu taps Broadcom's 3D chip tech for 144-core Monaka CPU

Fri, 2026-02-27 00:03
Processor is one of roughly half a dozen designs based on Broadcom's XDSiP platform

Fujitsu’s 144-core Monaka CPU will be built using 3D-chip stacking tech from Broadcom, the merchant silicon slinger revealed on Thursday.…

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ServiceNow boasts its AI bot is resolving 90% of its own help desk tickets

Thu, 2026-02-26 23:22
When it gets stuck, the bot will escalate rather than hallucinate

ServiceNow claims it has created an AI agent that is currently solving 90 percent of the inbound IT tickets to the company's own employee help desk.…

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Burger King turns to AI to flame broil employees who aren't friendly enough

Thu, 2026-02-26 20:57
Because nothing says hospitality like a bot counting your pleases

The bot’s nagging will continue until morale improves. Burger King is rolling out a new employee-facing AI that, among other things, will listen to employees’ customer interactions to ensure they’re being friendly enough - as if working in fast food weren’t hard enough already.…

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AI models still suck at math

Thu, 2026-02-26 20:42
Just less than before, according to the ORCA test

exclusive Current-day LLMs are prediction engines and, as such, they can only find the most likely solution to problems, which is not necessarily the correct one. Though popular models have mostly become better at math, even top performer Gemini 3 Flash would receive a C if assessed with a letter grade.…

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Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM

Thu, 2026-02-26 18:26
Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful

As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.…

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