Age verification isn't sage verification when it's inside operating systems
Opinion There are two ways to look at the California Assembly Bill 1043, known as The Digital Age Assurance Act or DAAA. One is to say it is a 2025 law requiring operating systems and app stores to implement age verification during account setup to protect minors online. The other is to note that the law is all the worst things a law can be.…
Flaw in UK's corporate registry let directors rummage through rival records
Companies House was forced to pull down its record-filing platform for the entire weekend to rectify a "security issue" that exposed the personal details of company directors and other data to any logged in users.…
Microsoft points at Samsung after Galaxy app bug locks users out of C:/
Microsoft has blamed Samsung for some devices suffering C:\ drive access problems coincidentally close to March's Patch Tuesday.…
UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power
The UK government is splashing out £45 million (c $60 million) on a new AI-driven supercomputer designed to help scientists model the chaotic physics of nuclear fusion, with the system expected to come online this summer at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Culham campus.…
West Sussex's Oracle rollout pushed back again as costs balloon 15 times
West Sussex County Council has once again delayed the implementation of Oracle Fusion for HR and payroll – set to replace an aging SAP system – following a series of setbacks that have seen expected costs swell to more than 15 times the original estimate.…
India tests whether AI can stop trains hitting elephants
Asia in brief India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track” – and one of the ideas discussed was using AI to protect the beasts and workers.…
Horizon redress still a mess, MPs say – and Fujitsu hasn't paid a penny
More than a year after MPs warned that victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal were still waiting for compensation, Parliament says the system meant to pay them remains slow, bureaucratic, and flawed – meaning thousands of sub-postmasters are still fighting for payouts while taxpayers pick up the bill.…
Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble
Who, Me? The world of work can be thankless, which is why The Register tries to brighten up the Monday return to toil by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column where you confess to your IT screw-ups and tell us how you got away with it.…
AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’
Amazon Web Services on Saturday celebrated the 20th birthday of its Simple Storage Service (S3) and revealed a few little secrets about the service.…
Repopulate! Repopulate! Two lost Doctor Who episodes turn up in private collection
Film preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever.…
Outsourcer Telus admits to attack – may have lost a petabyte of data to ShinyHunters
Infosec In Brief Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.…
Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs
Workers who believe "leveraging cross-functional synergies" sounds profound may want to rethink their career trajectory because a new study suggests people who fall for corporate word salad also tend to perform worse at their jobs.…
Nvidia GTC will be full of surprises - just not for the consumer class
Kettle It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - if you're an AI aficionado, that is, as chip giant Nvidia, now the most valuable company in the world, is kicking off its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) on Monday.…
Jury out on whether Americans approve or disapprove of datacenters
Three-quarters of the American public have heard of datacenters, but they haven't quite made their minds up yet about whether they approve of them or not.…
Inside the datacenter where the day starts with topping up cerebrospinal fluid
At the start of the working day at Cortical Labs’ datacenter in Melbourne, Australia, technicians top up the resident computers with a liquid modelled on the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the human brain.…
AFRINIC accuses litigant of trying to ‘paralyse’ it
The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.…
Claude charts a new course with charts, of course
Seeing is believing, or so it was said up until AI required questioning everything. But even when braced to resist the slop roulette of online interaction, pictures are worth a thousand tokens.…
AI Burning Man happens next week –what to expect at Nvidia GTC 2026
Nvidia has a bit of a problem. Popular generative AI workloads like code assistants and agentic systems generate massive quantities of tokens and need to move them at speed. But the GPU giant's chips currently struggle to deliver.…
GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan
You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.…
'Are you freaking crazy?' Bot harasses woman, gets led away by cops
A 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a “raise the roof” move when the woman called it “freaking crazy.”…
