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)

Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches?

(2025/05/06)

And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere



China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon

(2025/05/06)

State-backed chip slinger inches closer to cloud-scale relevance



CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut

(2025/05/06)

Because who needs cybersecurity when there’s culture wars to win



IT pros are caught between an AI rock and an economic hard place

(2025/05/05)

Tech gigs slide, or so this analysis of US jobs data claims



Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess

(2025/05/05)

Updated No, really? That's a shocking surprise



OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge

(2025/05/05)

Funny what a public scolding from AI luminaries and a word from state AGs can do



Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine

(2025/05/05)

Who, Me? Fake it till you make it doesn't cut it for mission-critical workloads



Trump promises protection for TikTok, for which he has a ‘warm spot in my heart’

(2025/05/05)

Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures



India’s chipmaking ambitions hurt by Zoho’s no-go and Adani unease

(2025/05/05)

Asia in brief PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more!



Microsoft tries to knife passwords once and for all - at least for consumers

(2025/05/05)

Infosec In Brief PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more!



RSA Conf wrap: AI and China on everything, everywhere, all at once

(2025/05/04)

RSAC With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too



Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America

(2025/05/04)

El Reg checks out shop in SF



Soviet probe from 1972 set to return to Earth ... in May 2025

(2025/05/03)

Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie



Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme

(2025/05/03)

A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption



Trump wants to fire quarter of NASA budget into black hole – and not in a good way

(2025/05/02)

Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030



Meta blames Trump tariffs for ballooning AI infra bills

(2025/05/02)

World War Fee Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says



Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is running on fumes

(2025/05/02)

Shakeup in US higher education funding means FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks



NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely

(2025/05/02)

Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now



Raspberry Pi slices Compute Module 4 prices

(2025/05/02)

Grab more headroom with the 4 and 8 GB variants



Disney Slack attack wasn't Russian protesters, just a Cali dude with malware

(2025/05/02)

25-year-old fella pleads guilty to stealing, dumping 1.1TB of data from the House of Mouse



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their C programs."
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