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Friday December 19, 2025. 08:30 AM
Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone On Call Welcome once more to On Call, The Register's reader-contributed Friday column in which we share your stories of tech support jobs so wrong, they're right.…
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Tony Isaac shares a report from CNN: President Donald Trump's social media and crypto company is making a huge bet on a far different industry -- nuclear fusion, a potentially lucrative albeit commercially unproven energy technology that could help power a suddenly...
Remember newspapers? Or, more specifically, remember when everybody kept up with current events by reading newspapers and news magazines? I started reading The New York Times every day when I was in college. The paper was usually delivered to my door by 10:30 pm the...
Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns Technicians working on a firewall upgrade made at least ten mistakes, contributing to two deaths, according to a report on a September incident that saw Australian telco Optus unable to route calls to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Actors have voted to refuse digital scanning to prevent their likeness being used by artificial intelligence in a pushback against AI in the arts. Members of the performing arts union Equity were asked if they would...
A suspect in the Brown University mass shooting was found dead this evening, according to Providence police chief Oscar L. Perez Jr., killed by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Named as Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, a 48-year old former student of the Ivy League college, his...
Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace' Chinese authorities on Thursday certified the China Environment for Network Innovation (CENI), a vast research network that Beijing hopes will propel the country to the forefront of...
Attackers have upped the ante in their exploits of a recently-disclosed maximum severity vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC), Next.js, and related frameworks. Financially-motivated attackers have found a way to use the flaw, dubbed React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182), to ...
Hollow Knight: Silksong, the highly anticipated sequel to Team Cherry's beloved 2017 indie Metroidvania Hollow Knight, proves to be the gift that keeps on giving. Like its predecessor, Silksong is a challenging 2D action-platformer set in a hauntingly beautiful hand-drawn...
I HAVE SOME IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS FOR YOU! A very adorable seal has been caught going with the flow. Yes, that's right, the beautiful marine beast has been spotted bobbing along, blissed out, with nowhere to be, in no hurry to get anything done. — Read the rest The post...
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that swearing can help us unleash our inner strength, improving physical performance, it seems, by helping people break through certain psychological barriers. [Psychology...
LG said it will let owners of its TVs delete Microsoft's Copilot shortcut after several reports highlighted the unremovable icon. In a statement to The Verge, LG says the company 'respects consumer choice and will take steps to allow users to delete the shortcut icon if they ...
An Apple developer was locked out of his Apple Account after redeeming a compromised Apple Gift Card, exposing how automated fraud systems can effectively cut users off from their digital lives with little explanation or recourse. TidBITS reports: After attempting to redeem...
Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail Even Amazon isn't immune to North Korean scammers who try to score remote jobs at tech companies so they can funnel their wages to Kim Jong Un's coffers.…
If Excel rules the world, Word rules the legal profession. Jordan Bryan published a great article explaining why this is the case, and why this is unlikely to change any time soon, no matter how many people from the technology world think they can change this reality. ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: A North Korean imposter was uncovered, working as a sysadmin at Amazon U.S., after their keystroke input lag raised suspicions with security specialists at the online retail giant. Normally, a U.S.-based remote...
Thursday December 18, 2025. 11:40 PM
A new study estimates that AI systems in 2025 consumed as much electricity as New York City emits in carbon pollution and used hundreds of billions of liters of water, driven largely by power-hungry data centers and cooling needs. Researchers say the real impact is likely...
3I/ATLAS is definitely a comet, not an alien spacecraft, but it is only the third confirmed interstellar object detected in our solar system, and may be as much as 7 billion years old, so it is still pretty cool and worth checking out. — Read the rest The post Watch...
Jibba Jabber was a doll made by toy company Ertl in the mid-1990s, marketed as a stress reliever for corporate executives. The doll's distinguishing feature was the sound it made when you shook it — a distinct choking or strangling noise produced by its wobbling head,...
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