Not 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 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 meerLocals demand transparency - and a refund wouldn't hurt Feature When data scientist Andrew Breza learned that the Washington, D.C. attorney general was suing Amazon for excluding his zip code from its fastest delivery service, he immediately wanted…
Lees meerSouth African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Readers will be familiar with the concept of return on investment (ROI) — when a tech project saves more than it costs — but less well-known is the idea that, l…
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 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 meerClears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair IBM and semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries have settled all of their litigation against each other, including breach of contract, patent, and trade secret suits, the pair say.…
Lees meerWith Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Comment The US once led the world in the development and manufacturing of semiconductors and integrated circuits. And the $280 billion US CHIPS and Science Act sou…
Lees meerClears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair IBM and semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries have settled all of their litigation against each other, including breach of contract, patent, and trade secret suits, the pair say.…
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 meerBeing more diplomatic than the politicians makes sense amid fear of upsetting the next US President A eerie quiet has descended upon elements in the tech exec community, and even the typically more vocal souls in the highest seats in corporations ar…
Lees meerClears way for 'new opportunities' for collab, say pair IBM and semiconductor maker GlobalFoundries have settled all of their litigation against each other, including breach of contract, patent, and trade secret suits, the pair say.…
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 meerMini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Computer scientists affiliated with France's Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a subset of C code into safe Rust code, in an effort to meet…
Lees meerSystem which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says The UK tax collector has handed Accenture an additional £35.2 million without competition on a £70.4 million contract which was never tendered.…
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 meerSouth African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Readers will be familiar with the concept of return on investment (ROI) — when a tech project saves more than it costs — but less well-known is the idea that, l…
Lees meerExpansion port on the back lets you add Outfits with added functions Review HMD's Fusion smartphone has a pogo-pin port on the back, allowing some nifty peripherals, including gaming controls, and its specs are open.…
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…
Lees meerSet aside the bat'leth to fix trivial problem for p'takh On Call Welcome to the year 2025, which just three days ago was in the future! Welcome, also, to a new instalment of On Call, The Register's Friday column whose ongoing mission is to take you…
Lees meerSoCal plod resort to paper logs after system that top brass was warned would 'inevitably fail' did exactly that Software on the computers in America's largest sheriff's department's patrol cars broke down on New Year's Eve due to what appears to be …
Lees meer