Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban (2025/09/08) ValueLicensing's David spins the sling for another go at the Windows Goliath
So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc. (2025/09/08) Four-year framework hands Canon and pals a license to print money
VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong (2025/09/08) Opinion Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league (2025/09/08) Who, Me? You're out, forever!
Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated (2025/09/08) Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El Reg
All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner, but jobs are safe (2025/09/08) Analyst firm doesn’t rate OpenAI as an enterprise-ready vendor
Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems (2025/09/08) Asia In Brief PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish
It's AI all the way down as Google's AI cites web pages written by AI (2025/09/07) ai-pocalypse Like a snake eating its own tail
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus (2025/09/07) Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life (2025/09/07) Opinion And maybe even dictator Brain-in-a-box-as-a-Service
No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease (2025/09/06) Hands on Insider builds have them now. Everyone else will have to employ other methods
Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley (2025/09/06) If an employer asks you do to this, demand a trial run so you can learn the rules of this strange new world
OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety (2025/09/06) California, Delaware AGs blast ChatGPT shop over chatbot safeguards
US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid (2025/09/06) South Korean government protests as workers left up s**t creek
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features (2025/09/05) Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like (2025/09/05) Analysis Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up?
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons (2025/09/05) Chair Carr calls E-Rate expansions unlawful, Ted Cruz warns of online risks for kids
The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware (2025/09/05) interview tldr; boffins did it
Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python (2025/09/05) Pro tip, don't install PowerShell commands without approval
HHS warns US health care industry to share data with patients or else (2025/09/05) After years of foot-dragging, penalties for blocking access finally kick in