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)

Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해

(2025/08/13)

Early 2000s joke now serious problem for coffee shops in the Land of the Morning Calm



US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet

(2025/08/13)

Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp?



Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer

(2025/08/13)

Redmond let dev code loose in production Windows, leading to the bug



No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results

(2025/08/13)

hands on How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less)



GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there's now a 'show additional models' switch

(2025/08/13)

Users want their customizations and their old models back



Crooks can't let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago

(2025/08/13)

CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018



CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months

(2025/08/13)

Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model?



Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don't have to dash to the printer to grab the 'Fire everyone' memo

(2025/08/13)

Hit the button and then go on your own voyage of printer discovery



AI model 'personalities' shape the quality of generated code

(2025/08/13)

But despite the differences, all models excel at making errors and shouldn't be trusted



Box's AI agents set to help US government agencies

(2025/08/13)

The vendor hops aboard GSA’s OneGov train, offering models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more



MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies

(2025/08/13)

Windows 365 Reserve offers 10-day cloud PCs when your machine goes kaput – but you'll still need another device to access them



UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you

(2025/08/13)

Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech



Marc Andreessen wades into the UK's Online Safety Act furor

(2025/08/13)

Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan



Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option

(2025/08/13)

Register debate series For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be



Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of 'high severity' protocol flaws need painful fixes

(2025/08/13)

Updated Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time



Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

(2025/08/13)

You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI



I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11

(2025/08/13)

Column An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data



NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit

(2025/08/13)

Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays



Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul's 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash

(2025/08/13)

Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack



Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room

(2025/08/13)

First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor



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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
-- Bert Whitney