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Finally, a 4K OLED smart monitor that’s just as good a TV as it is a PC monitor.
The AI race is the modern-day space race, and the US is concerned that China will make too much progress too quickly. This is precisely why President Trump recently suggested that the likes of NVIDIA only allowed to sell limited versions of its AI chips to Chinese customers. ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Experts at the University of Edinburgh carried out a post-mortem brain examination on 25 cats which had symptoms of dementia in life, including confusion, sleep disruption and an increase in vocalization. They found a...
For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be Register debate series Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government's money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a year in ...
Over the past two years with my Windows Intelligence column, I’ve delivered some of the best boots-on-the-ground reporting of my career, from Microsoft’s big Copilot event to tracking the evolution of AI tools from 2023 to 2025 to countless useful Windows tips and...
When it comes to AI, it’s not easy being green. The technology requires massive amounts of computing power, which means consuming massive amounts of electricity. Giant new AI-focused data centers powered by carbon-intensive electricity plants are being built and planned...
New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ever seen in the universe.
Chrome has not been put up for sale, but that has not stopped AI startup Perplexity from putting in a bid to buy the web browser from Google. While on the face of things the $34.5 billion bid seems large, it has been widely dismissed as being a fraction of Chrome’s real...
Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time Updated The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of 'high severity protocol vulnerabilities,' addressed in the latest version,...
Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive results in many areas, but when it comes to playing classic text adventure games, they often struggle to make it past even the simplest of puzzles. A recent experiment by Entropic Thoughts tested how well various models...
As enterprises embrace hybrid work, SaaS applications, and AI tools at unprecedented scale, one critical access point is being increasingly targeted by attackers: the browser. To better understand the risks and what can be done to secure the browser, we spoke with Alon...
Svelte introduced the idea of using a compiler to optimize and transform specialized syntax into front-end components. The idea has caught on with a variety of frameworks, including React. In this style of reactive development, using a compiler lets the framework be more...
Last week I talked about connascence, a measure of the coupling of code. We all agree that loosely coupled code is good, but what that means isn’t always clear. Connascence helps us reason about how code is coupled. You can’t decouple your code if you don’t understand ...
You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI People are noticing Firefox gobbling extra CPU and electricity, apparently caused by an 'inference engine' built into recent versions of Firefox. Don't say El Reg didn't try to warn you.…
An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data Column We already live in a world where pretty much every public act - online or in the real world - leaves a mark in a database somewhere. But how far back does that record extend? I recently...
United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket successfully completed its first-ever national security mission, launching the U.S. military's first experimental navigation satellite in 48 years. Space.com reports: The mission saw the company's powerful new Vulcan Centaur...
Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays NASA is seeking solutions for a way to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory despite the spacecraft being marked for termination after FY2026 under the agency's budget proposal.…
Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced the Minnesota...
First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor In late June media speculated that a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere caused widespread sightings of a celestial fireball during daylight hours across the southeast USA. Scientists have now...
Federal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power Australia’s Federal Court has given Epic Games another win in its global fight against the way Apple and Google run their app stores.…
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