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Monday November 3, 2025. 10:15 AM
Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.…
'Rockstar Games fired dozens of employees,' reports Bloomberg, 'in a move that a British trade union said was designed to prevent the workers from unionizing. The company said they were fired for misconduct.' TheGrand Theft Automaker terminatedbetween 30 and 40...
Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed Opinion It's not been a year since his ouster as Intel's CEO, but Pat Gelsinger is firmly back on the tech leadership pony. He's done hardware with Intel, software with VMWare. This time, it's faithware.…
One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change Who, Me? Another Monday is upon us and The Register therefore presents a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It’s the reader-contributed confessional column in which you admit to making mistakes, and...
It’s less bonkers than it sounds given the challenges of wiring Africa African carrier Seacom is investigating the feasibility of building a submarine cable that would run across the heart of Africa, on land.…
'It finally happened,' writes the GamingOnLinux site: Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark. The trend has been clear for sometime, and with Windows 10 ending support, it was quite likely this...
When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors Before the potential of the internet was appreciated around the world, nations that understood its importance managed to scoop outsized allocations of IPv4 addresses, actions that today mean...
TechCrunch reports: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing 'well more' than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments. His comments came up during a joint...
'An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device,' writes Tom's Hardware. 'That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't...
PLUS: Google's massive AI giveaway in India; Raid on Australian software company; Alleged scam camp owner's assets seized; and more! Asia In Brief Last week’s trade talks between the USA and China have seen the two countries ease some trade restrictions.…
'Ubuntu's decision to switch to Rust-based coreutils in 25.10 hasn't been the smoothest ride,' writes the blog OMG Ubuntu, 'as the latest — albeit now resolved — bug underscores.' [Coreutils] are used by a number of processes, apps and scripts, including Ubuntu's own unattend...
'AI isn't just a tool anymore; it's an integral part of the development experience,' argues GitHub's blog. So 'Agents shouldn't be bolted on. They should work the way you already work...' So this week GitHub announced 'Agent HQ,' which CNBC describes as a 'mission control'...
PLUS: Cyber-exec admits selling secrets to Russia; LastPass isn't checking to see if you're dead; Nation-state backed Windows malware; and more Infosec in brief Australia’s Signals Directorate (ASD) last Friday warned that attackers are installing an implant named...
Sunday November 2, 2025. 09:34 PM
OpenAI 'hasn't yet turned a profit,' notes Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins. 'Its annual revenue is 2% of Amazon.com's sales. 'Its future is uncertain beyond the hope of ushering in a godlike artificial intelligence that might help cure cancer and transform ...
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli summarizes some news from Nerds.xyz: Creative Technology has launched Sound Blaster Re:Imagine, a modular, Linux-powered audio hub that reimagines the classic PC sound card for the modern age. The device acts as both a high-end digital-to-analog...
San Francisco's local newscast ABC7 runs a consumer advocacy segment called '7 on Your Side'. They received a disturbing call for help from Dave Dornlas, treasurer of a nonprofit supporting a local library: GoFundMe has taken upon itself to create 'nonprofit pages' for 1.4...
'Amazon has deployed Rivian's electric delivery vans in Canada for the first time,' reports CleanTechnica, with 50 now deployed in the Vancouver area. Amazon's director of Global Fleet and Products says there's now over 35,000 electric vans deployed globally — and that they'v...
'People are creating 'dumb homes,'' the VP of research at the Global Wellness Institute, tells the web site Axios. Some are swapping NASA-style setups for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs. Others are designing digital detox corners — all part of a bigger 'analog...
'It's been hard for me to understand why Atlas exists,' writes MIT Technology Review. ' Who is this browser for, exactly? Who is its customer? And the answer I have come to there is that Atlas is for OpenAI. The real customer, the true end user of Atlas, is not the person...
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