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Tuesday May 6, 2025. 10:30 AM
Can we turn to govt, academic models instead? RSAC Corporate AI models are already skewed to serve their makers' interests, and unless governments and academia step up to build transparent alternatives, the tech risks becoming just another tool for commercial manipulation.…
A few million here, a few million there, pretty soon you're talking real money Microsoft partners can now tailor private offers that allow buyers to vary the amount and timing of payments for some SaaS products and services.…
And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere Omnissa, the former VMware end-user compute business spun out last year as an independent company, is moving beyond its traditional territory of managing endpoint devices and into server management.…
State-backed chip slinger inches closer to cloud-scale relevance Chinese chip designer Loongson claims more than 100 products now run on its homegrown LoongArch architecture, including an OpenStack-based cloud stack from domestic hyperscale heavyweight Inspur.…
Because who needs cybersecurity when there’s culture wars to win President Trump's dream 2026 budget would gut the US govt's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, by $491 million - about 17 percent – and accuses the organization of abandoning its...
Monday May 5, 2025. 11:16 PM
Tech gigs slide, or so this analysis of US jobs data claims The US jobs market grew faster than expected in April, but most IT pros aren’t among the beneficiaries.…
No, really? That's a shocking surprise Updated An unidentified miscreant is said to have obtained US government communications from TeleMessage, a messaging and archiving app based on the open-source Signal app and used by ousted national security advisor Michael Waltz.…
Funny what a public scolding from AI luminaries and a word from state AGs can do OpenAI's contentious plan to overhaul its corporate structure in favor of a conventional for-profit model has been reworked, with the AI giant bowing to pressure to keep its nonprofit in...
Fake it till you make it doesn't cut it for mission-critical workloads Who, Me? One of the joys of Monday mornings is arriving at work to find messes made over the weekend. The other is reading a new edition of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column...
Hails DOGE operatives for computer skills during interview in which he also flubbed some tech investment figures US President Donald Trump has said TikTok will be “very strongly protected” as the made-in-China social network has “a warm spot in my heart”.…
PLUS: China spring cleans its AIs; South Korea fines Meta, probes Broadcom; and more! Asia in brief India’s ambition to become a global semiconductor manufacturing player went backwards last week after two big players changed their plans.…
PLUS: AirPlay exploits; Six-year old backdoor opens; Raytheon settles federal charges; and more! Infosec In Brief Microsoft has decided to push its consumer customers to dump passwords in favor of passkeys.…
Sunday May 4, 2025. 08:47 PM
With North Korean IT workers storming the gates, too RSAC Another RSA Conference has come and gone, with almost 44,000 attendees this year spread across San Francisco's Moscone Center and the surrounding facilities, according to event organizers.…
El Reg checks out shop in SF On Thursday, six stores across America opened their doors with a curious proposition: Come on in, let a metal orb scan your irises, and walk out with a new online profile that promises you're an individual human – and a few bucks in crypto for...
Saturday May 3, 2025. 01:27 PM
Not, it's not the plot of a sci-fi disaster movie A Soviet probe launched more than half a century ago is due to return to Earth in the next week or two, and there's every chance that the vehicle will make it all the way to our planet's surface.…
A look back at two decades of ODF, from open source hopes to patchy real-world adoption It's been 20 years since the Open Document Format (ODF) became a standard, marking a milestone in the push for open, vendor-neutral file formats — and the beginning of a long but...
Friday May 2, 2025. 11:54 PM
Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030 The White House has proposed slashing NASA's budget by 24 percent, dropping it from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion. If approved, it would mark one of the agency's deepest single-year...
Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says World War Fee Meta's AI ambitions are going to cost more than expected thanks to increased competition and — who could have seen this coming? — the Trump administration's obsession with tariffs, which is driving up the...
Shakeup in US higher education funding means FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks Higher education across the USA is facing federal funding cutbacks – and now the Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab (OSL) is in trouble.…
Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has reached an agreement with Synadia, the company behind open source messaging system NATS, which will see...
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