Original Acorn Arthur project lead explains RISC OS genesis

Paul Fellows describes how it beat the overambitious ARX to Acorn's Archimedes computer | Continue reading


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PCIe 7.0 pegged to arrive in 2025 with speeds of 512 GBps

Although PCIe 5.0 is just coming to market, here's what we can expect in the years ahead | Continue reading


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Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize

Mega-corp insists it's all about 'people and technology working safely and harmoniously together' | Continue reading


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UK govt considers invoking national security in Arm IPO saga

Reportedly dropping hints it may use legislation to push a London listing | Continue reading


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Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything

Snowflake last week promised analytics and transactions in the same system. For some it was déjà vu all over again | Continue reading


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DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger security

Blockchain not as decentralised as many assume, finds Pentagon sponsored research | Continue reading


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Microsoft promises to tighten access to AI it now deems too risky for some devs

Deep-fake voices, face recognition, emotion, age and gender prediction ... A toolbox of theoretical tech tyranny | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Tencent's WeChat wants no more talk of cryptocurrency and NFTs

In unrelated news, China's rollout of a central bank digital currency continues | Continue reading


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GitHub Copilot launches with $10/month subscription fee

You wanna bug fix and chill? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Samsung invests in ML chip startup NeuReality

Coining the term hardware-based 'AI hypervisor' has to be worth several million, dontcha think? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

CISA, others raise alarm on critical flaws in industrial equip., infrastructure

Nearly 60 holes found affecting 'more than 30,000' machines worldwide | Continue reading


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A déjà vu of the 90s: getting rid of the mainframe (now with “the cloud” help)

Buyer beware, say analysts, technical debt will catch up with you eventually | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

1980s refugee, open source, and runs on modern kit | Continue reading


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DRAM prices to drop 3-8% due to Ukraine war, inflation

Wait, we’ll explain | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Lenovo and Barcelona Supercomputing Center sign joint research deal

Collab to 'generate significant returns' for Europe in science, tech, economy | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US must adopt USB-C charging standard like EU, senators urge

Tangle of cables creates headaches and electronic waste, warn senators | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google, EFF back Cloudflare in row over pirate streams

Ban akin to 'ordering a telephone company to prevent a person from having conversations' over its lines | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet

'Network engineers walked over each other's changes' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

If AI chatbots are sentient, then they are also squirrels

Plus: FTC warns against using AI for automatic content moderation, and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Know the difference between a bin and /bin unless you want a new doorstop

Short sharp loss of privileges for poor sysadmin who emptied that directory | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Capital One: Convicted techie got in via 'misconfigured' AWS buckets

Assistant US attorney: 'She wanted data, she wanted money, and she wanted to brag' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Always read the comments Beijing requires oversight of all reader-generated chat

'Editing and review' teams will be required to read everything and report dissent | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

AI's most convincing conversations are not what they seem

It's time to toss the Turing test – it's not really about the machines at all | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Will optic ever replace copper interconnects? We ask a silicon photonics startup

Star Trek's glowing circuit boards may not be so crazy | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

International operation takes down Russian RSOCKS botnet

$200 a day buys you 90,000 victims | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Inverse Finance stung for $1.2M via flash loan attack

Just cryptocurrency things | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Abortion rights: US senators seek ban on sale of health location data

With Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade and a bounty on healthcare providers, privacy is key | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Not a Gnome Fan, and Like the Look of Windows? Try KDE Plasma or Cinnamon

New versions of both desktops drop... with one the oldest FOSS 'top around | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Big Tech accepts Euro demands to fight bots, deepfakes, disinformation

Six percent of revenues at risk if Code of Practice broken | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Former chip research professor jailed for not disclosing Chinese patents

This is how Beijing illegally accesses US tech, say Feds | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Apple may have to cough up $1bn to Brits in latest iPhone Batterygate claim

Lawsuit took its time, just like your older iOS handset | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Contractor: I was fired for blowing the whistle on cult's status in Google unit

The internet giant, a doomsday religious sect, and a lawsuit in Silicon Valley | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter

Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Bill Gates says NFTs '100% based on greater fool theory' amid crypto cataclysm

Plus: Non-fungible tokens for dummies | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Minimal, systemd-free Alpine Linux releases version 3.16

A widespread distro that many of its users don't even know they have | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Big Tech begs Congress to pass $52bn chip subsidies bill

This silicon business ain't cheap, you know, say execs at Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia etc | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Autopilot accounts for 70% of driver assist crashes, says US traffic safety body

First of its kind report from NHTSA comes with caveats, though – the new tech also saves lives | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Meta mostly fails in appeal against order from UK watchdog to sell Giphy

Might have been a good idea to mention that Snap was sniffing around GIF biz, too, judges note, though | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Former US state agency CIO, IT exec plead guilty to bribery and extortion scheme

Pair's multimillion-dollar contract caper unraveled | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

End-of-life smartphone? Penguins at PostmarketOS aim to revive it

Alpine-based distro runs on old mobiles abandoned by Android and their manufacturers | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Proposed Innovation Act amendment would block US investment in China

We're just astounded to see bipartisan efforts in Congress in this day and age | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Sony responds to inflation with $3,700 gold-plated 'Walkman'

In truth, a non-tape media player for Gen Xers with more money than sense | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Woman accused of killing boyfriend after tracking him down with Apple AirTag

New meaning for accessory to murder | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Database from the 1980s needs time travel says author

It's back to the future for PostgreSQL as Michael Stonebraker lists priorities for the popular open-source system he helped create | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Man gets two years in prison for selling 200k DDoS hits

Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

UK health privacy watchdog still in talks over who is accessing Covid data store

Over a year after discussions began, National Data Guardian continues to pursue transparency in health data use | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

If you want to launch Starship from Texas, here's some homework FAA tells SpaceX

Be a good neighbor to folks and the environment, and we'll think that permit over | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Azure issues not adequately fixed for months, complain bug hunters

Redmond kicks off Patch Tuesday with a months-old flaw fix | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago