Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not
IBM-owned subsidiary Red Hat is docking a bunch of its back-office staff, along with the techies that support them, into the mothership.…
Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated
AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without seeking or securing permission.…
UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle
UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer cleared out the officials in charge of tech and digital law in a dramatic cabinet reshuffle at the weekend.…
Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban
Microsoft's tussle with UK-based reseller ValueLicensing over the sale of secondhand licenses returns to the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal this week, with the Windows behemoth now claiming that selling pre-owned Office and Windows software is unlawful.…
So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc.
The UK government has awarded 12 suppliers places on a framework deal that could see it spend up to £900 million on printers, photocopiers, and other multifunctional devices.…
VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
Opinion If you're a tech company marketing manager writing white papers, you'll love a juicy pull quote. That's where a client says something so lovely about you, you can pull it out of the main text and reprint it in a big font in the middle of the page.…
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league
Who, Me? Monday mornings see the resumption of endless coopetition between IT folks and those they strive to serve but sometimes disappoint. The Register celebrates that eternal struggle with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that offers the chance to admit failures and celebrate escapes.…
All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner, but jobs are safe
All work in IT departments will be done with the help of AI by 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, which thinks massive job losses won’t result.…
Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems
Asia In Brief Microsoft has warned that customers of its Azure cloud may experience heightened latency due to a submarine cable outage in the Red Sea.…
Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK
Exclusive Huawei's product portfolio in Britain is about to shrink again with suppliers informed that its battery energy storage systems (BESS) are to be discontinued locally by the end of 2025.…
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus
It is almost half a century since Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, and the atmosphere of Titan. It continues to send data back to Earth.…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life
Opinion China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin were this week reportedly overheard chatting about the possibility that organ transplants might help them achieve immortality.…
No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease
Hands on Writers rely on the humble em dash (—) and en dash (–) to add flavor and function to their sentences. But typing these characters, which are slightly longer than a hyphen, has been a challenge in Windows, up until now.…
Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley
A startup called Job Bolt has created AI avatars that conduct job interviews. The Register couldn't help but give it a try and can report that it's an unnerving experience.…
US cuffs 475 at Hyundai–LG battery plant – feds tout largest single-site raid
The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it executed its largest single-site raid to date, detaining 475 people at the Hyundai–LG battery plant under construction in Georgia.…
OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety
The Attorneys General of California and Delaware on Friday wrote to OpenAI's board of directors, demanding that the AI company take steps to ensure its services are safe for children.…
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.…
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like
Analysis OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid to curb its reliance on Nvidia and drive down the cost of its GPT family of models.…
FCC plans to kill Wi-Fi on school buses, hotspots for library patrons
The US Federal Communications Commission may soon pull funding for free Wi-Fi on school buses and in libraries after Chair Brendan Carr declared two Biden-era expansions unlawful and proposed eliminating them.…
The crazy, true story behind the first AI-powered ransomware
interview It all started as an idea for a research paper. …
