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)

Real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret

(2025/01/22)

Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google



Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch

(2025/01/22)

Feature Everyone agrees defense matters. How to do it is up for debate



UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs

(2025/01/22)

Cut off nearly 44k peeps who had been waiting 70 minutes for advice on unavoidable chore



Former Amazon exec appointed as boss of UK's competition watchdog

(2025/01/22)

Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth'



Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom

(2025/01/22)

The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner



Ransomware scum make it personal for Reg readers by impersonating tech support

(2025/01/22)

That invitation to a Teams call on which IT promises to mop up a spamstorm may not be what it seems



China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run

(2025/01/22)

1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that



Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent

(2025/01/22)

Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon



Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3

(2025/01/22)

Plus: Google stuffs Gemini into Workspace, with a hidden off switch?



OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals

(2025/01/22)

Updated SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year



PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen

(2025/01/22)

Updated Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants



App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground

(2025/01/21)

Analysis El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on



Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today

(2025/01/21)

Same, Big A, same



Patch procrastination leaves 50,000 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to zero-day

(2025/01/21)

Seven days after disclosure and little action taken, data shows



Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more

(2025/01/21)

Also, prepare for paused wind projects and the Gulf of America from Trump 2.0 – and that's just day 1



Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming

(2025/01/21)

Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation



Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars

(2025/01/21)

Comment So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have?



Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech

(2025/01/21)

Under Digital Services Act, monitors will be allowed to report abusive language and platforms should respond in 1 day



Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs

(2025/01/21)

Updated It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst



HPE probes IntelBroker's bold data theft boasts

(2025/01/21)

Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary



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