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Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg
Tech buyers should purchase refurbished devices to push vendors to make hardware more repairable and help the shift to a more circular economy, according to a senior analyst at IDC.…
Broadcom employee data stolen by ransomware crooks following hit on payroll provider
EXCLUSIVE A ransomware attack at a Middle Eastern subsidiary of payroll company ADP has led to customer data theft at Broadcom, The Register has learned.…
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade
Microsoft is offering to make a series of concessions for up to ten years to pacify European Commission antitrust regulators. This follows protests from users that tying Teams with its biz productivity applications hinders competition.…
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge
The UK needs more nuclear energy generation just to power all the AI datacenters that are going to be built, according to the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS).…
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation
If at first you don't succeed, transform, transform, and transform again is the corporate motto at Atos these days. The lumbering French-based megacorp has created another blueprint to return to its glory days, and it includes job cuts, offshoring and... AI.…
How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world'
Former UK government minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith has told a committee of MPs that the digitization of Universal Credit is a success story other government departments can learn from.…
UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land
The British government has stepped in to overturn a local council's refusal of a proposed datacenter on green belt land, citing updated national planning policy that urges councils to find space for bit barns, labs, gigafactories, and other strategic infrastructure.…
Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'
English hospitals are voicing their concern about the functionality provided by Palantir, the US spy-tech firm that won a £330 million ($437 million) deal to run the Federated Data Platform for NHS England, as around a third of trusts go live on the system.…
Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working
On Call Bosses often ask IT pros to clean up messes made by amateurs, and in this week's On Call – The Register's reader-contributed tech support column – we have just such a tale to tell.…
Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe
In 2017 Amazon Web Services and VMware were best buddies as they launched a combined cloud service. In 2025 AWS is dismissing Virtzilla as a legacy outfit that needs to be re-platformed to the cloud ASAP before it sinks your business.…
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive
Science fiction author Neal Stephenson has suggested AIs should be allowed to fight other AIs, because evolution brings balance to ecosystems, but also thinks humans should stop using AI before it dumbs down our species.…
Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters
Microsoft has failed to deliver a special version of Azure for EU cloud providers on time, raising the specter of legal action if it is unable to devise a "commercially equivalent solution" in less than two months' time.…
Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India
US president Donald Trump has told Apple CEO Tim Cook he has a problem with his plan to manufacture iThings in India.…
Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI
The FBI has warned that fraudsters are impersonating "senior US officials" using deepfakes as part of a major fraud campaign.…
DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M
A former DoorDash driver has pleaded guilty to participating in a $2.59 million scheme that used fake accounts, insider access to reassign orders, and bogus delivery reports to trigger payouts for food that was never delivered.…
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago. …
Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing
An attorney defending AI firm Anthropic in a copyright case brought by music publishers apologized to the court on Thursday for citation errors that slipped into a filing after using the biz's own AI tool, Claude, to format references.…
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress
Proposed legislation gaining steam in Congress this week would require high-end GPUs and AI chips to include location-tracking safeguards to ensure US-designed components don't end up in nations against Uncle Sam's wishes, with exporters on the hook for compliance.…
Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%
US immigration officials say they are winning the war on H-1B fraud – and say they've got the numbers to prove it.…
Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores
Interview The same miscreants behind recent cyberattacks on British retailers are now trying to dig their claws into major American retailers' IT environments – and in some cases possibly even deploying ransomware, according to Google.…