Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model Summary DeepSeek, the Chinese AI model developer behind the R1 launch earlier this year, ran into major problems when pressured to…
Ransomware crews don’t care about your endpoint security – they’ve already killed it Summary At least a dozen ransomware groups are using kernel-level “EDR killers” and repurposed legitimate tools to…
Tencent doesn’t care if it can buy American GPUs again – it already has all the chips it needs Summary Tencent told investors during its Q2 2025 earnings call that…
Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost Summary Foxconn’s Q2 results show a major business shift: the company reported NT$1.79 trillion in revenue (up…
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide Summary The Register runs a debate and poll after reporting that the UK public sector expects…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary Jake, the sole sysadmin at a hospital, was called to investigate a slow workstation used to view CT scans.…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary A team from King’s College London has demonstrated that large language model (LLM) chatbots can be trivially tuned via…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The article examines how, despite recent fanfare about AI, large parts of UK central government remain dependent on legacy…
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Summary Colt Technology Services, the London-headquartered telco, has taken a number of internal systems offline after a “cyber incident” that began on…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? Summary The Register’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the oft-touted cost savings from AI are misleading. While executives…
