The 12 KB that Windows just can't seem to quit Icons from a more civilized time Windows deposits a huge number of files onto a user's PC, some of which are essential for the operating system, and others that are a reminder of gentler times. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen this week took another trip down memory lane to the pixel-tastic world of moricons.dll on his Old New Thing blog.… #theregister #IT
The 12 KB Windows just can
: Icons from a more civilized time
NASA JPL boss bails for 'personal reasons' as budget cuts bite Laurie Leshin to leave in June Laurie Leshin, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is stepping down in June and will be replaced by JPL veteran David Gallagher.… #theregister #IT
NASA JPL director quits for
Updated: Laurie Leshin to leave in June
Amazon touts Vulcan – its first robot with a sense of 'touch' Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper Internet souk Amazon has unveiled a new robot for its warehouses and claims the machine uses a sense of "touch" to shift around 75 percent of the types of packages handled.… #theregister #IT
Amazon touts Vulcan, its first robot with a sense of
: Claims human warehouse workers will still live long and prosper
ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse' NASA's "skinny" budget has rattled its allies. After years of close cooperation, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking jilted, while others describe the US space scene as adrift in gloom and doubt.… #theregister #IT
ESA feeling weightless and unwanted amid proposed NASA cuts
: Euro space agency insists it's reliable and desirable in face of 'abusive spouse'
'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?' Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box Clippy is back - and this time, its arrival on your desktop as a front-end for locally run LLMs has nothing to do with Microsoft. … #theregister #IT
Clippy back as local LLM interface, but not from Microsoft
: Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box
Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake Canonical's Ubuntu 25.10 is set to make sudo-rs, a Rust-based rework of the classic sudo utility, the default – part of a push to cut memory-related security bugs and lock down core system components.… #theregister #IT
Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows
: Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake
Elon Musk’s xAI to pull about half of its smog-belching turbines powering Colossus Newly completed substation will help bear the load Elon Musk's xAI is removing about half of the temporary gas-turbine generators powering its Colossus AI datacenter over the next two months, according to the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, not due to environmental concerns, but because a new nearby substation now… #theregister #IT
xAI to pull half the gas turbines powering Colossus DC
Updated: Newly completed substation will help bear the load
PowerSchool paid thieves to delete stolen student, teacher data. Crooks may have lied Now individual school districts extorted by fiends An education tech provider that paid a ransom to prevent the leak of stolen student and teacher data is now watching its school district customers get individually extorted by either the same ransomware crew that hit it – or someone connected to the … #theregister #IT
Powerschool extortionists may not have deleted stolen data
: Now individual school districts extorted by fiends
After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – jobs cuts, leaning on AI CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate' CrowdStrike – the Texas antivirus slinger famous for crashing millions of Windows machines last year – plans to cut five percent of its staff, or about 500 workers, in pursuit of "greater efficiencies," according to CEO and co-founder G… #theregister #IT
CrowdStrike trims workforce by 5 percent, aims to rely on AI
: CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate'
India ready to greenlight Starlink - as long as it lets New Delhi censor and spy Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity India’s telecom regulator has signaled it’s ready to let Starlink and other satellite-broadband providers operate – but only if they agree to strict conditions, including setting up β€œspecial monitoring zones” within 50k… #theregister #IT
India signals it will let Starlink in if it censors, spies
: Officials demand device registration, location locking, logs of user activity