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When a vendor and a community stop loving each other, things can get very forked up

State Of Open  Multiple license changes have rocked the open source community over the last few years. For vendors concerned, the impact has ranged from business as usual to potentially catastrophic.…

What is dead may never die

After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again.…

Humble but with a huge history, the utility's privacy pare-back points to a productive possible future

Opinion  Windows File Explorer doesn't get much love, poor thing. It gets sworn at if a sought file cannot be found, or if some setting is hiding that needs to be shown.…

'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived'

Who, Me?  Nobody starts the working week by planning to fail, but mistakes do happen and The Register likes to write about them in Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you tell us how you escaped from nasty scrapes of your own making.…

Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’

APRICOT 2025  The Internet Society wants to help improve maps that depict terrestrial optic fibre networks by having regulators and carriers alike promote and adopt the Open Fibre Data Standard it helped to create.…

Digital services taxes, network build levies, touted as violations of US sovereignty

United States president Donald Trump last Friday issued a memorandum that suggests imposition of tariffs on nations that dare to tax big tech companies.…

After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics

Fifteen years of big data hype, and guess what? Less than one in four of those in charge of analytics projects actually measure the value of the activity to the organization they work for.…

Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI

Interview  Despite the billions of dollars spent each year training large language models (LLMs), there remains a sizable gap between building a model and actually integrating it into an application in a way that's useful.…

Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising

Analysis  As you've likely read in many a headline-shouting article, our precious Blue Marble Earth just experienced its warmest year since reliable record-keeping began.…

Beast remains as mythical as the return on AI investment

Some muy importante legislation is stuck in the cogs of Californian bureaucracy – an Assembly Bill to recognize Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch, as the official state cryptid.…

And really, nothing out of the ordinary for Silicon Valley

After another round of mass layoffs and reports of slashed stock options for remaining employees, Meta has like clockwork opted to reward its top executives with a substantial bonus increase.…

It woz The Reg wot won it ... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management

HP Inc today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to "initial feedback."…

Image fetches to be capped on hourly basis for Personal, unauthenticated use, paid-for plans get unlimited access

Docker has delayed its plan to limit image pulls – the downloading of container images – from Docker Hub, by one month and has altered previously published quotas.…

An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more

Feature  With the National Science Foundation cutting staff to comply with President Trump's order for sweeping federal government layoffs, concerns are growing over the impact of these layoffs on America's role in scientific and technological research. …

Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes

Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come up with a cheap and simple way for satellites to be identified from the ground using lights to blink out an ID code.…

Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew

SpaceX boss Elon Musk has called for the International Space Station (ISS) to be deorbited as soon as possible, perhaps by 2027.…

You can find out if your GitHub codebase is leaking keys ... but so can miscreants

A free automated tool that lets anyone scan public GitHub repositories for exposed AWS credentials has been released.…

A year on from the big overhaul of Plasma 6, more functionality appears

KDE Plasma 6.3 is here, closely followed by a point release, alongside new versions of the KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear apps collection.…

Stalling tactics designed to push print or PC users to online support, sorry, 'self-solve'

Updated  HP Inc is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use online and other digital support channels by setting a minimum 15-minute wait time for anyone that phones the call center to get answers to troublesome queries.…

Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em

Updated  Some Linux kernel maintainers remain unconvinced that adding Rust code to the open source project is a good idea, but its VIPs are coming out in support of the language's integration.…