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System compensating victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal still slow, thousands of ex-subpostmasters waiting for payments

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.…

Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the bus

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.…

Dark Dalek drama to stream this April

Film preservation organization Film Is Fabulous! has found a pair of Doctor Who episodes thought to have been lost forever.…

PLUS: Citrix CISO urges patch blitz; Mandiant founder reveals AI red-teaming tech; Bitter privacy news for Starbucks; And more

Infosec In Brief  Canadian outsourcer Telus Digital has admitted it fell victim to a cyberattack.…

Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth

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.…

Join Brandon Vigliarolo, Tobias Mann, and Avram Piltch to discuss our predictions for this week's GTC

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.…

Biological computing is messy and gassy – It’s now cloudy, too

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.…

Conversations with Anthropic's models may now be accompanied by interactive apps

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.…

From Groq-ing about tokenomics to OpenClaw and the silicon that powers it, our predictions for the hottest ticket in town

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.…

Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free

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.…

An incident in Macau

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.”…

And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks

A group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users' credentials, according to Microsoft.…

Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over

Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…

35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions

Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.…

Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own

Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…

Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot

Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them.…

'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch'

NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for a rollout to the pad on March 19.…

Operation Synergia's third season is the most productive to date

Ninety-four people were arrested as part of a global, multi-month cybercrime crackdown, Interpol revealed today.…

Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

Opinion  A new wave of age verification laws requires kids and teenagers to register before they can use a computer.…

It wants 'safe, cost effective, and rapid.' We say: 'Good, fast, cheap – you can have 2'

Britain's government is pushing ahead with nuclear planning and regulatory reforms, aiming to accelerate atomic projects that will power homes and datacenters.…