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PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI

Professional services giant did not read its own report on lackluster benefits You'll use AI and like it too – if you work for PwC. Paul Griggs, US chief executive of the global professional services giant, has made clear there is no room at the corporation for AI skeptics.…
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Britain's satellite-watching gap to be plugged with £17.5M eyeball in Cyprus

No 1 Space Operations Squadron will get a persistent stare capability The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to spend £17.5 million on a remotely-operated satellite monitoring facility in Cyprus, partly to protect the UK's secure communications system Skynet.…
go.theregister 35h ago 10°

Okta made a nightmare micromanager for your AI agents

Where are you? What are you working on? Why are you doing that? Identity access and management platform Okta announced the general availability of its Okta for AI Agents, which will give customers the ability to do three things: locate agents, see what they’re doing, and shut them down if need be.…
go.theregister 27h ago 10°

Struggling to put your AI aversion into words? Here's a handy glossary

From mild vegetarianism to full-blown haterdom, there's a label for everything Opinion Are you an AI hater, an AI vegan, or a slightly more moderate AI vegetarian? Or are you on the side of the clankers? A bot-licker, a prompt-fondler, a ChatNPC?…
go.theregister 47h ago 10°

Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months

Analysts say three-screen smartphone successful as a proof of concept, memory crunch potentially made it unsustainable Samsung is killing the Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after just three months on the market.…
go.theregister 41h ago 10°

Microsoft promises all-in-one database wrangling hub on Fabric

PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server all handled via Database Hub, vendor says Microsoft has launched a database management tool it promises will help users manage multiple databases sharing a single SQL engine.…
go.theregister 21h ago

UK blinks on AI copyright carve-out after star-studded revolt

Creative pressure forces rethink as officials step back from default data use The UK government has backed off plans to allow AI companies to access copyrighted material for free for training purposes by default.…
go.theregister 22h ago

Fixing Claude with Claude: Anthropic reports on AI site reliability engineering

It's still a job for humans, even though bots can search logs at the speed of I/O QCon London A member of Anthropic's AI reliability engineering team spoke at QCon London on why Claude excels at finding issues but still makes a poor substitute for a site reliability engineer (SRE), constantly mistaking correlation with causation.…
go.theregister 44h ago

North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un

Researchers map full org chart of the scam from dodgy recruiters to helpful Western collaborators Researchers at IBM X‑Force and Flare Research have uncovered data that sheds light on how North Korea's fake IT worker schemes operate and infiltrate companies in order to funnel money back to the regime and steal sensitive information.…
go.theregister 42h ago

Meatbags vs machines: DeepMind plans hackathon to draw line between human and AI brains

What exactly is AGI? Nobody knows, but Google's AI lab is asking for help trying to define it If a bot actually achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI), how would we even know? Google DeepMind boffins have come up with what they say is an empirical, scientifically grounded framework to measure progress toward AGI, and they're looking for a few good devs to actually flesh it out. …
go.theregister 40h ago

Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC

Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say GTC Hitachi Vantara and Nutanix announced support for Nvidia’s new GPUs and software at GTC 2026, much like every other storage system vendor, while IBM integrated Watsonx and other offerings more tightly with GPUzilla's offerings. Seagate demonstrated a two-tier hybrid external KV Cache composed of SSDs and disk drives, as it did last year.…
go.theregister 22h ago

Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned

New toggle strips away browser chrome if you want Browser maker Vivaldi has opened up a new front in the browser wars by making itself disappear.…
go.theregister 24h ago

SAP's grand cloud escape plan €2B short of the runway

Strategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind target Five years after launching its rescue plan to lift ERP users to the cloud and switch them to the latest software, SAP is off target by about €2 billion, The Register can reveal.…
go.theregister 43h ago

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave

Good luck with that The latest release of the most widely used Linux init system is here, and between dropping init script support and AI-assisted coding, we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers.…
go.theregister 6h ago

Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation, just a little

Enterprise tools have detected impossible logins for years. Zuck’s human mods couldn’t join the dots Meta has revealed it’s tested using AI for content moderation chores and found it does better than humans.…
go.theregister 37h ago

State snoops and spyware vendors planting info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns

Darksword is the second iOS exploit chain in a month A new exploit kit targeting iPhone users and stealing their sensitive data is being abused by "multiple" spyware vendors and suspected nation-state goons, security researchers said on Wednesday.…
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