ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil

(2025/09/22)

It's one small sip for man...



Linux has the lineage to out-evolve the deadliest of cyber threats, given the right push

(2025/09/22)

Opinion Darwin would understand microkernels. We need microkernels that understand Darwin.



'Technical debt' in police database built to respond to child murders causing a 'failing service'

(2025/09/22)

Project rated at 'Red' risk as it struggles to move off obsolete Oracle tech and cloud transition stalls



FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security

(2025/09/22)

Lloyds Data and AI lead doesn't want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky



Bored developers accidentally turned their watercooler into a bootleg brewery

(2025/09/22)

Who, Me? Revenge on managers who slow things down is a drink best served with floating fungus



Trump says Michael Dell is part of the team buying TikTok, with Larry Ellison and maybe some Murdochs

(2025/09/22)

The Register looks forward to learning more about a possible Dell hyperscale sovereign social SaaS platform



Tech troubles create aviation chaos on both sides of the Atlantic

(2025/09/22)

‘Cyber-attack’ on ticketing outfit Collins and cable cuts at Dallas ground hundreds of flights



Huawei used its own silicon to re-educate DeepSeek so its output won’t bother Beijing

(2025/09/22)

Asia In Brief PLUS: India ponders tax breaks for datacenters; Samsung plans hiring spree; Taliban bans fiber internet; and more



Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits

(2025/09/22)

Infosec in brief PLUS: Luxury brands under fire; FBI warns crims are spoofing it again; ICE buys phone cracking software



Firewall upgrade linked to three deaths after Australian telco cut off emergency calls

(2025/09/22)

Optus was unaware network changes caused a problem, and ignored some customer complaints



Make Windows 11 more useful and less annoying with these 11 Registry hacks

(2025/09/21)

hands on From pain-free shutdowns to crap-free search, these tweaks will improve your experience



SaaS vendors are hiking costs faster than inflation, but squeaky wheels can still get deals

(2025/09/20)

And also force them to improve resilience



Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact

(2025/09/20)

Arrangement follows big tech tie-ins claiming to offer £31B investment



Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry

(2025/09/20)

It will hit outsourcing companies hardest



Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

(2025/09/19)

With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over



ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

(2025/09/19)

Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?



Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

(2025/09/19)

Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation



Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says

(2025/09/19)

Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets



Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

(2025/09/19)

Comment Latest marketing blitz for a solution seeking a problem... and a killer app



Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself

(2025/09/19)

It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier



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Endless the world's turn, endless the sun's spinning
Endless the quest;
I turn again, back to my own beginning,
And here, find rest.