Exploring the evolving relationship between human engineers and their algorithmic assistants Feature Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way software gets built, tested, and maintained — but not in the simplistic, headline-grabbing sen…
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Lees meerWhy Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout Opinion At Tesla's annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas, more than 75 percent of voting shares backed a compensation deal for CEO Elon Musk that would make him history's first…
Lees meerPublic Accounts Committee tears into department responsible for the most dangerous breach in British history The UK Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has failed to appropriately improve its data protecti…
Lees meerBroadband provider says damaged fiber and dormant failover path knocked customers offline for nearly 24 hours Updated UK broadband provider Hyperoptic learned the importance of testing backup systems this week after the service went dark for custom…
Lees meerWatchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity Updated The UK's state-owned savings bank has blown past its budget by £1.3 billion on a digital transformation program beset by delays, according to the National Aud…
Lees meerWindows giant disagrees and plans to appeal Microsoft's attempt to claim that its software can't be resold has hit a wall at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, which decided that Office having clipart does not mean customers can't sell their licens…
Lees meerWatchdog says program buckled under procurement failures and technical complexity The UK's state-owned savings bank has blown past its budget by £1.3 billion on a digital transformation program beset by delays, according to the National Audit Office…
Lees meerCybercrime crew has ravaged multiple private organizations using Oracle EBS zero-day for months The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is investigating claims of a cyberattack by extortion crew Clop.…
Lees meerFOMO trumps corporate governance when it comes to AI More than two-thirds of corporate executives say they've violated their own AI usage policies in the past three months, and over half of the leaders also ranked security and compliance as the grea…
Lees meerOrg chart games were more important than speed and accuracy On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column in which we tell your tales of tech support troubles and other workplace woes.…
Lees meerGetting by with a meager $2 billion quarterly capex – vastly less than rivals, but still cashing in on AI Chinese web giant Tencent’s capital expenditure is slowing and the company expects it will decelerate further due to its inability to buy all t…
Lees meerMaintenance to end next year after ‘helpful options’ became ‘serious security flaws’ Kubernetes maintainers have decided it’s not worth trying to save Ingress NGINX and will instead stop work on the project and retire it in March 2026.…
Lees meerAnthropic dubs this the first AI-orchestrated cyber snooping campaign Chinese cyber spies used Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool to attempt digital break-ins at about 30 high-profile companies and government organizations – and the government-backed s…
Lees meerCheckout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research Digitial extortion is a huge business, because affected orgs keep forking over money to get their data back. However, instead of paying a ransom demand after getting hit by exto…
Lees meerBrowser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone" Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new enviro…
Lees meerConsumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster Picture the scene: It's Christmas morning and your child is happily chatting with the AI-enabled teddy bear you got them when you hear it telling them about se…
Lees meerCheckout.com will instead donate the amount to fund cybercrime research Ransomware is a huge business, because affected orgs keep forking over money to get their data back. However, instead of paying a ransom demand after getting hit by extortionist…
Lees meerChinese search giant plans to bring custom silicon to the rack scale in 2026 with 256- and 512-chip systems Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled two new AI accelerators this week amid a national push to end reliance on Western chips.…
Lees meerSystemd-free option still available if you choose that download MX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices having become pre-inst…
Lees meerLawmakers warn of ‘information gap’ lets immigration agents sidestep states’ data safeguards Democratic lawmakers say some states that don't want to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be unintentionally allowing the agency access t…
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