Capita £370M bid 40% under UK.gov estimate for Oracle HR and finance system project, court case reveals
A new court filing has revealed the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions accepted a bid from Capita to run […]
Month: June 2026
Brit regulator finds mobile network service on trains is far from first class
Train travellers are poorly served by the UK’s mobile networks, says Ofcom. Tests on railway lines in England, Scotland and […]
UK’s top crime agency hamstrung by legacy IT, watchdog warns
Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been told to urgently overhaul an IT estate so dysfunctional that officers say they […]
Tech support chap hauled out to help SWAT team saw his life flash before his eyes
ON CALL Buckle in, dear readers, for an extreme installment of On Call, The Register’s reader-contributed Friday column in which […]
‘It would be good for the world’ to slow down AI sprints, Anthropic says
It would be “good for the world” to slow down the pace of AI development, according to a blog post […]
Canada wants to make its own AI, break free from US bots
We’re a month shy of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence, and another close ally has decided to […]
Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds
UPDATED A new extortion brand called Pink – which may be a rebrand of BlackFile – uses voice phishing and […]
AMD takes a third of server CPU market as shipments grow
Processor shipments declined by more than six percent during the first quarter of 2026, at least for the x86 world, […]
Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault
Meta is reportedly backtracking on, or at least weakening, its plans to implement enhanced employee workplace monitoring following staff protests. […]
AI heavyweights warn their tech could help terrorists develop bioweapons
The world’s AI luminaries love to warn us of impending planetary demise thanks to their creations, and they’re back with […]