Social Media Users Rubbish At Spotting Sneaky Ads, Say Boffins
Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts Boffins have peered deep into the eyes of social m... Read more
The £9 Billion Question: To Microsoft Or Not To Microsoft?
Are UK taxpayers getting real value from SPA24 — or just high cost convenience? Register debate series The UK gover... Read more
Datacenter Diplomacy: Australia Commits To Help Vanuatu Build Bit Barns
$79 million is a small price to pay to keep China at bay Australia will help to fund the development of two datacenters... Read more
Hungry Hyperscalers Boosted Cisco's AI Sales By A Cool Billion Bucks
Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy... Read more
Tsunami Forecasting About To Get A Lot Faster Thanks To El Capitan Super
The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science Eggheads working on El C... Read more
Gov't HR Department Latest To Get Nastygram From Auditors
OPM is the fourth federal agency to get a list of outstanding items from GAO in past two weeks Uncle Sam's HR departmen... Read more
US Weather Agency Dangles $396M To Run Ops For Its Next Space-watching Fleet
Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp? The more our Earth-bound society learns to rely ... Read more
No More Fake News: Google Now Lets You Prioritize El Reg, Others In Search Results
How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less) hands on Even if you have your favorite sites bookmarked... Read more
CoreWeave CFO: $25B Raised In Debt And Equity In 18 Months
Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model? Rent-a-GPU biz CoreWeave... Read more
MS Confidence In Windows 11: Pay Us To Host VMs For When Your Desktop Inevitably Dies
Windows 365 Reserve offers 10-day cloud PCs when your machine goes kaput – but you'll still need another device to ac... Read more
UK Expands Police Facial Recognition Rollout With 10 New Vans Heading To A Town Near You
Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech A fresh expansion of UK crimefig... Read more
Marc Andreessen Wades Into The UK's Online Safety Act Furor
Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the a... Read more
Microsoft Wares May Be UK Public Sector's Only Viable Option
For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be Register deba... Read more
Secure Chat Darling Matrix Admits Pair Of 'high Severity' Protocol Flaws Need Painful Fixes
Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time Updated The maint... Read more
Some Users Report Their Firefox Browser Is Scoffing CPU Power
You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI People are noticing Firefox gobbling extra CPU and electricity, apparent... Read more