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The mighty Z80 processor ran the code at astounding speed, proving retro-tech got a lot of things right

A Microsoft senior software engineer named Alice Vinogradova has ported a database she wrote in SAP’s ABAP language to the venerable Z80 processor that powered the Sinclair ZX Spectrum – and marveled at the results.…

They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed

Epic Games has settled the case it brought against Samsung over the Korean giant’s treatment of third-party app stores on its Galaxy handsets.…

Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan

World War Fee  The Trump administration on Monday announced the tariff rates it will impose on fourteen nations starting on August 1st, and several big technology-producing nations made the list.…

Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2

Analysis  During the AI gold rush, the next best thing to selling the shovels – that is, the GPUs –is manufacturing the silicon that makes them possible. But while TSMC and SK-Hynix continue to cash in on Nvidia's successes, Samsung hasn't been nearly so fortunate.…

Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness

The new nuclear age of small modular reactors may not have materialized yet, but that's not stopping the US Department of Energy from getting to work on even smaller, more modular reactors with a couple of new commercial partners. …

NetScaler vendor issued a patch but otherwise, stony silence

Multiple exploits are circulating for CVE-2025-5777, a critical bug in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway dubbed CitrixBleed 2, and security analysts are warning a "significant portion" of users still haven't patched.…

All the GPUs in the world aren't worth much if you don't have a place to put them

CoreWeave just added 1.3 gigawatts of datacenter capacity to its rent-a-GPU scheme with the $9 billion acquisition of crypto-mining outfit Core Scientific, the companies announced Monday.…

The iMaker's fight with European regulators continues

Apple is on the hook for a €500 million (US $587 million) anti-steering fine in the EU, so it's reportedly doing what any profit-driven enterprise in such a position would do: Appealing.…

SafePay crew claims responsibility for intrusion at one of world's largest tech distributors

Updated  Ingram Micro, one of the world's largest distributors, has confirmed it is trying to restore systems following a ransomware attack.…

As power concerns beset builds, this floating datacenter can plug into powership next door

Japanese shipping biz Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is planning to fit out a ship as a floating datacenter that can draw energy from the shore or from an accompanying powership.…

A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor

Opinion  In human imagination, AIs have been good for two things: trying to take over, and loving a good game. The earliest post-war AI thinkers took it almost for granted that once computers could beat humans at chess, true artificial intelligence would have arrived. Such thinking was disproved 50 years on when IBM's Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997. Computers could be very, very good at chess while still having the IQ of a pebble.…

Line-judging tech flubs crucial point, leaving players and fans seeing red

"You cannot be serious" was likely uttered by more than a few folk watching Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova versus Britain's Sonay Kartal at Wimbledon yesterday after the tennis tournament's AI line-calling tech dropped the ball.…

Official notice confirms delay to cutoff until the end of July. Not to worry, AI modelling's in the wings

The US defense department satellite service that's cutting off the flow of data used for hurricane forecasting is doing so "to mitigate a significant cybersecurity risk" to government "high performance computing environments."…

Get your creds in order or risk BEC, ransomware attacks, orgs warned

A rise in advanced phishing kits and info-stealing malware are to blame for a 156 percent jump in cyberattacks targeting user logins, say researchers.…

Digital map of subterranean infrastructure promised in 2021 set to launch by year end

Ordnance Survey, the UK's official map maker, is seeking a tech supplier to help it obtain and manage data from utilities companies for a project that aims to avoid damage to subterranean infrastructure, which costs around £2.4 billion a year.…

Tips on who pays when staff don't transfer, when the regulations apply ... and when they don't

Comment  Few IT leaders or staffers realize just how much automation, AI, and cloud delivery are disrupting the legal and human frameworks that underpin outsourcing - especially when it comes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, better known as TUPE.…

Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?

Updated  Britain's space agency is looking for a supplier to build a robotic spacecraft to capture and de-orbit two defunct UK-licensed satellites from low Earth orbit.…

Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error

Who, Me?  Monday morning brings many readers a return to the world of adults, which The Register marks by bringing you a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you share stories of making mistakes for which you are somehow forgiven.…

Airlines get the chance to cool their jets rather than burn fuel on the ground

Airbus last week revealed it has certified a “Taxibot” to transport its single-aisle planes from stand to runway.…

Red Hat and Open Nebula deliver big updates, as Edera tools for Xen with Rust

As VMware pushes its vision for private clouds built around its core virtualization technology, rival vendors are ramping their efforts to create an alternative stack.…