More evidence of Beijing’s liking for grey zone warfare, or a murky claim with odd African entanglements? Taiwanese authorities have asserted that a China-linked ship entered its waters and damaged a submarine cable.…
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Lees meerEven Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.…
Lees meerEven Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.…
Lees meer40% of world's servers are 6 years +, drink 66% of DC energy, provide 7% of compute. Please refresh, says HPE Four in ten of the servers currently residing in datacenters across the globe are at least six years old. Meanwhile, not only does this 40 …
Lees meerNew tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Software developed to investigate more detailed differences between ancient DNA data has proved its worth this week after a paper describing human population …
Lees meerA somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language Feature A generation of gray-haired IT folks learned computing using BASIC on 1980s home computers. Every pro since then holds it in disdain. What happened?…
Lees meerIf they're not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is Feature The explosive growth of datacenters that followed ChatGPT's debut in 2022 has shone a spotlight on the environmental impact of these power-hungry facilities.…
Lees meerWhen the FBI urges E2EE, you know it's serious business interview In the wake of the Salt Typhoon hacks, which lawmakers and privacy advocates alike have called the worst telecoms breach in America's history, the US government agencies have reverse…
Lees meerBecause we're all still kids – just richer The debate as to whether Lego is a toy or not largely depends on your willingness to accept revisiting childhood excitement as an adult, especially when it's now far more likely to be you footing the bill t…
Lees meerPoints finger at third-party infrastructure being breached French tech giant Atos today denied that Space Bears criminals breached its systems - but noted that third-party infrastructure was compromised by the ransomware crew, and that files accesse…
Lees meerRunny Clegg scrambles for door The Right Honourable Sir Nick Clegg (to give him his full title) has stepped down from his job as Meta's president of global affairs.…
Lees meerAnd, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter's software license – the GNU GPL version 3.…
Lees meerWeb giant now pledges full support A warehouse worker at an Amazon facility in Mobile, Alabama, who was struck by a truck and shot in the New Orleans New Year's Day deadly terror attack, was initially denied medical leave by the internet mega-giant,…
Lees meerAfter lawsuits and poison pills, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards failed to resist the lure of Larry's ambition Feature Twenty years ago next week, Oracle closed the $10.3 billion deal to buy HR and finance software specialist PeopleSoft after a fraught, …
Lees meerRunny Clegg scrambles for door The Right Honourable Sir Nick Clegg (to give him his full title) has stepped down from his job as Meta's president of global affairs.…
Lees meerAs if the bot defense measure wasn't obnoxious enough Though the same couldn't be said for most of us mere mortals, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch had a productive festive period, resulting in a CAPTCHA that requires the user to kill three monsters in D…
Lees meerA somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language Feature A generation of gray-haired IT folks learned computing using BASIC on 1980s home computers. Every pro since then holds it in disdain. What happened?…
Lees meerConnectivity direct to unmodified mobes looms, thanks to Starlink and co Analysis This year saw the launch of the first satellite constellations designed to provide commercial services straight to unmodified smartphones, which looks set to become t…
Lees meerNot just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too Constellation Energy has won contracts worth more than $1 billion from the US government to supply nuclear power to over 13 federal agencies, val…
Lees meerHomomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its custo…
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