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Asia In Brief Nvidia’s quarterly results occasionally raise eyebrows because they report that Singapore is a disproportionately large market for its wares. In a Q3 2025 filing [PDF], for example, the accelerator colossus revealed that Singapore is its second-largest market and accounted for 22 percent of revenue.…

Special report We humans have gorged ourselves on fossil fuels for well over a century, and the bill for that delicious, civilization-enhancing meal has finally come due.…

Systems Approach As my Systems Approach co-author Bruce Davie and I think through what it means to apply the systems lens to security, I find that I keep asking myself what it is, exactly, that’s unique about security as a system requirement?…

Law enforcement officers across Europe assembled again to collectively disrupt major facilitators of cybercrime, with at least one of those cuffed apparently a fan of the dramedy series The Gilmore Girls.…

Comment Remember when things didn't need constant updating and reboots to work? Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen notes that the affliction has even spread as far as the humble electric toothbrush.…

Comment Any hope Intel may have had of challenging rivals Nvidia and AMD for a slice of the AI accelerator market dissolved on Thursday as yet another GPU architecture was scrapped.…

Kettle There's really only one topic for the Kettle this week. DeepSeek.…

Microsoft appears to be starting the year with a rebound in Windows 11 adoption as the latest figures show the operating system reversing its recent months' long declines.…

Dell Technologies intends to end its hybrid work arrangement in March, requiring those previously allowed to toil from home part-time to spend their entire five-day work week within corporate walls.…

Microsoft has made Think Deeper, OpenAI's GPT-o1 reasoning model, "free and available for all users of Copilot."…

It's been less than two weeks since Donald Trump returned to the White House, and the effect the administration may have on the global tech industry is still far from clear. …

Microsoft has explained what it means by "deprecation" – it doesn't mean "the end", it means "save the date."…

Analysis The shockwave following the release of competitive AI models from Chinese startup DeepSeek has led many to question the assumption that throwing ever more money at costly large-scale GPU-based infrastructure delivers the best results.…

NASA 'naut Sunita Williams has broken Peggy Whitson's record for total spacewalking time for a female astronaut with a trip outside the International Space Station (ISS) to collect samples from the outpost's exterior.…

IBM is hopeful of completing the $6.4 billion purchase of Hashicorp relatively smoothly given what Big Blue perceives to be a "more rational" and "pro-competition" regulatory environment.…

Wales has given the world many things – Tom Jones, laverbread, and the equals sign. But one woman from Caernarfon has added weaponized flatulence to the list. Her unorthodox approach to WhatsApp landed her with a community order and fines.…

BT Group claims to have pulled off a record build rate of more than a million premises in the final three months of 2024 amid efforts to install fiber connectivity across the UK and fierce competition from altnets.…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has inked a deal worth €862 million with Thales Alenia Space to develop a lunar lander.…

If the nonstop flood of ransomware attacks doesn't already make every day feel like Groundhog Day, then a look back at 2024 – and predictions for 2025 – definitely will.…

On Call Tech support people play many roles, and The Register celebrates them all in On Call, our reader-contributed Friday column in which we share your tales of adventure.…