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So much for cushy public sector roles – a non-IT manager at McDonalds makes more

How much is an IT manager worth?  Well, if you're working for a government agency, the answer seems to be about £60k (about $81k), according to a new vacancy being advertised.…

Some people will do anything to avoid an all-nighter

Who, Me?  Welcome once again to “Who, Me?”, the reader contributed column in which we invite Reg reader to tell tales of the times when they got things very wrong.…

Liberation Day not freeing consumers or businesses of their hard earned disposable income

World War Fee  Trump's tariffs may have been ruled unlawful, but they are still in place and continue to affect the market, with the threat of price hikes on smartphones causing prospective buyers to hold off until the situation becomes less volatile.…

PLUS: Equinix Singapore outage; Japan and India explore geocoding; APAC datacenter shortage predicted

Asia In Brief  Intel and Japan’s SoftBank have reportedly teamed up to develop low-power memory for AI.…

PLUS: Ransomware gang using tech support scam; Czechia accuses China of infrastructure attack; And more!

Infosec In Brief  Despite last week’s FBI announcement that it helped to take down the crew behind the Lumma infostealer, the malware continues to operate.…

Wants channel to be all in on private cloud as more details emerge on VCF 9 licensing and hardware

Broadcom’s VMware business unit has dropped the lowest tier of its channel program, a move one analyst told The Register will benefit its rivals.…

Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation

Australia now requires large companies to inform the government if they have paid off ransomware perps.…

National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%

To make America great again, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to get by with less.…

Its driverless cars are already testing in Austin - good luck

Video  Tesla has been testing self-driving Model Ys on the streets of Austin, Texas. But according to the automaker's bête noire, the Dawn Project, kids should keep clear.…

System promises a 10x increase in 'scientific output' - not necessarily performance

The US Department of Energy's next supercomputer will be built by Dell Technologies and powered by Nvidia's next-gen Vera-Rubin accelerators - a notable switch from the usual Cray-AMD tag teams that build such machines. It's the first DOE win for Nvidia since the Venado system in 2022.…

Generate modest interactive apps, spiffy charts, and bland screenplays as needed

Perplexity, an AI search biz, has launched Perplexity Labs, a project automation service capable of generating basic apps and digital assets on demand, with example workflows and project samples to help first-timers get started.…

Pen tester on ScreenConnect bug: This one ‘terrifies’ me

ConnectWise has brought in the big guns to investigate a "sophisticated nation state actor" that broke into its IT environment and then breached some of its customers.…

28-year-old alleged to have made multiple drops to folks who turned out to be undercover FBI agents

A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist is scheduled to appear in court today after being caught by the FBI trying to surreptitiously drop top secret information to a foreign government in a public park.…

Cash splashed on damages, infrastructure improvements, and fraud monitoring

A Seattle cancer facility has agreed to fork out around $52.5 million as part of a class action settlement linked to a Thanksgiving 2023 cyberattack where criminals directly threatened cancer patients with swat attacks.…

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them

Meta has partnered with Anduril Industries to build augmented and virtual reality devices for the military, eight years after it fired the defense firm's founder, Palmer Luckey.…

High-profile logo win for AI? Weeks ahead of year-end and with investors twitchy about returns? Impeccable timing

Microsoft yesterday used a town hall meeting to leak details tell staff about a 100,000 license contract signed with Barclays to use Copilot.…

Thank whoever decided to make the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey public for this discovery

A trio of scientists have published a paper that explains how they found a dwarf planet in a database.…

War in Ukraine causes major rethink in policy and spending

The UK is spending more than £1 billion ($1.35 billion) setting up a new Cyber and Electromagnetic Command and is recruiting a few good men and women to join up and staff it.…

Can't build a datacenter overnight, argues tech giant

Dell has confirmed an order backlog of $14.4 billion for AI optimized servers, yet it is tempering investors' expectations for future sales by talking about demand being lumpy and dependencies in the pipeline.…

Latest project gets the green light although Brexit-era brainchild faces spending review

The UK's version of Darpa — a US government blue-sky research body — has invested £23.3 million (c $32 million) into nine teams working to transform "robotic dexterity."…