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Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

Everything you need to build the PS-85 is available from its designer's website, even if you can't get to space

We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship systems. Lucky for you, one enterprising maker has created just the machine for the job.…

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho

Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to be perfectly clear that, no matter how convincing the new project might look, it's not official. …

The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

'If you don't have visibility, you can't understand what to protect'

When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory of all the components in the environment. Enter AI-BOMs.…

Why no cloud storage architecture was designed for what agentic AI is about to demand

Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.…

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media posts.…

Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new tech to support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing times exceeded 14 weeks in February.…

That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble

Who, Me?  Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them.…

Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades

In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites.…

PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge

A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.…

In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never.…

Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet

The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can continue to defend the nation and operate overseas.…

PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?

Parliament's spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from the usual diet of failure and overspend.…

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM

With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based pricing, that vibe-coded hobby project is about to get a whole lot more expensive. Fortunately, you're not without cost-saving options.…

Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it

The DVSA's driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated users.…