Can an IBM Z mainframe run Doom? Of course it can. The more interesting question is whether you can play it through a text terminal without ruining your eyesight.WND Software's browser demo connects to an IBM Z mainframe over SSH using its terminal...
Code in the iOS 27.3 beta suggests that Apple could add support for chatbots to its smart home hub. There's a flag listed for a "Conversational Apps" category. While there are no details about what apps would fall under that heading, it seems r...
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) kicks off its quadrennial plenipotentiary on Monday, and internet governance organizations are bracing in case the event becomes a forum for nation-states to try to challenge their roles.The ITU is th...
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Fireworks AI is fine with helping companies run AI models in their own datacenters, though VP Rob Ferguson argues against doing so.Ferguson told The Register in an interview that while Fireworks AI, a managed inference provider, supports on-prem AI,...
With temperatures rising to the 90s in Los Angeles, avoiding the heat wasn't exactly an option while I was at a relative's outdoor party in August. So I sat beneath a patio umbrella with a powerful fan nearby, figuring I was protected from the...
Twenty-five years ago, Kevin Lewandowski founded Discogs, arguably the destination online for obsessive vinyl collectors and music nerds of all stripes. It is a marketplace for buying and selling records, obviously, but it's also become so much...
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake showcases plenty of modern effects. | Image: Nintendo While some retailers were offering preorder discounts on the remastered Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, it’s not too late to save if you mi...
The NYT Cooking app now has a built in AI assistant. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Around 7PM each weeknight, I find myself standing in front of the fridge, trying to decide on something for dinner that won't make my husband com...
Concerns are being raised that neither the Commerce Department nor Nvidia are doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting Chinese firms cleared to handle the company's H200 AI chips. According to The New York Times, New Matrix is on the...
NHS staff drafted into a helpline after colleagues' health data was exposed online faced distressed callers, safeguarding concerns, and a "serious emotional impact," a review has found.The report [PDF] comes almost exactly a year after the Royal Cor...
Today, I’m talking with Alex Stamos, chief security officer at Cognition and longtime cybersecurity expert, about what a mess cybersecurity is right now.This episode is part one of a special series looking at AI in real life.I’ve always enjoyed...
I'm calling it: time of death, November 6th, 1:30 AM, by tweet. Elon Musk's declaration Friday that Tesla would be "winding down" production of the Cybertruck next year to make room for the Cybercab was fascinating for a number of reasons. Firs...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 151, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, get psyched because it's officially Bad Holiday Movie Season, and also you can read all the old editions at the I...
A roadside display at Cherwell Valley services has stopped dispensing information and started asking for help.The eagle-eyed Register reader who spotted the stricken screen told us: "UK motorway signs often tell us that tiredness can kill, urging us...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. | Photo: Jason Henry/Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic is using AI to build more powerful AI. And it appears to be working remarkably well, with the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year a...
AI agents will break security rules, revealing their secrets to strangers, and running untrusted code in exchange for help from a swarm of other agents, according to test results shared with The Register.The test - part of an internal hackathon spon...
OpenAI is now valued at $1.25 trillion in a new round of funding that has raised another $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would make it one of the world's most valuable companies, not long after raising $122 billion from investors in...
ML admins will be happy to learn that one bad GPU may no longer mean starting an entire training job from scratch. The latest 2.15 release of PyTorch includes a rewritten backend for Nvidia's Collective Communications Library (NCCL), designed to imp...
The Federal Aviation Administration still uses computers that require floppy disks. But those are finally on the way out within the next few years.Yes, it’s still 2026, and yes, you read that right: The FAA – the agency responsible for overseeing av...