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DXC staff to strike in Australia after some go without pay rise for five years
Asia In Brief Staff at services giant DXC’s Australian outpost will go on strike this week after 14 months of negotiations over a new pay agreement failed.…
AI will write code, but prepare to babysit it - and be sure you speak its language
kettle Tell an AI to write you a poem and it'll do it, just in a way that requires a human touch to perfect; the same goes for writing code.…
The first thing vibe coding builds is confidence it will help you succeed
Secret CEO In 1991, when I was 16, a Norwegian Exchange student gave an inspirational performance of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, in the original Norwegian, at my high school talent night. She delivered this performance with such gusto that every word of her performance stuck in my mind and, to this day, I can recite the Three Billy Goats Gruff in Norwegian.…
Bees and hummingbirds aren't just buzzing – they're sipping trace booze
Bees and hummingbirds are effectively day-drinking on the job because their lunch is quietly fermenting.…
Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession
Anthropic, riding a wave of goodwill after resisting demands from the US Defense Department to soften model safeguards, is reportedly planning to go public as soon as Q4 2026.…
To BSOD or not to BSOD? Only Microsoft knows the answer
Bork!Bork!Bork! When is a bork not a bork? Perhaps when it's on a Microsoft stand at a US security conference.…
Microsoft takes up residence next to OpenAI, Oracle at Crusoe's 900 MW Texas datacenter expansion
Bitcoin farmer turned bit barn builder Crusoe revealed plans to add 900 megawatts of capacity to its Abilene Texas datacenter campus on Friday to support Microsoft's AI ambitions.…
Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right
AI can lead mentally unwell people to some pretty dark places, as a number of recent news stories have taught us. Now researchers think sycophantic AI is actually having a harmful effect on everyone.…
Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow
Apple has discontinued the Mac Pro – but it's just the first of the tower computers to go. The rest will follow soon.…
Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption
US senators are pushing to require datacenters and other large energy customers to report consumption, arguing the data is essential to hold them accountable to local communities.…
Microsoft tells crusty old kernel drivers to get with the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program
Microsoft is removing trust for kernel drivers that haven't been through the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program (WHCP) in a bid to further secure the Windows kernel.…
Commercial space pleads with NASA to stop moving the goalposts in orbit
NASA's new Moon plan isn't the only policy shift causing concern. Parts of the commercial space industry are also uneasy about the agency's latest change of direction.…
AFC Ajax drops ball as flaws let hackers play admin with tickets and bans
Dutch football giant AFC Ajax has admitted to a data breach after an attacker gained access to its internal systems, in an incident that looks less like a stray pass and more like the gates left wide open.…
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.…