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Modern language features plus high performance FrankenPHP app server make PHP worth another look

The PHP team is considering adding a partial implementation of generics to the language, has confirmed that a pipe operator will be in the forthcoming 8.5 release, and has formally adopted the FrankenPHP app server into the PHP Foundation.…

We're going out on a limb here... why not branch out from things like retina displays and get a little more fine grained?

Feature  In a world where resolution, refresh rates, and frames per second can generate furious discussion, sometimes it's good to kick back and let a wood-flipping robot take the strain. Welcome to Kilopixel.…

Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby

Institutions in the North of England are being left out of the government's Global Talent Fund (GTF), designed to attract top scientific brains from abroad to come and work in Britain.…

A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond

Opinion  One of the dangers of stories based on big cash numbers is distraction. The numbers get all the attention, the bigger story behind them gets missed.…

Documentation was so substantial, staff measured it in feet

On Call  Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your stories of helping confused, caustic, and curmudgeonly customers to crank their computers into correct configurations.…

Will someone think of the deals politicians are making?

Opinion  You might think, since I write about tech all the time, my degrees are in computer science. Nope. I'm a bona fide, degreed historian, which is why I can say with confidence that the UK's recently passed Online Safety Act is doomed to fail.…

Fears adversaries will use them in the belief they can take plenty of punishment

The US Air Force wants to blow up two Tesla Cybertrucks.…

A new connector may be on the cards, too

The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has confirmed that version 8.0 of the PCI Express (PCIe) specification will allow up to 256 gigatransfers per second, which equates to up to 1 TB/s bi-directionally in a x16 configuration.…

Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year

The $500 billion Stargate project that aims to build a network of AI datacenters around the globe is off to a slow start, but its main backer – Japan’s SoftBank – isn’t worried.…

That totally makes up for the single-digit benchmark gains, right?

OpenAI unveiled its most capable model yet on Thursday with the launch of GPT-5.…

What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you?

The US government is about to get more AWS in more places thanks to a new $1 billion deal between Uncle Sam and Amazon. …

Nothing to see here - just removing that old Emoluments Clause and habeas corpus

Several sections of the online annotated US Constitution maintained by the Library of Congress vanished recently due to what the Library maintains was a coding error. However, the content of the now-restored sections has raised suspicions that the move was political. …

Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans

Black Hat  Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw in its business implementation.…

No reported in-the-wild exploits…yet

Microsoft and the feds late Wednesday sounded the alarm on another high-severity bug in Exchange Server hybrid deployments that could allow attackers to escalate privileges from on-premises Exchange to the cloud.…

Veteran engineer explains the fall of 'Fall' in Windows release

Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained why the megacorp ditched its increasingly twee naming conventions for Windows 10 releases in favor of the blander H1 and H2.…

Aiming to shrink the post-ISS gap, but less orbit time for NASA astronauts?

NASA has moved the goalposts for companies seeking to replace the aging International Space Station (ISS) and changed the minimum capability required to four crew for one-month "increments." The change means that the permanent occupation of the ISS will be a thing of the past, at least as far as the US space agency is concerned.…

Tells The Reg they never were ... 'and this will not change'

The second Trump administration has repeatedly complained about Europe's tech laws targeting Silicon Valley's finest, but now its antipathy is going into overdrive.…

Chipzilla boss accused of huge conflict of interest

US President Donald Trump has called for the immediate resignation of Intel's recently installed chief exec, following concerns raised by a Republican Senator over his links with China.…

Project Ire promises to use LLMs to detect whether code is malicious or benign

UPDATED  Microsoft has rolled out an autonomous AI agent that it claims can detect malware without human assistance.…

The Reg goes behind the scenes of the conference NOC, where volunteers 'look for a needle in a needle stack'

Black Hat  Neil "Grifter" Wyler is spending the week "looking for a needle in a needle stack," a task he'll perform from the network operations center (NOC) that powers the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.…