Google Cloud has revealed that the cause of the October 20 outage in its europe-west-2-b availability zone was a ‘misconfiguration’ of its systems that meant its emergency generators didn’t start.The outage at the London facility caused service inte...
VMware appears to have made a concession to European regulators by extending the life of its low-end vSphere Standard and Enterprise Plus products.The virtualization pioneer quietly announced the extension in the November 4 blog post in which it ann...
When The Register writes about professional certifications offered by vendors, we often receive comments arguing that such credentials are nowhere near as valuable as real-world experience. Now, Microsoft has acknowledged there’s some merit in that...
Google-owned autonomous cab company Waymo has revealed it will stop allowing Uber users to book its robo-cabs, hours before the OG rideshare giant made a case for all autonomous vehicle fleet operators to use its platform instead of creating their o...
Meta has acquired AI coding startup Conductor, signaling interest in applying AI to software engineering tasks.Charlie Holtz, the startup's co-founder and CEO, made the announcement in a blog post. He also revealed that the company's hosted Conducto...
AI has become a juggernaut, driving technical strategy in the tech sector and outside of it. With the worldwide server market growing 30 percent in a single year to hit $122.6bn in the first quarter of 2025, IDC now feels safe recategorizing AI-driv...
The Ocarina of Time remake on the Switch 2 smashes together the past and present. The game retains much of the original N64 experience while updating it with modern graphics and gameplay that make it feel contemporary. But the mingling of time...
If you share content using public iCloud links, Apple could soon be looking over your shoulder and checking for "harmful content." The iBiz announced plans to moderate publicly accessible iCloud share links in version 27.3 of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and...
As of Tuesday, developers can explore expanded Siri AI integration for their Apple platform apps through beta releases of iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3. Next spring, nearly three years after announcing plans for deeper third-p...
X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it's now rolling out the updated app "one country at a time" for signed-in users."Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection," principal engineer Yag...
Alex Karp, CEO of US spy-tech company Palantir, used this week's historic US midterm election results to claim an unlikely mantle for a military software supplier: pioneer of an antiwar movement.Palantir's Q3 revenue rose 96 percent year-on-year to...
Fedora 45 is here, after not one but two week-long delays as the team found last-minute issues. Although both the original and second announcements were irksomely non-specific, in general we prefer this "when it's ready" approach to the rigid calend...
Your new robot servant doesn't have to look anything like a person or walk on two legs. In fact, it might just be a claw that hangs from the ceiling instead. That’s the future envisioned by Nathaniel Nifong, founder of Neufangled Robotics, and its S...
Scientists have developed a way to remove starlight from telescope images that improved sensitivity to faint exoplanets by up to 15 times in tests on James Webb Space Telescope data.A team led by Northwestern University's Rodrigo Ferrer-Chavez combi...
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out its plans to make a splash in the AI data center busi...
On-premises high-performance compute (HPC) is still in demand, according to Hyperion Research, which estimates the market is expanding at almost 20 percent year-on-year, often driven by requirements for AI processing.What Hyperion calls the "on-pre...
As first reported by The Register, VMware has returned to the low-end server virtualization market with a product called "vSphere Express."The product will run on up to 128 processor cores and includes vMotion to allow live migration of VMs, automat...
Dream bigger, babe. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics. If your soc...
Have a little treat. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Much like a great recipe, it started with a stick of butter.This wasn't real butter; it was a friend's new phone grip, complemented by a phone case with bold stripes. Butter is in vogue...
It’s not often that some of the best noise-canceling headphones you can buy are over half off. But right now, the first-gen Bose QuietComfort Headphones are on sale for $169.99 ($190 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Bose, matching its best price t...