Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing €1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an alternative to local customers anxious about using US hypercalers.… #theregister #IT
CISPE pumps €1 million of Microsoft
: Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.… #theregister #IT
UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill
: Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time
Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' What counts as failure in New Space? Comment  Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called "New Space" – the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket secto… #theregister #IT
Isar orbital rocket crashes into sea – success, apparently
Comment: What counts as failure in New Space?
RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.… #theregister #IT
RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory
: Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, ov… #theregister #IT
Asda-Walmart tech separation costs near £1 billion
: Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout
GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison Not exactly Snowden levels of skill A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.… #theregister #IT
Student pleads guilty to smuggling software out of GCHQ
: Not exactly Snowden levels of skill
Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end Optimistic much? Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom.… #theregister #IT
Arm targets 50 percent of datacenter CPUs this year
: Optimistic much?
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.… #theregister #IT
Genetic data sharing service openSNP to close down
: Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt
Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’ How about making sure Windows crashes less, and stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft teases redesigned Windows Blue Screen of Death
: How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too
Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better' OK, AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ... Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around.… #theregister #IT
Intel
Vision: AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...