Hold onto your SQL Server, enterprise admins Microsoft has reminded users that TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will soon be disabled by default in Windows.…
Lees meerWhen your '90s nostalgia craves a modern touch In the OS/2 world, ArcaOS 5.1 is a long-awaited release which enables this 32-bit OS from the late 20th century to run on modern PC hardware.…
Lees meerCame in wake of the force publishing their own people's data in botched FoI Nearly four weeks after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) published data on 10,000 employees in a botched response to a Freedom of Information request, another t…
Lees meerPlus: AI luminary Douglas Lenat passed away, and US newspaper chain halts publishing of AI-generated articles AI In brief X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, updated its privacy policy this week stating that it may train its AI …
Lees meerCould be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year The UK government has begun laying the groundwork for new technology buying arrangements which could become the vehicle for up to £12 billion ($15.12 billion) in spending.…
Lees meerTake up less CPU time and memory? What amazing tech is this?! Eggheads at Vrije Universiteit (VU) in the Netherlands recommend that people with Android devices use native apps rather than web apps when viewing popular sites like ESPN, Pinterest, Spo…
Lees meerOpen-book exams aren’t nearly open enough Opinion Knowing when the universe is trying to tell you something is a core competency for many paths through life. You can't pass an exam in that, sadly, but perhaps we should consider what links these thr…
Lees meerCould be among the first to come under new procurement rules next year The UK government has begun laying the groundwork for new technology buying arrangements which could become the vehicle for up to £12 billion ($15.12) in spending.…
Lees meerAll he did was follow the example of the boss. And fail to foresee obvious consequences Who, Me? Dear reader, is that you? Can it be? Why, that can only mean one thing: that yet again it is Monday, and therefore time for an instalment of Who, Me? –…
Lees meerSolar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Special Projects Bureau Revisited Long-time Reg readers may recall that in 2011 and 2013 The Register's Special Projects Bureau follo…
Lees meerHey, stop Zucking up my data! Netizens can ask Meta, the home of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, to not train its generative AI models on at least some of their personal data.…
Lees meerJust three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind Microsoft's preliminary analysis of an incident that took out its Australia East cloud region last week – and which appears also to have caused…
Lees meerSolar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Special Projects Bureau Revisited Long-time Reg readers may recall that in 2011 and 2013 The Register's Special Projects Bureau follo…
Lees meerALSO: Brazilian stalkerware database ripped by the short hairs, a fast fashion breach, and this week's critical vulns Infosec in brief The latest round of Apple's Security Research Device (SRD) program is open, giving security researchers a chance …
Lees meerMicrosoft ends development of free basic word processor bundled with Windows Microsoft has quietly deprecated WordPad, the bare bones word processor it's offered at no additional cost to users ever since including it with Windows 95.…
Lees meerALSO: Brazilian stalkerware database ripped by the short hairs, a fast fashion breach, and this week's critical vulns Infosec in brief The latest round of Apple's Security Research Device (SRD) program is open, giving security researchers a chance …
Lees meerPLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones Asia in Brief Samsung last Friday announced it has developed a 32-gigabit DDR5 DRAM die using its 12 nanometer-class process…
Lees meerPLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; NZ intros digital tax Asia in Brief Samsung last Friday announced it has developed a 32-gigabit DDR5 DRAM die using its 12 nanometer-class process technology.…
Lees meerIndustry alliance confirms purpose of pact is 'to create an ecosystem of patent non-litigation' UPDATED Nine of China's most prominent explorers and purveyors of processors built on the permissively licensed RISC-V architecture have formed a patent…
Lees meerExec chuffed regulators accepted perhaps-overstated lame duck argument "You write what you need to win."…
Lees meerJapanese foundry startup also shipping engineers off to US to study IBM chip tech Japan's Rapidus broke ground on its IIM-1 plant in Hokkaido on Friday, kicking off a flurry of hiring as the foundry upstart races to bring its 2nm wafer fab online by…
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