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Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Mon, 2026-05-04 11:03
Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges
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Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner

Mon, 2026-05-04 11:03
Serious Linux VMs will enjoy big iron – if you can learn to love lock-in risks and skills challenges

VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.…

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If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Mon, 2026-05-04 09:06
Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows
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If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked

Mon, 2026-05-04 09:06
Even limited voter rolls can be linked to identify people, research shows

Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media posts.…

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How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot

Mon, 2026-05-04 08:00
Forget 'have you tried turning it off and on again?' Agentic AI support systems now seek and destroy tech issues before they're a problem.
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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

Mon, 2026-05-04 07:00
That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble
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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving

Mon, 2026-05-04 07:00
That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble

Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them.…

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Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

Mon, 2026-05-04 05:13
Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades
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Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back

Mon, 2026-05-04 05:13
Like actual butlers, this relic of the first dotcom boom has been a quaint anachronism for decades

In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites.…

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Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

Mon, 2026-05-04 02:35
Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada
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Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout

Mon, 2026-05-04 02:35
Prioritize resilience over productivity, say CISA, NCSC and their friends from Oz, NZ, Canada

Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech.…

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Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

Mon, 2026-05-04 00:33
PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge
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Just in time for Labour Day, China makes it illegal to fire humans if AI takes their jobs

Mon, 2026-05-04 00:33
PLUS: Samsung cashes in on RAM prices; Booze from space fetches huge price; China's hyperscalers surge

A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI.…

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Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Sun, 2026-05-03 23:00
Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?
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Microsoft's turned Windows into a cesspool, but it wants to do better

Sun, 2026-05-03 23:00
Windows is a mess, GitHub keeps wobbling, Copilot draws flak - what’s wrong at Redmond?

kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. …

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Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

Sun, 2026-05-03 13:05
In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy
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Inference is giving AI chip startups a second chance to make their mark

Sun, 2026-05-03 13:05
In a disaggregated AI world, Nvidia can be both a friend and an enemy

AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia's pie, it's now or never.…

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Royal Navy chief backs drones, autonomous weapons in ‘Hybrid Navy’

Sun, 2026-05-03 10:30
Plan mixes crewed ships, robot escorts, and long-range strike to bolster a stretched fleet

The leader of Britain’s Royal Navy has outlined a “Hybrid Navy” built on a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms to ensure it can continue to defend the nation and operate overseas.…

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Job's a good 'un: Bank of England tech project wins watchdog praise

Sun, 2026-05-03 08:34
PAC: Now why can't everybody else in public sector do it like this?

Parliament's spending watchdog has held up a successful large-scale public sector tech transformation as a rare example worth emulating, in a striking departure from the usual diet of failure and overspend.…

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Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Sat, 2026-05-02 11:30
Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM
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