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Venerable command line tool to depart Windows

Users still clinging on to PowerShell 2.0 just received notice to quit as the command-line tool is officially leaving Windows.…

It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate

deep dive  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in the process of building out a massive supercomputing cluster containing "hundreds of thousands" of accelerators that promises to give its model building buddies at Anthropic a leg up in the AI arms race.…

Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down

Exclusive  Widespread outages across Ingram Micro's websites and client service portals are being attributed to "technical difficulties." …

There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia

Comment  Multiple other projects also use the vast linked data store that underpins ubiquitous internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and some of them are helping the fight for democracy.…

'JFC, again?'

Microsoft's latest round of layoffs has triggered an outpouring of emotion from inside and outside the company, with at least one former staffer asking: "How many billions must be burned in the AI furnace before this stops?"…

Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not

On Call  Friday dawns with the promise of precious freedom, yet the world of tech support is seldom free from trouble. The Register always finds a way to celebrate anyway, by bringing you a fresh instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that tells your tales of breaking away from bad bosses and ungrateful users.…

Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it

Google and Meta have independently taken actions to support a safer internet for kids – and given blockchain boosters a moment to celebrate.…

Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations'

French AI business Mistral on Thursday announced an initiative called “AI for Citizens,” which it says offers a way to work with governments and public institutions to transform public services using AI.…

If you come out of a coma in 2026, this is the machine you might see staring down at you

Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn and Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries have revealed a jointly developed robotic nursing assistant they hope to start selling in 2026.…

Job cuts aren’t big, symbolism of quitting the world’s fifth-most-populous nation might be

Exclusive  Microsoft has decided to close its presence in Pakistan.…

And with some increases to rural broadband funds, fresh spectrum auctions, and wholesale dismantling of clean energy subsidies

Lawmakers have passed President Trump's budget reconciliation but removed one of its most tech-contentious measures - the ban of state-level AI regulation – meaning the law will have little effect on the tech industry.…

A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool

Scientists at Johns Hopkins and Samsung have developed a nano-engineered thermoelectric material that is twice as efficient at material-level cooling as existing alternatives, paving the way for broader adoption of solid-state refrigeration technology.…

Cutting out middle man dents coffers of larger service providers, helps Redmond offset AI investments

The sweeping changes Microsoft is making to its licensing incentives for large service providers is taking hold.…

Researchers find models' success at tests hides illusion of understanding

Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term "potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that ace conceptual benchmarks but lack the true grasp needed to apply those concepts in practice.…

Red-tailed tropicbirds stymie Johnston Atoll maneuvers

The US Air Force is putting plans to use rocket landings for resupply missions on hold over environmental concerns about the effect they would have on local seabirds.…

Frequent flyers’ info takes flight

Australian airline Qantas on Wednesday revealed it fell victim to a cyberattack that saw information describing six million customers stolen.…

Robotaxis, humanoid robots, and fights with Trump can't hide declining EV sales

Comment  Tesla reported its vehicle delivery and production numbers for Q2 2025 this week, and while the figures weren't quite as low in absolute terms as Q1, they still mark a worrying downward trend as CEO Elon Musk continues to spread his attention across a huge variety of topics unrelated to making and selling electric cars.…

Just ignore the warnings. Nothing to see here. Move along

A mysterious piece of "under development" code is playing havoc with the Windows Firewall after the latest preview update for Windows 11 24H2.…

The insurance SaaS slinger may trade under a different name, but past continues to haunt it

Young Consulting's cybersecurity woes continue after the number of affected individuals from last year's suspected ransomware raid passed the 1 million mark.…

Biz needs AI infra for training ever larger models, but something's gotta give

World War Fee  Datacenter operators in Northern Europe say US tariffs and growing global geopolitical instability are inflating costs and causing delays to construction projects.…