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)

Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live

(2025/07/18)

Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters



As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

(2025/07/18)

Analysis WeTransfer added the magic words 'machine learning' to its ToS and users reacted predictably



Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus

(2025/07/18)

2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time



Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight

(2025/07/18)

Comment With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?



The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

(2025/07/18)

Interview We spoke to the smoot's namesake



‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’

(2025/07/18)

On Call This job was a car wreck in more than one way



EU cloud gang wins Microsoft concessions, but fair software licensing group brands them 'stalling tactic'

(2025/07/18)

Updated Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – but critics say it just buys 'Microsoft more time to lock in customers'



VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support

(2025/07/18)

Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation



OpenAI deputizes ChatGPT to serve as an agent that uses your computer

(2025/07/18)

LLM given keys to the web, told to behave and observe safeguards



Laid-off AWS employee describes cuts as 'cold and soulless'

(2025/07/18)

Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing



Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China

(2025/07/18)

Ads giant complains of damage to its reputation and finances ... and crime, too



AWS goes full speed ahead on the AI agent train

(2025/07/17)

Video Running on Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore aims to pave the path from prototype to production



TSMC aims to make 30% of high-end chips in US with Arizona fab build out

(2025/07/17)

Shovels in the dirt at Fab 3 as Fab 2’s 3nm ramp charges in several quarters early



Watch out, another max-severity, make-me-root Cisco bug on the loose

(2025/07/17)

Updated Three perfect 10s in the last month - ISE, ISE, baby



FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables

(2025/07/17)

Maybe finish ripping and replacing your telco networks first?



PUTTY.ORG nothing to do with PuTTY – and now it's spouting pandemic piffle

(2025/07/17)

Linking can be helpful – but not always… while disinformation can spread like a virus



Fujitsu sorry for Post Office horror – but still cashing big UK govt checks

(2025/07/17)

Updated Non-competitive £220M datacenter deal with tax collector tops £510M pile of public money



Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

(2025/07/17)

Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks'



Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

(2025/07/17)

New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers



Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists

(2025/07/17)

The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity



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> I'm an idiot.. At least this [bug] took about 5 minutes to find..
We need to find some new terms to describe the rest of us mere mortals
then.
-- Craig Schlenter in response to Linus Torvalds's