Back in black: Microsoft Blue Screen of Death is going dark At least the BSOD acronym will still work OSes26 Jun 2025 | 59
What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency Comment Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond Security26 Jun 2025 | 116
Exif marks the spot as fresh version of PNG image standard arrives 22 years on from the last spec, you can now animate your PNGs Software26 Jun 2025 | 70
The SmartNIC revolution fell flat, but AI might change that Analysis The idea of handing off networking chores to DPUs persists even if it hasn't caught on beyond hyperscalers Datacenter Networking Nexus26 Jun 2025 | 4
Gridlocked: AI's power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure You are not prepared for 5 GW datacenters, Deloitte warns On-Prem26 Jun 2025 | 55
Kaseya CEO: Why AI adoption is below industry expectations Interview Business data is fragmented and change management is hard AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 61
OpenDylan sheds some parentheses in 2025.1 update Apple's advanced next-generation Lisp is still being maintained as FOSS Software26 Jun 2025 | 24
Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime' Security26 Jun 2025 | 118
Top AI models - even American ones - parrot Chinese propaganda, report finds Communist Party tracts in, Communist Party opinions out AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 31
Japanese company using mee-AI-ow to detect stressed cats Rabo’s ‘Catlog’ smart collar sniffs for freaked-out felines, alerts owners with an app AI + ML26 Jun 2025 | 23
Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps New UI library has 23 years of history – and unexpected roots Software25 Jun 2025 | 13
Hyperscalers to eat 61% of global datacenter capacity by decade's end Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22% On-Prem25 Jun 2025 |
CloudBees CEO says customers are slowing down on 'black box' code from AIs interview Learning from the lessons of the past Devops25 Jun 2025 | 11
Microsoft dangles extended Windows 10 support in exchange for Reward Points Or your cloud-bound soul. Otherwise, $30 please OSes25 Jun 2025 | 51
Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail us if pushed hard enough Just like people AI + ML25 Jun 2025 | 37
Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft AI + ML25 Jun 2025 | 9
Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts Updated Despite Horizon scandal promises to end bidding, bids keep popping up Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 23
Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 4
HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape NetAdmins may be mere years away from devolving into babysitters for bots Datacenter Networking Nexus25 Jun 2025 | 6
Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo Video Musk promised a million auto-autos by 2020. He's delivered maybe 10 AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 188
Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacy Legal24 Jun 2025 | 8
LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copies AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 63
Mozilla rolls out Firefox 140 with ESR status and fresh features Say hello to a year's support, but bid goodbye to Pocket Software24 Jun 2025 | 40
HPE puts all its chips in the agentic AI pot HPE Discover 2025 Another OEM has decided we're now in the agentic AI age AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 1
AI may be after your job, but this AI agent promises to help you get a new one 'Jobright Agent' can apply for jobs on your behalf AI + ML24 Jun 2025 | 12
Microsoft is about to retire default outbound access for VMs in Azure Interview 'Things will break,' Aviatrix CPO tells El Reg Datacenter Networking Nexus24 Jun 2025 | 28
Xlibre forks to the rescue – but Kubuntu gives X11 the boot Summer Solstice release lands as another distro ditches the old display protocol Software24 Jun 2025 | 45
Datacenter market offers us captive customer base, say investors AI boom sparks surge in bit barn funding as firms tout high barriers and sticky clients On-Prem24 Jun 2025 | 2
Tiling terminal multiplexers for the console connoisseur Split your shell for fun and profit – even over remote connections Software24 Jun 2025 | 41
Lenovo shows what a Chromebook packing a MediaTek Kompanio Ultra can do Nothing startling, even with Google’s AI extras Personal Tech24 Jun 2025 | 21
Psylo browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address Gotta keep 'em separated so the marketers and snoops can't come out and play Software24 Jun 2025 | 37
Omnissa brings VDI-style app packaging to physical PCs VMware spin-out is making friends and choosing some enemies Virtualization24 Jun 2025 | 5
Private equity types to snap up NoSQL biz Couchbase $1.5 billion offered for database company valued at $1.2 billion four years ago Databases23 Jun 2025 | 3
Breaking the nerd internet: Three overlapping generations of tech history – in one selfie Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner OSes23 Jun 2025 | 71
Economists sceptical over UK Spending Review's partly AI-driven 10% budget cuts MPs hear doubts over efficiency savings that are reliant on speculative gains from IT, machine learning Public Sector23 Jun 2025 | 26
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 10
Techie went home rather than fix mistake that caused a massive meltdown Who, Me? And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 162
AI-hosted infomercial shifts $7.5 million worth of product in China Asia In Brief PLUS: India tries to untangle TXT marketing opt-ins; China’s AI crackdown succeeds; Australia and Boeing team AWACS, drones; and more! AI + ML23 Jun 2025 | 3
The AIpocalypse is here for websites as search referrals plunge Turn out the lights, the internet is over AI + ML22 Jun 2025 | 150
New GitHub Copilot limits push AI users to pricier tiers Welcome to bill shock, AI style Devops20 Jun 2025 | 39
US patent office wants an AI to scan for prior art, but doesn't want to pay for it 'The selected vendor must be willing to receive consideration that is primarily non-monetary,' says the USPTO AI + ML20 Jun 2025 | 44
EDB enhances analytics in PostgreSQL with open source add-ons DataFusion and WarehousePG meant to deal with AI-related workloads, not to compete with analytics data platforms Databases20 Jun 2025 |
Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development Comment X11 is very far from dead – no matter if some want it to be Software20 Jun 2025 | 104
Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO Virtualization20 Jun 2025 | 39
Windows 11 migration heats up... on desktops What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft OSes20 Jun 2025 | 66
Deal to 'save' UK colleges £45M in Oracle Java licensing fees followed audit requests Exclusive Framework agreement may rescue some unis from 'financial abyss' after Oracle per-employee Java license, says insider Software20 Jun 2025 | 48
American coders are most likely to use AI Baseball, apple pie, and assisted programming AI + ML19 Jun 2025 | 38
Microsoft 365 brings the shutters down on legacy protocols FrontPage Remote Procedure Call and others set to be blocked in the name of 'Secure by Default' Applications19 Jun 2025 | 30
/e/ OS 3.0: Slightly less clunky, slightly more private Probably the easiest way to a Google-free smartphone or tablet OSes19 Jun 2025 | 57
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears ‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee Virtualization19 Jun 2025 | 35
Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 58
Asana's cutting-edge AI feature ran into a little data leakage problem New MCP server was shut down for nearly two weeks Security18 Jun 2025 | 2
Voltron Data throws its weight behind AMD for GPU-accelerated SQL Exclusive In case you forgot AI isn't the only thing GPUs are good for Databases18 Jun 2025 | 7
KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability and Wayland improvements The richest and most customizable desktop for FOSS Unix OSes18 Jun 2025 | 20
Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated Such rules could be tricky to enforce in the Fediverse, though AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 9
ScyllaDB paddles toward scale and profit with Raft-powered upgrade Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm Databases18 Jun 2025 | 4
Microsoft broke DHCP for Windows Server last Patch Tuesday Some servers can't renew IP addresses, and there's no fix yet OSes18 Jun 2025 | 56
Google's unloved plan to fix web permissions gathers support Mozilla, at least, has warmed to the Chocolate Factory's attempt to improve mic, camera, and location permissions Applications18 Jun 2025 | 34
Eat or be eaten by AI, Amazon CEO warns staff Expect headcount reductions over the next few years, says Andy Jassy AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 48