UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat [ 06-Feb-26 10:15am ]In a budget-busting leap from SAP to Oracle, West Sussex County Council is trebling its raid on capital assets such as buildings to fund its "transformational" ERP project.…
Summer in Australia means beers, beaches, and bork [ 06-Feb-26 9:30am ]BORK!BORK!BORK! When this vulture excuses himself from The Register's Australian eyrie for a little rest and recreation, I first avoid pyromaniac birds and carnivorous koalas, before settling into a bucolic beach town to catch a few waves, read a few books, and tune out from the world of tech.…
New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor [ 06-Feb-26 7:30am ]On Call Change is a constant - and so is On Call, the reader-contributed column The Register runs every Friday to share your tech support tales.…
Pakistan to test students for real-world skills before they graduate from IT degrees [ 06-Feb-26 5:22am ]Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) has introduced a competency test for students who take degrees in IT, to assess whether they emerge with skills employers will find useful.…
Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped [ 06-Feb-26 3:45am ]Atlassian has assured investors it can add AI to its services without blowing out its costs or shrinking margins.…
Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem [ 06-Feb-26 2:13am ]AWS has an open cash spigot for AI infrastructure, with Amazon CEO Andy Jassy telling investors the company has been monetizing compute capacity as fast as it brings it online and it plans to double capacity by the end of 2027.…
Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder [ 06-Feb-26 12:39am ]Chrome's latest revision of its browser extension architecture, known as Manifest v3 (MV3), was widely expected to make content blocking and privacy extensions less effective than its predecessor, Manifest v2 (MV2).…
OpenClaw reveals meaty personal information after simple cracks [ 05-Feb-26 11:32pm ]Another day, another vulnerability (or two, or 200) in the security nightmare that is OpenClaw.…
OpenAI chases business bucks with confusingly named Frontier platform [ 05-Feb-26 8:20pm ]OpenAI, a maker of frontier models, has announced a platform called Frontier to help enterprises implement software agents. That's not confusing at all.…
Substack says intruder lifted emails, phone numbers in months-old breach [ 05-Feb-26 7:54pm ]Newsletter platform Substack has admitted that an intruder swiped user contact details months before the company noticed, forcing it to warn writers and readers that their email addresses and other account metadata were accessed without permission.…
Asia-based government spies quietly broke into critical networks across 37 countries [ 05-Feb-26 7:21pm ]A state-aligned cyber group in Asia compromised government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries in an ongoing espionage campaign, according to security researchers.…
Stash or splash? Lawmakers ask NASA to find alternatives for International Space Station [ 05-Feb-26 6:50pm ]US lawmakers have asked NASA to look into storing the International Space Station (ISS) in a higher orbit at the end of its operational life, instead of sending the structure hurtling into the ocean when the time comes.…
AI companies are looking for new ways of burning cash other than by handing it to hyperscalers for model training. So now they're setting money on fire by buying Super Bowl ads that mock rivals.…
Elon Musk's pie-in-the-sky plan to launch a massive orbital datacenter satellite constellation has taken a rapid step closer to reality with the Federal Communications Commission advancing SpaceX's application for public comment, technical feasibility be damned. …
Nearly 60 percent of SAP migration projects are delayed and over budget as organizations underestimate complexity, allow expansion of scope, and fail to understand internal constraints, according to research from ISG.…
Breach-tracking site Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) claims a cyberattack on Betterment affected roughly 1.4 million users - although the investment company has yet to publicly confirm how many customers were affected by January's intrusion.…
Microsoft says "reliability is the priority" for AI in Visual Studio - a reassurance that may raise eyebrows among developers already living with Copilot's quirks.…
The UK government claims it will develop a "world-first" framework to evaluate deepfake detection technologies as AI-generated content proliferates.…
Microsoft has made OneDrive agents generally available, allowing users to query multiple documents simultaneously through Copilot instead of just one at a time.…
PC buyers can expect price hikes as chipmakers continue to prioritize AI production over all else, restricting the supply of key components across the tech industry.…
Italy's foreign minister says the country has already started swatting away cyberattacks from Russia targeting the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.…
Multiple newly disclosed bugs in the popular workflow automation tool n8n could allow attackers to hijack servers, steal credentials, and quietly disrupt AI-driven business processes.…
FOSDEM 2026 CentOS Connect 2026 took place in Brussels last week, over the two days preceding the sprawling FOSDEM festival of FOSS - the nerd world's Glastonbury, complete with the queues and the questionable hygiene.…
Interview Sovereignty remains a hot topic in the tech industry, but interpretations of what it actually means - and how much it matters - vary widely between organizations and sectors. While public bodies are often driven by regulation and national policy, the private sector tends to take a more pragmatic, cost-focused view.…
The courts system in England and Wales has moved 37 applications out of two outdated datacenters, although some will use a temporary hosting facility until they are replaced, according to the senior civil servant responsible.…
The British government today launched the Advanced Nuclear Framework to attract private investment in next-generation nuclear technology for factories and datacenters.…
Sleeper agent-style backdoors in AI large language models pose a straight-out-of-sci-fi security threat.…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar, and shifted Charlie Bell, the company's executive veep for security, into the job.…
Qualcomm has warned that soaring memory prices will mean the smartphone industry will slow, news that so spooked investors they sent the company's share price sliding by 11 percent.…
Google's parent Alphabet is doubling down on generative AI in 2026. On Wednesday's earnings call, the search and advertising giant boosted its full-year capital expenditures target to between $175 and $185 billion, roughly twice what it spent last year.…
State and federal lawmakers have stepped up their efforts to prevent the creation of 3D printed guns. But Adafruit, a maker of electronics kits, warns that the proposed legislation is so broad it threatens everyone involved in open source manufacturing and technology education.…
Workday is laying off about two percent of its staff in a bid to align its people with its "highest priorities," but at a significant cost to its margins for the quarter and the year, the company announced on Wednesday.…
The AI bot takeover of the internet continues apace, and the latest data suggests the surge is being driven less by model-training scrapes and more by the growing use of AI tools as a stand-in for web search.…
On paper, Positron's next-gen Asimov accelerators, no doubt named for the beloved science fiction author, don't look like much of a match for Nvidia's Rubin GPUs.…
A digital intruder broke into an AWS cloud environment and in just under 10 minutes went from initial access to administrative privileges, thanks to an AI speed assist.…
Anthropic has taken the high road by committing to keep its Claude AI model family free of advertising.…
Attackers are exploiting a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug - less than a week after the vendor disclosed and fixed the 9.8-rated flaw. That's according to America's lead cyber-defense agency, which set a Friday deadline for federal agencies to patch the security flaw.…
Software stocks have taken a beating over the last month as investors grow concerned that AI could put vertical SaaS vendors out of business.…
It's bot versus bot! Just in time for the predicted rise of AI-made biological and chemical weapons, the US Army has plans to fight autonomy with autonomy by getting its hands on some bot-based chemical weapon cleanup tech.…
Datacenter servers will face a double whammy this year as CPU supply constraints pile on top of an already severe memory shortage. Even so, shipments are still expected to grow at a double-digit rate.…
An Estonian government IT agency is trialling European alternatives to US software providers, even as it moves many of the country's civil servants to a centrally-managed cloud computing service provided by Microsoft.…
Microsoft is no stranger to things breaking unexpectedly - and now one of its engineers has added a Raspberry Pi to the list.…
Microsoft Copilot saved civil servants 19 minutes daily on routine tasks, according to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research comparing users to a control group of non-users.…
Cybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who have been targeted by the Nitrogen group. There's no way to get your data back from them!…
The UK competition regulator is set to report on a request for £246 million in subsidies to the Post Office, a publicly owned company, to cover its costs in compensation for the Horizon IT scandal and tax liability for IR35, a mechanism commonly used by tech consultants.…
There is good news for administrators: Microsoft has delivered on its promise to build Sysmon functionality into Windows.…
Problems with a new digital European system for certifying fishing catches are hampering producers and delaying exports, according to ministers from several EU member states.…
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) employees who had their details exposed in a significant 2023 data breach will each receive £7,500 ($10,279) as part of a universal offer of compensation.…
SpaceX has paused flights of its workhorse Falcon 9 after a second stage failure resulted in the spent rocket tumbling uncontrollably back to Earth.…
Open Source Policy Summit 2026 European tech leaders are waking up to the risk of the US simply turning off their IT services.…
