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Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.…

Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media posts.…

Medical license applicants still waiting months while agency insists it's 'putting things right'

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has introduced new tech to support driving license applications that require medical checks, after processing times exceeded 14 weeks in February.…

That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble

Who, Me?  Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them.…

Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades

In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites.…

PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge

A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.…

In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never.…

Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet

The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can continue to defend the nation and operate overseas.…

PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?

Parliament's spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from the usual diet of failure and overspend.…

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM

With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based pricing, that vibe-coded hobby project is about to get a whole lot more expensive. Fortunately, you're not without cost-saving options.…

Agency insists everything is working fine, even though users spend days failing to load it

The DVSA's driving test booking system has spent the week offline, according to frustrated users.…

Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once

Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up.…

CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'

The chase is on. Atlassian reported its largest-ever quarter for taking share from a major IT service management provider, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said on the company's fiscal third-quarter earnings call Thursday, escalating its rivalry with ServiceNow.…

Emil Michael says agencies are evaluating the cybersecurity model, not deploying it

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael pushed back on reports of a thaw in the department’s relationship with Anthropic: The two are not getting back together, even as Mythos draws interest from government agencies.…

SpaceX and Blue Origin will absolutely be ready in time. Definitely

Amid the sensational NASA budget cut proposals taking place in the US at the moment, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has refined the Artemis III launch date to "late 2027."…

Both Cupertino and Google are imposing ever stricter limits on their phones – but you have alternatives

As both Apple and Google introduce unwelcome changes in their phone OSes, here's a quick reminder that you do have alternatives to the Gruesome Twosome.…

If software writes software the risk is “systematic failure at scale”. Someone needs to take charge, argues Forrester

Forrester predicts that by decade's end, the rush toward agentic AI will grow so chaotic that CIOs will be forced into a new role as enforcer of order.…

Users have less cash to burn and less patience for AI in new models... now where to get the used stock

Secondhand phones sales are booming - relatively speaking - and the industry has rising inflation, AI bloat, and consumers' growing apathy toward overpriced new handsets to thank for it.…

Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand

CISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already poking holes in one of the internet's most widely used hosting stacks.…