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)

40 years ago, classified Shuttle mission foreshadowed Challenger's fatal flaw

(2025/01/28)

O-ring erosion on Discovery would have disastrous effects a year later



Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

(2025/01/28)

Opinion If you want a desktop that's secure and reliable, forget about Microsoft



Why does the UK keep getting beaten up by IT suppliers?

(2025/01/28)

Tech and commercial functions need to get in shape for the challenges ahead



Enlightenment reaches 0.27, continuing its quiet but persistent journey

(2025/01/28)

An elder returns, for those still seeking it



Apple plugs security hole in its iThings that's already been exploited in iOS

(2025/01/28)

Cupertino kicks off the year with a zero-day



AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe

(2025/01/28)

updated Cops relied on unreliable tech for search warrant, omitted details ... so judge bins off evidence



DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3

(2025/01/28)

Crouching tiger, hidden layer(s)



DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI'

(2025/01/27)

Updated Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues



US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

(2025/01/27)

Updated Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says



Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures

(2025/01/27)

Updated Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe



South Carolina's abandoned nuclear reactors positioned to fuel the AI datacenter boom

(2025/01/27)

VC Summer units 2 and 3, abandoned in 2017, are looking for a buyer; owners say tech industry needs are a perfect fit



Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB as front end

(2025/01/27)

We're not in Kansas anymore



DeepSeek limits new accounts amid cyberattack

(2025/01/27)

Updated Chinese AI startup grapples with consequences of sudden popularity



Google takes action after coder reports 'most sophisticated attack I've ever seen'

(2025/01/27)

Latest trope is tricky enough to fool even the technical crowd… almost



Citrix slated to axe its Technology Professional program

(2025/01/27)

Advocates also cut as company focuses on 'priorities of our key customers'



Zyxel firewalls borked by buggy update, on-site access required for fix

(2025/01/27)

Boxes stuck in boot loops and various other malfunctions



AI agents? Yes, let's automate all sorts of things that don't actually need it

(2025/01/27)

Opinion OpenAI's Operator a solution in search of a problem



Tech stocks tank as US AI dominance no longer a sure bet

(2025/01/27)

Chinese startup DeepSeek rolls out open LLMs to rival Meta, OpenAI at fraction of cost



Sweden seizes cargo ship after another undersea cable hit in suspected sabotage

(2025/01/27)

NATO increasing patrols in the Baltic as region awaits navy drones



Astronomers red-faced after mistaking Musk's Tesla Roadster for asteroid

(2025/01/27)

Without central repository for artificial objects, it'll only get worse



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But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the
system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed,
analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
-- Bruce Leverett, "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"