Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares 38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger Databases14 Jan 2025 |
Microsoft and OEMs cut prices of Copilot+ PCs in Europe during Q4, analyst stats confirm Double digit reduction only served to 'stimulate some interest' AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 9
Intel and AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft tweak 'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date OSes14 Jan 2025 | 13
Snyk appears to deploy 'malicious' packages targeting Cursor for unknown reason Updated Packages removed, vendor said to have apologized to AI code editor as onlookers say it could have been a test Security14 Jan 2025 |
Absolute Linux has reached the end – where to next? Analysis Linux distros that don't exist, but we wish did OSes14 Jan 2025 | 16
Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper Export controls would limit shipments of GPUs to large swaths of EU AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 42
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media Bootnotes14 Jan 2025 | 47
WordPress leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off Applications14 Jan 2025 | 19
In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 8
CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s Systems13 Jan 2025 | 2
Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday Security13 Jan 2025 | 9
Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions 'New rule threatens to squander America's hard-won technological advantage' says GPU supremo Systems13 Jan 2025 | 23
Tesla recalls 239,382 vehicles over rearview camera problems Software snafu can fry computer components for owners of Musk's electric buggies Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 60
UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation Government adopts all 50 venture capitalist recommendations but leaves datacenter energy puzzle unsolved AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 76
UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project designation could tear down more restrictions On-Prem13 Jan 2025 | 78
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous Databases13 Jan 2025 | 55
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission Virtualization13 Jan 2025 | 31
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer ‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7 Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 58
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger SaaS13 Jan 2025 | 120
Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025 Opinion Think you're good at spotting trends? Try these on for size
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer ‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger
NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack 'Sweden has changed,' PM warns as trio of warships join defense efforts
Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days 'Codefinger' crims on the hunt for compromised keys
Miscreants 'mass exploited' Fortinet firewalls, 'highly probable' zero-day used Ransomware 'not off the table,' Arctic Wolf threat hunter tells El Reg
Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous
That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise Kettle El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show Personal Tech12 Jan 2025 | 16
Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh? Applications10 Jan 2025 | 12
New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left Users of doomed operating system to receive unloved app via an update OSes10 Jan 2025 | 65
Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code Software10 Jan 2025 | 41
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds? Databases10 Jan 2025 | 44
Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role AI + ML10 Jan 2025 | 70
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader? Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
Biden said to weigh global limits on AI exports in 11th-hour trade war blitz updated China faces outright ban while others vie for Uncle Sam's favor Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 8
Microsoft preps for a year of enterprise-impacting M365 retirements Hey administrators – buckle up. 2025 is going to be a wild ride OSes09 Jan 2025 | 7
Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well Simply the best FOSS desktop OS there is, outside of the Windows and Unix families Applications09 Jan 2025 | 67
Trump China tariffs to 'overshadow' the 'progress' of AI PCs Already inflated costs of NPU-based boxes set to jump on import tax AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 25
£3.8B later, old tech supplier flames still burning for HMRC Deal supposed to end in 2017 continues to haunt tax collector procurement Software09 Jan 2025 | 10
To save the energy grid from AI, use open source AI, says open source body Linux Foundation Energy argues rapidly decentralizing electricity sector can't succeed with silos AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 5
Microsoft invites Chinese software vendors to sell on its marketplace and through its partners Good luck getting buyers and resellers excited about that Channel09 Jan 2025 | 8
Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads critical AI tasks to BlueField-3 DPUs Partner Content
We did warn you – 2025 may be the year AI bots take over Meta's 'verse Opinion Can't grow any more? Let's just invent engagement! Personal Tech08 Jan 2025 | 51
Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia Peach State already home to more than 50 bit barns On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 2
AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won't last GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now... yet 'long-term trend remains,' says analyst On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 7
Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK Maureen Costello hopes to 'empower' businesses with AI PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2025 | 6
Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships HashiCorp co-founder's side project reaches 1.0 – er, 1.0.1 Applications08 Jan 2025 | 89
Honda upgrades robot brain into OS for future electric cars Remember humanoid bot ‘Asimo’, which could kick balls and pour beer? It survives as EV software AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 9
US watchdog sticks probe into 2.6M Teslas over so-called Smart Summon crash reports If it's spelled like an A.S.S, acts like an ass, maybe it's just... Software08 Jan 2025 | 34
Uncle Sam now targets six landlord giants in war on alleged algorithmic rent fixing One of ya is gonna sing like a canary, prosecutors say AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 23
John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway? CES Lots of new ways to cut labor costs, no mention of repairability AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 41
AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask LLMs do more for developers who already know what they're doing Software07 Jan 2025 | 34
Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content It's down to users to do the fact-checking themselves AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 47
Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB Do you really need a new PC for Microsoft's latest and greatest? OSes07 Jan 2025 | 36
Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook Interview Engineer who works on ways to prove that code is mathematically correct finds his field is suddenly much less obscure AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 84
The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68 That is not dead which can eternal lie… including the grandparent of C, apparently Software07 Jan 2025 | 63
Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts Systems07 Jan 2025 |
Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC CES Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 9
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 56
Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit comment But don't worry, he's 'figured out' AGI AI + ML06 Jan 2025 | 30
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh' CES Slumping market share, unwanted features ... no, it's the consumers who are wrong! Software06 Jan 2025 | 174
Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 79
AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025 With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 28
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 70
Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 12
Microsoft's spat with ValueLicensing limps toward 2026 showdown Legal tussle over resale of on-prem perpetual licenses kicked off four years ago Software06 Jan 2025 | 3
Brackets go there? Oops. That’s not where I used them and now things are broken Who, Me? Weird syntax AND/OR a junior techie can be very bad for business Devops06 Jan 2025 | 80
Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan? Virtualization06 Jan 2025 | 5
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software Opinion Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure OSes05 Jan 2025 | 184
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution Personal Tech04 Jan 2025 | 32
With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 10
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC Feature A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language Software03 Jan 2025 | 279
Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Software03 Jan 2025 | 117
Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to 'disaggregate' System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says Applications03 Jan 2025 | 8
Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Databases03 Jan 2025 | 6
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 68
LA deputies dogged by New Year date glitch in patrol car PCs SoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would 'inevitably fail' did exactly that Bootnotes03 Jan 2025 | 57
25 years on from Y2K, let's all be glad it happened way back then Comment With today’s connected tech, a similar-scale bug would be hard to squash Software02 Jan 2025 | 121
It's been 20 years since Oracle bought two software rivals, changing the market forever Feature After lawsuits and poison pills, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards failed to resist the lure of Larry's ambition Databases02 Jan 2025 | 19
With 10 months of support remaining, Windows 10 still dominates Statcounter figures show Windows 11 losing user love OSes02 Jan 2025 | 69
Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft That strange time between Christmas and New Year – perfect for changing production projects Devops02 Jan 2025 | 13
Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes Interview Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg SaaS02 Jan 2025 | 11
AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform Analysis But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines Databases02 Jan 2025 |
A New Year's gift from Microsoft: Surprise, your scanners don't work Canon confirms multifunction devices struggling with Windows 11 24H2 OSes02 Jan 2025 | 78
Schneider Electric warns of future where datacenters eat the grid Report charts four scenarios from 'Sustainable AI' to 'Who Turned Out The Lights?' On-Prem02 Jan 2025 | 58
Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients, and remote browsers? The developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it Personal Tech02 Jan 2025 | 32
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 112
UK watchdog launches inquiry into IBM's HashiCorp acquisition To the surprise of no one, a multi-billion dollar deal comes under CMA scrutiny Legal31 Dec 2024 | 3
It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks Interview 'The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering' Security29 Dec 2024 | 58
OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further AI + ML27 Dec 2024 | 46
Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list Santa Satya pops one more issue into his sack just in time for Christmas OSes27 Dec 2024 | 86
The winner of last year's Windows Ugly Sweater is ... Register readers have spoken Bootnotes25 Dec 2024 | 14
Technical issue briefly grounds American Airlines flights across US Unspecified "vendor technology" to blame for hour-long stop order Software24 Dec 2024 | 19
Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024 Lots of big numbers, but market share wasn't one of them Software24 Dec 2024 | 67
Are you better value for money than AI? Comment Tech vendors start saying the quiet part out loud – do enterprises really need all that headcount? AI + ML23 Dec 2024 | 102
SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system Updated A #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager OSes23 Dec 2024 | 86
Suspected LockBit dev, facing US extradition, 'did it for the money' Dual Russian-Israeli national arrested in August Cyber-crime23 Dec 2024 | 18
Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain Opinion It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want AI + ML22 Dec 2024 | 142
Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle 'Facts can't be decided by a roll of the dice' AI + ML20 Dec 2024 | 156
Microsoft investigating 365 Office activation gremlin Says it's not sure what the issue is but points at admins tweaking licensing options Applications20 Dec 2024 | 24
Adélie Linux 1.0 – small, fast, but not quite grown up Remarkably compact, remarkably cross-platform, remarkably long beta period OSes20 Dec 2024 | 31
The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress wars are getting really annoying Opinion Forks at dawn.... but it's not great sign for open source Software20 Dec 2024 | 63
Fedora Asahi Remix 41 for Apple Macs is out New shiny if you run Linux on an M1 or M2 OSes20 Dec 2024 | 40
Techie fluked a fix and found himself the abusive boss's best friend On Call And there his troubles began … Software20 Dec 2024 | 124
Infosec experts divided on AI's potential to assist red teams CANALYS FORUMS APAC Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence Security20 Dec 2024 | 10