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)

Chipotle welcomes you to the age of robot guacamole

(2023/07/13)

Avocado prep time could be cut in half, but it still won't change the price



Adobe's $20B Figma deal hit by in-depth probe in the UK

(2023/07/13)

Updated Software could be 'an emerging competitive threat' to luxury design SaaS maker, notes regulator



Bosch goes all-in on hydrogen with €2.5B investment by 2026

(2023/07/13)

Will get involved from production to hydrogen engines, hopes for €5B turnover from tech by 2030



Ex-Twitter employees owed half a billion in severance, says lawsuit

(2023/07/13)

There are only 1,300 souls left from 7,500 before Musk, complaint claims



Clingy Virgin Media won't let us leave, customers complain

(2023/07/13)

Ofcom launches investigation into whether telco is making it difficult for people to cancel services



Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux

(2023/07/13)

May be about to join systemd as the new tech for graybeards to scorn... but adopt anyway



IBM sets Watson chips on the AI case as price war kicks off

(2023/07/13)

Amazon, Microsoft and VMware make their moves in the game of machines



Asus blames 'thermal stress' for fried SD card readers in Ally handhelds

(2023/07/13)

So much for that 'zero-gravity' cooling



Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang

(2023/07/13)

Storm-0558 had access to customer accounts and mail – maybe even for senior US officials



India slaps massive 28 percent tax on online games of skill

(2023/07/13)

Fantasy sports bets put on the same footing as online casinos or a punt on the gee-gees



NASA to store pair of probes it's built but can’t send to target asteroids

(2023/07/13)

Janus asteroid sats headed for That Box Full Of Old Tech You Should Probably Have Thrown Out But Kept Just In Case



Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI

(2023/07/13)

Improved service massively and slashed costs. Gulp



Funnily enough, AI models must follow privacy law – including right to be forgotten

(2023/07/13)

Updated We'll just take a look at the training data, oh... wait



Intel woos China with nerfed Habana Gaudi2 AI chips

(2023/07/13)

Not even Uncle Sam can stand between x86 titan and its profits



Another challenger to OpenAI? OK, we'll allow it

(2023/07/13)

Register Kettle With xAI, second time's the charm, eh, Elon?



Tax prep firms 'recklessly shared' your data with Google and Meta – senators

(2023/07/12)

Lawmakers, yet to pass a national privacy law, demand action on money



China succeeds where Elon Musk has failed with first methalox rocket

(2023/07/12)

Maybe bigger isn't better when it comes to complicated, error-prone space machines?



Elon Musk launches his own xAI biz 'to understand reality'

(2023/07/12)

Hyperbole, scant information, ambition: Yep, it's an EM venture



Google, DeepMind accused of 'stealing the internet' to create Bard AI chatbot

(2023/07/12)

Multibillion-dollar lawsuit namechecks El Reg – twice



Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

(2023/07/12)

Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause



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