Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed The UK’s tax collector is yet to reach the levels of efficiency its investment in digital services has led auditors to expect,…
Lees meerLost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes … On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register’s Friday reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…
Lees meerGrab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy Singaporean super-app company Grab has dumped 200 cloudy Mac Minis and replaced them with physical machines, a move it expects will save $2.4 million over three years.…
Lees meerMoney-losing biz says it does not need government help to meet massive infrastructure commitments OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says that her company is not seeking federal loan guarantees after suggesting the opposite in an on-stage interview at a Wall St…
Lees meerSustainable vision? Who knows Lenovo says that traditional datacenters are not fit for purpose, and must evolve to future-proof businesses across EMEA. This is based on research, but the PC and server biz has come up with some wacky possible designs…
Lees meerShopping bots pick first option and 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds Ready to have your agent talk to my agent and arrange a sale? Microsoft has published a simulated marketplace to put AI agents through their paces and…
Lees meerThree hyperscale sheds to double capacity near Heathrow Colt Data Centre Services has secured approval to invest £2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) in three hyperscale data centers at its Hayes Digital Park campus in west London.…
Lees meerParliamentary report calls for sovereign launch capability and reduced dependence on US services The UK's House of Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee has published a scathing report, "The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out," declaring that the…
Lees meerAwkward, seeing as they’re close partners Qualcomm and Arm have offered differing predictions regarding the market for inferencing silicon.…
Lees meerAn hour’s tablet training and a soldier was sending the bird on autonomous errands Who needs a drone when you can fly a Black Hawk from a tablet? DARPA's $6 million award to Sikorsky paid off when a National Guard soldier, trained in under an hour, …
Lees meerLocal privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way AMD will issue a microcode patch for a high-severity vulnerability that could weaken cryptographic keys across Epyc and Ryzen CPUs.…
Lees meerCEO Lisa Su says next-gen MI400 GPUs and architecture gaining traction with hyperscalers AMD plans to launch its Helios rack-scale architecture in 2026 as a direct challenge to Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market, pending successful integration o…
Lees meerLocal privileges required to exploit flaw in Ryzen and Epyc CPUs. Some patches available, more on the way AMD will issue a microcode patch for a high-severity vulnerability that could weaken cryptographic keys across Epyc and Ryzen CPUs.…
Lees meerBuyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI Cloud data platform vendor Snowflake has made its set of PostgreSQL extensions open source in a bid to help developers and data engineers integrate the popular open source database…
Lees meerRetailer's tech systems aren’t down anymore, but the same can’t be said for its rocky financials Marks & Spencer says its April cyberattack will cost around £136 million ($177.2 million) in total.…
Lees meerSupply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands A survey of datacenter professionals reveals that supply chain constraints and power availability are hampering the industry's efforts to scale datacenter capacity.…
Lees meerAfter a £312M upgrade to the retiring OS, Defra still has 24,000 devices to replace The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has spent £312 million (c $407 million) modernizing its IT estate, including replacing tens of thou…
Lees meerRuled him out just six months ago due to Musky connections US president Donald Trump on Tuesday decided who he wants to lead NASA, despite having ruled out the same person six months ago.…
Lees meerCan’t rule out more revenue wobbles given the complexity of big projects Server-maker and designer Supermicro has promised to improve performance, after missing its guided revenue and revealing its margins aren’t strong.…
Lees meerNet access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll The African nation of Tanzania has reconnected to the internet after a five day outage.…
Lees meerNorges Bank Investment Management votes against excessive award, automaker's share price skids Norway's sovereign wealth fund has opposed Tesla CEO Elon Musk's proposed $1 trillion share award, which the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain …
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