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Icons from a more civilized time

Windows deposits a huge number of files onto a user's PC, some of which are essential for the operating system, and others that are a reminder of gentler times. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen this week took another trip down memory lane to the pixel-tastic world of moricons.dll on his Old New Thing blog.…

Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper

Internet souk Amazon has unveiled a new robot for its warehouses and claims the machine uses a sense of "touch" to shift around 75 percent of the types of packages handled.…

Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse'

NASA's "skinny" budget has rattled its allies. After years of close cooperation, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking jilted, while others describe the US space scene as adrift in gloom and doubt.…

Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box

Clippy is back - and this time, its arrival on your desktop as a front-end for locally run LLMs has nothing to do with Microsoft. …

Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake

Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components.…

Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co

Updated  An Apple executive's backhanded endorsement of AI as a replacement for traditional internet searches has sent Google stock tumbling. …

Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed

A federal judge has cleared the runway for a class action from disgruntled passengers against Delta Air Lines as turbulence from last year's CrowdStrike debacle continues to buffet the carrier.…

Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped

Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel's 486 chip and its contemporaries.…

Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity

India’s telecom regulator has signaled it’s ready to let Starlink and other satellite-broadband providers operate – but only if they agree to strict conditions, including setting up “special monitoring zones” within 50km of land borders where law enforcement and security agencies are permitted to monitor users.…

No, really? That's a shocking surprise

Updated  An unidentified miscreant is said to have obtained US government communications from TeleMessage, a messaging and archiving app based on the open-source Signal app and used by ousted national security advisor Michael Waltz.…

Seeing as IT giant's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious

World War Fee  Citrix has found a new use for virtualization: Avoiding tariffs.…

Chocolate Factory promises early-stage capital to atomic upstart Elementl

Google has signed a strategic agreement with nuclear project developer Elementl Power to support the early development of three potential fission reactor sites in the US.…

What was the plan, showing her his big iron?

A now-former manager at Computacenter claims he was unfairly fired after alerting management that a colleague was repeatedly giving his girlfriend unauthorized access to Deutsche Bank's server rooms.…

But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off

AMD expects the Trump administration's newly implemented export controls on GPUs and AI accelerator sales to China to take a $1.5 billion byte out its 2025 revenues, executives revealed on a Tuesday earnings call with Wall Street.…

Feldman calls US's AI Diffusion rules ‘bad policy’

Cerebras Systems' dinner-plate-sized chips currently power the latest AI inference offerings from Meta and, soon, those of IBM, but US trade policy weighs heavy on its prospects worldwide.…

We were shocked – SHOCKED – by the answer

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the slurpiest mobile browser of them all? The answer, according to VPN vendor Surfshark, is Chrome.…

Modern Linux, vintage kernel

Good news for those fond of crimson headwear – Fedora 42 is now an official distro on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2).…

United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts

Air traffic controllers for Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey were horrified when all radar and radio equipment, including backup systems, failed last week, cutting communication with aircraft for 90 seconds.…

Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in

Next  Nutanix is moving beyond its hyperconverged roots by creating containerized versions of its data services and more external storage options, in ways that make it a better target for those migrating away from VMware.…

Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit

Datacenter outages are less frequent and severe, but human error remains one of the most persistent challenges, with between two-thirds and four-fifths of major wobbles involving some element of meatbag-related cause.…