Public Sector Home Office seeks three CTOs to keep borders, passports, and core IT ticking Roles span eGates, passports, visas, asylum applications, and enterprise services – yours for up to £105K
Security If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows
AI + ML Make crappy moves around AI and face voter backlash, govts warned When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on...
AI + ML Experts and laypeople agree: AI will hurt elections and relationships Latest report from Stanford's AI boffins finds unsafe usage practices, widespread anxiety about impacts, and China catching up to the USA
AI + ML Chatbots are great at manipulating people to buy stuff, Princeton boffins find Urge restraints before AdLand does this without appropriate disclosures
Security EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government
AI + ML Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health Flattery and delusional talk have negative outcomes
Public Sector Watchdog boss calls Capita's £370M DWP win 'extraordinary' amid pension portal dumpster fire PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys
AI + ML Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows I see you're trying to kill children. Would you like some help with that?
AI + ML OpenAI says its latest model is less likely to beat around the bush The AI giant is also trying to walk back some terms of its deal with the Defense Department
Offbeat Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack Iranian worshippers got notifications saying 'help has arrived'
Public Sector AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it Study of 11 LLMs shows they rarely refuse to answer, even when they probably should
AI + ML GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice
AI + ML AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine And people make bad information worse by failing to provide chatbots with the right details
Legal Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing Proposed bills in New York and elsewhere threaten makers, Adafruit says
Legal Ex-Googler nailed for stealing AI secrets for Chinese startups Network access from China and side hustle as AI upstart CEO aroused suspicion
AI + ML Anthropic CEO bloviates for 20,000+ words in thinly veiled plea against regulation If only there were some technology to boil things down to bullet points
Security Surrender as a service: Microsoft unlocks BitLocker for feds If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys
AI + ML OpenAI will try to guess your age before ChatGPT gets spicy Think of the children...and the monetization options available where they're not allowed
AI + ML Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella becomes AI influencer, asks us all to move beyond slop Exec argues we need a new metaphor focused on AI as a lever rather than a job killer
Agentic AI Workers should control the means of agentic production, suggests WorkBeaver boss What if AI vendors focused on the demand side?
AI + ML Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads
AI + ML Researchers get inside the mind of bots, find out what texts they trained on RECAP agent overcomes model alignment efforts to hide memorized proprietary content
AI + ML Superintelligence probably not happening, but AI will still reshape society, expert panel says Ask 339 people, get 339 answers
AI + ML ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok make very squishy jury members All three acquitted a teen in a mock trial based on a case where a judge ruled guilty
AI + ML 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
AI + ML Sony rolls out a standard way to measure bias in how AI describes what it 'sees' Images in the test dataset were all sourced with consent
Software Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all If you want your First Amendment rights, make money the Palantir way
Public Sector England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache Surrey to be divided into two new councils in first phase of countrywide reorg
AI + ML OpenAI non-profit will run for-profit that has yet to make a profit Corporate restructuring will benefit ... uh, humanity
Public Sector UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope
PaaS + IaaS Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem 'The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice'
Offbeat High-stakes poker scam used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and special glasses 31 alleged poker schemers nabbed alongside arrest of separate sports betting ring
Security Vulnerability scores, huh, what are they good for? Almost nothing CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency
AI + ML OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its product
AI + ML AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage Researchers argue that this dark pattern poses a legal risk
Public Sector Albania’s prime minister wants to appoint an AI to his ministry Incorruptible e-government AnswerBot ‘Djella’, which reportedly runs in Azure, given job of running public procurement
AI + ML OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety California, Delaware AGs blast ChatGPT shop over chatbot safeguards
PaaS + IaaS Oracle’s layoff train rolls on: 101 in WA, 250+ in CA - with more cuts looming Big Red bloodbath not yet acknowledged by the company
AI + ML Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes When AI runs recruiting, the winning move is using the same bot
Security Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight Enough governments love it and it's highly lucrative
Public Sector Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Sites at yourcountry.gov may also not bother with HTTPs
AI + ML AI robs jobs from recent college grads, but isn't hurting wages, Stanford study says Machine-learning models are automating away some entry-level roles
AI + ML AI giants call for energy grid kumbaya Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI researchers warn of uneven power usage associated with AI training, and propose possible fixes
AI + ML Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right?
Security Congressman proposes bringing back letters of marque for cyber privateers Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas
Public Sector Uncle Sam asks industry if it has AI that'll make procurement suck less Plan includes chatbots 'with full user context and data access' – what could go wrong?
Research Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show High accuracy scores come from conditions that don't reflect real-world usage
AI + ML Nabiha Syed remakes Mozilla Foundation in the era of Trump and AI The non-profit has a new look but still stands up for the open web
Public Sector GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing
AI + ML The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says Not everyone wants to be simulated after they're gone
Public Sector Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU
Legal Not big in Japan: Apple's WebKit browser requirement may break new law Three jurisdictions now want browser engine variety for a better mobile market
AI + ML So much for watermarks: UnMarker tool nukes AI provenance tags Boffins insist your deepfake tracking tech won't work
AI + ML Stop flooding us with AI-based grant applications, begs Health Institute Already reeling from staff cuts, the health agency is choking on slop
Security Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot
On-Prem US signals intention to rethink job H-1B lottery Foreign worker program represents betrayal of US computer science students, advocacy group argues
AI + ML Meta declines to abide by voluntary EU AI safety guidelines GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledges
Research Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'
AI + ML EU tries to explain how to do AI without breaking the law A new code aims to make it easy to figure out
AI + ML At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto Boffins outsmart smart contracts with evil automation
Public Sector Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn
Edge + IoT Jack Dorsey floats specs for decentralized messaging app that uses Bluetooth It connects using peer-to-peer networking instead of the internet
AI + ML Georgia court throws out earlier ruling that relied on fake cases made up by AI 'We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order'
AI + ML EU businesses want a pause on AI regulations so they can cope with unregulated Big Tech players Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'
Science Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool
Applications Figma files for an (A)IPO with prospectus that mentions AI 150+ times Warns investors its codebase is harder to maintain as it bakes in brainboxes
Legal A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well
Devops Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages 'Memory vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure,' say CISA and NSA
OSes Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark At least the BSOD acronym will still work
AI + ML Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out
Public Sector Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free
Legal Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy
AI + ML AI may be after your job, but this AI agent promises to help you get a new one 'Jobright Agent' can apply for jobs on your behalf
Research Boffins devise voice-altering tech to jam 'vishing' schemes To stop AI scam callers, break automatic speech recognition systems
AI + ML MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek – plus it's true open source China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms
AI + ML The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel
Public Sector Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress DOGE moves fast and breaks things, and now our data is at risk, security guru warns in hearing
Public Sector European pols wave their hands about digital sovereignty with broad but vague plan One Dutch developer called it a 'nothingburger'
AI + ML Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping content into the maw of its eternally ravenous AI All the cool kids signed licensing deals with the recently-listed forum site
AI + ML Boffins found self-improving AI sometimes cheated Instead of addressing hallucinations, it just bypassed the function they built to detect them
Public Sector Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims Move should help government track infections and plan new legislation
Science American science put on starvation diet National Science Foundation FY 2026 budget cut by more than 60%
Public Sector Meta – yep, Facebook Meta – is now a defense contractor Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
AI + ML Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful It's hard to predict the future, but trying might get Amodei a seat at the regulatory table
Cyber-crime Why is China deep in US networks? 'They're preparing for war,' HR McMaster tells lawmakers House Homeland Security Committee takes a field trip to Silicon Valley
Public Sector From Russia with chokehold: Putin says foreign IT firms still in Russia should be 'strangled' He was responding to a gripe from a Russian IT provider about competition from Microsoft and Zoom
On-Prem Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customers
Science NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last
CxO Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now
AI Software Development Week LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
Public Sector Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'
AI + ML Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study
Public Sector White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off
CSO The curious story of Uncle Sam's HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster
Public Sector With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right
Science Astronomers back call for review of bonkers rule that means satellite swarms fly without environment checks
Networks Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?
