Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals despite Horizon scandal vow Millions continued to flow after Japanese supplier said it would step back The coordinator of a parliamentary campaign to end Fujitsu's grip on UK government contracting in the wake of the Post Office Horizon scandal has slammed the Japanese vendor's lack of transparency over its promise not to bid for ne… #theregister #IT
Fujitsu under fire for bidding on UK public sector deals
: Millions continued to flow after Japanese supplier said it would step back
Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025 Exclusive  Huawei's product portfolio in Britain is about to shrink again with suppliers informed that its battery energy storage systems (BESS) are to be discontinued locally by the end of 2025.… #theregister #IT
Huawei to yank battery energy storage systems from UK
Exclusive: Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025
Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breach A major UK education trust has warned staff that their personal information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on software developer Intradev in August.… #theregister #IT
Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust
: Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breach
Techie ended vendor/client blame game by treating managers like toddlers Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share your tech support stories.… #theregister #IT
Techie ended blame game by treating managers like toddlers
On Call: Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk
AI code assistants make developers more efficient at creating security problems Fixes typos, creates timebombs AI coding assistants allow developers to move fast and break things, which may not be ideal.… #theregister #IT
AI code assistants improve production of security problems
: Fixes typos, creates timebombs
Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators Broadcom has impressed investors by posting record revenues but admitted it has sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers.… #theregister #IT
Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of VMware shelfware
: Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators
Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb Uber’s Indian arm has started using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers the chance to make a Rupee by classifying data used by AI systems.… #theregister #IT
Uber India now offering gigs collecting info for AI models
: Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb
Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info Because nobody's going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content Researchers have found promising new ways to have AI models ignore copyrighted content, suggesting it may be possible to satisfy legal requirements without going through the lengthy and costly process of retraining… #theregister #IT
Boffins craft certified way for AI to unlearn private data
: Because nobody's going to spend billions to retrain a model built on dubiously legal content
Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch Unknown miscreants are exploiting a configuration vulnerability in multiple Sitecore products to achieve remote code execution via a publicly exposed key and deploy snooping malware on infected machines.… #theregister #IT
Unknown miscreants snooping around Sitecore via sample keys
: You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch
Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps AI models get slammed for producing sloppy bug reports and burdening open source maintainers with hallucinated issues, but they also have the potential to transform application security through automation.… #theregister #IT
Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system
: AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps