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)

US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050

(2024/01/19)

Instead of 100% renewables, most will reach around a tenth of that



For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed

(2024/01/19)

Retro Tech Week Now its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors



HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies

(2024/01/19)

Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line



Post Office threatened to sue Fujitsu over missing audit data

(2024/01/19)

More details emerge as Horizon IT scandal inquiry continues



Businessman faces 20 years in prison over accusations of illicit chip exports to Russia

(2024/01/19)

Shipments alleged to have gone to a sanctioned company



Thieves steal 35.5M customers’ data from Vans sneakers maker

(2024/01/19)

But what kind of info was actually compromised? None of your business



University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB

(2024/01/19)

Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment



ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned

(2024/01/19)

Retro Tech Week El Reg talks to the project's founder



What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all

(2024/01/19)

A peek back at the wobbly Windows of yesteryear



Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes

(2024/01/19)

Pause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers



Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation

(2024/01/19)

On Call Disrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down



Intel finds a friend in fight against $1.2B EU antitrust fine

(2024/01/19)

Advocate general kicks holes in some of the European Commission's arguments about ancient rebate program



IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security

(2024/01/19)

Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime



Foxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group

(2024/01/19)

Updated Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors



Google to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world

(2024/01/19)

Including for cross-border remittances, which could shake things up nicely



Equinix bids for more of your multi-cloud network with homebrew hosted router

(2024/01/19)

VMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow?



US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world

(2024/01/19)

It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a flying menace out to endanger national security



FDA approves AI-powered skin cancer-screening device that's just a teensy bit tricorder-ish

(2024/01/19)

Testing for this can can involve taking a chunk out of your flesh, making this a case of AI tech being kinder to humans



Non-profit startup offers certifications for AI models that respect creators' rights

(2024/01/19)

'Fairly Trained', founded by a former AI exec who quit over the issue, hopes consumer activism spurs adoption



Did all that AI chatbot hype boost Bing's market share? Oh, wait, never mind

(2024/01/18)

Everybody loves Google still, judging by these numbers



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