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Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud
PARTNER CONTENT: Huawei Cloud strengthens the silicon bedrock on the cloud
Ben Hammond: The fine art of innovation
“Innovation,” you mutter under your breath, exiting another product strategy meeting where everyone’s excited about what they will hopefully be developing next. It's perhaps one of the more overused words in financial services.
Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!
Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation
Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right
Joe Fay chairs a Register dinner on the file infrastructure nobody has got round to replacing, under the Chatham House Rule.
FCA shuts down 24 CFD firms
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has driven two dozen Contracts for Difference (CFD) brokers out of the market after uncovering widespread abuse of UK regulatory permissions designed to mask high-risk offshore activity.
AO snaps up Jessops from Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones
AO World has acquired specialist camera retailer Jessops from Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones as it looks to broaden its reach beyond its traditional electricals categories.
UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters
Millions for building and improving bitbarn driven heat networks - including hot water pushed through tunnel under the Thames
Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs
Operator’s AI bill averaged just $25 per completed scan
ServiceNow's Amit Zavery on AI lock-in and the acceleration of enterprise tech
AI is moving faster than a lot of enterprises can manage, but that doesn't mean they'll get locked into whatever life preserver they grab first.
PFS: Chasing the time savings, but at what cost?
One of my favourite parts of paraplanning is that feeling when a big, complex financial plan is finally signed off by the adviser. The one you have been waiting on provider information for, with the complex IHT calculation and a bunch of estate-planning recommendations. But
Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their 'interpretation' of it
Malicious compliance crosses cultural barriers
Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’
The atmosphere expands and contracts; watching objects in orbit reveals the extent
Austen & Blake opens new Southampton store
Jewellery retailer Austen & Blake has opened a new store in Southampton at Westquay Shopping Centre.
2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop
Desktop AMIs ‘designed to behave as much like Windows as possible’ now available as an on ramp for new users
Retailers warn Burnham warehouse tax could push up food prices
Retailers have warned Prime Minister Andy Burnham that plans to increase taxes on large warehouses could push up food prices and add further pressure to household budgets.
Retailers slash orders at fastest rate on record as sales slump
UK retailers have cut orders from suppliers at the fastest rate on record as weak consumer sentiment continues to weigh on sales, according to new CBI data.
ASOS launches adaptive collection co-created with disabled customers and Tilting the Lens
ASOS has worked in partnership with accessibility consultancy Tilting the Lens for its first adaptive edit, featuring 51 pieces spanning womenswear, menswear and curve.
The Morning Briefing: FCA shuts down 24 CFD firms; Chasing the time savings, but at what cost?
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Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter
Despite uncertainty about how human mimicry affects people, DeepMind fakes are here
Google's TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week
Part of Project Suncatcher, the proof of concept aims to see how well lightly modified compute fares in orbit
Revolut customers impacted by new data breach
Revolut has found itself embroiled in a second data breach in a matter of days after some its customers were impacted by a security incident at US broker DriveWealth.
F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown
The Chocolate Factory is tightening the screws on Android sideloading, but the FOSS app market is rolling out a huge overhaul and planning for the future
Nature-related financing and assessments increases worldwide - TNFD
Financial institutions have increased nature-related assessments and reporting across markets in the last year according to a Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) report.
e.l.f Cosmetics unveils second original music album
Poundland and Dealz could be split in separate sales as owner weighs options
Poundland owner Gordon Brothers is reportedly considering selling the discount chain and its Irish sister business Dealz separately as it looks to secure a deal ahead of Christmas.
Heathrow boosts Terminal 5 luxury line-up with spate of luxury openings
Heathrow has expanded its luxury retail offer in Terminal 5 with a string of new and refurbished stores from brands including Bottega Veneta, Prada, Dior, ZEGNA and Smythson, with Hermès set to follow this month.
BNP Paribas forges agentic AI partnership with Google Cloud
BNP Paribas has inked a five-year to expand its access to Google Cloud’s infrastructure and AI capabilities, including Gemini Enterprise and Gemini models.