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)

TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets

(2025/12/04)

Systems Approach Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear



Rust core library partly polished for industrial safety spec

(2025/12/04)

Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability



India's government targets Uber, Ola with plan to launch zero-commission rideshare platform

(2025/12/04)

Minister wants to ‘free drivers from dependency on private companies’



Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

(2025/12/04)

First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory?



John Henry still leading the race vs AI in customer service

(2025/12/03)

Gartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI



Lawyer's 6-year-old son uses AI to build copyright infringement generator

(2025/12/03)

Rights holders had better buckle up for years of legal wrangling, IP lawyer tells The Reg



'Exploitation is imminent' as 39 percent of cloud environs have max-severity React hole

(2025/12/03)

Finish reading this, then patch



MAGA cognoscenti warn feds away from shielding AI infringers

(2025/12/03)

Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue



China's reusable rocket makes it to orbit but fails to stick the landing

(2025/12/03)

An ‘anomaly’ meant a fireball arrived at the recovery zone instead of a spent first stage



Poop-peeping toilet attachment has a different definition of 'end-to-end' encryption

(2025/12/03)

Talk about enshittification



Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse

(2025/12/03)

LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits



Microsoft sharpens the blocking axe for Exchange Web Services

(2025/12/03)

Starting in March, Frontline Worker and Kiosk–only mailboxes lose EWS access



HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware

(2025/12/03)

IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona



ISS hits rare full house as all eight docking ports ocupado

(2025/12/03)

Updated Russian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals



Windows 11 still barely pulling ahead of 10 despite end-of-support push

(2025/12/03)

Statcounter shows the gap narrowing as users cling to older hardware and familiar workflows



Newly launched civil service pension portal from Capita is crapita, users report

(2025/12/03)

Updated Awarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members



Pat Gelsinger's EUV lithography gig gets $150M wink from Uncle Sam

(2025/12/03)

Commerce Department wants equity in xLight as it backs a free-electron laser to challenge ASML



Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS

(2025/12/03)

Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve



Here’s your worst nightmare: E-tailer can only resume partial sales 45 days after ransomware attack

(2025/12/03)

Japan’s Askul still can’t run all its sites, but at least the fax line held up OK



China using AI as ‘precision instrument’ of censorship and repression, at home and abroad

(2025/12/03)

Think tank ASPI says Beijing is even using it to steal fish from the ocean



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