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Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend
interview Don't trust; verify. According to AI researcher Vishal Sikka, LLMs alone are limited by computational boundaries and will start to hallucinate when they push those boundaries. One solution? Companion bots that check their work.…
Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm
A growing body of research continues to show that older workers are generally more productive than younger employees.…
Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines
Openreach is warning British businesses that the old phone network shuts down in less than a year - with half a million commercial lines still unmigrated.…
AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs
The first rule of AI-generated job loss is you don't talk about AI-generated job loss ... if you're the company that caused it. Higgsfield.ai, a startup offering AI video creation tools, recently generated outrage when it claimed it had caused artists to hit the unemployment line.…
Let there be light! DARPA seeking physics-defying photonic computers to supercharge AI
It's no lightweight matter. DARPA is putting about $35 million in total funding on the table in the hope that it will spur researchers to work around fundamental physical constraints and build much larger-scale photonic circuits that do more of the computing with light, not electronics.…
Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel’s GDP
AIpocolypse Four tech megacorps intend to collectively fork out roughly $635 billion this year on capex, much of it for datacenters and AI infrastructure - more than the entire output of Israel's economy and well beyond all global cloud infrastructure services revenue generated last year.…
Flickr emails users about data breach, pins it on 3rd party
Legacy image-sharing website Flickr suffered a data breach, according to customers emails seen by The Register.…
DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records
Cloudflare says DDoS crews ended 2025 by pushing traffic floods to new extremes, while Britain made an unwelcome leap of 36 places to become the world's sixth-most targeted location.…
Summoning the spirit of the BBC Micro with a Pi 500+ and a can of spray paint
An enterprising engineer has evoked the spirit of Acorn's BBC Micro with a custom paintjob for a Raspberry Pi 500+ computer-in-a-keyboard and a natty set of replacement keycaps.…
Supermarket sorry after facial recognition alert flags right criminal, wrong customer
A British supermarket says staff will undergo further training after a store manager ejected the wrong man when facial recognition technology triggered an alert.…
Microsoft starts the countdown for the end of Exchange Web Services
Microsoft has laid out a timeline for the disablement and shutdown of Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online.…
CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in
America's federal agencies have been told to hunt down and rip out aging firewalls, routers, and other network gatekeepers before attackers use them as skeleton keys into government systems.…
Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips
More than 30 Romanian railway employees accused of running a bribery and ticket resale racket allegedly tried to crowdsource their legal strategy from ChatGPT.…
Smartphones cleared for launch as NASA loosens the rulebook
NASA's Administrator has stated that smartphones will accompany the Crew-12 and Artemis II astronauts on their missions.…
DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom
AI-pocalypse Britain's welfare system is experimenting with AI to manage Universal Credit claimants – even as evidence piles up that artificial intelligence may soon be pushing more people onto benefits in the first place.…
UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat
In a budget-busting leap from SAP to Oracle, West Sussex County Council is trebling its raid on capital assets such as buildings to fund its "transformational" ERP project.…
Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork
BORK!BORK!BORK! When this vulture excuses himself from The Register's Australian eyrie for a little rest and recreation, I first avoid pyromaniac birds and carnivorous koalas, before settling into a bucolic beach town to catch a few waves, read a few books, and tune out from the world of tech.…
New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor
On Call Change is a constant – and so is On Call, the reader-contributed column The Register runs every Friday to share your tech support tales.…
Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees
Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) has introduced a competency test for students who take degrees in IT, to assess whether they emerge with skills employers will find useful.…
Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped
Atlassian has assured investors it can add AI to its services without blowing out its costs or shrinking margins.…