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Friday November 7, 2025. 12:44 PM
not Bank of England says JLR's cyberattack contributed to UK's unexpectedly slower GDP growth
This kind of material economic impact from online crooks thought to be a UK-first The Bank of England (BoE) has cited the cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as one of the reasons for the country's slower-than-expected GDP growth in its latest rates decision.…
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its UK tax collector falls short on digital efficiency, watchdog says
Treasury found £1.6 billion for extra tech investment expecting 15 percent efficiency saving. So far HMRC has underwhelmed The UK’s tax collector is yet to reach the levels of efficiency its investment in digital services has led auditors to expect, according to a new...
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says ISP help desk manager fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke
Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes … On Call Welcome to another instalment of On Call, The Register’s Friday reader-contributed column that celebrates the fine art of tech support.…
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microsoft Foxconn hires humanoid robots to make servers at Nvidia's Texas factory
We're months away from AI building AI Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn has confirmed it will use humanoid robots to make Nvidia servers in America.…
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are Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million
Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy Singaporean super-app company Grab has dumped 200 cloudy Mac Minis and replaced them with physical machines, a move it expects will save $2.4 million over three years.…
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Thursday November 6, 2025. 11:59 PM
agents Microsoft will force its 'superintelligence' to be a 'humanist' and play nice with people
Redmond's new AI boss is willing to sacrifice performance for the future of our species Microsoft has joined the ranks of tech giants chasing superintelligent artificial intelligence, but the company's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman’s vision is markedly different from that...
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out Gootloader malware back for the attack, serves up ransomware
Move fast - miscreants compromised a domain controller in 17 hours Gootloader JavaScript malware, commonly used to deliver ransomware, is back in action after a period of reduced activity.…
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yet Google’s Ironwood TPUs represent a bigger threat than Nvidia would have you believe
Chocolate Factory's homegrown silicon boasts Blackwell-level perf at massive scale Look out, Jensen! With its TPUs, Google has shown time and time again that it's not the size of your accelerators that matters but how efficiently you can scale them in production.…
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computer OpenAI's Altman and Friar walk back remarks about federal loan guarantees
Money-losing biz says it does not need help to meet massive infrastructure commitments updated After this story was published, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took a turn at damage control, following remarks from CFO Sarah Friar suggesting that the company was seeking federal loan...
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geek Cisco warns of 'new attack variant' battering firewalls under exploit for 6 months
Plus 2 new critical vulns - patch now Cisco warned customers about another wave of attacks against its firewalls, which have been battered by intruders for at least six months. It also patched two critical bugs in its Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) software that...
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news Senate bill would require companies to report AI layoffs as job cuts reach 20-year high in October
Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation. ai-pocalypse A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs...
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pc Union brands Rockstar’s leak claim “a distraction” as protests hit Take-Two London
Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…
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technology FBI prevails over convicted fraudster in $345M destroyed Bitcoin dispute
Counterfeiter failed to conjure a credible claim, appeals court rules A convicted identity thief has lost his appeal against Uncle Sam after claiming federal agents destroyed a seized hard drive containing cryptocurrency worth more than $345 million.…
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internet Agents of misfortune: The world isn't ready for autonomous software
Amazon's spat with Perplexity shows that technology is not the only blocker for the agentic era Opinion The agentic era remains a fantasy world. Software agents, the notional next frontier for generative AI services, cannot escape the gravity of their contradictions, legal...
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technologies Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters
Sustainable vision? Who knows Lenovo says that traditional datacenters are not fit for purpose, and must evolve to future-proof businesses across EMEA. This is based on research, but the PC and server biz has come up with some wacky possible designs, including one that is...
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computers 'Vibe coding' named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant
It's not a bug, it's a feeling Vibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary's Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?…
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pc news Microsoft: Don't let AI agents near your credit card yet
Shopping bots pick first option and are 'vulnerable to manipulation', Magentic Marketplace trial finds Ready to have your agent talk to my agent and arrange a sale? Microsoft has published a simulated marketplace to put AI agents through their paces and answer a question for ...
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pc news headlines You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will
Most of you still can't do better than 123456? 123456. admin. password. For years, the IT world has been reminding users not to rely on such predictable passwords. And yet here we are with another study finding that those sorts of quickly-guessable,...
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geek news Microsoft Configuration Manager to switch to an annual release cadence
Intune is where the party's at, even if admins might prefer the Configuration Manager kitchen Microsoft has officially confirmed that Configuration Manager will transition to an annual release cadence, with Intune as the primary focus for innovation.…
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technology news SonicWall fingers state-backed cyber crew for September firewall breach
Spies, not crooks, were behind digital heist – damage stopped at the backups, says US cybersec biz SonicWall has blamed an unnamed, state-sponsored collective for the September break-in that saw cybercriminals rifle through a cache of firewall configuration backups.…
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