Mind the cyber gap – similar flaws highlighted multiple years in a row Concerned about the orgs that safeguard your money? The UK's annual cybersecurity review for 2025 suggests you should be. Despite years of regulation, financial organizations con…
Lees meerRegulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force GDPR fines pushed past the £1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe's regulators were deluged with more than 400 data breach notific…
Lees meerVeteran text editor gets more AI enhancements while Paint will be able to generate coloring books Microsoft is meddling with Notepad again, this time adding a "What's New" screen so users know the latest indignities heaped on the once-humble text ed…
Lees meerComms harmonization plan already drawing fire from operators and Big Tech alike The European Commission's proposed Digital Networks Act (DNA) to harmonize telecoms regulation is drawing criticism from industry bodies who either say it oversteps the …
Lees meerAs public consultation kicks off, members of UK Parliament's second chamber highlight damage to children UK government is edging closer to following Australia in blocking under-16s from social media accounts after the House of Lords voted in favor o…
Lees meerCritical vuln flew under the radar for a decade A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) is "trivial" to exploit, experts say.…
Lees meerProfessor Mark Girolami keeps seat warm after Jean Innes bailed following ministerial arm-twisting The Alan Turing Institute's Chief Scientist has temporarily stepped into the hot seat at the UK's flagship AI research organization after the long-fla…
Lees meerWhen the operating system is older than the transport network Bork!Bork!Bork! There's no keeping an obsolete operating system down, although keeping it operational can sometimes be a challenge, if public terminals are any indication. Today's bork u…
Lees meerThere are other home server, NAS, and media-streaming distros, but this aspires to much more Hands On Want to get off someone else's cloud, especially if it's hosted in a country you don't trust? FreedomBox is an off-ramp, and it's included in Debi…
Lees meerThe critical-rated flaw leaves unpatched systems open to full takeover Cisco has finally shipped a fix for a critical-rated zero-day in its Unified Communications gear, a flaw that's already being weaponized in the wild, and which CISA previously fl…
Lees meerProgram will train just 20 people per year The UK government is investing in a defense-focused degree course to train both civilian students and soldiers to become drone technology specialists. However, it's only targeting a small number of people.…
Lees meerSystem handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC The UK tax collector has awarded SAP a £275 million ($370 million) contract to move the system, which handles over £800 billion (c $1 trillion) in tax reve…
Lees meerProgram will train just 20 people per year The UK government is investing in a defense-focused degree course to train both civilian students and soldiers to become drone technology specialists. However, it's only targeting a small number of people.…
Lees meerWhen the operating system is older than the transport network Bork!Bork!Bork! There's no keeping an obsolete operating system down, although keeping it operational can sometimes be a challenge, if public terminals are any indication. Today's bork u…
Lees meerDescribes its LLMs as an ‘entity’ that probably has something like emotions The Constitution of the United States of America is about 7,500 words long, a factoid The Register mentions because on Wednesday AI company Anthropic delivered an updated 23…
Lees meerThis establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar eBay has decided to ban agentic shopping bots from its digital tat bazaar.…
Lees meerPlans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year AI networking startup Upscale AI on Wednesday announced it has raised $200 million in Series A funding to challenge Nvidia's dominance of switches for rack-scale AI systems, putti…
Lees meerJensen Huang and Alex Karp talk up trade skills as AI datacenters multiply, while Satya Nadella says the real test comes later The leaders of the AI world descended on Davos, Switzerland, this week for the World Economic Forum, where they took turns…
Lees meerWhere the shiny new FOMO object collides with insider-threat reality AI agents arrived in Davos this week with the question of how to secure them - and prevent agents from becoming the ultimate insider threat - taking center stage during a panel dis…
Lees meerFrom adaptive wearables to light-based signaling ideas, researchers are exploring what comes next The feathers of a hummingbird, the wings of a butterfly, and the sparkle of an opal are all examples of nature's ability to produce structural, iridesc…
Lees meerBusiness transformation, but not much remuneration Making money isn't everything ... at least not when it comes to AI. Research from professional services firm Deloitte shows that, for most companies, adopting AI tools hasn't helped the bottom line …
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