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International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible Experts are warning of an increase in Oracle Java audits - as the tech giant nears its year end - following a switch to a per-employee license model that could see costs grow by up to five times....

Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior SUSE has kicked the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) out of its community-driven Linux distro, openSUSE, and the reasons it gives for doing so are revealing....

This BS ends at some point, right? Microsoft believes AI can hasten development of nuclear fusion as a practical energy source, which could in turn accelerate answers to the question of how to power AI....

One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements The EU and nation states have already heralded schemes to attract top scientific talent seeking to escape the Republic of Trump. So where's Britain in the mix?...

It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way Opinion When Donald Trump entered the White House, I expect Google thought its worries were over. A million-dollar "donation" for the inaugural ball, some face time between Sundar Pichai and Trump, and President Joe Biden's pesky Department of Justice (DoJ) demanding Google divest itself of its Chrome web browser would all be forgotten....

PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective On Call The unconditional love of a pet is often a solace, and perhaps never more so than at the end of a busy working week. Which is when The Register competes with the animal kingdom for your affection by delivering a new edition of On Call, our Friday column in which we share your stories of scratching out a living delivering tech support....

Industry pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way' says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson Web software biz 37signals has started to migrate its data out of the cloud and onto on-prem storage - and expects to save a further $1.3 million (980,000) a year after completing its high-profile cloud repatriation project and getting off AWS once and for all....

Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory calling for media companies and online platforms to block all content originating in Pakistan....

'I'm sorry, I can't help with that' Google's latest update to its Gemini family of large language models appears to have broken the controls for configuring safety settings, breaking applications that require lowered guardrails, such as apps providing solace for sexual assault victims....

Sole-source award raises eyebrows in rush to meet Trump's hiring mandates The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) awarded Workday a sole-source contract to overhaul its human resources systems - bypassing any formal competition - citing critical failures in its aging, fragmented HR infrastructure and binding deadlines from President Trump's executive orders on workforce restructuring....

As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters Next Dominic Johnston is fed up with VMware....

A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is leaving to become CEO of Applications at OpenAI, reporting directly to Sam Altman, the AI heavyweight announced on Thursday....

Last big release until trixie shows up Debian bookworm is getting what could be its last hurrah as the basis for Raspberry Pi's operating system, with what's likely to be its final appearance on a release for the diminutive computers....

Another mask-off moment, although fresh research says RoI for the tech is still lacking Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens....

Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk The GNOME Foundation has hired a new executive director to lead the organization, acting as GNOME's public face and leading the non-profit's fundraising efforts....

No direct impact on royalty, licensing biz but device end demand in firing line World War Fee Arm shares took a tumble after it declined to issue guidance for the year ahead in light of the current economic uncertainty, despite the chip designer claiming record revenue for the quarter just ended....

Gartner also says customers say ERP vendor's internal processes cause delays Users who signed up for the RISE with SAP deal are finding that the costs are higher than expected, and the service levels are worse, research from Gartner indicates....

Networking biz cashes in on AI hysteria, warns trade tensions could disrupt supply and margins World War Fee Arista Networks is warning investors of the fear, uncertainty and doubt caused by the Trump administration's shifting trade policies....

Jenson Huang's compensation package swells to $49.8M, firm reveals younger Huangs on the payroll too The gods of executive pay smiled on Nvidia's chief executive in the last full financial year, awarding him a 45 percent bump in total compensation....

Icons from a more civilized time Windows deposits a huge number of files onto a user's PC, some of which are essential for the operating system, and others that are a reminder of gentler times. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen this week took another trip down memory lane to the pixel-tastic world of moricons.dll on his Old New Thing blog....

Laurie Leshin to leave in June Laurie Leshin, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is stepping down in June and will be replaced by JPL veteran David Gallagher....

Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper Internet souk Amazon has unveiled a new robot for its warehouses and claims the machine uses a sense of "touch" to shift around 75 percent of the types of packages handled....

Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse' NASA's "skinny" budget has rattled its allies. After years of close cooperation, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking jilted, while others describe the US space scene as adrift in gloom and doubt....

Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box Clippy is back - and this time, its arrival on your desktop as a front-end for locally run LLMs has nothing to do with Microsoft....

Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default - part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components....

Newly completed substation will help bear the load Elon Musk's xAI is removing about half of the temporary gas-turbine generators powering its Colossus AI datacenter over the next two months, according to the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, not due to environmental concerns, but because a new nearby substation now supplies the needed power....

Now individual school districts extorted by fiends An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers get individually extorted by either the same ransomware crew that hit it - or someone connected to the crooks....

CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate' CrowdStrike - the Texas antivirus slinger famous for crashing millions of Windows machines last year - plans to cut five percent of its staff, or about 500 workers, in pursuit of "greater efficiencies," according to CEO and co-founder George Kurtz....

Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity India's telecom regulator has signaled it's ready to let Starlink and other satellite-broadband providers operate - but only if they agree to strict conditions, including setting up special monitoring zones" within 50km of land borders where law enforcement and security agencies are permitted to monitor users....

Eddy Cue tells DC court Safari to rope in Anthropic, OpenAI and co Updated An Apple executive's backhanded endorsement of AI as a replacement for traditional internet searches has sent Google stock tumbling....

Chocolate Factory promises early-stage capital to atomic upstart Elementl Google has signed a strategic agreement with nuclear project developer Elementl Power to support the early development of three potential fission reactor sites in the US....

Judge allows aspects of passenger lawsuit to proceed A federal judge has cleared the runway for a class action from disgruntled passengers against Delta Air Lines as turbulence from last year's CrowdStrike debacle continues to buffet the carrier....

We were shocked - SHOCKED - by the answer Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the slurpiest mobile browser of them all? The answer, according to VPN vendor Surfshark, is Chrome....

Modern Linux, vintage kernel Good news for those fond of crimson headwear - Fedora 42 is now an official distro on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2)....

United Airlines canceling flights as chaos mounts Air traffic controllers for Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey were horrified when all radar and radio equipment, including backup systems, failed last week, cutting communication with aircraft for 90 seconds....

Shifts data services to containers and goes back to the future with Pure Storage tie-in Next Nutanix is moving beyond its hyperconverged roots by creating containerized versions of its data services and more external storage options, in ways that make it a better target for those migrating away from VMware....

Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit Datacenter outages are less frequent and severe, but human error remains one of the most persistent challenges, with between two-thirds and four-fifths of major wobbles involving some element of meatbag-related cause....

Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right? Microsoft has confirmed what some Windows Insiders are already noticing - the Windows 11 Start Menu is getting a revamp and a panel for Phone Link....

It's not rocket science, it's budgeting NASA's people analytics group has swapped its Neo4j graph database for Memgraph due to costs....

Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed' Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated "slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining maintainers' time....

Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play? Comment Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has weighed in on the increasingly heated discussion regarding the impending end of Windows 10. Are Windows 11's hardware requirements all about security or just a sales ploy in disguise?...

Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel's 486 chip and its contemporaries....

Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines' Fans and writers of science fiction are not necessarily enthusiastic about artificial intelligence - especially when it's used to vet panelists for a major sci-fi conference....

Seeing as the company's CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious World War Fee Citrix has found a new use for virtualization: Avoiding tariffs....

Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content - but isn't planning a rapid vote New Zealand's government has signaled its support for a bill to ban social media for children under 16, but without explicitly making it a government initiative....

But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off AMD expects the Trump administration's newly implemented export controls on GPUs and AI accelerator sales to China to take a $1.5 billion byte out its 2025 revenues, executives revealed on a Tuesday earnings call with Wall Street....

We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House The Attorneys General of 17 states and Washington, DC have sued the Trump administration over an executive order halting all federal approvals for wind energy projects....

Don't f&#k with Zuck A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in WhatsApp to allow its government customers to spy on supposedly secure communications....

Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a federal injunction intended to allow developers to use alternative payment systems....

Zog brain hurt. Zog want Google help make read easier Exasperated by the prolix verbiage and gratuitously convoluted phraseology that so often permeates technical treatises, philosophical discourses, or the meandering expositions of journalists afflicted by a lack of rhetorical economy? Then Google has a new AI feature for you - provided you use iOS, that is....