Applied Materials Sued In China Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft Summary Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology has filed a lawsuit in the Beijing Intellectual Property Court accusing US chip-equipment maker Applied…
Brazilian PhD students opt out of US research opportunities Summary Over the past year many Brazilian PhD students have cancelled or changed plans to conduct research in the United States…
Summary Redis 8.2 is now generally available and is presented as a return to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), this time under the GNU AGPL licence. The release focuses…
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one Summary The Register opinion piece argues that Linux’s extraordinary stability and ubiquity owe a great deal…
The £9 billion question: To Microsoft or not to Microsoft? Summary The article examines the UK government’s five-year Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA24) with Microsoft, which will see public sector bodies…
Equinix signs deals for nukes and fuel cells to power its AI bit barns Summary Datacentre giant Equinix has signed multiple agreements with alternative energy providers — including advanced nuclear…
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide Summary The Register outlines a public debate prompted by a UK government Memorandum of Understanding (SPA24)…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The UK government is publicly betting big on AI, but much of Whitehall’s IT estate remains stuck in the…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary A lone sysadmin (anonymised as “Jake”) was called to investigate a slow workstation used to view CT scanner images…
Apple Returns Blood Oxygen Monitoring to the Latest Apple Watches Summary Apple has reintroduced blood oxygen monitoring to certain Apple Watch models in the U.S. by moving the measurement and…
