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Home Office kept police facial recognition flaws to itself, UK data watchdog fumes
The UK's data protection watchdog has criticized the Home Office for failing to disclose significant biases in police facial recognition technology, despite regular engagement between the organizations.…
Barts Health seeks High Court block after Clop pillages NHS trust data
Barts Health NHS Trust has confirmed that patient and staff data was stolen in Clop's mass-exploitation of Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS), and says it is now taking legal action in an effort to stop the gang publishing any of the snatched information.…
UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact
The UK tech minister has promised more whole-government deals with industry giants following its £9 billion agreement with Microsoft, and is seeking to target cloud service providers.…
Rebuilding VisiCorp's Visi On UI reveals how Apple defined the GUI era
Reverse engineering VisiCorp's pioneering GUI for commodity PCs shows how little modern GUIs get from Xerox – and how much we all owe Apple.…
Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas
These are hard times, even for the biggest brands. Facing existential crises, emergency board meetings are in full swing at multinationals Contoso, a huge marketing and sales outfit, and Fabrikam, the famous name in online fashion. Both are under threat from usurper Zava, a retailer so dazzlingly disruptive it is both a chain of DIY home improvement shops and flogger of intelligent athletic apparel.…
Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
Who, Me? Opinion varies about the most efficient way to commence a working week. The Register’s contribution to that conversation is Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of your mistakes, and subsequent escapes.…
Block all AI browsers for the foreseeable future: Gartner
Agentic browsers are too risky for most organizations to use, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
China’s first reusable rocket explodes, but its onboard Ethernet network flew
Asia In Brief Chinese rocketry outfit LandSpace last week flew what it hoped would be the country’s first reusable rocket, only to watch it explode while attempting to land.…
Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool
Infosec in Brief The Apache Foundation last week warned of a 10.0-rated flaw in its Tika toolkit.…
Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold
Amazon last week revealed its Trainium3 UltraServer rack systems, and if your first thought was "boy that looks a lot like Nvidia's GB200 NVL72," your eyes aren't deceiving you. …
And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...
The readers have spoken, and the era of peak Microsoft is… open to debate.…
Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA
Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone. Now commonplace, multifactor authentication (MFA) requires users to enter a second or third proof of identity. However, not all forms of MFA are created equal, and the one-time passwords orgs send to your phone have holes so big you could drive a truck through them.…