Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra Microsoft's demands for extra cash from customers wishing to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 has highlighted a growing problem – the number of paid add-ons.…
Lees meerNow its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors Retro Tech Week It may seem that progress in technology proceeds in a linear fashion, with new developments replacing older ones. From this viewpoint, newer technology will always be bette…
Lees meerMalware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP's bottom line HP CEO Enrique Lores admitted this week that the company's long-term objective is "to make printing a subscription" when he was questioned about the company's …
Lees meerMore details emerge as Horizon IT scandal inquiry continues The Post Office proposed suing Fujitsu over missing data from its audit trail that could be used in the prosecution of victims of the Horizon scandal, one of the greatest miscarriages of ju…
Lees meerEl Reg talks to the project's founder Interview The last units of the second batch of the ZX Spectrum Next are heading off to their owners. If you missed out, we have good news.…
Lees meerShipments alleged to have gone to a sanctioned company A businessman has been arrested in the US and charged with unlawfully exporting sensitive technology including semiconductors to a sanctioned business with ties to Russia's military and intellig…
Lees meerBut what kind of info was actually compromised? None of your business VF Corporation, parent company of clothes and footwear brands including Vans and North Face, says 35.5 million customers were impacted in some way when criminals broke into their …
Lees meerSacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment Microsoft's decision to cut the storage in its Microsoft 365 Education line is having some real-world consequences, with a Canadian university imposing draconian measures partly in res…
Lees meerEl Reg talks to the project's founder Interview The last units of the second batch of the ZX Spectrum Next are heading off to their owners. If you missed out, we have good news.…
Lees meerA peek back at the wobbly Windows of yesteryear Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has taken us back to the era of 16-bit Windows and the definition of a "hard error" compared to something a bit softer and easier.…
Lees meer8-year-old op responsible for DDoS attacks and commandeering broadcasts to push war material Updated Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that's infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old cybercrime …
Lees meerTech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way Updated The NVM Express consortium has updated its specifications by adding a Computational Storage Feature, creating a standardized way for applications to talk to storage…
Lees meerPause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers Fujitsu has written to UK Government to confirm it will no longer tender for business in the public sector amid the ongoing inquiry into the Post Office scanda…
Lees meerDisrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register’s weekly column that tries to balance your diet of industry news with your peers’ experiences of the messes they confron…
Lees meerDisrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register’s weekly column that tries to balance your diet of industry news with your peers’ experiences of the messes they confron…
Lees meerFending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors Updated Taiwan’s contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn aka Hon Hai Technology Group , has teamed with India’s HCL Group to create a semiconductor ass…
Lees meerAdvocate general kicks holes in some of the European Commission's arguments about ancient rebate program An advisor to Europe’s General Court has torn into the legal logic behind the EU's €1.06 billion ($1.2 billion) antitrust fine levelled against …
Lees meerSpotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime A security researcher in Germany has been fined €3,000 ($3,300, £2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almo…
Lees meerFending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors Taiwan’s contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn aka Hon Hai Technology Group , has teamed with India’s HCL Group to create a semiconductor assembly and…
Lees meerIncluding for cross-border remittances, which could shake things up nicely Google has decided to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world.…
Lees meerVMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow? Equinix has unveiled a cloudy router it hopes will displace competitors in large, multi-cloud networks.…
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