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Microsoft parks Landsat and Sentinel satellite data in Azure's orbit

Fri, 2025-10-17 11:25
NASA's Earth-watching archives find new home in Redmond's cloud, complete with Copilot hype

Microsoft has made NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset available on Azure via the Windows giant's Planetary Computer platform.…

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SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA

Fri, 2025-10-17 11:16
A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade

More than a decade after SAP's S/4HANA in-memory ERP system debuted, 95 percent of legacy users say building a positive case to migrate requires a big effort or is genuinely challenging.…

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Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT

Fri, 2025-10-17 10:54
As OpenAI allow chatbot to spout erotic content, former British prime minister makes true feelings known

After a string of marriages and innumerable affairs, former UK prime minister Boris Johnson has come clean about his new squeeze.…

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Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case

Fri, 2025-10-17 09:51
Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales

Details have emerged of a troubling case in which a basic engineering mistake wrecked a digital evidence investigation and led to wrongful accusations.…

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MIT boffins double precision of atomic clocks by taming quantum noise

Fri, 2025-10-17 08:45
'Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise

Researchers at MIT say they have discovered a way to double the precision of optical atomic clocks by quieting the quantum noise that clouds their ticking.…

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Britains's AI gold rush hits a wall: not enough electricity

Fri, 2025-10-17 08:00
Energy Secretary Miliband promises renewable utopia for green and pleasant land... filled with datacenters

Energy is essential for delivering the UK governments' AI ambitions, but Britain faces a critical question: how can it supply enough power for rapidly expanding datacenters without causing blackouts or inflating consumer bills?…

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AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move

Fri, 2025-10-17 07:15
What the world's been waiting for: a stapler with wheels to help humans afflicted by RSI

It was only a matter of time. Having invaded the software world, AI has now fixed its sights on once-benign household objects and desk fodder.…

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'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

Fri, 2025-10-17 06:30
The 1990s called with a reminder that in the time before ransomware, infosec panics could be quite quaint

On Call By Friday it's only natural to look back upon the working week with a certain nostalgia, an emotion The Register celebrates each week in On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tales of tech support trauma.…

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Anthropic brings mad Skills to Claude

Thu, 2025-10-16 23:55
Teaching an old bot new tricks

Paying Anthropic customers can now teach their Claude new tricks, which the company calls Skills.…

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TSMC hurrying to bring advanced chip tech to Arizona fab

Thu, 2025-10-16 23:25
CEO C.C. Wei cites strong demand for AI products. Intel may also be a factor

TSMC is accelerating the rollout of advanced process nodes at its Arizona fabs to meet growing demand for American-made AI products.…

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AI makes phishing 4.5x more effective, Microsoft says

Thu, 2025-10-16 22:53
And potentially 50 times more profitable

People receiving an AI phishing email are 4.5 times more likely to click on the malicious link or file, according to Microsoft.…

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