Linux fréttir
Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027
Japanese foundry upstart Rapidus says it's on track to begin volume production of 2nm process tech after achieving a major milestone this week.…
Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state
Comment A tech executive's alleged affair exposed on a stadium jumbotron is ripe fodder for the gossip rags, but it exhibits something else: proof that we need not wait for an AI-fueled dystopian surveillance state to descend on us - we're perfectly able and willing to surveil ourselves.…
YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims
Apple has sued tech YouTuber Jon Prosser for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information to the public ahead of its reveal at WWDC in June.…
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say licensing experts.…
As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out
Analysis WeTransfer this week denied claims it uses files uploaded to its ubiquitous cloud storage service to train AI, and rolled back changes it had introduced to its Terms of Service after they deeply upset users. The topic? Granting licensing permissions for an as-yet-unreleased LLM product.…
Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus
Rescuezilla 2.6.1 has introduced a new version based on the latest interim Ubuntu release, while also updating its existing builds on older versions.…
Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight
Comment The UK's ambition to become a global AI superpower hinges on a vibrant and competitive cloud market. The next few days will show if its competition regulator really appreciates both the pace of change and the scale of remedies needed to achieve both of these things.…
The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement
Interview On a chilly October evening in 1958, a group of MIT students shuffled onto the Harvard Bridge, which separates the university town of Cambridge from Boston proper. The shortest among them lay down on the sidewalk at the bridge's start, his friends marked his length, he got up, moved forward, and repeated the process.…
‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your terrifying tech support stories.…
EU cloud gang wins concessions from Microsoft on pricing, licensing
A trade group of European cloud providers has claimed a small victory in bringing lower prices and more flexibility in deploying Microsoft software on their infrastructure.…
VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support
VMware on Wednesday announced it has extended the time between major releases from two years to three and extended support for those releases to six years.…
Pages
