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On-prem discounts drying up as ERP giant sends 'mixed signals' on pricing

Gartner has reported that SAP customers opting for private cloud have seen price increases of 10 percent or more on renewal proposals if they fail to negotiate a renewal price cap in the original deal.…

Protesters slam forced obsolescence outside Microsoft's office

Updated  Campaigners staged a protest outside Microsoft's Brussels office yesterday over the company's decision to end support for Windows 10.…

This relatively affordable AI workstation isn’t about going fast; it’s about doing everything well enough

hands on  Nvidia bills its long-anticipated DGX Spark as the "world's smallest AI supercomputer," and, at $3,000 to $4,000 (depending on config and OEM), you might be expecting the Arm-based mini-PC to outperform its less-expensive siblings.…

Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits

The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually.…

Users left wondering whether to fork it or forget it as another FOSS project bites the dust

The KuzuDB embedded graph database, open source under the MIT license, has been abandoned by its creator and sponsor Kùzu Inc, leaving its community pondering whether to fork or find an alternative.…

US government shutdown nothing to do with action as space veteran calls move 'an alarming time' for science

The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is facing another round of layoffs, with 550 additional employees set to lose their jobs.…

Japan's beer behemoth still mopping up after ransomware spill that disrupted deliveries and delayed results

Asahi's cyber hangover just got worse, with the brewer now admitting that personal information may have been tapped in last month's attack.…

Another flawless demonstration or unplanned explosion await

Updated  SpaceX is counting down to today's 11th flight test of its monster Starship rocket, with weather looking suitable for the opening of the launch window at 18:15 CT (or around 17:00 CT, if the company's billionaire boss is to be believed).…

Illicit colo cleanup seemed like a good way to get out of the house during Covid

Who, Me?  Welcome to another week of nimble newsifying from The Register, which as always kicks off the working week with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to mistakes that almost trashed your career.…

Lucky few randomly selected to trial the feature, which won't fully roll out for several months

Mozilla is working on a built-in VPN for Firefox, with beta tests opening to select users shortly.…

Watchdog says it sees no case to investigate discounted FTTP upgrade offer – but will keep an eye on it

Ofcom has declined to intervene after smaller network providers complained that a special upgrade offer from Openreach could threaten competition in the broadband market.…

Latest in a long line of EBS flaws leta miscreants remotely compromise enterprise systems to pinch sensitive data

Oracle is rushing out another emergency patch for its embattled E-Business Suite as the fallout from the Clop-linked attacks continues to spread.…

Bring Your Copilot To Work Day, anyone?

Microsoft, the corporation that just 13 days ago implored customers to bring their Copilot to work, has now published a report warning of the dangers of Shadow AI.…

Challenger seeks to unseat incumbent for machine learning workloads

A fledgling file format that aims to address limitations in the widely-used Parquet is under review for adoption by an open source foundation.…

Warn businesses to act now as high-severity incidents keep climbing

Cyberattacks that meet upper severity thresholds set by the UK government's cyber agents have risen 50 percent in the last year, despite almost zero change in the volume of cases handled.…

Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries

The UK units of some US technology companies are paying average salaries of well into six figures, with some more than matching that with share-based payments, according to annual accounts recently published by Companies House.…

Canonical's Questing Quokka waddles in at 5.7 GB with AppArmor woes

The latest interim release of Ubuntu is here, showcasing some significant changes. This isn't a long-term release, yet many of its differences will be in 26.04 next year.…

Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories from the frontlines of tech support.…

Systems from Nvidia, Dell, and others available starting Oct. 15

Nvidia's tiniest Grace-Blackwell workstation is finally making its way to store shelves this week, the better part of a year after the GPU giant first teased the AI mini PC, then called Project Digits, at CES.…

Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more!

Microsoft's OneDrive is increasing the creepiness quotient by using AI to spot faces in photos and group images accordingly. Don't worry, it can be turned off – three times a year.…