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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday he will step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors, with Microsoft restructuring the subsidiary's leadership rather than appointing a direct replacement. Microsoft developer division head Julia Liuson will oversee GitHub's revenue, engineering and support operations, while chief product officer Mario Rodriguez will report to Microsoft AI platform VP Asha Sharma.

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Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update

Viennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.…

China has begun construction of a $167 billion hydropower facility on Tibet's Yarlung Tsangpo River that would generate triple the output of the Three Gorges Dam. The project employs a run-of-the-river design, drilling deep tunnels through mountains to bypass the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, where the river drops nearly two vertical miles over 300 miles. Water diverted through the tunnels will drive turbines at both ends without creating a large reservoir. The river currently produces just 2% of its hydropower potential. A $7 billion transmission network will deliver electricity to Guangdong province, Hong Kong, and Macau. China imported nearly a quarter of its energy supply in 2023.

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A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms!

From the department of "Want to feel old?" comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access.…

The operator of Wikipedia on Monday lost a legal challenge to parts of Britain's Online Safety Act, which sets tough new requirements for online platforms and has been criticized for potentially curtailing free speech. From a report: The Wikimedia Foundation took legal action at London's High Court over regulations made under the law, which it said could impose the most stringent category of duties on Wikipedia. The foundation said if it was subject to so-called Category 1 duties -- which would require Wikipedia's users and contributors' identities to be verified -- it would need to drastically reduce the number of British users who can access the site. Judge Jeremy Johnson dismissed its case on Monday, but said the Wikimedia Foundation could bring a further challenge if regulator Ofcom "(impermissibly) concludes that Wikipedia is a Category 1 service".

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Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash

OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests - mostly about removal of model choice - following the rollout of GPT-5.…

Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors

Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig Barrett weighs in on the troubled chipmaker's future.…

By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money

DEF CON While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON – there were a lot of people using the F-word too: fraud.…

Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97

Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.…

In 2020 a YouTube video used video footage of Steve Wozniak in a scam to steal bitcoin. "Some people said they lost their life savings," Wozniak tells CBS News, explaining why he sued YouTube in 2020 — and where his case stands now: Wozniak's lawsuit against YouTube has been tied up in court now for five years, stalled by federal legislation known as Section 230. Attorney Brian Danitz said, "Section 230 is a very broad statute that limits, if not totally, the ability to bring any kind of case against these social media platforms." "It says that anything gets posted, they have no liability at all," said Wozniak. "It's totally absolute." Google responded to our inquiry about Wozniak's lawsuit with a statement from José Castañeda, of Google Policy Communications: "We take abuse of our platform seriously and take action quickly when we detect violations ... we have tools for users to report channels that are impersonating their likeness or business." [Steve's wife] Janet Wozniak, however, says YouTube did nothing, even though she reported the scam video multiple times: "You know, 'Please take this down. This is an obvious mistake. This is fraud. You're YouTube, you're helping dupe people out of their money,'" she said. "They wouldn't," said Steve... Today is Steve Wozniak's 75th birthday. (You can watch the interview here.) And the article includes this interesting detail about Woz's life today: Wozniak sold most of his Apple stock in the mid-1980s when he left the company. Today, though, he still gets a small paycheck from Apple for making speeches and representing the company. He says he's proud to see Apple become a trillion-dollar company. "Apple is still the best," he said. "And when Apple does things I don't like, and some of the closeness I wish it were more open, I'll speak out about it. Nobody buys my voice!" I asked, "Apple listen to you when you speak out?" "No," Wozniak smiled. "Oh, no. Oh, no."

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Many core offerings now back in action, says retailer

British retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers.…

Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb

Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which "makes the world actively a worse place to live" – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old.…

Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins

In space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn't stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles, and why. The key takeaway, should you find yourself on board a space station and in need of a tissue: maybe skip the spacewalk.…

AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey

Feature Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part of its portfolio, alongside the paper-based maps beloved by the nation's legion of cagoule-clad outdoor types.…

And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers

The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.…

Wedneday Beyond Meat "missed Wall Street estimates for second-quarter revenue," reports Reuters. "Consumers' growing concerns about processed foods are severely diminishing the appeal of Beyond Meat's product line, causing retailers and quick service restaurants to pull back sharply on orders," Rachel Wolff, analyst at Emarketer, said. Retail sales of refrigerated plant-based meat alternative products in the U.S. have fallen 17.2% so far this year, and frozen plant-based meat alternatives have fallen 8.1%, according to data from SPINS... [Beyond's] revenue for the quarter ended June 28 fell nearly 20% to $75 million, compared with analysts' average estimate of $82 million, according to data compiled by LSEG. While the company arguably invented a new market for plant-based meat substitutes, it also "owns no real intellectual property," argues The Street. "And every company in the meat and grocery business (more or less) now sells a take-off of a product that already had limited appeal..." Beyond Meat has admitted it's in trouble by hiring corporate restructuring expert John Boken from consultancy AlixPartners as interim chief transformation officer [with a focus that includes "operating expense reduction" and "broader operational efficiency"]. It has also let go of 44 employees in North America (6% of its global workforce) as it seeks to cut operating expenses amid disappointing sales... Beyond Meat also has a significant cash problem. As of June 28, 2025, Beyond Meat's cash and cash equivalents balance was $117.3 million, and total outstanding debt was $1.2 billion. The company does have time to fend off a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, but it also has limited, if any, prospects to meet its impending cash needs.

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Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters

Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they’re more so.…

Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes

Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…

Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030

China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it again afterwards.…

Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots

Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it.…