Junior sysadmin’s first lines of code set off alarms. His next lot crashed the company Sensible CEO wouldn’t let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap Who, Me?  Welcome again to Who, Me? It's the Monday morning column in which readers of The Register admit to making big mistakes and somehow swerving the consequences.… #theregister #IT
Junior sysadmin set off alarms, then crashed the company
Who, Me?: Sensible CEO wouldn’t let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap
Don't pay for AI support failures, says Gradient Labs CEO Paying for successful problem resolution is a better business model, argues Dimitri Masin interview  Dimitri Masin, CEO of Gradient Labs, argues that companies using AI agents for customer support should only pay when the bot does its job.… #theregister #IT
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interview: Paying for successful problem resolution is a better business model, argues Dimitri Masin
DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells Instant On Wi-Fi and licenses some code Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that’s still far smaller than Cisco’s or Nvidia’s The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has cleared the way for HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.… #theregister #IT
DoJ clears HPE to buy Juniper if it sells some Wi-Fi kit
: Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that’s still far smaller than Cisco’s or Nvidia’s
China claims breakthroughs in classical and quantum computers Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems Chinese chip designer Loongson last week announced silicon it claims is the equal of western semiconductors from 2021.… #theregister #IT
China claims big advances in classical and quantum computers
: Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems
Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country ASAP PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more! Asia In Brief  Canada’s government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations.… #theregister #IT
Canada orders Chinese CCTV biz Hikvision to quit the country
Asia In Brief: PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more!
It's 2025 and almost half of you are still paying ransomware operators PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers; ,O365 allows takeover-free phishing; and more Infosec in Brief  Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it, according to infosec software slinger Sop… #theregister #IT
Nearly half of ransomware victims still pay out, says Sophos
Infosec in Brief: PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers; ,O365 allows takeover-free phishing; and more
AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all More fiction than science Feature  IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.… #theregister #IT
AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study
Analysis: More fiction than science
Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire' Watch out for supply chain hacks especially interview  The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.… #theregister #IT
Ex-NATO hacker: In cyber, there’s no such thing a ceasefire
interview: Watch out for supply chain hacks especially
How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd – trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC 'This is not a copyright message' Before plug and play was blowing up Windows 98 on a Comdex stage, Windows 95 engineers were grappling with the technology – and on one fateful day they found some unusual text in the BIOS of several PCs that they had to work around.… #theregister #IT
How to get free software from yesteryear
: 'This is not a copyright message'
Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech $61B business offers $10K–$50K grants to assess AI’s job-market impact AI biz Anthropic is trying to recruit academics to find out exactly how much its technology could crater the jobs market.… #theregister #IT
Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech
: $61B business offers $10K–$50K grants to assess AI’s job-market impact