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Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech
It's 2025 and the latest mega-album has just been released – on cassette tape. Taylor Swift dropped Life of a Showgirl on digital, vinyl, and the old jewel-cased pencil spinners. They're still with us, complete with tape tangling and endless rewinding to find that specific track you love.…
CIO made a dangerous mistake and ordered his security team to implement it
Who, Me? Welcome to another instalment of Who, Me? It's The Register's reader-contributed column that shares your missives about massive mistakes, and how you managed to move on after them.…
Mysterious X-37B spaceplane flies again, this time carrying a quantum GPS alternative
The US military’s Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane is in space again for its eighth mission.…
Australian university used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors
Asia In Brief Australia’s University of Melbourne last year used Wi-Fi location data to identify student protestors.…
AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp
Infosec in brief PLUS…
Tinker with LLMs in the privacy of your own home using Llama.cpp
Hands on Training large language models (LLMs) may require millions or even billion of dollars of infrastructure, but the fruits of that labor are often more accessible than you might think. Many recent releases, including Alibaba's Qwen 3 and OpenAI's gpt-oss, can run on even modest PC hardware.…