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Voice, vision, pen: Oh dear. Windows boss says Microsoft is again reshaping OS
COMMENT Microsoft Windows and Devices boss, Pavan Davuluri, has shed light on plans for the flagship OS. Voice, touch, and pen control will all be part of a multimodal future, alongside a raft of inevitable AI features.…
BtcTurk suspends operations amid alleged $49M hot wallet heist
Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk is halting all deposits and withdrawals amid fears that blockchain bandits succeeded in significantly compromising its hot wallets.…
Microsoft patch Tuesday update fails to install
Microsoft has admitted that the August patch Tuesday update might fail to install through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), but it's ok, admins. Home users are "unlikely to experience this issue."…
Who made the demo list for Trump's fast-track nuclear reactor scheme?
America's Department of Energy (DoE) has named ten companies it will work with to test advanced atomic reactor projects outside of the agency's world-famous national laboratories, in line with President Trump's Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program.…
Vibe coding platform Anything arrives, our hands-on suggests caution
Hands On Create has declared its vibe coding platform, now called Anything, production-ready at version 1.0, with support for both web and mobile applications – although our quick hands-on generated a host of errors.…
Alexa hits snooze on basic functions as alarms and timers KO'd in UK outage
Amazon's Alexa is on the fritz, bungling alarms and timers and leaving some UK users trapped in an endless wake-up call.…
Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama
Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court's creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control of a dam's controls – a transatlantic double-act in legal files and floodgates.…
Amazon's $100B DC spend similar to entire Costa Rica GDP
The level of investment pouring into new infrastructure from datacenter operators is comparable to the turnover of some mid-sized economies.…
Italian hotels breached en masse since June, government confirms
Italy's digital agency (AGID) says a cybercriminal's claims concerning a spate of data thefts affecting various hotels across the country are genuine.…
.NET 10 preview out now, likely to be near feature-complete
Microsoft has released Preview 7 of its .NET 10 runtime and frameworks, with new features including wrapping WebSocket connections as streams, improved passkey authentication in ASP.NET, and new features and fixes for MAUI (Multi-platform App UI).…
Stock in the Channel pulls website amid cyberattack
A UK-based multinational that provides tech stock availability tools is telling customers that its website outage is due to a cyber attack.…
Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins
Boffins have peered deep into the eyes of social media users and come to the conclusion that they're not great at spotting when an influencer is trying to sell them something.…
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one
Opinion The Linux kernel is a remarkable creation. It has achieved a fundamental status in the industry, and thus the world, unmatched in scope, stability, and reputation. It powers lightbulbs to supercomputers, not to mention the billion-plus global army of Android. It covers a host of processors, a massive array of supported devices and an unparalleled choice of distributions.…
The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft?
Register debate series The UK government's five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft is set to see public sector bodies spend around £1.9 billion each year—nearly £9 billion in total over half a decade. It's a vast sum for software and services, and one that deserves close scrutiny.…
Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version
Redis 8.2 is FOSS again, albeit under a different license, and has multiple performance enhancements. Meanwhile, Redis 7.2, the last of the old FOSS versions, is nearing its end of life. New version, or new Valkey?…
Desktop-as-a-service now often cheaper to run than laptops - even after thin client costs
Analyst firm Gartner has declared hosted PCs are now often cheaper to operate than on-prem laptops, and two years away from being cost-effective for 95 percent of workers.…
Datacenter diplomacy: Australia commits to help Vanuatu build bit barns
Australia will help to fund the development of two datacenters in the Pacific island nation Vanuatu, an example of tech infrastructure becoming an important diplomatic consideration.…
Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco's AI sales by a cool billion bucks
Cisco sold twice as much AI kit as it forecast during its 2025 fiscal year and expects the market for binary brainboxes will continue to boost its bank balance in future.…
Doctors get dopey if they rely too much on AI, study suggests
When doctors use AI image recognition technology to spot and remove precancerous growths known as adenomas during colonoscopies, the detection rate is higher. But take the AI away, and their rate drops to below where it was in the first place.…
Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super
Eggheads working on El Capitan, the world's most powerful publicly known supercomputer, have developed a new tsunami forecasting system that could dramatically improve response times in coastal communities.…