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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them.…
Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back
Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back
In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites.…
Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky
Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout
Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech.…
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs
A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.…
Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better
Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better
kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …
Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark
Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark
AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never.…
Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’
The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can continue to defend the nation and operate overseas.…
Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise
Parliament's spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from the usual diet of failure and overspend.…
Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents
Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents
With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based pricing, that vibe-coded hobby project is about to get a whole lot more expensive. Fortunately, you're not without cost-saving options.…
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs
UK drivers' agency shrugs off claims of week-long booking site smashes, blames browser configs
The DVSA's driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated users.…
Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt
Brace for the patch tsunami: AI is unearthing decades of buried code debt
Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up.…