Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not Legal, HR, Finance and Accounting moving to IBM from 2026. Engineering and others staying put... for now IBM-owned subsidiary Red Hat is docking a bunch of its back-office staff, along with the techies that support them, into the mothership.… #theregister #IT

Red Hatters to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not

: Legal, HR, Finance and Accounting moving to IBM from 2026. Engineering and others staying put... for now

CISA sounds alarm over TP-Link wireless routers under attack Plus: Google clears up Gmail concerns, NSA drops SBOM bomb, Texas sues PowerSchool, and more Infosec in brief  The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has said two flaws in routers made by Chinese networking biz TP-Link are under active attack and need to be fixed – but there's another flaw being exploited as well.… #theregister #IT

CISA sounds alarm over TP-Link wireless routers under attack

Infosec in brief: Plus: Google clears up Gmail concerns, NSA drops SBOM bomb, Texas sues PowerSchool, and more

UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle Fallout from latest political drama sparks a changing of the guard UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer cleared out the officials in charge of tech and digital law in a dramatic cabinet reshuffle at the weekend.… #theregister #IT

UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle

: Fallout from latest political drama sparks a changing of the guard

Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban ValueLicensing's David spins the sling for another go at the Windows Goliath Microsoft's tussle with UK-based reseller ValueLicensing over the sale of secondhand licenses returns to the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal this week, with the Windows behemoth now claiming that selling pre-owned Office and Windows so… #theregister #IT

Microsoft software reselling dispute heads back to UK court

: ValueLicensing's David spins the sling for another go at the Windows Goliath

So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc. Four-year framework hands Canon and pals a license to print money The UK government has awarded 12 suppliers places on a framework deal that could see it spend up to £900 million on printers, photocopiers, and other multifunctional devices.… #theregister #IT

UK government inks £900M deal for printers and so on

: Four-year framework hands Canon and pals a license to print money

VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom? Opinion  If you're a tech company marketing manager writing white papers, you'll love a juicy pull quote. That's where a client says something so lovely about you, you can pull it out of the main text and reprint it in a big font in the middle of the page.… #theregister #IT

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Opinion: Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?

Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league You're out, forever! Who, Me?  Monday mornings see the resumption of endless coopetition between IT folks and those they strive to serve but sometimes disappoint. The Register celebrates that eternal struggle with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that offers the chance to admit failures and ce… #theregister #IT

Playing sport in a datacenter was dumb, but we were winning

Who, Me?: You're out, forever!

Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El Reg AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without seeking or securing permission.… #theregister #IT

Anthropic coughs $1.5 bn to authors whose work it stole

: Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El Reg

All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner, but jobs are safe Analyst firm doesn’t rate OpenAI as an enterprise-ready vendor All work in IT departments will be done with the help of AI by 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, which thinks massive job losses won’t result.… #theregister #IT

All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner

: Analyst firm doesn’t rate OpenAI as an enterprise-ready vendor

Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish Asia In Brief  Microsoft has warned that customers of its Azure cloud may experience heightened latency due to a submarine cable outage in the Red Sea.… #theregister #IT

Red Sea submarine cable outage slows Microsoft cloud

Asia In Brief: PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish