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Safeguard hold finally lifted as Microsoft realizes animated backgrounds aren't the end of the world

The day before the release of Windows 11 24H2, Microsoft slapped a compatibility hold on devices using wallpaper customization applications. More than six months later, it is gradually removing the safeguard hold.…

If this techie had been older and slower, this never would have happened

Who, Me?  Returning to work on Monday often imparts a rude shock, which is why The Register opens the week with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you admit to your worst moments at work and explain how you survived them.…

Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank

World War Fee  Trump administration tariffs are leaving the IT industry in "limbo", with CIOs hitting the pause button on new projects as they're unsure whether budgets set today will be disrupted by taxes tomorrow.…

Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images

Opinion  Many people are having fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with OpenAI's ChatGPT. I see it as copy-and-paste intellectual property stealing on an industrial level.…

Royal McBee's desk-sized deskside early computer was the stuff of legend

In these days of multi-gig OSes, we cast our eyes back to something both much bigger and much smaller.…

UK holds onto oversight by a whisker, but it's utterly barefaced on the other side of the pond

Opinion  The UK government's attempts to worm into Apple's core end-to-end encryption were set back last week when the country's Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds.…

Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game

VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor.…