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Consumption-based pricing and scant cost controls are sending monthly bills into five figures, Gartner warns

'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics

Browsers, cloud challengers, and Killinghall Parish Council all accuse Redmond of locking in customers, hobbling competition

Pinecone and Tiger Data say smarter data plumbing can cut token use and tame agentic workloads

Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project

A time when Windows 7 was Microsoft's latest and greatest

THE REGISTER EXPLAINER: GPUs idle? Blame your outdated storage, not the silicon sprinters.

Unexplained GSM-R failure at Deutsche Bahn caused confusion and delay

Five ISPs and plenty of users await their fate

Use of Arm cores and Linux mean Beijing hasn’t broken away from the world

Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost

The Claude in Slack app is dead, long live Claude in Slack

Plus more blasts from the past: NetWare, FTP, and HTTP

Less than 17 hours after receiving orders, Rocket Lab put Pioneer in orbit for close-range maneuvers with True Anomaly's Jackal satellite

It's not just old phones – many smart meters and telecare alarms still use the ancient technology

Alternatively, you can install SteamOS 3.8 on your own AMD-powered hardware

Annual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion

Ahem. National effort required to kick-start the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery and keep America ahead of the game

CRT-era restriction dragged into the widescreen age after 34 years

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