North Korea’s fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices
North Korea’s employment scams work both ways. As well as placing fraudulent IT workers inside Western companies, regime-backed cybercriminals have […]
Month: September 2026
Microsoft fixes the fix that broke Excel paste – partly
Microsoft has issued a partial fix for the Excel bug that causes paste operations to fail. The hotfix applies only […]
KDE turns 30 and someone’s brought an AI-native desktop proposal
KDE’s annual conference takes place this weekend at Graz University of Technology in Austria, with an AI-native desktop proposal likely […]
Admins, you’ve been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge’s IE Mode
Microsoft has reminded administrators that Internet Explorer mode in Edge is guaranteed support only through 2029, so it is time […]
Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has taken a senior UK role at Palantir as the government considers whether to […]
The ideal database for AI agents doesn’t exist yet, says Percona CEO
INTERVIEW Percona CEO Peter Farkas reckons AI caught the database industry off guard and that agentic workloads may eventually require […]
KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting
KPMG UK is laying off staff from the Tech and Data areas of its Advisory division and offering severance terms […]
British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky
The British Army is buying more than 1,000 small drones for battlefield surveillance and training under contracts worth £16 million […]
Royal Society slams UK.gov science shake-up
The president of the Royal Society has slammed the government’s decision to move science policy from the department also covering […]
On Call: Techie fixed Wi-Fi dead zone with a drill
ON CALL Welcome to another edition of On Call, The Register’s reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech […]