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)

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(2025/08/14)

Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts



The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one

(2025/08/14)

Opinion Success does not guarantee succession



The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?

(2025/08/14)

Register debate series Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience?



Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version

(2025/08/14)

Meanwhile, the clock's ticking for the previous FOSS Redis



Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops - even after thin client costs

(2025/08/14)

Human usage set to double, AI agents might need them too



Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns

(2025/08/14)

$79 million is a small price to pay to keep China at bay



Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco's AI sales by a cool billion bucks

(2025/08/14)

Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy



Doctors get dopey if they rely too much on AI, study suggests

(2025/08/14)

A tool can become a crutch



Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super

(2025/08/14)

The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science



Claude Code's copious coddling confounds cross customers

(2025/08/13)

Never mind the errors, we've had it with "You're absolutely right!"



Gov't HR department latest to get nastygram from auditors

(2025/08/13)

OPM is the fourth federal agency to get a list of outstanding items from GAO in past two weeks



Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit code amid surge in brute-force attempts

(2025/08/13)

If there's smoke?



OpenAI's GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting

(2025/08/13)

Analysis Gotta pay for all those GPUs somehow



Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해

(2025/08/13)

Early 2000s joke now serious problem for coffee shops in the Land of the Morning Calm



US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet

(2025/08/13)

Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp?



Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer

(2025/08/13)

Redmond let dev code loose in production Windows, leading to the bug



No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize El Reg, others in search results

(2025/08/13)

hands on How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less)



GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there's now a 'show additional models' switch

(2025/08/13)

Users want their customizations and their old models back



Crooks can't let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago

(2025/08/13)

CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018



CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months

(2025/08/13)

Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model?



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