Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies 9Front, the main project continuing development of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, has emitted another new version, as enigmatic but significant as ever.…
Lees meerAt the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated On Call As the clock ticks towards the weekend, The Register once again welcomes readers to On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale detailing the trials and tribulations of…
Lees meerGlobal database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth European police have for the first time made an arrest after remotely checking Interpol's trove of biometric data to identify a suspected smuggler.…
Lees meerRevenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite Dell has told investors that demand for AI servers has surged, but buyers will be forced to wait 39 weeks to get their hands on the hardware due to supply chain constraints.…
Lees meerFake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL re:Invent By The Register's count, Amazon Web Services has made at least 192 product announcements in the past four days at its re:Invent conference.…
Lees meerInvisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most re:Invent Another day at AWS re:Invent and yet more talk of artifical intelligence dominated, with a senior executive taking to the stage to wax lyrical abo…
Lees meer'SpaceX has made limited progress maturing the technologies needed' Artemis III, the mission intended to put American boots back on the Moon, is unlikely to meet its 2025 launch schedule, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on Thu…
Lees meerNo escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard's HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the manufacturer's hardware attached.…
Lees meerAfter getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue The former IT administrator of a public high school has agreed to plead guilty to a computer abuse charge for deactivating student and staff accounts, wiping some profiles, and disabling the phone syste…
Lees meerIT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Special report The CEO of an independent watchdog has challenged the award of single-source federal government IT contracts worth over $300 million t…
Lees meerAnd where folks are likely to see a light show A so-called cannibal coronal mass ejection is set to hit Earth on December 1, creating geomagnetic storms across the skies at higher latitudes.…
Lees meer'SpaceX has made limited progress maturing the technologies needed' Artemis III, the mission intended to put American boots back on the Moon, is unlikely to meet its 2025 launch schedule, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on Thu…
Lees meer'SpaceX has made limited progress maturing the technologies needed' Artemis III, the mission intended to put American boots back on the Moon, is unlikely to meet its 2025 launch schedule, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on Thu…
Lees meerAwkward hill to die on, but OK Meta has filed a lawsuit challenging the Federal Trade Commission's authority to regulate the social advertising giant.…
Lees meerAlmost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred If you want to implement Microsoft's Copilot AI assistants, many consultancies in the software giant's channel may not yet have enough hands-on experience to be very …
Lees meerPlus: 3 critical CVEs in Zyxel NAS devices Google has rolled out six Chrome security fixes including one emergency patch for a bug for which exploit code is already out there. You're encouraged to thus grab the latest updates for the browser.…
Lees meerA single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe It probably won't come as a shock to those aware of the electricity usage of the Bitcoin network, but the world's most popular cryptocurrency also uses tons of water to keep …
Lees meerDeckchairs continue to be rearranged on the jotting platform? Evernote plans to slap restrictions on users of its free tier, and from early next month there will be a limit of 50 notes and one notebook per account.…
Lees meer24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies A Ukrainian national is facing an eight year prison sentence for running an online marketplace that sold the personal data of approximately 24 million US citize…
Lees meerHello, police? I'd like to report a murder Comment "I hope they stop. Don't advertise. If someone's going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is."…
Lees meerMicrosoft joins the board in non-voting role OpenAI has made the return of Sam Altman as its CEO official.…
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