TheRegister

Subscribe to TheRegister feed TheRegister
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Updated: 1 hour 56 min ago

Meta sends Arm a friend request asking for help with Nvidia’s Grace CPUs

3 hours 36 min ago
No custom Arm CPUs to speak of yet

Meta on Wednesday entered into a partnership with Arm Holdings with the aim of helping its software run more efficiently on the British chip designer's CPUs.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Librephone battles the proprietary binary blob

Wed, 2025-10-15 23:56
Free Software Foundation project aims to reverse-engineer non-freedom respecting firmware

To bridge the gap between Android distributions and true mobile phone freedom, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched an initiative called Librephone.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

CISA exec blames nation-state hackers and Democrats for putting America's critical systems at risk

Wed, 2025-10-15 22:24
Federal agencies have seven days to patch F5 products

An unidentified nation-state hacking crew targeting vulnerable F5 products to break into US government networks poses an "imminent risk" to federal agencies, American cyber officials warned on Wednesday – while also blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown and insisting that the staffing cuts haven't hurt cyber defenses at all.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

X to combat bot problem by showing more info about users

Wed, 2025-10-15 21:58
Meet [user] from [location]

In an effort to help human readers figure out whether they can trust the source of information (or opinion) posted on X, Elon Musk’s social network plans to add a new "About this account" screen with metadata from each user, including their location, how long they’ve had the account, and how many times they've changed their usernames.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it

Wed, 2025-10-15 21:03
If you build it, they will come and expect the service to be free

OpenAI is losing about three times more money than it's earning, and 95 percent of those using ChatGPT, which generates roughly 70 percent of the company's recurring revenue, aren't paying a dime to help stem the losses.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Apple goes all in on AI acceleration with M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros

Wed, 2025-10-15 20:31
Oh and the CPU is up to 15% faster for those that could care less about articifically intelligent Apple products and more about getting work done

Apple's fifth-generation of M-series silicon is starting to trickle out with the launch of the M5 MacBook, iPad, and Vision Pros this week.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Japan tells OpenAI to stop spiriting away its copyrighted anime

Wed, 2025-10-15 20:15
Tokyo cries foul over Sora slop abusing 'irreplaceable treasures' of anime, manga - oh, and copyright law

OpenAI’s Sora 2 video generator has gone viral, particularly among users churning out anime that looks suspiciously like Studio Ghibli and other copyrighted works. Alarmed by the threat to one of its prized cultural exports, Japan has reportedly lodged a formal request that the American firm knock it off.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Microsoft, Nvidia, and others inject $40B into AI bubble with massive datacenter deal

Wed, 2025-10-15 19:09
Big Tech and big money unite to back world’s biggest bit-barn buyout

The AI bubble just keeps getting bigger. A consortium featuring BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, xAI, and MGX is buying Aligned Data Centers in a deal valuing the operator at around $40 billion, in what is reportedly the biggest datacenter acquisition to date.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Cisco: Most companies don't know what they're doing with AI

Wed, 2025-10-15 16:15
Only 13% are AI-ready; the rest are bolting it on and hoping for ROI

Contrary to popular belief, you can't succeed in business (or AI) without really trying. Many orgs are jumping on the AI bandwagon without the infrastructure they need to make it work or track results, Cisco says. Most haven't even defined what they want their AI agents to do.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

'Highly sophisticated' government goons hacked F5, stole source code and undisclosed bug details

Wed, 2025-10-15 15:50
And they swiped a limited amount of customers' config data

Security shop F5 today said "highly sophisticated nation-state" hackers broke into its network and stole BIG-IP source code, undisclosed vulnerability details, and customer configuration data belonging to a "small percentage" of its users.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload

Wed, 2025-10-15 15:35
Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix

Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Microsoft veteran explains Windows quirk that made videos play in Paint

Wed, 2025-10-15 14:14
Raymond Chen says the OS used green-screen overlays to fake video playback – with curious side effects

Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has answered a lingering Windows question – why did video screenshots keep playing in Paint?…

Categories: Linux fréttir

ASML shrugs off China slump with faith in AI-fueled chip demand

Wed, 2025-10-15 13:22
Beijing's self-reliance push and US export limits hit orders

Europe's tech darling ASML has warned Chinese demand for its chipmaking kit will plummet next year, as Beijing doubles down on home-grown alternatives in response to Uncle Sam's export restrictions and trade war shenanigans.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Raspberry Pi OS, LMDE, Peppermint OS join the Debian 13 club

Wed, 2025-10-15 13:14
Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release

A month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse

Wed, 2025-10-15 12:34
Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit

Augment has updated its pricing model for Augment Code, an AI coding assistant, to be based on AI usage rather than message interactions. The company said its existing model "isn't sustainable" but users have calculated that the new one is more than ten times as expensive.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

£2B UK cloud licensing claim against Microsoft seeks more business backers

Wed, 2025-10-15 12:15
Action alleges Redmond unfairly hikes costs for businesses running Windows Server outside Azure

The team pushing a £2 billion legal claim accusing Microsoft of overcharging businesses that use its software on rival clouds has called for further participants ahead of its first hearing in December.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Everyone wants a fancy phone – even the folk buying them second-hand

Wed, 2025-10-15 11:52
IDC and Counterpoint say premium kit is driving sales in both new and used markets

Premium devices are what smartphone buyers want right now, and it seems that applies equally to the latest devices and second-hand models destined for emerging markets.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Capita fined £14M after 58-hour delay exposed 6.6M records

Wed, 2025-10-15 11:01
ICO makes example of outsourcing giant over sluggish cyber response

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a £14 million ($18.6 million) penalty to outsourcing giant Capita following a catastrophic 2023 cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 6.6 million people.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack

Wed, 2025-10-15 10:16
Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses

Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Trump's anti-sustainability agenda comes to Eurozone

Wed, 2025-10-15 09:00
ESG kicked like a 'toxic political football' amid greenwashing

Canalys Forums 2025 US President Donald Trump released a wrecking ball that smashed through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies stateside – and it's now swinging across the Atlantic, according to analysts.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Pages