Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns

Global tech research company Gartner estimates that by 2028, 75 percent of enterprise software engineers will use AI code assistants, up from less than 10 percent in early 2023.…

Slow but bona fide made in China

Loongson's current-generation 3A6000 processor, one of the fastest designed and made in China for consumers, is now available in a line of mini PCs.…

Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon

Intel is set to launch two China-exclusive models of its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, and they'll be substantially crippled to fit in with US sanctions.…

Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes

Palo Alto Networks on Friday issued a critical alert for an under-attack vulnerability in the PAN-OS software used in its firewall-slash-VPN products.…

Another one bytes the dust

In an incredibly rare move, Google is killing off one of its online services – this time, VPN for Google One.…

That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability

Apple's attempt to get the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) to toss a lawsuit over its 30 percent App Store tax has failed, meaning the iMaker could eventually be forced to fork over £785 million ($980 million) in compensation to developers.…

Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole

Adobe is building its own AI model capable of transforming text into video and, unlike other companies, will actually pay creators of the material used to train it.…

The most secure Unix-like OS to date?

The OpenBSD project's 56th release is arguably the most secure Unix-like OS to date.…

Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect

Amazon's search results have become less likely to favor the company's own products, according to research from a University of Minnesota economist.…

Affected federal agencies must comb through mails, reset API keys and passwords

The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that Russian spies who gained access to Microsoft's email system were able to steal sensitive data, including authentication details and that immediate remedial action is required by affected agencies.…

Windows Server 2025 will let you run a VM with 2,048 vCPUs, 240 TB RAM, and 68 network adapters

Microsoft has announced new scalability ceilings for its Hyper-V hypervisor.…

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hard drive!

A UK IT maintenance outfit is testing out drones to deliver equipment to customers, claiming this will help with sustainability measures of all things.…

Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga

The UK's Gloucestershire County Council has failed to introduce its new £7.3 million ($9.3 million) cloud-based SAP system in time for the new financial year, as its director of finance promised back in January.…

Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 14 should appear any month now, and when it does, it will no longer build binaries for IA64 – or Itanic, as The Reg dubbed it.…

Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear

Opinion  Since its founding, the Linux Foundation has been a vendor-neutral supporter of Linux and open source software. Now, though, it's actively promoting such open source projects as OpenTofu and Valkey.…

And be paid danger money while he did it

On Call  Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register’s weekly wander through readers’ recollections of being asked to perform tech support under all sorts of strange circumstances, most of them difficult. But not always.…

Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive

The UK's competition watchdog sniffed around the AI industry with a bit more interest than usual on Thursday at an antitrust event in the US.…

Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats

Several French municipal governments' services have been knocked offline following a "large-scale cyber attack" on their shared servers.…

Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased

Apple has made a significant change to the wording of its threat notifications, opting not to attribute attacks to a specific source or perpetrator, but categorizing them broadly as "mercenary spyware."…

As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration

VMware's end user compute products appear likely to be rebranded as Omnissa after being sold off.…