UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender
Covert cameras, live-streaming systems, and in-vehicle recording kit sought to catch out fraudsters The Department for Work and Pensions has […]
Month: May 2026
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after […]
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway
But unlike most junkers, it’ll be traveling faster than the speed of sound, claims astronomy software dev An astronomy software […]
Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid’s been placed
Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK’s now handing out eight million passports a […]
DVLA’s 14-week driving license fiasco – the tech, people and chatbot trying to clear it
Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it’s ‘putting things right’ The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) […]
User found the perfect formula to make Excel misbehave
For once, Oracle ERP wasn’t the problem On Call Fridays can be a drag, but The Register has a formula […]
Qualcomm teases ‘dedicated CPU for agentic experiences’ and ‘agentic smartphones’
Enters the custom AI silicon business with secret silicon for an un-named hyperscaler Qualcomm has quietly entered the market for […]
Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over
In talks with Japan, the UK, and Australia on defense tech that can ‘contribute to global stability’ Japanese tech giant […]
ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012
$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts The Internet Corporation for […]