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Weekend Essay: The price we pay for convenience
As human beings, we'll do almost anything we can to make our lives that little bit easier. And quite often, we're willing to pay for the privilege. It's not difficult to understand why we've become obsessed with convenience. Most of us are juggling work, family
PHP2Shell: No login, no app code, no warning. What next?
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One in three Britons say pension and tax rules discourage later-life working
Almost a third (32%) of Britons believe pension or tax rules are a barrier to working in later life, according to research from Smart Pension. The workplace pension provider surveyed more than 3,000 adults ahead of the Budget on 28 October, raising questions about whether
Matthew Connell: What does fair value mean in the protection market?
When I started working for a life insurance company in the 1990s, one colleague told me that in the previous decade, the life business has been a "licence to print money". Another told me that, because of its fleet of company cars, the firm we
'Let's just shove a bigger fan in there and see what happens'
Techies tiptoed around server to keep it working as company sank
Tesco replacing VMware with Proxmox in its stores and on the edge
Advertises for someone to ‘own cost-effective alternative virtualisation platform’
Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up
PLUS: Regional internet registry reform nears; Trustworthy-sounding domains attract scammers
After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling
PLUS: AI datacenter bubble wobbles in Australia; E-commerce app suggests it can detect diseases; India’s top telco to IPO amid investor frenzy; and more!
The Morning Briefing: Pension and tax rules discouraging later-life working; What does fair value mean?
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Very credits home division as revenue jumps 1.3% to £1.86bn
Online department store Very has seen sales grow across homeware, toys and beauty, as the Group reported adjusted EBITDA increased 3.4 per cent to £317.5m.
OKA’s chief customer officer: “Furniture is still a ‘touch and feel’ category”
At the first RG Excellence Awards, OKA was presented with the title of Homeware Retailer of the Year. Aalish Yorke-Long, chief customer officer at the premium furniture and accessories retailer, explains how service, exclusivity and a more connected shopping journey are shaping…
Riksbank reignites e-krona debate
With cash usage down, a digital euro on the horizon and stablecoins gathering momentum, Sweden's central bank has reignited a debate on whether the country should roll out its own e-krona.
Tara Poseley returns to Lululemon
Lululemon has appointed former chief product officer Tara Poseley to its board of directors, as the athleisure retailer looks to bounce back after cutting its full-year forecast in September.
Want to build a UK datacenter? Please hold while Whitehall transfers you
Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments
Reg readers land on 'Binface' as name for UK space cleanup mission
Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?
Raspberry Pi Desktop proves old PCs aren't past it
Debian 13-based refresh runs comfortably on veteran ThinkPads, without making installation a hobby
Runtime: Google Cloud gives agents their own hardware
+ Neo4j adds context, DuckDB hits the 2.0 milestone, and VMware's Tanzu gets agentic.
Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds
Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval
There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix
Bad things (and software bugs?) come in threes
OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa
Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack
Monitoring was only partial and was easily bypassed
AI models describe humans as a bunch of amoral sheep
Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found
Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents
Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack
Arc browser on its way out as makers suggest an alternative
No new accounts from now, and the end will come in December
Fintel acquires Mortgage Brain to expand adviser technology offering
Fintel has acquired Mortgage Brain Holdings in a deal designed to strengthen its software and data capabilities and expand its presence in the UK mortgage market.
SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendrive
Interesting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux
PubKeep picks up where Microsoft Publisher signs off
$99 replacement opens old .pub files on Windows and macOS, without a subscription
Thailand and Malaysia back Singapore's BLOOM cross-border digital money initiative
The central banks Thailand and Malaysia are backing a Monetary Authority of Singapore-led public-private sector initiative to advance cross-border settlement in digital money.
