IT people are asked to cram a lot into a working week, which is why The Register tries to ease readers into Monday with a new instalment of “Who, Me?” – our reader-contributed column that shares your stories of office mistakes and escapes.This week,...
UK retail giant Tesco appears to have decided to replace VMware with Proxmox in its stores.A job ad for a new Head of Software Engineering: Edge Platform rolesays the gig involves leading “two major, interconnected engineering priorities: modernisin...
Internet governance bodies are likely to accelerate work to prepare the domain name system (DNS) so it can remain secure once quantum computers can challenge conventional encryption.John Crain, ICANN’s chief technology officer, last week told The Re...
China has proposed to restrict export of some AI technologies but quickly moved to allow some of its champion companies to continue shipping their wares abroad.Beijing’s Ministry of Commerce announced the restrictions in mid-October by revising its...
As is tradition, iFixit has torn open the latest iPhone and laid its parts bare on a table. It found some interesting details about how Apple might be hiding the crease on the Duo's folding screen and gave it a 5/10 repairability score. That mi...
In my mind, Spooky Season music comes in two distinct flavors. There are the fun, occasionally goofy songs like "The Monster Mash" and John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme." Then there is the genuinely terrifying: Throbbing Gristle, The Body, or S...
Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple's foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a few hours before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly...
Launcher-like pinned tabs, pop-over glance view, and more make Zen my go to browser. | Image: Zen Browser I know many of you are mourning the loss of the Arc browser, and I get it. It felt like the first app in a long time to really offer a ne...
The stick and face buttons are too close for comfort. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge The Crkd Nitro Deck was a saving grace for the original Nintendo Switch. The slide-on $59.99 accessory brought Hall effect sticks to drift-plagued cons...
Instagram is continuing its expansion into living rooms with Instagram for TV, for Apple TV. The company first started testing a version of the platform focused on Reels, live streams, and other video content, blown up for a bigger screen in De...
Building a UK datacenter spans three government departments: one handles datacenter policy, another telecoms, and a third energy.MPs this week explored what Prime Minister Andy Burnham's summer reshuffle means for businesses navigating Whitehall.Liz...
The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, "If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it's not welcome on r/op...
The UK Space Agency asked for names for its Active Debris Removal Mission, and, of course, the Register readership didn't disappoint.The Active Debris Removal Mission, led by ClearSpace UK and intended to remove a pair of UK-registered satellites fr...
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BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But o...
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that...
Threat actors built an AI agent designed to hijack exposed AI models to run autonomous attacks, with instructions allowing it to carry out up to 100,000 steps without human approval.The Symantec Threat Hunter Team uncovered the agent's full instruct...
One of the most frequently asked questions of Linux folks is "what's the best lightweight distro for an old PC?" The Reg FOSS desk's current answer is Raspberry Pi Desktop.A couple of weeks ago, we covered the news of a Trixie update for the Raspber...
Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into some...
LG’s C6 OLED TV is on sale in multiple sizes starting at $999.99 ($300 off). | Image: LG Black Friday is still over a month away, but if you’re hoping to upgrade your TV, you don’t need to wait until November. LG has already kicked off i...