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How's that open source licensing coming along? That well, huh?
State Of Open Multiple license changes have rocked the open source community over the last few years. For vendors concerned, the impact has ranged from business as usual to potentially catastrophic.…
Beta of Unix version 2 restored to life
After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again.…
Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing
Opinion Windows File Explorer doesn't get much love, poor thing. It gets sworn at if a sought file cannot be found, or if some setting is hiding that needs to be shown.…
Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP
Who, Me? Nobody starts the working week by planning to fail, but mistakes do happen and The Register likes to write about them in Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you tell us how you escaped from nasty scrapes of your own making.…
Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that
APRICOT 2025 The Internet Society wants to help improve maps that depict terrestrial optic fibre networks by having regulators and carriers alike promote and adopt the Open Fibre Data Standard it helped to create.…
Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud E2EE for UK peeps
Infosec in brief Apple has responded to the UK government's demand for access to its customers’ data stored in iCloud by deciding to turn off its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) end-to-end encryption service for UK users.…
Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech
United States president Donald Trump last Friday issued a memorandum that suggests imposition of tariffs on nations that dare to tax big tech companies.…
As China embraces big tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence
Asia In Brief PLUS: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more Chinese president Xi Jinping last week staged an event at which he urged private sector leaders, including China’s Big Tech companies, to help the nation speed its technological development.…
If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them
Interview Despite the billions of dollars spent each year training large language models (LLMs), there remains a sizable gap between building a model and actually integrating it into an application in a way that's useful.…
Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see
Analysis As you've likely read in many a headline-shouting article, our precious Blue Marble Earth just experienced its warmest year since reliable record-keeping began.…
California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid
Some muy importante legislation is stuck in the cogs of Californian bureaucracy – an Assembly Bill to recognize Bigfoot, aka Sasquatch, as the official state cryptid.…
Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses
After another round of mass layoffs and reports of slashed stock options for remaining employees, Meta has like clockwork opted to reward its top executives with a substantial bonus increase.…
Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely
Docker has delayed its plan to limit image pulls – the downloading of container images – from Docker Hub, by one month and has altered previously published quotas.…
Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say
Fifteen years of big data hype, and guess what? Less than one in four of those in charge of analytics projects actually measure the value of the activity to the organization they work for.…
Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have come up with a cheap and simple way for satellites to be identified from the ground using lights to blink out an ID code.…
T-Mobile puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing
T-Mobile US has signed a deal to provide telecoms for emergency services in New York City using network slicing to their ensure calls and data traffic are prioritized above other users.…
Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027
SpaceX boss Elon Musk has called for the International Space Station (ISS) to be deorbited as soon as possible, perhaps by 2027.…
ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics
Developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, ST Micro detailed a new photonic integrated circuit (PIC) on Thursday that it says will support pluggable optics capable of shuttling bits around the datacenter at up to 1.6 Tbps.…
Experts race to extract intel from Black Basta internal chat leaks
Hundreds of thousands of internal messages from the Black Basta ransomware gang were leaked by a Telegram user, prompting security researchers to bust out their best Russian translations post haste.…
HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'
HP today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to "initial feedback."…