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'This was not good dog food'

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has taken to his YouTube channel to explain Redmond's missteps with Windows Longhorn and the background to the company's failed attempt at an XP follow-up.…

Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies

The US government has initiated another crackdown on Chinese businesses skirting chip export bans, adding a few dozen new names, and offshoots of repeat offenders, to the entity list.…

Britain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat

The former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales is getting £250 million ($323 million) to start making silicon carbide semiconductors, a year after the sale of the site was approved by UK government.…

Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough

DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a bunch of their customers' gateways going offline.…

Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse?

Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain just how dumb the USB-to-PS/2 adapters that shipped with Microsoft Mouse devices really were.…

As if living in Croydon wasn't bad enough

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South London suburb of Croydon.…

Data stolen included checklist for medics on how to get into vulnerable people's homes

The UK's data protection watchdog is dishing out a £3.07 million ($3.95 million) fine to Advanced Computer Software Group, whose subsidiary's security failings led to a ransomware attack affecting NHS care.…

If coworkers cranking out biz strategies and fussing over balance sheets seem robotic, you ain't seen nothing yet

Microsoft on Wednesday introduced out two "reasoning agents" it claims can handle research and analysis projects.…

Desktop users get free access – assuming they're cool with logging in and limited speeds

Vivaldi has become the latest browser to include a virtual private network (VPN) option with its product, working with Proton VPN to up user privacy.…

Beating a dead horse to a 4-4 beat

Napster, the original file-sharing troublemaker that shook the music industry, is about to change hands once again in yet another attempt to drag the brand into relevance.…

Reveals it ‘dramatically improved IOPS and throughput’ of its own storage with homebrew 'L4' automation and cache

Google has revealed that it still relies on hard disk drives for most of its storage needs, but has been able to ‘dramatically’ improve the performance of its storage systems with a homebrew automated data tiering system.…

Confirmed: 12,000 people let go over 12 months

Rumours of swingeing layoffs at Dell were not exaggerated, a statement The Register offers after reading the hardware giant’s most recent annual report which reveals its workforce shrank by 12,000 in the year to January 31st, 2025.…

Chip guru preaches virtues of 'values-aligned' pray-I, sorry, AI. He's also taken a VC gig

Updated  Pat Gelsinger, once CEO of VMware and later Intel, has announced he's taken a new job as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo, a Colorado-based outfit offering technology tools for churches and other faith-based organizations.…

Why lease space that can't power or cool 120kW racks - or the next-gen 600kW monsters?

Comment  Microsoft has walked away from negotiations to lease two gigawatts worth of datacenter capacity in the US and Europe, and has deferred and cancelled other datacenter leases, according to a new report from investment bank TD Cowen.…

Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up'

Updated  Senior Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen – and accidentally added a journalist to the group in which they chatted.…

MORSE to pay -- .. .-.. .-.. .. --- -. ... for failing to meet cyber-grade

A US defense contractor will cough up $4.6 million to settle complaints it failed to meet cybersecurity requirements on military contracts and knowingly submitted false claims for payment.…

As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement

VMware has sued industrial giant AG Siemens’s US operations for alleged use of unlicensed software and accused it of changing its story negotiations.…

Victims' details at risk after criminals download 9,000 files from court database

Australian police are currently investigating the theft of "sensitive" data from a New South Wales court system after they confirmed approximately 9,000 files were stolen.…

It's not a party until someone builds a bit barn on greenbelt land

It's International Datacenter Day, when people around the world get together to share their love of faceless concrete edifices.…

Now the only nonsense printed out will come from the user

Months after releasing a patch that left some printers spouting gibberish, Microsoft is issuing another update to deal with it.…