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The Register is a UK-based website that focuses on technology news and opinions. It was established in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice, and Ross Alderson. The site is published by Situation Publishing Ltd. Key figures include Drew Cullen as an owner, Linus Birtles as the managing director, and Andrew Orlowski serving as the Executive Editor.

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IONOS says it has 'capacity' as Europe ponders binning US

1 day ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

Interview European cloud providers and software vendors used this week's Nextcloud summit to insist that not only can workloads be moved from the US hyperscalers, not considering it is "negligent" on behalf of IT bosses. European organizations are taking a careful look at their workloads and pondering if running workloads on a US hyperscaler is worth the risk, considering the unpredictability of the US administration and concerns around data privacy and sovereignty.
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination

1 day ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

Jared Isaacman, former NASA Administrator nominee, has shared how the US space agency might have looked under his leadership and blamed his connections with Elon Musk for the abrupt withdrawal of his nomination. "It was a real bummer," Isaacman told the All-In podcast. "I got a call on Friday last week that the president had decided to go in a different direction."Isaacman's weekend was further ruined when news of the nomination withdrawal broke earlier than he'd expected.
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars catch fire • The Register

1 day ago | theregister.com | Iain Thomson

: Water, water everywhere, but it would just make it worse
Raspberry Pi: Generative AI cannot replace learning to code

2 days ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

Raspberry Pi, a company started with the aim of democratizing computing and recreating the programming frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code. In a position paper titled "Why kids still need to learn to code in the age of AI," the company posits that simply shoving plain text into a generative AI and using whatever code it spits out out is not enough.
LinkedIn boss handed reins to Office and M365 Copilot

2 days ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky is to lead the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 Copilot teams in the latest Redmond reshuffle. Roslansky, who made the announcement on LinkedIn, will continue to run the social media for suits platform. The exec will report to Microsoft's Executive Vice President for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, and directly to Microsoft boss Satya Nadella as LinkedIn CEO.
HashiCorp speaks up about adjusting to life under IBM

2 days ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

HashiCorp is now an IBM company, with one staffer remarking: "We're actually quite happy for it, most of us sitting in this room at least."The comment came during a briefing at this week's London HashiDays event – the first since the IBM merger went through.
Gemini 4: First US spacewalk happened 60 years ago

2 days ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

It is 60 years since Ed White became the first American to float outside a spacecraft. Gemini 4 launched on June 3, 1965, with the goals of demonstrating that the US was capable of mounting a multi-day crewed mission, sending one of the crew outside the capsule on an extravehicular activity (EVA), and attempting a rendezvous with the spent Titan II second stage. The USSR had already managed an EVA a few months earlier, sending Alexei Leonov on a spacewalk outside Voskhod 2.
KDE appeals to Windows 10 'exiles'

2 days ago | theregister.com | Richard Speed

Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign. KDE's alarming "Exiles" page opens with the text "Your computer is toast" followed by a warning that Microsoft wants to turn computers running Windows 10 into junk from October 14.
Green storage for the datacenter

2 days ago | theregister.com | David Gordon

Sponsored post It seems like the entire world is relying on AI to improve its future efficiency, but how does that impact the planet from a sustainability perspective? Goldman Sachs Research estimates that the , driven partly by increased production of AI-enabled applications and workloads, use of the large language models (LLMs), and massive compute clusters required to power them.
Please tell us Reg: Why AI PC sales are slower than expected

3 days ago | theregister.com | Paul Kunert

World War Fee PC makers were salivating at the prospect of AI notebooks driving up their margins yet it seems the price difference coupled with a lack of killer apps and the destabilizing influence of tariff talk means customer adoption is slower than expected.