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Microsoft mops up Mesh after another metaverse misfire
As of December 1, mixed reality collaboration platform Microsoft Mesh is no more, and Redmond has directed customers to immersive events in Teams.…
HPE backs AMD's Helios AI rack with Juniper's scale-up switch
HPE is throwing its weight behind AMD's Helios rack-scale architecture and will offer this as part of its AI portfolio next year, including a purpose-built Juniper Networks scale-up switch.…
Apple swaps one ex-Google AI chief for another
Apple's failure to deliver advanced AI capabilities has triggered a changing of the guard. AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down in favor of a new leader to steady the Siri ship.…
MongoDB talks up its AI chops by talking down PostgreSQL
At the risk of protesting too much in the shifting database landscape, NoSQL-based MongoDB has attempted to trash the competition by claiming PostgreSQL systems lack scalability to keep up with the demands of AI workloads.…
French AI shop Mistral rolls out full suite of Apache-licensed models
Mistral AI has released a suite of open source models under the Mistral 3 banner, aiming to scale from a mobile device or drone up to multi-GPU datacenter beasts.…
Europol nukes Cryptomixer laundering hub, seizing €25M in Bitcoin
Law enforcement agencies in Germany and Switzerland have shut down cryptocurrency laundering platform Cryptomixer in Europe's latest pushback against cybercrime infrastructure.…
AWS joins Microsoft, Google in the security AI agent race
Re:Invent AI agents are key to launching applications more quickly – and making them more secure from the start, Amazon says.…
Amazon primed to fuse Nvidia's NVLink into 4th-gen Trainium accelerators
Re:Invent Amazon says that its next generation of homegrown silicon will deliver 6x higher performance thanks to a little help from its buddy Nvidia.…
Kensington and Chelsea confirms IT outage was a data breach after all
Kensington and Chelsea Council has admitted that data was quietly lifted from its systems during last week's cyber meltdown, confirming that the outage was not just an IT faceplant but a bona fide data breach.…
London grid crunch delays new housing amid datacenter boom
The Future of the Datacenter Access to electricity has become a major source of delay for housebuilding in London, and datacenters are inevitably tied up in this, leading to calls for greater oversight of energy and construction planning so that they keep pace with demand.…
FTC schools edtech outfit after intruder walked off with 10M student records
US edtech provider Illuminate Education just got dinged by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly failing to keep an attacker from pilfering data on 10 million students.…
Waymo chalks up another four-legged casualty on San Francisco streets
Self-driving car company Waymo has confirmed that one of its vehicles ran over a dog in San Francisco on Sunday.…
Apply here to win a Microsoft Ugly Sweater. It's uglier than ever
Free Wear It's that time of year again when Microsoft dispatches its latest Ugly Sweater to The Register, and we spoil a lucky reader that makes us smile by sending you the garment in time for Christmas.…
Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one
Opinion Making software would be the perfect job if it wasn't for those darn users. Windows head honcho Pavan Davuluri would be forgiven for feeling this of late as his happy online paean about Windows becoming an "agentic OS" was met by massive dissent in the comments. "Agentic schmentic, we want reliability, usability, and stability" was the gist.…
UK sinks to fifth in ESA funding league behind Spain
Nearly ten years after Brit astronaut Tim Peake visited the International Space Station (ISS), the UK has slipped behind Spain in European Space Agency funding rankings.…
Two paths to Enlightenment: AV Linux 25 and MX Moksha step forward
AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops.…
Defra admits Windows 10 refresh letter to MPs was wrong – machines were already on Windows 11
The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed its £312 million Windows 10 laptop refresh was, in fact, followed by a Windows 11 upgrade after an earlier letter to Parliament misstated the department's operating system timeline.…
Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling
Opinion There were lots of announcements about Kubernetes at KubeCon North America in Atlanta. I should know, I was there from beginning to end. But the biggest Kubernetes story of all didn't get much attention. Kubernetes is retiring its popular Ingress NGINX controller. Ingress NGINX goes to that big bit farm in the sky in March 2026. After that, "there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any security vulnerabilities that may be discovered."…
Samsung reveals its first tri-fold phone – and its desktop mode
Samsung has revealed its first tri-fold phone, and it runs the Korean giant’s DeX desktop environment without the need for an external monitor.…
IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a proposal has emerged suggesting the same community be granted a substantial chunk of the IPv6 numberspace.…