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If coworkers cranking out biz strategies and fussing over balance sheets seem robotic, you ain't seen nothing yet

Microsoft on Wednesday introduced out two "reasoning agents" it claims can handle research and analysis projects.…

Desktop users get free access – assuming they're cool with logging in and limited speeds

Vivaldi has become the latest browser to include a virtual private network (VPN) option with its product, working with Proton VPN to up user privacy.…

Beating a dead horse to a 4-4 beat

Napster, the original file-sharing troublemaker that shook the music industry, is about to change hands once again in yet another attempt to drag the brand into relevance.…

Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache

Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but has been able to ‘dramatically’ improve the performance of its storage systems with a homebrew automated data tiering system.…

Confirmed: 12,000 people let go over 12 months

Rumours of swingeing layoffs at Dell were not exaggerated, a statement The Register offers after reading the hardware giant’s most recent annual report which reveals its workforce shrank by 12,000 in the year to January 31st, 2025.…

Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI. He's also taken a VC gig

Updated  Pat Gelsinger, once CEO of VMware and later Intel, has announced he's taken a new job as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo, a Colorado-based outfit offering technology tools for churches and other faith-based organizations.…

Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters?

Comment  Microsoft has walked away from negotiations to lease two gigawatts worth of datacenter capacity in the US and Europe, and has deferred and cancelled other datacenter leases, according to a new report from investment bank TD Cowen.…

Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up'

Updated  Senior Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen – and accidentally added a journalist to the group in which they chatted.…

MORSE to pay -- .. .-.. .-.. .. --- -. ... for failing to meet cyber-grade

A US defense contractor will cough up $4.6 million to settle complaints it failed to meet cybersecurity requirements on military contracts and knowingly submitted false claims for payment.…

As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement

VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens’s US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations.…

Victims' details at risk after criminals download 9,000 files from court database

Australian police are currently investigating the theft of "sensitive" data from a New South Wales court system after they confirmed approximately 9,000 files were stolen.…

It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land

It's International Datacenter Day, when people around the world get together to share their love of faceless concrete edifices.…

Now the only nonsense printed out will come from the user

Months after releasing a patch that left some printers spouting gibberish, Microsoft is issuing another update to deal with it.…

Spending watchdog says digital professionals need seat at top table to ensure 'transformation'

The parlous state of UK government legacy IT systems is hampering attempts to adopt AI, a report from MPs has warned.…

Half a century later, there's a Moon rocket behind those same doors

It is 50 years since the very last Saturn rocket rolled out from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launchpad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.…

Meanwhile, Apple is lining up '$1B' of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra kit

Schneider Electric plans to spend $700 million through 2027 to expand its US operations and bolster the supply of its power equipment necessary to sustain the proliferation of AI datacenters.…

Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?

Two academic organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday for the allegedly unlawful withdrawal of $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University and associated demands for policy changes.…

Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation

The lower house of India's parliament on Tuesday passed the nation's budget for 2025, after making a last-minute change that removed a tax on digital ads.…

Who knew social media stars had a role to play in building national cyber resilience?

The world's biggest brands have benefited from influencer marketing for years – now the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has hopped on the bandwagon to preach two-factor authentication (2FA) to the masses.…

At last, cell service from SPAAAAAACE

Britain's telecoms regulator could authorize satellite-to-smartphone services in the UK before the end of this year.…