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IBM wants Arm software on its mainframes for AI support
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (598+ words) The Register Home Page IBM and Arm are working together on getting software developed for Arm chips to run on Big Blue's enterprise systems, with an eye on future AI and data-intensive workloads. Big Blue hailed this latest arrangement as…...
Forking frenzy ensues after launch of Euro-Office
6+ hour, 26+ min ago (1447+ words) The Register Home Page European outfits Ionos and Nextcloud have launched Euro-Office, a fork of the OnlyOffice cloud-based productivity suite aimed at orgs with qualms around sovereignty, provoking an angry response from the original developer. A few days ago, a…...
SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support
9+ hour, 20+ min ago (385+ words) The Register Home Page The latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here with a new kernel. There's also a new GParted Live, and some other handy utilities. Another year, another new version of the very handy SystemRescue. Earlier this…...
Some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed
2+ hour, 22+ min ago (375+ words) The Register Home Page It's not me, it's you. Five words that signify the end of a relationship with a toxic partner, or an ill-timed riposte to users tired of broken Microsoft updates. According to veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen,…...
Cloudflare previews AI rebuild of Wordpress in TypeScript
8+ hour, 18+ min ago (564+ words) The Register Home Page The world's most popular CMS has been remade with the help of AI. Cloudflare has released EmDash version 0.1, described as a rebuild of the WordPress CMS (content management system) but using TypeScript rather than PHP." "I'm…...
The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom
14+ hour, 21+ min ago (361+ words) The Register Home Page Pwned Welcome to Pwned, The Register's new column, where we highlight the worst infosec own goals so you can, hopefully, protect against them. Caffeine is an essential tool for most IT defenders, so, on balance, we're…...
TurboQuant is a big deal, but it won’t end the memory crunch
1+ day, 5+ min ago (812+ words) The Register Home Page When Google unveiled TurboQuant, an AI data compression technology that promises to slash the amount of memory required to serve models, many hoped it would help with a memory shortage that has seen prices triple since…...
Mitsui OSK taps Hitachi for floating datacenter plan
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (443+ words) The Register Home Page Japan is getting more serious about floating datacenters, as Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) has agreed to a deal with Hitachi to develop one with operations targeted for 2027 or later. The shipping company announced plans last year…...
Claude Code bypasses safety rule if given too many commands
20+ hour, 58+ min ago (347+ words) The Register Home Page Claude Code will ignore its deny rules, used to block risky actions, if burdened with a sufficiently long chain of subcommands. This vuln leaves the bot open to prompt injection attacks. Adversa, a security firm based…...
Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales, announces price hikes
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (515+ words) The Register Home Page Virgin Galactic has reopened suborbital ticket sales with a price rise and a promise for commercial spaceflight operations in Q4 2026. Tickets for a ride in Virgin Galactic's spacecraft now run to $750,000 per seat, up from the $600,000 per…...