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Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforce
A senior Salesforce exec says users need to be flexible about AI pricing models while vendors determine which one works best.…
NASA boss-to-be gets spaced as proposed budget cuts detailed
More details are emerging about potential NASA budget cuts alongside the abrupt withdrawal of the nomination of Jared Isaacman as the agency's new administrator.…
Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options
Microsoft is updating Notepad again. The latest indignity for the veteran Windows text wrangler? Text formatting.…
VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit
Network engineers can take solace from the completed merger of Three and Vodafone announced today, as the difficult technical work now starts to unify their separate networks over the next several years.…
US community bank says thieves drained customer data through third party hole
Community bank MainStreet Bancshares says thieves stole data belonging to some of its customers during an attack on a third-party provider.…
French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assets
Stumbling Euro tech giant Atos looks set to finally sell its Advanced Computing assets to the French state.…
OpenMamba: Eat your greens, they're good for you
OpenMamba is an independent Italian distribution which uses Fedora's packaging tools and offers a choice of KDE Plasma or LXQt.…
Are you a big AI business vendor making terrible AI business decisions? We can help
Opinion Congratulations! As CEO of a giant tech company, head of a sovereign wealth fund, or a VC bored with megayacht leapfrog, you have billions of dollars of other people's cash to spend. You want to make a difference. You want to be a success.…
Wanted: IT manager for UK government agency – £60k
How much is an IT manager worth? Well, if you're working for a government agency, the answer seems to be about £60k (about $81k), according to a new vacancy being advertised.…
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
Who, Me? Welcome once again to “Who, Me?”, the reader contributed column in which we invite Reg reader to tell tales of the times when they got things very wrong.…
Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1
What did you do on Saturday? We ask because the Vienna Symphony Orchestra spent some of it playing a waltz that the European Space Agency (ESA) transmitted in the general direction of the Voyager X probe.…
Intel reportedly investigates return to memory biz with Japan’s SoftBank
Asia In Brief Intel and Japan’s SoftBank have reportedly teamed up to develop low-power memory for AI.…
Lumma infostealer takedown may have inflicted only a flesh wound as crew keeps pinching and selling data
Infosec In Brief Despite last week’s FBI announcement that it helped to take down the crew behind the Lumma infostealer, the malware continues to operate.…
VMware drops the lowest tier of its partner program – except in Europe
Broadcom’s VMware business unit has dropped the lowest tier of its channel program, a move one analyst told The Register will benefit its rivals.…
Mysterious leaker GangExposed outs Conti kingpins in massive ransomware data dump
exclusive A mystery whistleblower calling himself GangExposed has exposed key figures behind the Conti and Trickbot ransomware crews, publishing a trove of internal files and naming names.…
Aussie businesses now have to fess up when they pay off ransomware crims
Australia now requires large companies to inform the government if they have paid off ransomware perps.…
American science put on starvation diet
To make America great again, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to get by with less.…
Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo
Video Tesla has been testing self-driving Model Ys on the streets of Austin, Texas. But according to the automaker's bête noire, the Dawn Project, kids should keep clear.…
Nvidia scores its first DOE win since 2022 with Doudna supercomputer
The US Department of Energy's next supercomputer will be built by Dell Technologies and powered by Nvidia's next-gen Vera-Rubin accelerators - a notable switch from the usual Cray-AMD tag teams that build such machines. It's the first DOE win for Nvidia since the Venado system in 2022.…
Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents
Perplexity, an AI search biz, has launched Perplexity Labs, a project automation service capable of generating basic apps and digital assets on demand, with example workflows and project samples to help first-timers get started.…