Navigation
Search
Top: TheRegister
|
PC / Tech. > TheRegister
Friday April 11, 2025. 01:26 PM
Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier AI continues to improve – at least according to benchmarks. But the promised benefits have largely yet to materialize while models are increasing in size and becoming more computationally demanding, and greenhouse gas emissions...
Hang on, wasn't Capita already handling things like billing, etc? Ah, AgentSuite comes to the rescue Scandal struck UK utility company Southern Water is extending a long-running managed services contract with Capita, everyone's favorite outsourcing badass, for up to five...
Issues at the very top continue to worsen The UK government's latest annual data breach survey shows the number of ransomware attacks on the isles is on the increase – and many techies are forced to constantly informally request company directors for defense spending...
Sysadmin sent on road trip that required a lot of time doing nothing On Call Some working weeks are full of achievements, and others miserably unproductive. Here at The Register, we always make sure that if nothing else we produce a fresh instalment of On Call, the column...
A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October VMware has revealed another big upgrade is on the way, this time for its vSphere Foundation suite.…
Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too The Brian-Eno-composed sound played by Windows 95 when booted has been added to the US Library of Congress’s list of nationally significant recordings.…
Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam In February, Elon's Musketeers at President Trump's cost-trimming DOGE operation turned up at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which regulates the kinds of self-driving cars the ...
Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan Facebook's former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into...
Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure Cloud Next Google on Wednesday announced Firebase Studio, a product pitched as 'a cloud-based agentic development environment' – in other words, a browser-based coding...
Thursday April 10, 2025. 10:48 PM
LLM query caching also lands soon The return of Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo has borne fruit in the form of a new data type - vector sets - for the widely used cache-turned-multi-model database.…
Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment' OpenAI has countersued co-founder Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawful and unfair tactics to derail its restructuring plans and demanding a judge hold him liable for damage...
Props for the transparency though US sensor maker Sensata has told regulators that a ransomware attack caused an operational disruption, and that it's still working to fully restore affected systems.…
Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance This year will be Ground Zero for the commercialization of satellite smartphone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this...
Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing' Atlassian has decided to make its Rovo AI suite free but will in future introduce fees for use beyond a yet-to-be-determined threshold.…
Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice Belgian software house Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2, the version of the classic operating system it launched in 2021. The update targets Amigas with 680x0 processors, including systems enhanced with...
The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech Amazon has introduced a foundation model that claims to grasp not just what you're saying, but how you're saying it - tone, hesitation, and more.…
License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub Final update Readers have flooded our mailboxes with reports that Microsoft 365 Family licensing has fallen over this morning, so those of you who provide tech support to relatives or those using the ...
'There are challenges' but staff recruitment and retention isn't one of them Interview Civo shifted its workforce to a four-day working week and while it hasn't changed productivity much at the cloud biz, it has helped attract 'new talent' and retain existing staff, CEO Mark ...
Scammers are already cashing in with fake invoices for import costs World War Fee As the trade war between America and China escalates, some infosec and policy experts fear Beijing will strike back in cyberspace.…
Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting The UK government's AI Energy Council held its first meeting this week, in an attempt to square the circle of its AI ambitions with the state of the country's ...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Jul, Tue 1 - 06:37 CEST
|