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Report suggests outsourced project management, new committee and more A report from right-wing think tank Freer has estimated failed government projects in the last few years have created delays totalling 34 years and wasted an eye-watering £7.5bn.…

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The EU goes to war against refrigerants – so the German upstart designed a system that uses tap water An unusual data centre cooling system that dispenses with expensive, environment-damaging refrigerants in favour of tap water is now available in the UK.…

Uh-oh, the more sizeable opponent Andromeda is next The Milky Way was formed after it engulfed a dwarf galaxy known as Gaia-Enceledus 10 billion years ago, astroboffins have suggested.…

20 WebKit flaws among latest batch of bug fixes On Monday Apple released a fresh round of security fixes for a load of its operating systems and applications.…

Logical step for the biz that wants to own its supply chain Apple and Intel are apparently in “advanced talks” over buying up the remains of Chipzilla’s defunct 5G modem business.…

US senator dismisses cop-out, suggests jail time for execs Data-spaffing consumer credit biz Equifax is offering a package of roughly $700m in order to kill off lawsuits regarding its 2017 super-cyber-heist.…

But does complain there are too few suppliers, cybersecurity not a priority The British government has once again deferred an already postponed decision _ this time about whether or not to ban Huawei equipment from 5G networks in the UK.…

Is that 'Googley' enough for you? Google has settled out of court with 227 people, who had accused the web giant of age discrimination, for $11m. After all the legal fees are deducted, each person will, on average, get a payout of a little over $35,000.…

Brad's big bucks banish bothersome Budapest bung Microsoft has cut a deal with the US government to settle charges one of its European subsidiaries was bribing officials from 2013-2015.…

Taking the reins after Nils Brauckmann retires in August German open-source haus SUSE has appointed former SAP executive Melissa Di Donato as CEO.…

Here's the real score on what's happening with information in business today…

Ours too, though OpenAI says GPT-2 model won't be released Microsoft has plowed $1bn into OpenAI, a San-Francisco-company that is working on artificial general intelligence (AGI).…

Didn't see the slide in the PC market? Smartphones? Missed the hyperscale cloud builders?…

With former Easynet CEO in charge of the board Brit ISP Onecom has bagged a £100m cash injection from private equity outfit Lloyds Development Capital (LDC) and asset manager Ares Capital.…

Plucky mini-comp idling at concerning temperatures Some early adopters of the Raspberry Pi 4, released on 24 June, are running into heat issues, especially with the official Pi 4 case making no provision for a heatsink or fan.…

It's also the 'largest workplace transformation programmes the UK has ever seen' Sixteen minutes: the amount of time it takes for the world to generate 60.8 million Google searches or a BT worker shimmying along to a new shiny HQ in central London.…

Except when talking about Katie Hopkins, possibly...…

Better iterators, generators... Semicolons? Who needs 'em? Microsoft's TypeScript 3.6 beta, pushed out just before the weekend, is "intended to be feature complete", according to program manager Daniel Rosenwasser.…

It is but WAF-er thin... – report Network overlord Cisco is reportedly planning to purchase Signal Sciences, a frequent cybersecurity collaborator and member of the Cisco Security Technical Alliance.…

Hutchison's underdog won't, even if handset paid off Telecoms regulator Ofcom is pushing mobile companies to make clearer to customers when their bundled and split contracts end, as many are left on high tariffs even when they've paid off their handsets.…

Qualcomm, Google, Micron, Microsoft, Broadcom and Intel said to be invited White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow is reportedly meeting Silicon Valley bigwigs today to discuss the placement of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on the US trade ban Entity List.…

OpenAI's GPT-2 language model has been tweaked to help you code faster…

Sprint Education plugged digit-diddling URL snafu quickly An education sector marketing firm has committed a data breach – ironically, because it mass-mailed people asking them to update their GDPR communications preferences.…

Zoinks! There's a crime to be solved Who, Me? Like the unwanted early morning return of last night's spiced food, Monday is here once again. Take your mind off it with an unsolved mystery courtesy of The Register's weekly Who, Me? column.…

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Watching us, watching you Roundup Hello, welcome to this week’s roundup of news in the ever encroaching world of AI and machine learning. We’ll be talking about everyone’s favorite topic at the moment: facial recognition.…

A summary of computer security news for you, delivered rapid-fire-style Roundup Let's catch up with all the recent infosec news beyond what we've already covered.…

Your periodic reminder that there was maybe a reason so many people voted to leave The European Commission has, yet again, changed its position on who can have a .eu domain after Brexit.…