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Mythos complicates the breakup, says Pentagon CTO, but Anthropic is still barred
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael pushed back on reports of a thaw in the department’s relationship with Anthropic: The two are not getting back together, even as Mythos draws interest from government agencies.…
Artemis III aims for 'late 2027' for Earth orbit demonstration
Amid the sensational NASA budget cut proposals taking place in the US at the moment, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has refined the Artemis III launch date to "late 2027."…
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
As both Apple and Google introduce unwelcome changes in their phone OSes, here's a quick reminder that you do have alternatives to the Gruesome Twosome.…
CIOs ready for another role-change as AI becomes agent of chaos
Forrester predicts that by decade's end, the rush toward agentic AI will grow so chaotic that CIOs will be forced into a new role as enforcer of order.…
That old phone in the kitchen drawer could save an industry
Secondhand phones sales are booming - relatively speaking - and the industry has rising inflation, AI bloat, and consumers' growing apathy toward overpriced new handsets to thank for it.…
First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as 'millions' of sites potentially exposed
CISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already poking holes in one of the internet's most widely used hosting stacks.…
Microsoft releases first big update after Nadella's vow to 'win back fans'
Microsoft is following through on its promise to prioritize Windows stability with its April 30 non-security update.…
OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that
OpenAI is lining up a limited release of its new GPT-5.5-Cyber model to a handpicked circle of "cyber defenders," just weeks after taking a swipe at Anthropic for doing almost exactly the same thing.…
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
An astronomy software dev claims a Falcon 9 upper stage will hit the Moon in August, traveling at several times the speed of sound.…
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.…
UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender
The Department for Work and Pensions has gone shopping for covert cameras, live-streaming kit, and vehicle-based recording gear as it lines up a £2 million upgrade to watch fraud suspects in real time.…
Who needs ghost train scares when Windows is such a fright?
Bork!Bork!Bork! What frightens you? What, as an IT professional, would make you shriek like a small child? What tech horrors are lurking under your bed?…
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
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 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
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
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 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.…