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Most sole traders and landlords ignore marketing campaigns, though fines are coming

Fewer than three-tenths of those required to sign up for quarterly software-based Making Tax Digital (MTD) reporting for the latest tax year that started this month have done so, according to HM Revenue & Customs.…

The right person for the job didn't have the right passport for the job

On Call  Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support incidents that crossed a line.…

Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Thursday delivered his annual letter to shareholders and it’s full of interesting news about the cloud and e-tail giant.…

Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back

Universal basic income is an idea that hasn’t gained much traction, but South Korea on Thursday implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme.…

Just in time to get buyers thinking as physical PC prices rise

Microsoft has told its channel partners to get ready for a 20 percent price cut for Windows 365 cloud PCs, effective May 1st.…

Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures

Large language models can be very persuasive, and researchers say that's a problem when they’re used to create advertising.…

Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in

A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.…

Want to run your business on autopilot? For better or worse, Managed Agents might help with that

If you need AI agents to do a lot of ongoing tasks for your business, Anthropic has a new answer for you. The Claude maker has introduced Managed Agents, a service to help organizations create and deploy cloud-hosted knowledge work automations.…

Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel

Google will continue to work with Intel, buying SmartNICs for its public cloud rather than blazing its own trail as AWS has done with its Nitro NICs.…

Cops bust latest scam, return $12m to bilked victims

US, UK, and Canadian law enforcement Thursday said that they disrupted a $45 million global cryptocurrency scam, freezing $12 million in stolen funds and identifying more than 20,000 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to fraud victims across 30 countries.…

C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home

It's going to be hard holding back our tears. The C-suite lieutenants at Amazon didn’t exactly get the bumper payday that many El Reg readers would expect, particularly compared with prior years.…

Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered

AI agents should not be secret agents, at least in corporate environments. But when companies deploy software automations, they don't always have visibility into what their roboscripts are actually doing.…

The core product is solid and priced fairly

I've spent over a decade telling anyone who'd listen that S3 is not a filesystem, which in retrospect was a really weird way to start some conversations. So when AWS launched S3 Files on Tuesday – which lets you mount an S3 bucket as an NFS share – I did what any reasonable person would do: I spun up an EC2 instance and started trying to break it.…

FTC lawsuit lingers, while encouraging signs point to Iowa bill succeeding too

Agriculture manufacturing giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement following a class action lawsuit in Illinois.…

ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded its annual Prize in Computing to Matei Zaharia for his work developing open source data and analytics software, including the widely used Apache Spark analytics engine.…

Arm support is on the agenda, too, because AI is going to run on everything

Exclusive  Nutanix plans to support KubeVirt to allow its customers to run both containers and VMs on the edge.…

UK and US customers stuck waiting after fleet management SaaS vendor took affected environments offline

A cybersecurity incident has knocked FleetWave into a "major outage" across the UK and US after Chevin Fleet Solutions pulled parts of its SaaS platform offline and left customers scrambling for answers.…

Sam Altman's datacenter dreams hit a wall of watts and wonkery, cooling Britain's AI ambitions

OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold.…

Malicious PDFs abuse legit features to harvest system data and decide which victims get a 2nd-stage payload

Hackers have been quietly exploiting what appears to be a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat Reader for months, using booby-trapped PDFs to profile targets and decide who's worth fully compromising.…

No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue

Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.…