Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

Schematics, repair manuals, and part numbers still out of reach for many industries The US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has released a report on the state of Right to Repair. The good news is that things seem to be going in the right direction for some gadgets. The bad news is that progress is not equal, and there has been no improvement for some gizmos.…

But what the heck should it do? Great news, Linux fans! Support for the Copilot key is coming in the 6.14 kernel. What do you think it should do?…

We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course Feature  Generative AI models have not only exploded in popularity over the past two years, but they've also grown at a precipitous rate, necessitating ever larger quantities of accelerators to keep up.…

At $25.91 million, CEO is worth 261 employees Qualcomm's top dog Cristian Amon enjoyed a ten percent year-on-year bump in total financial compensation for fiscal 2024 that amounted to $25.91 million.…

Could a post-Brexit romance be on the cards? The UK and EU must decide whether to coordinate a response to Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on stuff imported into the United States, or cut separate deals with the new president, the House of Lords heard this week.…

SYSTEM-level command injection via API parameter *chef's kiss* A now-fixed command-injection bug in Kubernetes can be exploited by a remote attacker to gain code execution with SYSTEM privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, and thus fully take over those systems, according to Akamai researcher Tomer Peled.…

Calamity Capsule continues to be calamitous for the bottom line Boeing is warning of another hit to its bottom line, at least partly at the hands of the company's Calamity Capsule, the CST-100 Starliner.…

5 indicted as FBI warns North Korea dials up aggression, plus Russian devs allegedly get in on the act The US is indicting yet another five suspects it believes were involved in North Korea's long-running, fraudulent remote IT worker scheme – including one who changed their last name to "Bane" and scored a gig at a tech biz in San Francisco.…

Hyperscaler mystery deepens as Hertfordshire braces for bit barn blitz Approval was last night granted for a mega datacenter in Hertfordshire, close to London's M25 orbital motorway, clearing the way for construction to begin. The identity of the eventual occupier, said to be a hyperscale operator, has yet to be disclosed.…

New double-digit vintage goes well with all sorts of things After 32 years of maturation, even now, WINE is Not an Emulator, but it can work alongside them to run Windows apps on Arm Linux.…

28nm and fatter processes first, says minister, as semiconductor supply chain players move to cash in India's ambition to become a semiconductor manufacturing player will bear fruit later this year with the debut of the first silicon designed and built in the nation.…

Then suggested a bloke down the pub might be able to help fix it On Call  Friday brings the prospect of spending time with loved ones. But before we get there, The Register offers another instalment of On Call, the column that chronicles experiences from the global family of readers who have traumatic tech support tales to tell.…