|
Navigation
Search
Top: PC / Tech.
|
The latest geek News
Monday June 30, 2025. 11:00 AM
For more than a decade “cloud” has really meant three names: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Yet 2025 is proving that the market is no longer a closed club. Cloudflare and Oracle, two companies with wildly different histories, are pressing legitimate advantages that could ...
Looking to snag an extra hour each day without completely flipping your schedule upside down? AI tools are about to become your new favorite sidekicks. By handling everything from writing and scheduling to research and creative tasks, these smart assistants can give you back ...
'Canada and the United States have resumed trade negotiations,' reports Newsweek, 'after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to rescind the country's digital services tax on U.S. technology companies.' The development follows President Donald Trump's announcement on...
Like being hard to spot? They’d much rather you didn’t Opinion There are few tech deceptions more successful than Chrome's Incognito Mode.…
Artificial intelligence isn’t just changing the world — it’s soaking squirrels, too. Washington Post journalist Jeremy B. Merrill created an AI-powered contraption called the Squirrel Soaker 9000. The DIY backyard build uses image recognition, cloud computing, and a...
In the aftermath of significant layoffs by Salesforce linked to its deployment of AI tools, the company now says it is increasing its use of AI to automate workloads. In an interview with Bloomberg, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that about 30% to 50% of the company’s...
Sensible CEO wouldn’t let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap Who, Me? Welcome again to Who, Me? It's the Monday morning column in which readers of The Register admit to making big mistakes and somehow swerving the consequences.…
Can’t get the staff Recently we reported on a global Microsoft 365 outage that disrupted Teams and Exchange services. We said that aggressive traffic rerouting was blamed for service failures; with experts warning of architectural brittleness and rising cloud fragility. ...
Paying for successful problem resolution is a better business model, argues Dimitri Masin interview Dimitri Masin, CEO of Gradient Labs, argues that companies using AI agents for customer support should only pay when the bot does its job.…
Which it will, happily, to create a networking biz that’s still far smaller than Cisco’s or Nvidia’s The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has cleared the way for HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.…
Chipmaker Loongson says server CPUs on par with 2021’s Ice Lake, as local press tout kit to manage 1,024-qubit systems Chinese chip designer Loongson last week announced silicon it claims is the equal of western semiconductors from 2021.…
Mitch Kapor dropped out of MIT's business school in 1979 — and had soon cofounded the pioneering spreadsheet company Lotus. He also cofounded the EFF, was the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, and is now a billionaire (and an VC investor at Kapor Capital). 45 years...
PLUS: Broadband blimps to fly in Japan; Starbucks China put ads before privacy; and more! Asia In Brief Canada’s government has ordered Chinese CCTV systems vendor Hikvision to cease its local operations.…
U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admits that his anti-fluoride crusade may lead to Americans suffering more tooth decay and cavities. But 'it's a balance,' he said, without describing what's on the other side of the scales, instead falsely claiming that...
A German Shepherd abandoned in the Lancashire fells was 'exhausted, starving and shivering' when rangers finally managed to trap her. The dramatic rescue capped a 'week of drama' in the remote Ribble Valley in northern England; no sooner than she was safe and sound at...
'Researchers are embarking on an ambitious project to construct human genetic material from scratch,' reports the Guardian, 'to learn more about how DNA works and pave the way for the next generation of medical therapies.' Scientists on the Synthetic Human Genome (SynHG)...
PLUS: Crooks target hardware crypto wallets; Bad flaws in Brother printers;,O365 allows takeover-free phishing; and more Infosec in Brief Despite warnings not to pay ransomware operators, almost half of those infected by the malware send cash to the crooks who planted it,...
The Wall Street Journal reports that 'consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence, which can reduce their interest in buying them, researchers say.' The effect is especially pronounced for offerings perceived to be riskier buys, ...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: AxOS 25.06 and 25.01, AlmaLinux OS 10.0 News: Ubuntu to boost Intel graphics performance, Fedora discusses dropping i686 packages, SDesk switches from SELinux to...
What happens if you track how much heat enters Earth's atmosphere and how much heat leaves? You discover that Earth's energy budget 'is now well and truly out of balance,' three climate researchers write at The Conversation: Our recent research found this imbalance has more...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Oct, Sun 26 - 17:26 CET
|
