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)

Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints

(2025/04/11)

Hang on, wasn't Capita already handling things like billing, etc? Ah, AgentSuite comes to the rescue



Ransomware crims hammering UK more than ever as British techies complain the board just doesn't get it

(2025/04/11)

Issues at the very top continue to worsen



Users hated a new app – maybe so much they filed a fake support call

(2025/04/11)

On Call Sysadmin sent on road trip that required a lot of time doing nothing



VMware opens beta for an upgrade to its midrange vSphere Foundation bundle

(2025/04/11)

A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October



The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive

(2025/04/11)

Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too



Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

(2025/04/11)

Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam



Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China

(2025/04/11)

Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan



Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs

(2025/04/11)

Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure



Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type

(2025/04/10)

LLM query caching also lands soon



OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

(2025/04/10)

Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment'



US sensor giant Sensata admits ransomware derailed ops

(2025/04/10)

Props for the transparency though



Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it?

(2025/04/10)

Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance



Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana

(2025/04/10)

Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'



AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason

(2025/04/10)

Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice



Amazon Nova Sonic AI doesn't just hear you, it takes tonal cues too

(2025/04/10)

The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech



M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'

(2025/04/10)

Final update License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub



Tech CEO: Four-day work week didn't hurt or help productivity

(2025/04/10)

Interview 'There are challenges' but staff recruitment and retention isn't one of them



Infosec experts fear China could retaliate against tariffs with a Typhoon attack

(2025/04/10)

World War Fee Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs



OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

(2025/04/10)

Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting



Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records

(2025/04/10)

Government plans to boost efficiency with IT need to get people onside



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<alaint> joey--very clever !!!
<alaint> joey--no wonder that Debian is a good distrib with coder like you
-- Seen on #Debian (referring to my RAID article for the LJ)