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Aldi to open seven stores in November amid £370m investment
Aldi will open seven new stores across the UK in November, creating up to 210 jobs as the supermarket continues to expand its estate.
Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned
CEO admits service used for foreign exchange trading had holes company was slow to fix
Exclusive: Iress UK Wealth MD Alex Hore resigns
Iress UK Wealth managing director Alex Hore has resigned, Money Marketing has learned. It is understood Hore will leave the business at the end of October. No reason has been given for his departure. A source told Money Marketing they were shocked by the news,
Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel
They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action
IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job
Promises to build ‘IBM Z Atlas’ tool that will tidy up messy big iron and enable AIOps
Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search
Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Lego bricks
Every key is its own module, and its designer tells us the sky's the theoretical limit on the size of the frankenboard you can build
Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists
It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all
OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra
Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price
Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China
But there's not much evidence this is anything more than echoes of unsanitized training data
LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key
A 'strong illustration of the risks associated with failing to rotate a potentially exposed key'
Microsoft offers parachutes to 60k employees if they jump by the end of the year
Voluntary exit offer extended to about one-quarter of existing Softies
Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure
New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English
Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug
Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw
FCA’s head of adviser, wealth and pensions Nick Hulme departs
Nick Hulme has left his role as the Financial Conduct Authority's head of adviser, wealth, pensions and consumer investments and replaced by Sarah Woodroffe.
UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest
Jaydip Modhwadia beats challenge designed to test real-world exploitability of PHP2Shell in around 3 hours
Anthropic S-1 shows it is at the hyperscalers’ mercy
Anthropic’s filed for an IPO: 5 key takeaways
Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing
Claude maker reveals financials and warns investors its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or go rogue
Old GPUs don't excite AI researchers, but database admins are about to get a boost
GPU-accelerated databases aren’t new but the way Microsoft is doing them is – and it puts them a step ahead of the competition
Last call for The Register ’s data sovereignty dinner in Washington
EVENT: The Register ’s Washington dinner with HPE and NVIDIA is this Thursday. The table is nearly set.
Swift operations end: 2004 spacecraft headed for fiery reentry
Atmospheric drag brings an extraordinarily long-lived mission to a close
CapitalOS raises $21.9m for money orchestration layer for B2B platforms
CapitalOS, a money orchestration layer for B2B platforms, has raised $21.9 million in Series A funding.
Mastercard targets creators via MrBeast partnership
Mastercard is targeting the creator community through a partnership with Beast Industries, the company founded by YouTube superstar MrBeast.
Revolut launches personal loans in the UK
Revolut is stepping up its challenge to the UK's high street banks with the introduction of a personal loan product.
Nevis raises $70m for wealth management AI operating system
Nevis, a startup founded by former Revolut executives that is building an AI operating system for wealth management, has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round led by EQT Ventures.
WATCH The Perfume Shop’s ‘Let Love Last’ Christmas campaign
The Perfume Shop has become the latest retailer to unveil its Christmas 2026 campaign, with its focus on the emotional connection between perfume and festive memories.
UK FS sector embraces GenAI
The use of generative artificial intelligence by financial services firms in the UK has exploded in the last two years, now accounting for more than half of all AI systems, according to survey from the Bank of England and FCA.
Blue Diamond sales bloom as diversified strategy delivers
Blue Diamond Garden Centres has reported a 12.5 per cent increase in sales to £216m, as its diversified retail and hospitality offer helped it outperform industry benchmarks.