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In what could be a 28-year relationship, UK Nest takes TCS back after sacking off France's Atos from admin work The UK's National Employment Savings Trust (Nest), an occupational pensions scheme, has inked a 1.5 billion ($1.9 billion) deal with TCS without competition after sacking off French supplier Atos earlier this year....

LP 890-9c gives us a glimpse into our world's far future, astronomer tells El Reg Astronomers are hoping to observe a super-Earth exoplanet with the James Webb Telescope to see if they can predict Earth's future as the Sun expands....

Proposes a mere ten terms it feels should disappear from tech vocabularies The Inclusive Naming Initiative (INI) - an industry effort to promote and facilitate replacing harmful and exclusionary language in information technology - has developed its first recommendation lists, but has struggled to sign off on the announcement of the document....

PM wants response as urgent as that mustered for COVID-19 Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida has ordered an emergency review of the nation's ID Cards, amid revelations of glitches and data leaks that threaten the government's digital services push....

Issues official 'please explain why your moderation is rubbish' notice backed by big fines The office of Australia's eSafety Commissioner has issued an official "please explain" to Twitter over its content moderation practices and whether it is enforcing its own policies against hateful conduct....

Apparently you're all dying to do this? Microsoft wants to make it easier for enterprises to feed their proprietary data, along with user queries, into OpenAI's GPT-4 or ChatGPT in Azure and see the results....

One affects VMware's monitoring tool and the other TP-Link routers Miscreants are right now exploiting two security bugs for which patches exist, one in a VMware network and applications monitoring tool and the other in some TP-Link routers....

We still have more cores, exec sniffs Analysis With the unveiling of its 128-core Epycs, codenamed Bergamo, AMD has put forward a challenge to Ampere Computing's tentative footing in the cloud and hyperscale arena....

Fight! Fight! Fight! Google, the target of numerous antitrust investigations, has complained to the US Federal Trade Commission about rival Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive practices....

Snoops may be targeting macOS in addition to iPhones, Kaspersky says Whoever is infecting people's iPhones with the TriangleDB spyware may be targeting macOS computers with similar malware, according to Kaspersky researchers....

Staff show up with the receipts - video footage of law-breaking bosses Apple destroyed union flyers and interrogated its staff in New York City about their unionization efforts, a watchdog has ruled....

1Health must strengthen protections for genetic information as part of settlement The Federal Trade Commission has alleged that genetic testing firm 1Health.io, also known as Vitagene, deceived people when it said it would dispose of their physical DNA sample as well as their collected health data....

With now $150K to pay out, that's what we call fine dining A California restaurant chain has been fined $5,000 and ordered to pay $140,000 in unpaid wages for labor violations....

Binding service terms hidden in contractual documents, plaintiff claims A court claim has alleged Oracle conducted a "widespread fraudulent scheme and unfair business practice" in sales of its Netsuite software while failing to "provide all the functionality at the price promised."...

Dark patterns at Amazon worthy of a Homeric epic? Surely not! The Federal Trade Commission today filed a lawsuit against Amazon for what it describes as a "years-long effort to enroll consumers into its Prime program without their consent while knowingly making it difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions."...

IMS Nanofabrication's expertise will only be more important - so why sell? Intel is selling a 20 percent stake in a key technology company it owns to investors Bain Capital, claiming the move will encourage more cross-industry collaboration once the chip giant loosens its grip on the venture....

Pales in comparison to to rival Intel's presence in Dublin... for now AMD plans to invest $135 million in strategic research and development projects in Ireland over the next four years, focused on what it dubbed adaptive computing research....

Users report they're still struggling to communicate ... and ask vendor to be more open Updated Reg readers who use Virgin Media email say they're still struggling to gain access to their messages after a multi-day outage....

Four disks believed stolen from Walldorf facility, at least one containing company data Exclusive An SSD disk missing from a SAP datacenter in Walldorf has turned up on eBay, leading to a security investigation by the German software vendor....

There's an old saying in business: Time, money, quality - you can have any two Workers tasked with improving the output of Google's Bard chatbot say they've been told to focus on working fast at the expense of quality. Bard sometimes generates inaccurate information simply because there isn't enough time for these fact checkers to verify the software's output, one of those workers told The Register....

This is totally not about China, commissioners claim The European Commission is considering measures to restrict member nations and companies from outsourcing sensitive technologies to countries of concern - namely China and Russia....

'Changing the world one PC at a time' sounds good to us Devconf.cz Uplifting positivity is not why The Reg FOSS desk went to Red Hat's Devconf.cz conference - but that's what we found....

Oh no, over there, look, the killer robots, OMG here they come - just pay no attention to us shaping the rules OpenAI - the maker of GPT-4, and other generative AI models - has been publicly calling for more AI regulation while privately seeking less of it....

Sends home snaps on third fly-by of six as it heads for orbit in 2025 The BepiColombo probe has completed its third fly-by of the planet Mercury and sent home some striking snaps of the tiny world's dark side....

At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload Amazon Web Services has made a small change that causes its on-prem Outposts to behave a bit more like boring old on-prem servers....

We thought you'd like some terrible news in the comfort of your own home' was the gist of it Singaporean superapp Grab has revealed it will lay off 1,000 staffers, or eleven percent of its workforce - and did it with an after-hours email....

Near-flop of China shopping fest suggests cloud and AI are the priority growth engines Chinese tech champ Alibaba Group has announced a C-suite reshuffle that will see its CEO depart and take on the somewhat smaller - but perhaps more important - role as leader of Alibaba Cloud....

It's bingo for those who had LLMs on your card - but no word on how much it's going to cost HPE Discover HP Enterprise has extended its GreenLake subscription-based technology portfolio with a supercomputing-as-a-service offering it claims will make AI more accessible to enterprises....

Shifting those duties to Outlook set for next year - well, maybe Microsoft intends to shut down its at-times-maligned Mail and Calendar apps, fold their capabilities into a new Outlook for Windows, and use the opportunity to - unsurprisingly - bring in more AI....

50K-plus employees' personal info swiped after law firm rolled Mondelez International has warned 51,000 of its past and present employees that their personal information has been stolen from a law firm hired by the Oreo and Ritz cracker giant....

That ads to hurt American newspaper publisher Gannett is throwing its weight behind the hottest trend in digital advertising: suing Google for unfairly and abusively monopolizing the entire industry. Allegedly....

Crooks demand $4.5m to keep '80GB' of corp info private - and no API price hikes Reddit this week confirmed ransomware gang BlackCat, aka AlphaV, broke into its corporate systems in February....

It has enough air to last until Thursday, but if it isn't already on the surface rescue operations could be impossible Time and oxygen are both running out for the crew of an ill-fated expedition to the two-mile deep wreck of the Titanic, which lost contact with its parent vessel less than two hours after beginning its descent on Sunday....

But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage SUSE's latest release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 5 (SLE 15 SP5) has a focus on security, claiming it as the first distro to offer full support for confidential computing to protect data....

Redmond says problems stemmed from a datacenter in Germany, though UK spared the worst of it Some Microsoft 365 users in Western Europe earlier today were reporting service problems today, though those in the UK seem to have avoided many of the issues....

Latest 24.9M 'transition' contract an attempt to bridge gap to contract UK.gov is due to award in September The NHS has awarded US spy-tech firm Palantir a 24.9 million ($31.7 million) deal to cover the one-year transition, from June 12, 2023, to a new 480 million ($611 million) data platform....

They're changing it wrong, aren't they Apple? The European Parliament has voted yes to replaceable battery legislation, putting Apple on a path to a second redesign just over a year after USB-C charging ports were mandated in the bloc....

Cybercrooks hoping users have whispered employer secrets to chatbot Singapore-based threat intelligence outfit Group-IB has found ChatGPT credentials in more than 100,000 stealer logs traded on the dark web in the past year....

Meanwhile, users are left to figure out how to cut their cloth A relative newcomer to the enterprise data and analytics world, Microsoft didn't hold back when it launched its Fabric platform last month....

Rotating sound bar sounds better in theory than in practice Desktop Tourism With working from home and bring your own device both now established practices in many workplaces, The Register's Desktop Tourism series decided it was time to take a consumer machine for a trip....

Geopolitics keeps CEO up at night, cashing on on EVs gets him up in the morning Foxconn chairman and CEO Young Liu believes the manufacturing megalith will be able to continue building components in China for use in electronics produced by US companies, despite testy relations between the nations' governments....

BlackCat attack sparks injunction preventing coverage of purloined docs An infosec incident at a major Australian law firm has sparked fear among the nation's governments, banks and businesses - and a free speech debate....

Singapore dollar snafu used to illustrate workaround SAP has admitted the cloudy cut of its S/4HANA service does not allow an organization to use currencies other than what a user's location suggests is appropriate....

Crypto villain's passports were as fake as his stablecoin Fugitive crypto villain Do Kwon has been jailed in Montenegro for falsifying documents....

Mobile network IP a compelling reason to ask folks to be FRANDs Updated Chinese telecoms giant Huawei may be looking to put the squeeze on small to medium companies for license fees on its sizeable patent portfolio as its bottom line continues to be hit by US sanctions and other restrictions....

From 'we are not Elon' to 'Elon was right' in a matter of days Comment Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has come out and said what legions of redditors feared - that a business plan to turn a profit by increasing the price of API access has been "reaffirmed" by a look at the Book of Musk....

Plus: Taiwan dangles investment in semiconductor production in EU - but there's a catch Intel has agreed a deal with the German government for 10 billion ($10.9 billion) in subsidies for a new chip plant in the country, despite Germany's finance minister saying just last week that it would not offer more cash....

Also: Hackers target security researchers, MaaS model flourishing, and this week's vulnerabilities Infosec in brief Remember earlier this year, when we found out that a bunch of baddies including at least one nation-state group broke into a US federal government agency's Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server by exploiting a critical three-year-old Telerik bug to achieve remote code execution?...

Why were they so easy to lift during the pandemic but not now? America's network regulator wants to "better understand" why ISPs still cap consumers' data usage even though they need more and providers have shown they have the "technical ability to offer unlimited data plans."...

Cybercrooks use abandoned AWS storage tool to deliver malware Miscreants are using expired Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 buckets to place malicious code into a legitimate package in the npm repository without having to tinker with any code....