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)

Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof

(2026/05/05)

Opinion If you can't bother to keep GitHub running, why should we bother with you?



Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release

(2026/05/05)

Antiques Code Show New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard



Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028

(2026/05/05)

Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away



Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation

(2026/05/05)

Vendors all use different formats. This tech translates them all so you can smooth your SOC



Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'

(2026/05/05)

The Iran war has been great for business



Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799

(2026/05/04)

The tiny desktop is no longer Apple's most affordable computer



Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work

(2026/05/04)

Devs not thrilled that Git extension added the bot as co-author by default



Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache

(2026/05/04)

46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them



Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop

(2026/05/04)

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space



Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port

(2026/05/04)

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho



Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear

(2026/05/04)

FEATURE The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino



Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs

(2026/05/04)

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'



Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

(2026/05/04)

Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges



If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

(2026/05/04)

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows



Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

(2026/05/04)

Who, Me? That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble



Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

(2026/05/04)

Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades



Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

(2026/05/04)

Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada



Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

(2026/05/04)

PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge



Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

(2026/05/04)

kettle Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?



Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

(2026/05/03)

In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy



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