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UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project
A UK council is set to use up to £25 million ($31 million) from the sale of capital assets such as property to fund an Oracle-based transformation project that has seen expected costs mushroom from £2.6 million to around £40 million ($50 million).…
British Museum says ex-contractor 'shut down' IT systems, wreaked havoc
The British Museum was forced to temporarily close some galleries and exhibitions this weekend after a disgruntled former tech contractor went rogue and shuttered some onsite IT systems.…
Tired techie botched preventative maintenance he soon learned wasn't needed
Who, Me? Welcome once again to Who, Me? The Register's reader-contributed column in which you admit to the occasional failure, and we celebrate your escapes.…
Robots in schools, care homes next? This UK biz hopes to make that happen
Interview The robotics business is booming, thanks to the hype surrounding artificial intelligence and the demonstrated capabilities of robotaxis like Waymo.…
China's DeepSeek just dropped a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC
Hands on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek this week unveiled a family of LLMs it claims not only replicates OpenAI's o1 reasoning capabilities, but challenges the American model builder's dominance in a whole host of benchmarks.…
Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet
Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key sectors including semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing, since at least mid-2023.…
UK telco TalkTalk confirms probe into alleged data grab underway
UK broadband and TV provider TalkTalk says it's currently investigating claims made on cybercrime forums alleging data from the company was up for grabs.…
AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud
The co-founder and former CEO of AI startup GameOn is in a pickle. After exiting the top job last year under a cloud, he's now in court – along with his wife – for allegedly bilking his company and its investors out of more than $60 million.…
Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans on Friday to blow through as much as $60 to 65 billion in 2025 on plenty more AI resources for his social media mega-corp – and signaled his intention to continue the spending spree for years to come.…
Fitbit pays Uncle Sam $12M to sprint away from claims of burning-hot smartwatches
Years after recalling one of its smartwatches over overheating batteries that burned people, Fitbit has agreed to pay a $12.25 million civil penalty to the US government to settle allegations it knew about the risk but failed to immediately report it as required by law.…
Exchange update refusenik? Consider yourself warned by Microsoft
Exchange Server administrators lagging on their cumulative and security updates be warned: Microsoft has stated that the Exchange Emergency Mitigation Service (EEMS) might stop working on "significantly out of date" versions of the software.…
The state of Right to Repair: Progress made, but key barriers remain
The US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has released a report on the state of Right to Repair. The good news is that things seem to be going in the right direction for some gadgets. The bad news is that progress is not equal, and there has been no improvement for some gizmos.…
Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key
Great news, Linux fans! Support for the Copilot key is coming in the 6.14 kernel. What do you think it should do?…
What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?
Feature Generative AI models have not only exploded in popularity over the past two years, but they've also grown at a precipitous rate, necessitating ever larger quantities of accelerators to keep up.…
Qualcomm big cheese Cristiano Amon's pay award jumps 10%
Qualcomm's top dog Cristian Amon enjoyed a ten percent year-on-year bump in total financial compensation for fiscal 2024 that amounted to $25.91 million.…
Europe, UK weigh up response to Trump's proposed tariffs
The UK and EU must decide whether to coordinate a response to Donald Trump's proposed US import tariffs or cut separate deals with the new president, the House of Lords heard this week.…
Don't want your Kubernetes Windows nodes hijacked? Patch this hole now
A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, and thus fully take over those systems, according to Akamai researcher Tomer Peled.…
Boeing warns of more financial charges due to strikes, costlier parts, and Starliner
Boeing is warning of another hit to its bottom line, at least partly at the hands of the company's Calamity Capsule, the CST-100 Starliner.…
North Korean dev who renamed himself 'Bane' accused of IT worker fraud scheme
The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea's long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who changed their last name to "Bane" and scored a gig at a tech biz in San Francisco.…
Mega UK datacenter greenlit, but we still don't know who's moving in
Approval was last night granted for a mega datacenter in Hertfordshire, close to London's M25 orbital motorway, clearing the way for construction to begin. The identity of the eventual occupier, said to be a hyperscale operator, has yet to be disclosed.…