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?