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Lees meerThe modern art form that redeemed a Windows utility has lessons for all Opinion The speedrun is one of the internet's genuinely new artforms. At its best, it's akin to a virtuoso piano recital. Less emotional depth, more adrenalin. Watching an expe…
Lees meerThe Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions Column When you don't like the message, what do you do? You shoot the messenger, of course.…
Lees meerAdmins urged to rotate machine keys, restart IIS after emergency fix Microsoft has good news for administrators running SharePoint Server 2016. The cloud and software megacorp has published updates to close a gaping hole in the document management s…
Lees meerVoyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research Updated NASA's Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role.…
Lees meerHigh Court judge slashes tech titan's $4B damages claim by almost 80% A High Court judge has ruled that the estate of Autonomy founder Dr Mike Lynch will not have to pay the billions of dollars sought in damages by HPE following its ill-fated acquis…
Lees meer'We're going to smash the business model' NHS, local council and schools told by politicos The UK government is proposing to "ban" public sector organizations and critical national infrastructure from paying criminal operators behind ransomware atta…
Lees meerVoyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research NASA's Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role.…
Lees meerAfter abandoning in-house replacement for scandal-hit system, government company looks to off-the-shelf software The UK Post Office has said the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal is a risk to its £410 million ($552 million) plan to replace …
Lees meerThe modern art form that redeemed a Windows utility has lessons for all Opinion The speedrun is one of the internet's genuinely new artforms. At its best, it's akin to a virtuoso piano recital. Less emotional depth, more adrenalin. Watching an expe…
Lees meerAs long as you get paid like a 5-day gig Employees work better and tire less when working a four-day week, according to a six-month trial involving thousands of individuals.…
Lees meerOfcom suggests government should use legislation to back PSB content on the platform Public service broadcasters (PSBs) need to work with Google-owned YouTube "urgently," says the UK's communications watchdog, Ofcom.…
Lees meerSmaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concerns Analysis Recent research suggests customers are concerned about the uptime reliability of hyperscalers' PostgreSQL instances, giving smaller alternative vendors an opening to fill the gap.…
Lees meerAI ignored instruction to freeze code, forgot it could roll back errors, and generally made a terrible hash of things The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instruction…
Lees meerAnnounces beta for separate production and development databases that will land in a few weeks Vibe coding service Replit has announced changes to its product that should prevent the database deletion disaster reported by one of its users.…
Lees meerIn 2025, social media has moved from self-expression to self-entrapment Column We don't want to believe what we deeply understand: nothing is really deleted, and someone, somewhere can (and probably will) use that record against us.…
Lees meerRaided homes despite known likelihood that aircon or EVs could explain high electricity consumption The Electronic Frontier Foundation has advanced a lawsuit in which it alleges the City of Sacramento misused energy records to accuse residents of gr…
Lees meerMove along, nothing to see here comment Here we go again. Another major Microsoft attack, with this one seeing someone — most likely government-backed hackers — exploiting a zero-day bug in SharePoint Server that Redmond failed to fix.…
Lees meerFight back against Redmond's productivity sinks Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop operating system, finally beating Windows 10. But it's also loaded with head-scratching default settings that sap your productivity and treat you like a compu…
Lees meerNo customer, partner info stolen, spokesperson tells The Reg Dell has confirmed that criminals broke into its IT environment and stole some of its data — but told The Register that it's "primarily synthetic (fake) data."…
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