|
Navigation
Search
Top: Unavoidable
|
PC / Tech. > Unavoidable
Tuesday December 23, 2025. 03:05 PM
Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it Opinion Register readers of a certain age will recall the events of the 1970s, where a shortage of fuel due to various international disagreements resulted in queues, conflicts, and rising costs. One result was a...
China has unveiled new rules to rein in aggressive pricing tactics by online platforms, prohibiting e-commerce operators from forcing merchants to offer discounts or setting different prices based on user demographics without consent. The 29-article regulation -- jointly...
Airline deploys AI travel agent and it hasn't been a disaster Non-human travel agents are here. Virgin Atlantic earlier this month installed an AI travel agent on its website, calling the web-bound chatbot 'the future of travel planning.' …
Uber and Lyft plan to trial robotaxis in London starting in 2026 using autonomous vehicles from Baidu, as the UK fast-tracks approvals for self-driving cars on public roads. CNBC reports: Lyft's testing of Baidu's initial fleet of dozens of vehicles will begin in 2026,...
Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and... amazingly... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.…
iBuyPower’s prebuilt gaming desktop tries some new tricks but comes with a few flaws.
The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI Oracle's new AI-powered support portal is frustrating customers and support engineers who are struggling to find the basics, such as old tickets, links to database patch programs and release schedules ...
Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.
Online black markets once lurked in the shadows of the dark web. Today, they’ve moved onto public platforms like Telegram—and are racking up historic illicit fortunes.
DOGE dominated the news this year as Elon Musk’s operatives shook up several US government agencies. It’s far from over.
joshuark shares a report from Ars Technica: For the better part of two months last year, most of us had no idea how serious the problems were with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft docked at the International Space Station. A safety advisory panel found this uncertainty also...
Menu.exe not found Bork!Bork!Bork! The bork desk has temporarily reopened during the festive period. The tech world might be having a nap on the sofa after one mince pie too many, but bork never sleeps.…
Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: The U.S. government calculates the country's official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver. But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the National Institute of Standards and...
Cab drivers protested Uber’s arrival, but Westminster has rolled out the welcome mat for clanker chauffeurs Robot taxis are coming to The Register’s London home in 2026.…
'Garmin's Collier Trophy award-winning Autonomi emergency Autoland, a system designed to safely land an aircraft in the event of pilot incapacitation, made its first real-world use and save on Saturday,' writes Slashdot reader slipped_bit. AvBrief.com reports: Social media...
The FCC has banned approval of new foreign-made drones and components, citing 'an unacceptable risk' to national security. The move will most heavily impact DJI but it 'does not affect drones or drone components that are currently sold in the United States.' Reuters reports: ...
Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix La Poste, France’s postal service, is largely offline, possibly due to an unexplained incident.…
Microsoft plans to eliminate all C and C++ code across its major codebases by 2030, replacing it with Rust using AI-assisted, large-scale refactoring. 'My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,' Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes ...
Alphabet is acquiring Intersect for $4.75 billion to accelerate data center and power-generation capacity as AI infrastructure demand surges. CNBC reports: Alphabet said Intersect's operations will remain independent, but that the acquisition will help bring more data center ...
25 percent failure rate for JAXA's space truck, with the second stage again proving perilous Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has created a Special Task Force to investigate the failed launch of its H3 rocket on Monday.…
|
25 sources
Current Date
Dec, Sun 28 - 03:43 CET
|
