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Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 19:24
That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else

Japanese foundry upstart Rapidus says it's on track to begin volume production of 2nm process tech after achieving a major milestone this week.…

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Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 18:39
And we’re the ones building it

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.…

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YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 17:07
Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development device

Apple has sued tech YouTuber Jon Prosser for allegedly leaking iOS 26 information to the public ahead of its reveal at WWDC in June.…

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Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 16:04
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters

Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say licensing experts.…

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As companies race to add AI, terms of service changes are going to freak a lot of people out

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 13:48
WeTransfer added the magic words "machine learning" to its ToS and users reacted predictably

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.…

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Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 12:02
2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time

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.…

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Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 10:16
With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?

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.…

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The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 08:54
We spoke to the smoot's namesake

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.…

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‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 07:29
This job was a car wreck in more than one way

On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your terrifying tech support stories.…

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EU cloud gang wins concessions from Microsoft on pricing, licensing

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 06:00
Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – ID management freedom not included

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.…

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VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support

TheRegister - Fri, 2025-07-18 04:59
Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation

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.…

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