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)

Ex-Microsoft engineer resurrects PDP-11 from junkyard parts

(2024/08/23)

Because everyone has a box of mystery computer bits they simply can't part with



Linux Deepin 23: A polished distro from China that Western desktops could learn from

(2024/08/23)

A glimpse into the rapidly advancing world of Chinese open source



To crew, or not to crew – that is the question facing Boeing's stricken Starliner

(2024/08/23)

Decision time arrives for NASA bigwigs



US sues Georgia Tech over alleged cybersecurity failings as a Pentagon contractor

(2024/08/23)

Rap sheet spells out major no-nos after disgruntled staff blow whistle



China AI devs use cloud services to game US chip sanctions

(2024/08/23)

Orgs are accessing restricted tech, raising concerns about more potential loopholes



CockroachDB scurries off to proprietary software land

(2024/08/23)

Opinion As VC-owned fauxpen source biz yells 'show me the money,' more may follow to the peril of the community



First of ESA's Cluster satellites prepares for fiery finale over South Pacific

(2024/08/23)

Over 20 years into a 2-year mission, but all good things come to an end



BOFH: Videoconferencing for special dummies

(2024/08/23)

Episode 16 Can't question the documentation if there is no documentation



LibreOffice 24.8: Handy even if you're happy with Microsoft

(2024/08/23)

Mature, stable – and can rescue corrupt files



Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor

(2024/08/23)

On Call A tale of retro tech – have you heard of Trivector computers? – and a very troubled tech support journey



India delays planned space station and moon base by five years

(2024/08/23)

As results from 2023's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma



Open Compute Project seeks standard for concrete, with help from AWS, Google, Meta, and Microsoft

(2024/08/23)

There's a lot of CO 2 in datacenters, and Big Tech has promised to get to net zero



Devs at Asia's top messaging app drowned in Slack, tamed it with ChatGPT

(2024/08/23)

LY Corp's QA team struggled to manage projects while wading through prolix posts



China's rideshare champ Didi gives users the option to report stinky cars

(2024/08/23)

Also testing allowing women to chose female drivers



Gamers who find Ryzen 9000s disappointingly slow are testing it wrong, says AMD

(2024/08/23)

Those using Windows 11, version 24H2, should see better speed



Snowflake claims Iceberg wins table format wars, and Databricks has just proved it

(2024/08/23)

The data analytics vendor's CEO says rival's over $1 billion Tabular acquisition is the 'vindication'



SolarWinds left critical hardcoded credentials in its Web Help Desk product

(2024/08/23)

Why go to the effort of backdooring code when devs will basically do it for you accidentally anyway



Chrome dumped support for Ubuntu 18.04 – but it'll be back

(2024/08/22)

Complaints about lack of notice plus an inquiry from El Reg prompt U-turn by web giant



Chasing the AI dragon? Your IT might be circling the drain, IBM warns

(2024/08/22)

Big Blue says companies are so obsessed, basic services are going to pot



LiquidStack says its new CDU can chill more than 1MW of AI compute

(2024/08/22)

So what’s that good for? Like eight of Nvidia’s NVL-72s?



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