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)

Ubuntu 24.04.3: Noble Numbat point release slips out quietly

(2025/08/08)

Bugs in the current LTS are getting squished



Star leaky app of the week: StarDict

(2025/08/08)

Fun feature found in Debian 13: send your selected text to China – in plaintext



Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region

(2025/08/08)

'Although the incident has been marked resolved, in practice it lingers,' admin tells us



Ex-White House cyber, counter-terrorism guru: Microsoft considers security an annoyance, not a necessity

(2025/08/08)

Comment Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm'



NASA boss calls for nuclear reactor on the Moon

(2025/08/08)

Science budget? Whatever. It's all about beating China and Russia



Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps

(2025/08/08)

Black hat Not a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed



UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases

(2025/08/08)

updated Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’



Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project

(2025/08/08)

New SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees



UK proxy traffic surges as users consider VPN alternatives amid Online Safety Act

(2025/08/08)

It's 'more than a temporary trend,' Decodo claims



After 30 years PHP still evolving: Team adds pipe operator, considers generics

(2025/08/08)

Modern language features plus high performance FrankenPHP app server make PHP worth another look



Behold the wood-block wonder of the Kilopixel display

(2025/08/08)

Feature We're going out on a limb here... why not branch out from things like retina displays and get a little more fine grained?



Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK

(2025/08/08)

Opinion A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond



Tech support team won pay rise for teaching customers how to RTFM

(2025/08/08)

On Call Documentation was so substantial, staff measured it in feet



Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

(2025/08/08)

Opinion Will someone think of the deals politicians are making?



North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme

(2025/08/08)

Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby



Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them

(2025/08/08)

Fears adversaries will use them in the belief they can take plenty of punishment



Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s

(2025/08/08)

A new connector may be on the cards, too



$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board

(2025/08/08)

Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year



Why blow up satellites when you can just hack them?

(2025/08/08)

Black Hat A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is



OpenAI's GPT-5 is here with up to 80% fewer hallucinations

(2025/08/08)

That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right?



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