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HMRC suspects wealthy taxpayers underpaid £392m in inheritance tax
HMRC suspects wealthy individuals may have underpaid inheritance tax by as much as £392m in the year to 31 March 2026, according to TWM Solicitors. The figure represents a 14% increase on the £344m of suspected underpayments recorded a year earlier. TWM said HMRC was
Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
Attempt to prove procurement prowess ended up gathering dust
Failed networking vendor Cambium set to turn off its cloudy management portal
Quits enterprise networking hardware business, tells users to install on-prem software ASAP
Google joins the ‘Oops, our agents hacked someone’ club after partner’s internet access error
Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up
Chinese memory-maker CXMT claims DRAM production breakthrough
PLUS: Toyota's robot hiring spree; China's CDNs struggle; India to charge for some UPI payments; and more!
Loeffler Randall opens first international store in London
Loeffler Randall has opened its first store outside the US in London as the New York fashion brand steps up its international expansion. The luxury womenswear and accessories label has opened at 44 Chiltern Street in Marylebone, taking its global store estate to five.
Mulberry makes runway comeback as Christopher Kane spearheads fashion revival
Mulberry has returned to the runway for the first time in six years as Christopher Kane unveiled his debut collection for the British luxury brand at London Fashion Week.
Ant International launches financial AI stack
China's Ant International has unveiled a full stack of AI-native products for payment, account, FX, treasury and growth operations for global businesses.
Asda pushes ahead with standalone George store plans with new openings
Asda is set to open a new standalone George store in Rotherham next month as it continues to turn its Asda Living estate into dedicated fashion and home destinations.
Tories pledge to restore tax-free shopping for overseas visitors
The Conservatives have pledged to bring back tax-free shopping for overseas visitors as part of plans to boost spending across Britain’s high streets.
SBI Group joins $25m funding round for dtcpay
Japan's SBI Group has joined a US$25 million Series A funding round for Singapore-based stablecoin payments outfit dtcpay.
Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve
High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg
Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake
From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter
Runtime: Jev is an LLM without the LL
+ Rubrik has Mythos access and you don't, Splunk hugs servers, and an agent harness for Kubernetes.
AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth
Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM
How security researchers used Anthropic to hack OpenAI
A newly discovered vulnerability + a bad SSO implementation + Claude Opus 5 = pwnage.
Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI
Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists
North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices
WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts
Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec
Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache
Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer
Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections
Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel
Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit
State of MCP - Multi-agent, identities, and overlapping protocols
At the first MCPCon Europe, the AAIF head says MCP will one day be "like the air that we breathe" for agentic builders, but there are issues to address first.
FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B
AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con
Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode
Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years
KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
ECB chief Lagarde helped block Binance's MiCA license - WSJ
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde intervened to help stop crypto giant Binance secure a license under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation in Greece, according to the Wall Street Journal.
