IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers

Infamous 'Dinobabies' memo comes back to haunt Big Blue again | Continue reading


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OpenInfra Foundation talks about Directed Funding model for open source projects

Notes rise of 'pay to play' where companies try to buy way into governance – and says this is not that | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

The PainStation runs Windows XP because of course it does

Retro fun and games in Berlin's ComputerSpieleMuseum | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Europe's most powerful supercomputer is an all-AMD beast

First of Europe's pre-exascale systems inaugurated, hits top 3 even without GPU partition fully installed | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Concerns that £360m data platform for NHS England is being set up to fail

Delays said to favor Palantir as health service seeks suppliers to support its top-down data revolution | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

TSMC and China: Mutually assured destruction measured in nanometers not megatons

The weapon too deadly to use is just a handful of dirt. Let's change that | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

EU vote to ban all sales of combustion engine vehicles by 2035

Automakers concerned as to whether there is enough infrastructure and battery capacity for all electric car future | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Intel details advances to make upcoming chips faster, less costly

X86 giant says it’s on track to regaining manufacturing leadership after years of missteps | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

World Economic Forum wants a global map of online crime

Will cyber crimes shrug off Atlas Initiative? Objectively, yes | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Apple’s M2 chip isn’t a slam dunk, but it does point to the future

The chip’s GPU and neural engine could overshadow Apple’s concession on CPU performance | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

For the average AI shop, sparse models and cheap memory will win

Massive language models aren't for everyone, but neither is heavy-duty hardware, says AI systems maker Graphcore | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

OpenSUSE Leap 15.4: The best desktop on the RPM side of the Linux world

The Reg FOSS desk takes the latest stable distro for a spin | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

NASA to commission independent UFO study

The truth is out there, and the space agency intends to find it – scientifically | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

AMD touts big datacenter, AI ambitions in CPU-GPU roadmap

Epyc future ahead, along with Instinct, Ryzen, Radeon and custom chip push | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

No more fossil fuel or nukes? In the future we generate power with magic dust

Don’t cross the streams! Why? It would be bad. What do you mean 'bad'? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Russia, China, warn US its cyber support of Ukraine has consequences

Countries that accept US infosec help told they could pay a price too | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Chinese 'Aoqin Dragon' gang runs undetected ten-year espionage spree

Researcher spots it targeting Asian government and telco targets, probably with Beijing's approval | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google has more why it doesn't like antitrust law that affects Google

It'll ruin Gmail, claims web ads giant | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Gitlab spots opportunity for DevOps platform as revenue soars

All companies will need to embrace modern software development, says CEO, and we'll be waiting for them | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Cloud services proving handy for cybercriminals, SANS Institute warns

Flying horses, gonna pwn me away... | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google calculates Pi to 100T digits

Claims world record run took 157 days, 23 hours … and just one Debian server | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Singapore's Grab enters maps-as-a-service market

Takes on global players with data sourced from customers, plus paid contributions from delivery drivers | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Now Windows Follina zero-day exploited to infect PCs with Qbot

Data-stealing malware also paired with Black Basta ransomware gang | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Cable cut blamed for global four-hour internet disruption

Google Cloud, OVHcloud say everything's getting back to normal, which is a shame | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Fragmentation has put paid to the dream of Linux ever being bigger than Windows

Fragmentation has put paid to the dream of Linux ever being bigger than Windows | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

AI and ML could save the planet – or add more fuel to the climate fire

'Staggering amount of computation' deployed to solve big problems uses a lot of electricity | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near

Overhaul of Chrome add-ons set for January, Google says it's for all our own good | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US Copyright Office sued for denying AI model authorship of digital image

What do we want? Robot rights! When do we want them? 01001110 01101111 01110111! | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US tweaks requirement for investors to dump Chinese tech stocks

Stockholders can keep shares in Huawei, SMIC, and Inpsur - they're just not allowed to sell | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

China 'must seize TSMC' if the US were to impose sanctions

So says Chinese economist, but it wouldn't achieve much if Taiwan destroyed its fabs first | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Digital sovereignty gives European cloud a 'window of opportunity'

But US hyperscalers planning to shut it ASAP, OpenInfra Foundation warns | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Farewell to two pivotal figures: The founder of Inmos and the co-creator of MIME

Iann Barron and Ned Freed were key innovators in computer comms | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Why chasing the AI dragon may force big tech to take sustainability seriously

Carbon offsets don't make you green when your datacenters are still rolling coal | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Big Tech's privacy policies are deliberately unclear

You opted out, but you didn't uncheck the box on page 24, so your data's ours... | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Sony launches a space laser subsidiary (for comms, not conflict)

Plans to beam data to satellites, and between orbiting birds too | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it

Come back Swype, all is forgiven. Don't you want our money, Redmond? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Japan lets its banks and other entities issue stablecoins

Wants private coins to have face value in Yen by 2023 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Multiplatform Linux kernel 'pretty much done' says Linus Torvalds

Debuts version 5.19rc1, which includes HPE's next-gen server ASIC and much more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

To cut off all nearby phones with these Chinese chips this is the bug to exploit

Android patches incoming for NAS-ty memory overwrite flaw | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Police want your happy childhood pictures to train AI to detect child abuse

Like the Hotdog, Not Hotdog app but more Kidnapped, Not Kidnapped | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Ampere: Cloud biz buy-ins prove our Arm server CPUs are the real deal

Startup teases 128+ core chip, disses Xeon and Epyc, unsurprisingly | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

New York to get first right-to-repair law for electronics

Hey, big Apple, how'd you like them Big Apples? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings

For $50,000 annually plus building work, budget-strapped teachers can (maybe) zap gunmen, for the kids | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Tech hiring freeze doesn't mean people won't leave

Work culture is irrevocably changed. Businesses that don't see that are in for a rough ride | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Starlink's success in Ukraine amplifies interest in anti-satellite weapons

US think tank sees growing interest in counterspace capabilities | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Murena launch privacy-centric smartphones: DeGoogled Android phone does the job

De-Googled Android phone does the job, has a few rough edges | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to quit China

Local authorities insist the next chapter is not a collapse in foreign investment | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Engineer sues Amazon for not covering work-from-home internet, electricity bills

And no, I'm not throwing out this lawsuit, says judge | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago