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)

Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027

(2025/02/21)

Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew



ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics

(2025/02/21)

It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news



Experts race to extract intel from Black Basta internal chat leaks

(2025/02/21)

Researchers say there's dissent in the ranks. Plus: An AI tool lets you have a go yourself at analysing the data



HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

(2025/02/21)

It woz The Reg wot won it ... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management



Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber?

(2025/02/21)

Opinion If you don't need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions?



DIMM techies weren’t allowed to leave the building until proven to not be pilferers

(2025/02/21)

On Call Who knew a script could make RAM re-appear?



As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

(2025/02/21)

License To Kill -9 ... For Your iPhone Only ... AI Another Day ... The name's Bezos, Jeff Bezos



Ivanti endpoint manager can become endpoint ravager, thanks to quartet of critical flaws

(2025/02/21)

PoC exploit code shows why this is a patch priority



Lenovo isn't fussed by Trumpian tariffs or finding enough energy to run AI

(2025/02/21)

Enterprise hardware biz produced record revenue, just $1M of profit, but execs think losses are behind it



Thailand ready to welcome 7,000 trafficked scam call center victims back from Myanmar

(2025/02/21)

It comes amid a major crackdown on the abusive industry that started during COVID



National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

(2025/02/21)

Feature An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more



Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable

(2025/02/21)

Updated Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em



Microsoft expands Copilot bug bounty targets, adds payouts for even moderate messes

(2025/02/21)

Said bugs 'can have significant implications' – glad to hear that from Redmond



Oops, some of our customers' Power Pages-hosted sites were exploited, says Microsoft

(2025/02/21)

Don't think this is SaaS and you can relax: Redmond wants a few of you to check your websites



GitLab and its execs sued again and again over 'misleading' AI hype, price hikes

(2025/02/20)

Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim



Laptop makers stalled on repairability improvements

(2025/02/20)

Apple, Dell made some progress, but MacBooks are still the worst to crack open, says PIRG



Euro cloud biz trials 'server blades in a cold box' system

(2025/02/20)

Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims



US minerals company says crooks broke into email and helped themselves to $500K

(2025/02/20)

A painful loss for young company that's yet to generate revenue



Microsoft Azure faceplants in Norway, taking government services with it

(2025/02/20)

Locals see red as public cloud's service health dashboard shows green



NASA's on-again, off-again job cuts – what's the plan?

(2025/02/20)

Comment Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission



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