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Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs

Aurora, a relatively young distro from Austria, bills itself as "your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS." These are rather bold claims, though many other Linux distros make the same promise.…

Only 15% considering deployments and just 7% say it'll replace humans in next four years

Enterprises aren't keen on letting autonomous agents take the wheel amid fears over trust and security as research once again shows that AI hype is crashing against the rocks of reality.…

Judson Althoff gets the job of keeping the biz running

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella told staff on Wednesday that he's appointing Judson Althoff to a new role as CEO of the company's commercial business, so that the big boss can concentrate on Redmond's future plans and strategy.…

Petitions pile up on Satya’s desk while Windows 7 mysteriously surges back from the grave

With Windows 10 support set to expire on October 14, hundreds of repair shops, nonprofits, and advocacy groups are urging Microsoft to extend free and automatic security updates instead of stranding hundreds of millions of PCs.…

Microsoft's Secure Future pitch lands with old bugs still in tow

Windows 11 25H2 has seeped out of Redmond with just two weeks left before free support for most Windows 10 versions goes down the drain.…

Once more with feeling...

SpaceX has named the date when it will try for another Starship launch without anything exploding. October 13, which is both the Columbus Day / Indigenous People's Day holiday and the last day of Windows 10 support, is the current target.…

US has threatened even higher tariffs and the possible loss of military support

Taiwan has rejected US demands to shift semiconductor manufacturing so that half of America's chip needs are produced domestically, as tariff negotiations with the Trump administration intensify.…

Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt

OpenStack has delivered its 32nd major release, named "Flamingo."…

The physics of transistors and politics of trading licenses are colliding on the AI frontier

Analysis  Few of us would have imagined that national security would play such a key role in AI hardware, even dictating its development, but here we are – in a new era of export controls.…

Another thing you can blame on the hypefest: demand sends HBM costs up 120% in a year

Raspberry Pi is upping the cost of some devices by double-digit percentages from today driven by what CEO Eben Upton calls "insatiable demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI applications."…

Dangles free product licenses in return for code-related data for its training

IDE and developer tools biz JetBrains believes training AI models on public datasets is insufficient, and is offering free product licenses to organizations that are willing to share detailed code-related data.…

Chip designer tells The Reg it plans to appeal

Qualcomm is claiming complete victory over Arm in their licensing spat, after a court in Delaware ruled it has not breached the terms of any architecture license agreement (ALA) with the chip designer.…

ICO investigation into platform's lack of age assurance continues

The UK's data watchdog has described Imgur's move to block UK users as "a commercial decision" after signaling plans to fine parent company MediaLab.…

Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead

UK prime minister Keir Starmer avoided mentioning the mandatory digital ID scheme in his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference amid calls for him to put meat on the bones of the plans or risk it failing fast.…

Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone?

The government has announced a new "digital hospital" service in England that will provide online appointments with consultants as an alternative to visiting a National Health Service (NHS) hospital.…

Because sometimes you need a V2 rocket with your schnitzel

Geek's Guide  It's September and the German city of Munich is celebrating Oktoberfest. But away from the beer tents, schnitzel, and lederhosen lies a set of museums worth visiting for the price of a few beers.…

SWIFT and 30 banks promise to bake it into international payment infrastructure

Blockchains are still synonymous with the wild world of cryptocurrencies, but on Monday, 30 banks and SWIFT – the world’s most important cross-border payment service – made them an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system.…

No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery

Afghanistan has dropped off the global internet.…

This is one way to add a lot of AI users in a hurry, which Wall Street wants to see

Salesforce developers have called for the SaaS-y CRM giant to wind back a change that saw the AI-powered Agentforce bot replace basic search functions on some online help pages.…

UMass Amherst research promises better bioelectronic communication

Scientists affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed an artificial neuron that can communicate efficiently with biological neurons, a research advance expected to accelerate the development of bioelectronic devices and interfaces.…