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‘I nearly died after flying thousands of miles to install a power cord for the NSA’
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that shares your terrifying tech support stories.…
EU cloud gang wins concessions from Microsoft on pricing, licensing
A trade group of European cloud providers has claimed a small victory in bringing lower prices and more flexibility in deploying Microsoft software on their infrastructure.…
VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support
VMware on Wednesday announced it has extended the time between major releases from two years to three and extended support for those releases to six years.…
OpenAI deputizes ChatGPT to serve as an agent that uses your computer
OpenAI's ChatGPT has graduated from chatbot to agent, at least for paying subscribers.…
AWS sheds more jobs as Jassy's automation layoff prophecy comes true
Amazon.com CEO Andy Jassy's predictions that automation would cost jobs at the company have proven accurate at Amazon Web Services.…
Google sues 25 alleged BadBox 2.0 botnet operators, all of whom are in China
Google has filed a lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals in China it accuses of breaking into more than 10 million devices worldwide and using them to build a botnet, called BadBox 2.0, and then to carry out other cybercrimes and fraud.…

