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Why Does The Government Want To Cut Spending?

The Autumn Statement will address the risk of a future “black hole” in the UK's finances. Read more

Can Hunt's Budget Defuse A Financial Timebomb?

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's key message this week will be about restoring stability and controlling price rises. Read more

Jeremy Hunt: Everyone Will Have To Pay More Tax

The chancellor also tells the BBC he wants to make sure any recession is as short and shallow as possible. Read more

Twitter, Musk, And A Week Of Bad Decisions It Seems

Lost among the Twitter chaos? We'll try to sort it out for you, so far You could say Twitter, now in its second week of... Read more

Autumn Statement: BBC Experts On Six Ways The Plan Could Affect You

BBC correspondents share what could come up in the economic plan and what it could mean for you. Read more

Intels Axed Optane Biz Spurts Out Mixed Bag Of New SSDs

Only one of the two new 3D XPoint-based drives offer a performance improvement From the rotting corpse that is Intel's ... Read more

Arm Reports Record Royalties But Total Revenues Slide

Licensing down 53% due to major one-off deals signed a year ago Chip designer Arm reported record revenues for its late... Read more

Microsoft To Spend $1 Billion On Datacenters In North Carolina

Hopefully servers will sweat a little less than the ones in Doha Microsoft is building four datacenters in North Caroli... Read more

Japan To Set Up New Semiconductor Outfit With IBM's Help

2nm and beyond: Interesting time to get into bed with American chip giant Japan looks set inject 70 billion yen ($500 m... Read more

Musk Tells Of Risk Of Twitter Bankruptcy As Tweeters Trash Brands

Alleged genius behind electric car spots one thing that might save company from the abyss: ending WFH Comment  Twitter... Read more

BT Preparing To Offer Financial Support To Inflation Struck Staff

CEO says UK government cap on energy has given it wiggle room, hopes payment will end further strikes BT says UK govern... Read more

Go Ahead, Be Rude. You Don't Know It Now, But It Will Cost You $350,000

You'd think tech support people would stick together … On Call  Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday frol... Read more

Why Smart Thermostats Don't Always Save You Money

The makers of smart thermostats says the devices can cut energy bills but the evidence is not conclusive. Read more

AMD Grows Epyc Datacenter Share, Loses To Intel Generally

Both firms have been hit with plunges in PC chip sales, and there's no Ryzen shine AMD has grown its share in the serve... Read more

TSMC: You Know What Would Be Fab? Some Local Neon Supplies

Chipmaker tired of Putin choking the supply chain of the gas Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is reported to be seeking local s... Read more