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AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series
With the launch of AMD's RX 9070-series graphics cards, AMD is going back to its roots. Rather than trying to compete with Nvidia on raw performance with another flagship GPU beyond the means of most gamers, the House of Zen aims to undercut its competitor by delivering more frames per dollar.…
Profit slide at HP can only mean one thing: Hammer time
HP says it intends to elbow up to 2,000 workers overboard with the aim to help it save up to $300 million in its current fiscal year that runs until October.…
UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?
UK central government departments need to better align their requirements in cloud computing to get better deals out of the big providers, MPs heard this week.…
Payday from hell as several UK banks report major outages
The UK is full of unhappy workers that are unable to manage their payday cash amid online service outages at a host of major banks.…
IBM likes Hashicorp, finally puts a $6.4B ring on it
IBM has finally completed the $6.4 billion takeover of Hashicorp days after Britain's competition regulator gave the corporate marriage its seal of approval.…
One stupid keystroke exposed sysadmin to inappropriate information he could not unsee
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates your escapes from dangerous tech support requests.…
Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU
The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) 2025 Board of Directors election is again mired in controversy.…
Microsoft names alleged credential-snatching 'Azure Abuse Enterprise' operators
Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI services – ultimately to generate deepfake smut videos of celebrities and others.…
Feds: Army soldier accused of AT&T heist Googled ‘can hacking be treason,’ ‘defecting to Russia’
The US Army soldier accused of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.…
FBI officially fingers North Korea for $1.5B Bybit crypto-burglary
The FBI has officially accused North Korea's Lazarus Group of stealing $1.5 billion in Ethereum from crypto-exchange Bybit earlier this month, and asked for help tracking down the stolen funds.…
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot
Amazon Web Services on Thursday announced Ocelot, a quantum computing chip based on "cat qubits."…
Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM
Framework's modular mini desktop has received glowing approval from the repair experts at iFixit, despite having non-upgradeable memory because of its Ryzen AI Max processor.…
DARPA seeks ideas for 'large bio-mechanical space structures'
The US Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, has put out a Request for Information (RFI) for "large bio-mechanical space structures."…
Ampere bets on Arm to muscle into Intel's telco territory
Ampere Computing is looking to target the telecoms market with its Arm-based server chips, hoping to take a slice of the growing compute needs of 5G and edge processing, which it believes Intel is no longer best served to meet.…
No new engineer hires this year as AI coding tools boost productivity, says Salesforce
Salesforce will not hire any more engineers this year after investment in AI coding tools provided a 30 percent productivity boost, its CEO claimed as he sought to charm investors.…
FDA clears Google watch feature to call 911 if you flatline
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given the nod to the Loss of Pulse Detection feature of the Pixel Watch 3.…
Trump tariffs forcing rethink of PC purchases stateside
President Trump's tariffs on goods imported from China, in addition to faltering consumer purchases, are forecast to result in slower-than-expected global shipments of personal computers, according to IDC.…
Nope. You probably can't cash in by turning your office or farm into a datacenter
APRICOT 2025 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but if you own real estate and think you can cash in by using it to host an AI datacenter, you're probably wrong.…
30-year-old NHS supply chain system hit by 35 major alerts in 11 months
A state-owned company that handles £4.5 billion ($5.7 billion) annual spending on behalf of the NHS has suffered 35 high-priority computer system alerts in 2024, leading to delays in shipping thousands of products to UK hospitals.…
Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl
APRICOT 2025 The networking industry should address its perennial staff shortage by giving early-career techies the kind of hands-on training delivered during apprenticeships for trainee carpenters or electricians.…