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)

Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update

(2025/03/17)

Microsoft says disappearance of Clippy 2.0 is an error it will shortly fix



Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to the cloud

(2025/03/17)

Web souk says Echo hardware doesn't have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway



M4 MacBook Air keeps ports modular, locks tight – still a headache to repair

(2025/03/17)

Cupertino’s latest skips iPhone repair gains, iFixit says



Los Alamos boffins whip up a speedometer for satellites

(2025/03/17)

First license plates, now a way to calculate pace in orbit. Speeding tickets next?



Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip

(2025/03/17)

Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions



Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data

(2025/03/17)

Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem



GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23,000 projects

(2025/03/17)

Large organizations among those cleaning up the mess



Flang-tastic! LLVM's Fortran compiler finally drops the training wheels

(2025/03/17)

Another all-FOSS option – just don't confuse it with all the other Flangs



UK government to open £16B IT services competition after 6-month delay

(2025/03/17)

Technology Services 4 framework expands by £4B, with procurement to begin this week



Microsoft wouldn't look at a bug report without a video. Researcher maliciously complied

(2025/03/17)

Maddening techno bass loop, Zoolander reference, and 14 minutes of time wasted



This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer

(2025/03/17)

Opinion Well, maybe not richer, but we're about to find out



Developer wrote a critical app and forgot where it ran – until it stopped running

(2025/03/17)

Who, Me? What comes after testing in the software development lifecycle? Aaah, never mind ... let's skip to maintenance



OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini?

(2025/03/17)

Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience'



SpaceX Dragon pod arrives at ISS to finally pick up stranded Boeing astronaut pair

(2025/03/17)

Second time's a charm



China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata

(2025/03/17)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Foxconn wants 40 percent AI server market share; Atlassian CEO jets into controversy; Starlink reaches 800 million in India; And more!



FCC stands up Council on National Security to fight China in ways that CISA used to

(2025/03/16)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Alleged Garantex admin arrested in India; Google deletes more North Korean malware



DeepSeek-R1-beating perf in a 32B package? El Reg digs its claws into Alibaba's QwQ

(2025/03/16)

Hands on How to tame its hypersensitive hyperparameters and get it running on your PC



RIP Mark Klein, the engineer who exposed US domestic spying ops after wiring it up

(2025/03/15)

AT&T engineer, and the Deep Throat of the network age, dies at 79



Belgian cops raid Huawei in Euro bribery probe

(2025/03/14)

Chinese giant says it's 'committed' to obeying the law as arrests made



AI bubble? What AI bubble? Datacenter investors all in despite whispers of a pop

(2025/03/14)

Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globe



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