BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off
Not content with a corporate blueprint to cut up to 55,000 employees by 2030, UK telecoms giant BT now says even more staff could be replaced with AI, despite the experience of some orgs that have already tried this.…
Armored cash transport trucks allegedly hauled money for $190 million crypto-laundering scheme
Asia In Brief Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) last week announced charges against four suspects for alleged participation in a money-laundering scheme that involved a security company’s armored cash transport unit.…
Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data
A former GCHQ intern was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for stealing top-secret files during a year-long placement at the British intelligence agency.…
Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project
Exclusive The Northern Ireland government did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for a £125 million ($167 million) contract, yet the Japanese tech giant to continued to do so, despite promising to quit competing for UK government work during the fallout from the Horizon scandal.…
Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins
Opinion Among the forever wars in geekdom, defining the difference between science fiction and fantasy is a hot potato destined to outlive the heat death of the universe.…
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules
Who, Me? The only certainties in life are death, taxes … and tech causing trouble, a topic that The Register covers each week in this reader-contributed column we call “Who, Me?” that celebrates the moments you made trouble at work and somehow escaped.…
Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections
Google Cloud has explained the massive outage it created last week and, as has happened many times previously, admitted that it broke itself.…
VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown
German giant Siemens AG has tried to convince a US court to throw out the case in which VMware alleged it used unlicensed software.…
Dems demand audit of CVE program as Federal funding remains uncertain
Infosec In Brief A pair of Congressional Democrats have demanded a review of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program amid uncertainties about continued US government funding for the scheme.…
The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests
Feature For artificial intelligence researchers, the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, changed the world in a way similar to the detonation of the first atomic bomb.…
Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow
Windows 95 will soon turn 30. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen recalled that when testing Microsoft's reimagining of Windows, an overflow was discovered that had nothing to do with the operating system itself.…
Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough
Scientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party.…
As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths
Rocky Linux 10 has caught up to the other high-profile RHELatives, but gaps between them are widening, both in tech and other ways.…
US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name
Several of Silicon Valley's top techies are joining the Army Reserve as part of a newly created unit that will be trying to accelerate the use of AI in military planning and operations.…
Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US
The current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being waged between two countries with very capable destructive cyber weapons.…
AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink
A messy legal fight between Ligado and Inmarsat over direct-to-cellular (D2C) spectrum has been settled, giving upstart AST a chance to gain ground on Starlink.…
I'm just a Barbie Girl in a ChatGPT world
Toy giant Mattel has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the tech industry's buzziest technology to the very youngest generation.…
Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says
Both Apple's and Google's online stores offer free virtual private network (VPN) apps owned by Chinese companies, according to researchers at the Tech Transparency Project, and they don't make this fact readily known to people downloading the apps.…
Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person
Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has reclaimed the No. 2 spot on Forbes's real-time billionaire list, trailing only Elon Musk after leapfrogging Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.…
Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up
Exclusive Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI.…
