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)

German security researchers say 'Windows Hell No' to Microsoft biometrics for biz

(2025/08/07)

Black Hat Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans



AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028

(2025/08/07)

What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you?



Microsoft, CISA warn yet another Exchange server bug can lead to 'total domain compromise'

(2025/08/07)

No reported in-the-wild exploits…yet



NASA changes the rules of the game for commercial space stations

(2025/08/07)

Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts?



Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error'

(2025/08/07)

Nothing to see here - just removing that old Emoluments Clause and habeas corpus



Euro Commish on US lobbying against EU DSA rules: 'Our standards are not up for discussion'

(2025/08/07)

Tells The Reg they never were ... 'and this will not change'



Black Hat's network ops center brings rivals together for a common cause

(2025/08/07)

Black Hat The Reg goes behind the scenes of the conference NOC, where volunteers 'look for a needle in a needle stack'



CISA releases malware analysis for Sharepoint Server attack

(2025/08/07)

Indications of compromise and Sigma rules report for your security scanners amid ongoing 'ToolShell' blitz



Trump calls for Intel CEO's head over alleged China links

(2025/08/07)

Chipzilla boss accused of huge conflict of interest



Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine

(2025/08/07)

No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims



KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data

(2025/08/07)

Watch out, the phishermen are about, customers told



Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it's OK

(2025/08/07)

Updated Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back



LG ordered to pay £150k after phone defect caused Scotland house fire

(2025/08/07)

Forensics experts say the state of the K8’s battery suggests it led to the living room blaze



OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 reaches RC status

(2025/08/07)

Bold, clean, much less legacy tech – and a bit less like old SUSE



The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward

(2025/08/07)

'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards



Microsoft eventually realized the world isn't just the Northern Hemisphere

(2025/08/07)

Veteran engineer explains the fall of 'Fall' in Windows release



GitHub CEO: Future devs will not code, they will manage AI

(2025/08/07)

Meanwhile, users complain the code shack is getting slower thanks to React



Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots

(2025/08/07)

Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act



Real estate agents use the power of AI to command plumbing, layout to disappear

(2025/08/07)

Feature Lightsockets lovingly hooked up to power supply by passionate, vivacious owners. Would suit professional who wants to read after dark



Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft

(2025/08/07)

Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU



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Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to
be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they
can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the
HP-48 VT-100 emulator.
(By jdege@winternet.com, Jeff Dege)