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)

Tesla's latest Autopilot safety patch hits 1.6M Chinese vehicles

(2024/01/05)

Perfect timing – now BYD can rub that in Tesla's face along with stealing the global EV sales crown



It's been two decades since Spirit landed on the red sands of Mars

(2024/01/05)

Decades, gone in a flash: Longlived mission was almost derailed by file system whoopsie



Huawei finally gives up on US schmoozing efforts

(2024/01/05)

So long, and thanks for all the sanctions as PR and government relations teams decamp



SpaceX snaps back at US labor board's complaint, calling it 'unconstitutional'

(2024/01/05)

Remember when Microsoft said that about FTC (and then walked it back)?



BreachForums boss busted for bond blunders – including using a VPN

(2024/01/05)

Fitzpatrick faces potentially decades in prison later this month, so may as well get some foreign Netflix in beforehand



Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor

(2024/01/05)

Throwback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade



Mobileye shares crash after warning of automotive customers' chip glut

(2024/01/05)

Self-driving car biz says Q1 orders to drop 50% amid widening operating losses



Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS

(2024/01/05)

86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it



Expert sounds alarm bells over upcoming NHS data platform

(2024/01/05)

Research warns not to make the same mistakes as other electronic patient record systems



The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3

(2024/01/05)

The RPG But we also have a bit to say about Dark Souls, Starfield, Foxhole, and more



Tech support done bad sure makes it hard to do tech support good

(2024/01/05)

On Call Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual



Sandworm's Kyivstar attack should serve as a reminder of the Kremlin crew's 'global reach'

(2024/01/05)

'Almost everything' wiped in the telecom attack, says Ukraine's top cyber spy



Everyone wants better web search – is Perplexity's AI the answer?

(2024/01/05)

'Conversational engine' still hallucinates, cites its sources at least



Court orders arbitration for Wipro and ex-CFO who left for Cognizant

(2024/01/05)

India’s IT outsourcers have an exec poaching problem



Late model: OpenAI GPT Store may debut next week

(2024/01/05)

Devil is in the as-yet-undisclosed revenue sharing details



Microchip nabs $162M to keep chips for washing machines – and missiles – flowing

(2024/01/05)

Uncle Sam: Nothing goes together quite like a well-pressed uniform and weapons of mass destruction



AMD talks up car chips it hopes will join you for a ride some time soon

(2024/01/04)

+Comment 'New' ADAS and infotainment parts powered by older FPGAs and earlier cores. It's good enough for Tesla



DARPA's air-steered X-65 jet heads into production with goal of flying by 2025

(2024/01/04)

Moving parts on a plane? What is this, Kitty Hawk?



Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB

(2024/01/04)

Updated Search giant told yet again that contractors still employees, must be bargained with



AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers

(2024/01/04)

Hallucinated programming flaws vex curl project



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My analyst told me that I was right out of my head,
But I said, "Dear Doctor, I think that it is you instead.
Because I have got a thing that is unique and new,
To prove it I'll have the last laugh on you.
'Cause instead of one head -- I've got two.

And you know two heads are better than one.