AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer Summary Researchers have used an AI model to compute laser-hologram patterns that rapidly rearrange rubidium atoms into neutral-atom arrays — structures that…
Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanises scientists into action Summary The US Department of Energy report produced by the Trump administration team claims that global warming is “less damaging…
Scammers turn to ‘ghost-tapping’ retail fraud to launder funds Summary Researchers at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group describe a growing laundering method they call “ghost-tapping”: criminals upload stolen payment-card details to…
UK telecom provider Colt says outages were due to cyber incident Summary London-based Colt Technology Services confirmed an outage this week was caused by a cyber incident on an internal…
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide Summary The Register’s Lindsay Clark kicks off a reader poll and debate after reporting that the…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary A sole hospital sysadmin, “Jake”, was asked to investigate a sluggish CT scanner workstation. Although not trained on medical…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary A King’s College London team presented research at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that large language model (LLM)…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The UK government is publicly embracing AI, but much of its IT estate remains rooted in decades-old legacy systems…
Summary Colt Technology Services, the London-headquartered telco, reported a “cyber incident” that forced it to take several internal systems offline as a protective measure. The disruption—first noted on 12 August—has…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the current narrative of AI as an inexpensive route to productivity gains…
