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)

The launch of ChatGPT polluted the world forever, like the first atomic weapons tests

(2025/06/15)

Feature Academics mull the need for the digital equivalent of low-background steel



Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow

(2025/06/15)

Microsoft veteran on breaking down numbers at the computer store



Researchers claim spoof-proof random number generator breakthrough

(2025/06/14)

Combining quantum entanglement with hash chains promises randomness which can be relied on



As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths

(2025/06/14)

We take a quick look at the headline features – and the growing differences



US Army signs up Band of Tech Bros with a suitably nerdy name

(2025/06/14)

Execs from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI join Detachment 201



Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US

(2025/06/14)

With Tehran’s military weakened, digital retaliation likely, experts tell The Reg



AST just got a small boost in its D2C battle against Elon Musk's Starlink

(2025/06/13)

But the five-satellite upstart has a short time window



Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple, Google stores still offer China-based VPNs, report says

(2025/06/13)

Some trace back to an outfit under US export controls for alleged PLA links



Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person

(2025/06/13)

Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot



Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers

(2025/06/13)

Please insert another million dollars to continue



Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up

(2025/06/13)

Exclusive Mark Zuckerberg reached out to our source directly



PCIe 7.0 specs finalized at 512 GBps bandwidth, PCIe 8.0 in the pipeline

(2025/06/13)

Work on next gen already underway, while bandwidth needs for datacenters just keep rising



Apple fixes zero-click exploit underpinning Paragon spyware attacks

(2025/06/13)

Zero-day potentially tied to around 100 suspected infections in 2025 and a spyware scandal on the continent



The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives

(2025/06/13)

Feature Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts



Wanted: Junior cybersecurity staff with 10 years' experience and a PhD

(2025/06/13)

Infosec employers demanding too much from early-career recruits, says ISC2



Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customers

(2025/06/13)

Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduled



Danish department determined to dump Microsoft

(2025/06/13)

Comment Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland



UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs

(2025/06/13)

Deal includes 'waiver of historic fees'



Forget Vibe Coding, we're all about Vine Coding nowadays

(2025/06/13)

Flame Of The Week More like FlAIme Of The Week



BOFH: Rerouting responsibility via firewall configs

(2025/06/13)

Episode 11 Two lines of code for an arbitrary office reshuffle sounds too much like work



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