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Atos lands £350M beat keeping Met Police applications running
Six-year deal covers management and security, with options to add cloud and digital workplace services
Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom
Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system
KPMG tells staff facing the axe: Here's £100, now zip it
Staff in AI, Cyber, SAP and Testing told the consultation is over, with notices due Friday
Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety
OpenAI rolls out weak sauce watermarking for AI text
Compliance, we've heard of it
Scientists find planet made on new matter recipe, and it formed after a Red Giant ate a solar system
Death of a star may not be game over for the inner solar system after all
Atlassian warns of critical file access flaw in its datacenter products
Tells users action required' - but maybe don't make that action a Jira ticket, because it has this bug
Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem
Schneider Electric drops $22.6B on PTC as datacenter boom rains money on infra companies
Part of a bigger play for smarter power infra
Citrix NetScaler security snafus get even worse amid more 0-day reports
The new vuln, CVE-2026-88779, is a memory overflow bug that leads to denial of service
Cohere offers to put agents in lockdown mode with strict ACLs
Like OpenClaw but with access control
Get rid of Apple's AI bloatware and reclaim 12 GB of storage with this open source tool
Meet RemoveMacAI
FBI confirms 'multiple' arrests related to ShinyHunters hack
Another few bite the dust
Windows 11 26H2 blighted by new audio issue
AC-3 decoder drama also hits Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2
Altman-backed Volantis reveals plan to vault the memory wall by baking photonics into AI accelerators
Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?
OpenAI to flood your eyeballs with visual ads
Want to generate an image with ChatGPT? Then prepare for ads if you're in the US
Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch
AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally
The question you would ask HPE and NVIDIA if nobody was recording
The Register's data sovereignty dinner in Washington puts HPE's and NVIDIA's AI infrastructure leads at one table, off the record, on 29 October.
Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand
Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply
Games Workshop seeks IT leader to summon the legions in epic saga battling the forces of ERP
Warhammer set in 40,000? Yes, ERP projects can seem to take that long
Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it
Pay no attention to those more practical risks behind the curtain, which is exactly what we're doing on this week's Kettle
Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text
GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again
Windows 11 market share creeps upwards as cost of staying on Windows 10 set to double
How badly do you want that Win10 device to keep getting security updates?
BT buys TalkTalk out of administration to keep 2.5M customers connected
Rescue carries an estimated 400M cash impact as Virgin Media declares move 'a stitchup'
Brighter isn't better and more is less. The AI slowdown is nigh, no matter who says what
Meta isn't helping - or perhaps it is
What people say about their file infrastructure once the badge comes off
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner in Soho on 20 October where infrastructure leaders compare notes on the file estate they inherited, off the record.
Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed
Silly supplier ended up short-changing themselves
Fulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it
I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before
Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care
All this, and angry NeoVim users
Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today
Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows
Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says
Clever database, but can it run Doom?
Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'
Palantir's fondness for French food cooked up tech's latest fad – forward-deployed engineers
Embedded consultants who get you up to speed on new tech in a hurry aren't new, but they meet the AI moment
Google hearts Apple's Swift so much it's pumping out server-side support
After a decade of false starts, Swift is showing backend appeal
Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent
Thou shalt love the datacenter! Verily, thou shalt rejoice in the house of the datacenter!
arXiv imposes rate limit on paper submissions to stem the AI slop tide
Two a month per submitter, starting now, and you can thank science slop for the change
OpenAI alerts 100+ orgs that its 'misaligned models' attempted to break in - or worse
Mostly 'routine research tasks,' and 'some involved government websites, which our models often use,' AI giant tells The Reg
Californian accused of shipping $300M worth of Nvidia chips to China without Uncle Sam’s approval
Prosecutors claim Greg Lui helped China procure advanced hardware to develop, ahem, 'super intelligence'
The VMware exit is a protection upgrade
PARTNER CONTENT: VergeIO says an exit is also an opportunity
OpenAI's wandering AI agents earn it a California subpoena
Plus: Attorneys-general say investigators should have direct access to AI companies' records when things go wrong
Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter
Grid connection awaits regulatory approval, putting planned 2027 customer delivery at risk
OpenAI shows three staff the door over alleged information misuse
Two safety researchers and a program manager dismissed, company denies retaliation for raising concerns
Nvidia debuts $4,999 DGX Spark with half the RAM and storage, amid memory crunch
Meanwhile 128 GB version jumps to $6,950, nearly 75% above its launch price
Excel Canvas offers to turn your workbook into the boss's next report
Copilot builds charts and metrics from spreadsheet data, with automatic refreshes when the numbers change
Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers, arrest three
Operation KillSwitch takes over leak site holding at least 110 TB of stolen data
Once a $35 computer, the 2 GB Raspberry Pi 4 now costs $67.50
Pi 5 also gets a $12.50 bump as customers urged to consider older models or less RAM
Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day
No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches
UK spending watchdog opens investigation into Capita's pension fiasco
Outsourcer admits service remains below expectations after missed recovery deadline
Met Police suspends use of phone-hacking software over Russian links
Scotland Yard hits pause after US prosecutors trace supposedly American tech back to Moscow
Flight delayed? So are these codec updates
A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantari International Airport
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