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)

Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job

(2025/12/04)

Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions



EU probes Meta after WhatsApp kicked rival AIs off platform

(2025/12/04)

OpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere



Palantir wants to set the juice loose with new AI power initiative

(2025/12/04)

Nvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally



Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse

(2025/12/04)

Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files



Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

(2025/12/04)

Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices



Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL

(2025/12/04)

Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself



Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet

(2025/12/04)

Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks



Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power

(2025/12/04)

3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove



UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze

(2025/12/04)

Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle



Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals

(2025/12/04)

Exclusive One dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on



Datacenters that don't have their own power supplies will fail

(2025/12/04)

It's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices



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



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