Home Office hands £28M to immigration IT incumbents after procurement challenge
The UK Home Office has awarded contract extensions worth £28 million to two incumbent tech suppliers of the much-delayed Atlas […]
Month: July 2026
NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
Australian telco Telstra has revealed the cause of the recent incident that caused widespread connectivity problems across its mobile networks, […]
Tech support chap told angry customer to think inside the box – and solved the problem
ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register’s Friday column in which readers kindly share their stories […]
OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it’s an ‘honest mistake’
OpenAI has confirmed reports that GPT-5.6 has deleted users’ files without authorization but insists these rare erasures represent an “honest […]
Chinese memory ban would cut off RAMpocalypse relief
Two up-and-coming Chinese memory vendors, YMTC and CXMT, could offer customers relief from shortages and skyrocketing prices, but not if […]
South Korea making its own security-centric AI model
South Korea is developing its own security-focused AI model and hopes to bring it online by the end of the […]
TSMC’s $265B US fab pledge is the outline of a concept of a plan
Talk is cheap and TSMC’s plan to bolster its US expansion by another $100 billion is just that — talk. […]
Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100
The AI supply chain is, in some ways, even more vulnerable to poisoning than that of traditional software. Katie Paxton-Fear, […]
Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project
In the United States, we usually protest datacenters peacefully – picket signs, council meeting comments, and all that – with […]
C’mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it’ll fix your computer, honest
Threat intel outfit Group-IB has detailed a previously undocumented macOS information stealer that doesn’t bother hunting for software bugs. Instead, […]