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Microsoft hits pause on Copilot ... in SQL Server Management Studio
Microsoft's policy of inserting Copilot into every corner of its portfolio is on brief hiatus, at least in the first preview of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 22.…
Perplexity wants to get discounted AI products into the US government too
Perplexity has entered the race to inject AI into the federal government with a new public sector version of its AI search engine, another AI discount, and a pledge to start enforcing new security measures for government-related use, which weren't applied by default until now. …
Ubuntu users left waiting after Canonical's servers take weekend off
When is an outage not an outage? According to Canonical's forum, it's when a 36-minute server disruption creates a multi-day backlog that leaves users unable to install or update Ubuntu systems.…
French datacenter biz signs 12-year nuclear pact with EDF
The datacenter industry's unquenchable thirst for nuclear energy has seen French bit barn operator Data4 sign a 12 year supply deal with EDF.…
PACER buckles under MFA rollout as courts warn of support delays
US courts have warned of delays as PACER, the system for accessing court documents, struggles to support users enrolling in its mandatory MFA program.…
Red Hat back-office team to be Big and Blue whether they like it or not
IBM-owned subsidiary Red Hat is docking a bunch of its back-office staff, along with the techies that support them, into the mothership.…
CISA sounds alarm over TP-Link wireless routers under attack
Infosec in brief The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has said two flaws in routers made by Chinese networking biz TP-Link are under active attack and need to be fixed – but there's another flaw being exploited as well.…
UK tech minister booted out in weekend cabinet reshuffle
UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer cleared out the officials in charge of tech and digital law in a dramatic cabinet reshuffle at the weekend.…
Pre-owned software trial kicks off in UK as Microsoft pushes resale ban
Microsoft's tussle with UK-based reseller ValueLicensing over the sale of secondhand licenses returns to the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal this week, with the Windows behemoth now claiming that selling pre-owned Office and Windows software is unlawful.…
So much for the paperless office: UK government inks £900M deal for printers etc.
The UK government has awarded 12 suppliers places on a framework deal that could see it spend up to £900 million on printers, photocopiers, and other multifunctional devices.…
VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
Opinion If you're a tech company marketing manager writing white papers, you'll love a juicy pull quote. That's where a client says something so lovely about you, you can pull it out of the main text and reprint it in a big font in the middle of the page.…
Playing ball games in the datacenter was obviously stupid, but we had to win the league
Who, Me? Monday mornings see the resumption of endless coopetition between IT folks and those they strive to serve but sometimes disappoint. The Register celebrates that eternal struggle with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that offers the chance to admit failures and celebrate escapes.…
Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated
AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without seeking or securing permission.…
All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner, but jobs are safe
All work in IT departments will be done with the help of AI by 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, which thinks massive job losses won’t result.…
Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems
Asia In Brief Microsoft has warned that customers of its Azure cloud may experience heightened latency due to a submarine cable outage in the Red Sea.…
Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says
Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AIs, according to a recent report.…
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus
It is almost half a century since Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to study Jupiter, Saturn, and the atmosphere of Titan. It continues to send data back to Earth.…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let's talk about digital presidents-for-life
Opinion China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin were this week reportedly overheard chatting about the possibility that organ transplants might help them achieve immortality.…
No more waiting for lines: New Windows keyboard shortcuts output em and en dashes with ease
Hands on Writers rely on the humble em dash (—) and en dash (–) to add flavor and function to their sentences. But typing these characters, which are slightly longer than a hyphen, has been a challenge in Windows, up until now.…
Reg hack attends job interview hosted by AI avatar, struggles to exit uncanny valley
A startup called Job Bolt has created AI avatars that conduct job interviews. The Register couldn't help but give it a try and can report that it's an unnerving experience.…