The last few weeks have bordered on overwhelming for science fiction fans. While Project Hail Mary is dominating the box office, For All Mankind is currently in the midst of its penultimate season, with a spinoff streaming next month. When it comes to games, Capcom kicked off a new sci-fi franchise with Pragmata, and Housemarque…
The UK’s pensions and welfare ministry has slammed its outsourcing provider, SSCL, for sharing a document the department says it “inadvertently provided”, a document that later surfaced in a legal dispute over a £370 million contract. As The Register reported earlier this year, Sopra Steria is suing the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) after…
Australia has come up with a new way to ensure social media and search companies pay to support journalism: a 2.25 percent tax on revenue that’s avoidable if companies instead do deals with local media. The Land Down Under floated the scheme as a replacement for the 2021 News Media Bargaining Code that put a…
Logitech has announced a new suite of Productivity Plugins for its entire MX line of accessories, including its Stream Deck alternative, the MX Creative Console. Since the console launched in September 2024, Logitech has been expanding its capabilities with plug-ins that support creativity-focused apps such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe Lightroom, and Figma. That is…
AI is beginning to make a dent in the business models of India’s big four technology services giants Infosys, HCL, TCS, and Wipro have all announced quarterly results in the last ten days, and all had mixed news. HCL, for example, told investors annual revenue grew 11.2 percent for FY 2026, and headcount rose almost…
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China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of AI upstart Manus. A brief Monday statement from the Middle Kingdom’s foreign investment regulator says Beijing “made a decision to prohibit foreign investment in the Manus project in accordance with laws and regulations, and has required the parties involved to withdraw the acquisition transaction.” Manus burst onto the scene…
Microsoft has devised a solution to the problem of Windows Updates that break customer devices – users are now able to pause them for as long as they like. In a post at the end of last week, Aria Hanson, a principal product manager lead at Microsoft, described “improvements to the Windows Update experience” that…
Cybersecurity professionals were the most overlooked workers in IT when it came to pay rises in 2025, according to new figures from recruiter Harvey Nash. The trend was especially stark in the UK, where 77 percent of all security staff saw no salary increase, although the pattern was observed globally too with 71 percent of…
Microsoft is closing the AI buffet offered to GitHub Copilot customers, acknowledging that it can’t sell AI like Red Lobster’s Endless Shrimp. The US seafood restaurant’s all-you-can-eat shrimp promotion led the company to bankruptcy in 2024 and while Microsoft is nowhere near so financially overextended, the software giant’s code hosting biz has decided it no…