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Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture
Salesforce has decided to stop developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service.…
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters
Carl Eschenbach has stepped down as Workday CEO and been replaced by co-founder and executive Aneel Bhusri following a round of job cuts and share price volatility.…
Dutch data watchdog snitches on itself after getting caught in Ivanti zero-day attacks
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) says it was one of the many organizations popped when attackers raced to exploit recent Ivanti vulnerabilities as zero-days.…
Azure power hiccup gives Windows admins a rare break from updates
Microsoft suffered a service disruption over the weekend after a power incident at an Azure datacenter in the West US region affected Windows Update.…
SpaceX back to Falcon 9 launches as Musk eyes 'self-growing' Moon city
SpaceX resumed launching Falcon 9 rockets this weekend after last week's second stage incident. At the same time, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company has shifted its focus to "building a self-growing city on the Moon" within a decade.…
Europe's sovereign cloud spend set to triple as geopolitics bite
European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.…
Taiwan tells Uncle Sam its chip ecosystem ain't going anywhere
Taiwan's vice-premier has ruled out relocating 40 percent of the country's semiconductor production to the US, calling the Trump administration's goal "impossible."…
Brussels eyes crowbar for Meta's WhatsApp AI lockout
Brussels has accused Meta of breaking EU competition rules by locking rival AI chatbots out of WhatsApp, opening the door to emergency action that could force the tech giant to let competitors back onto the platform.…
How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography
FOSDEM 2026 The creators of security software have encountered an unlikely foe in their attempts to protect us: modern compilers.…
Follow the money: Switzerland remains Europe's top destination for tech pay
European techies looking for the biggest payday are far better off in Switzerland than anywhere else, with average salaries eclipsing all other countries on the continent.…
BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers
Brits will soon pay more to legally watch the BBC's output than to subscribe to some of the world's biggest streaming services, after the UK government confirmed the TV license fee will climb to £180 a year from April.…
European Commission probes intrusion into staff mobile management backend
Brussels is digging into a cyber break-in that targeted the European Commission's mobile device management systems, potentially giving intruders a peek inside the official phones carried by EU staff.…
Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty
FOSDEM 2026 Amid growing interest in digital sovereignty and getting data out of the corporate cloud and into organizations' ownership, the Matrix open communication protocol is thriving.…
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation
Opinion Thirty years is a big ol' chunk of anyone's life. It can take you from new parent to new grandparent, from bright young thing to mid-life crisis, and from shaver to graybeard. In the case of Todd C Miller, one thing hasn't changed. He's been the sole maintainer of the Linux sudo utility. He's not giving up just yet, but he needs help and no help has come.…
Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
Who, Me? You can fool some of the people some of the time, but The Register tries to entertain all of its readers most of the time and especially early on Monday mornings, when we present a new installment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column that shares your stories of workplace mayhem and mischief.…
Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar
The rising price of memory has produced an interesting phenomenon: technologists wondering if the memory they have installed in home labs, or bottom drawers, might make them rich.…
Indian police commissioner wants ID cards for AI agents
Asia In Brief The Commissioner of Police in the Indian city of Hyderabad, population 11 million, has called for AI agents to be issued with identity cards – or at least their digital equivalent.…
Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0
Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can’t count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19.…
Telcos aren't saying how they fought back against China's Salt Typhoon attacks
Infosec In Brief So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now, has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal.…
Three AI engines walk into a bar in single file...
Developers looking to gain a better understanding of machine learning inference on local hardware can fire up a new llama engine.…

