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