Eurocops arrest suspected Archetyp admin, shut down mega dark web drug shop Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M Operation Deep Sentinel is the latest international law enforcement collaboration against cybercrime, shutting down Archetyp – one of the largest dark web drug marketplaces.… #theregister #IT

Eurocops shutter dark web drug shop Archetyp, arrest 8

: Marketplace as big as Silk Road had more than 600k users and turnover of 'at least' €250M

Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests 6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks A new benchmark developed by academics shows that LLM-based AI agents perform below par on standard CRM tests and fail to understand the need for customer confidentiality.… #theregister #IT

LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tasks

: 6-in-10 success rate for single-step tasks

Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe But lose your code and it's gone for good Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area will shortly receive a new Recall Export feature, allowing Recall snapshots to be shared with third-party apps and websites.… #theregister #IT

Microsoft adds export option to Windows Recall in Europe

Updated: But lose your code and it's gone for good

BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts, hints at Openreach sell-off As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humans Not content with a corporate blueprint to cut up to 55,000 employees by 2030, UK telecoms giant BT now says even more staff could be replaced with AI, despite the experience of some orgs that have already tried this.… #theregister #IT

BT chief says AI could deliver more job cuts

: As others roll back use of tech due to quality, customers preferring to talk to humans

Spy school dropout: GCHQ intern jailed for swiping classified data Student 'believed he could finish' software dev 'project alone and therefore that the rules did not apply to him' A former GCHQ intern was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for stealing top-secret files during a year-long placement at the British intelligence agency.… #theregister #IT

GCHQ intern jailed for stealing top-secret files

: Student 'believed he could finish' software dev 'project alone and therefore that the rules did not apply to him'

Northern Ireland government confirms it did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for project Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked Exclusive  The Northern Ireland government did not ask Fujitsu to continue bidding for a £125 million ($167 million) contract, yet the Japanese tech giant to continued … #theregister #IT

Northern Ireland confirms it did not ask Fujitsu for bid

Exclusive: Scandal-hit IT giant said it wouldn't take on new UK.gov contracts or continue bidding on existing ones unless asked

Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype Opinion  Among the forever wars in geekdom, defining the difference between science fiction and fantasy is a hot potato destined to outlive the heat death of the universe.… #theregister #IT

Large Reasoning Models hitting limits, say Apple boffins

Opinion: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype

Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest Who, Me?  The only certainties in life are death, taxes … and tech causing trouble, a topic that The Register covers each week in this reader-contributed column we call “Who, Me?” that celebrates the moments you made trouble at work and somehow escaped.… #theregister #IT

Techie made sure restaurant customers gagged at tax grab

Who, Me?: Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest

Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes Google Cloud has explained the massive outage it created last week and, as has happened many times previously, admitted that it broke itself.… #theregister #IT

Google caused outage by ignoring its quality protections

: Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes

VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA German giant Siemens AG has tried to convince a US court to throw out the case in which VMware alleged it used unlicensed software.… #theregister #IT

VMware and Siemens spar over location for licensing case

: German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA