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)

Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!

(2025/02/18)

Penguin Emperor's weekly State Of The Kernel post went astray



The future of AI is ... analog? Upstart bags $100M to push GPU-like brains on less juice

(2025/02/17)

Interview EnCharge claims 150 TOPS/watt, a 20x performance-per-watt edge



Why did the Windows 95 setup use Windows 3.1?

(2025/02/17)

If MS-DOS could play Doom, surely a battleship gray button was a possibility?



NAND flash prices plunge amid supply glut, factory output cut

(2025/02/17)

Flaky demand for PCs and smartphones blamed



There's a slight chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Moon in 2032

(2025/02/17)

Very unlikely, but could make for a neat light show if it does



XCSSET macOS malware returns with first new version since 2022

(2025/02/17)

Known for popping zero-days of yesteryear, Microsoft puts Apple devs on high alert



UK court says Chinese operation must sell Scottish chip biz stake without delay

(2025/02/17)

'Satisfied' the risk to national security is 'a real and significant one' that should not be 'prolonged'



Loken: An easy interactive way to better looking websites

(2025/02/17)

Interview A 'synthesizer for websites' lets you experiment and improvize your way to CSS



Bank of England Oracle Cloud bill balloons – but when you print money, who's counting?

(2025/02/17)

Old Lady of Threadneedle Street to pay millions for 'amended implementation methodology'



TechUK demands that Britain's chip strategy is crisped up

(2025/02/17)

Trade body wants recommendations fast-tracked and fabs designated critical national infrastructure



Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

(2025/02/17)

Who, Me? When asked to offer honest feedback, maybe pause to ponder how well you play office politics



Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz

(2025/02/17)

Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee



Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU

(2025/02/17)

DevOps team did the dirty on a database



Twin Google flaws allowed researcher to get from YouTube ID to Gmail address in a few easy steps

(2025/02/17)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: DOGE web design disappoints; FBI stops crypto scams; Zacks attacked again; and more!



Fujitsu worries US tariffs will see its clients slow digital spend

(2025/02/17)

Asia In Brief PLUS: Pacific islands targeted by Chinese APT; China’s new rocket soars; DeepSeek puts Korea in a pickle; and more



This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice

(2025/02/16)

Hands on El Reg shows you how to run Zyphra's speech-replicating AI on your own box



The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux

(2025/02/16)

What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV?



Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

(2025/02/16)

State Of Open Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?



Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed

(2025/02/15)

Interview 'In 50 years, I think we'll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today'



Why AI benchmarks suck

(2025/02/15)

Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh...



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