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)

Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update

(2025/03/12)

Who still uses a printer anyway? Oh ... quite a lot of you, it seems



Amazon, Meta, Google sign pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050

(2025/03/12)

AI doesn't run on fairy dust after all



DOGE helps Veterans Affairs end IT contract run by service-disabled entrepreneurs

(2025/03/12)

Project dubbed 'wasteful' – Musk's lot says under-pressure VA must do it 'in-house'



OpenInfra has only gone and joined the Linux Foundation

(2025/03/12)

Artist formerly known as OpenStack to huddle under same umbrella as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation



Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs

(2025/03/12)

Fewer than 10 known victims, but Mandiant suspects others compromised, too



ServiceNow's new AI agents will happily volunteer for your dullest tasks

(2025/03/12)

Yokohama release also adds meta-observabiilty and takes a tilt at CRM



This is the FBI, open up. China's Volt Typhoon is on your network

(2025/03/12)

Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened next



Rocket Lab says NASA lacks leadership on Mars Sample Return

(2025/03/12)

Agency willing to take huge risks with human exploration, but not willing to do it for some dirt?



Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes

(2025/03/12)

Don't, don't, DON'T believe the hype



UK must pay cyber pros more than its Prime Minister, top civil servant says

(2025/03/12)

Leaders call for fewer contractors and more top talent installed across government



MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core

(2025/03/12)

Five years after it launched its first database service, the MySQL fork is trying again



Apple has locked me in the same monopolistic cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users

(2025/03/12)

Column Vendors just don't want machines to live double lives



Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'

(2025/03/12)

Updated Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon



Man with artificial heart survives over 100 days outside hospital

(2025/03/12)

Skip the schnitzel with gravy and chips for lunch - this is an experimental device for transplant candidates



CISA pen-tester says 100-strong red team binned after DOGE canceled contract

(2025/03/12)

Updated Election infosec advisory center also shuttered



Choose your own Patch Tuesday adventure: Start with six zero-day fixes, or six critical flaws

(2025/03/12)

Patch Tuesday Microsoft tackles 50-plus security blunders, Adobe splats 3D bugs, and Apple deals with a doozy



Microsoft adds another Copilot hotkey – this time for AI voice chat

(2025/03/11)

Hold Alt + Spacebar for two seconds, and Clippy 2.0 is all ears



Energy trio wants to pipe gas from coal mines to keep datacenter lights on

(2025/03/11)

Nothing says 'sustainable AI' like the burps of Appalachian industry



Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

(2025/03/11)

Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27



'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII in open S3 bucket for months

(2025/03/11)

Exclusive Non-password-protected, unencrypted 108GB database … what could possibly go wrong



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Office Automation:
The use of computers to improve efficiency in the office
by removing anyone you would want to talk with over coffee.