A lot of product makers snub Right to Repair laws Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well A year after the Right to Repair laws passed in California and Minnesota, many product makers still aren't doing much to help consumers fix the gear they bought.… #theregister #IT

Despite Right to Repair laws, some manufacturers fall short

: Refrigerators and game consoles are the worst, but Apple, surprisingly, rates well

Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy Secure comms biz Proton has joined a lawsuit that alleges Apple’s anticompetitive ways are harming developers, consumers, and privacy.… #theregister #IT

Proton joins anti-Apple lawsuit to force App Store changes

: Makes the usual complaints about control and cost, adds argument Apple's practices harm privacy

DRAM spot prices doubled last week Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame Spot prices for DRAM have doubled in the last week, perhaps due to… #theregister #IT

DRAM spot prices doubled last week

: Fears that DDR4 has hit the end of the road and the return of tariffs may be to blame

China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft, maybe at Mach 12 America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats.… #theregister #IT

China successfully tests hypersonic aircraft

: America recently extended tech export bans specifically to stop Beijing building this sort of thing

Oracle just signed one mystery customer that will double its cloud revenue in 2028 Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration Oracle has landed a mystery customer that will add more than $30 billion to the database giant's annual revenues, more than doubling the size of its current cloud business.… #theregister #IT

Just one customer will double Oracle

: Could it be an AI model builder? A Chinese e-tailer? Perhaps a TikTok mass migration

US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized The US Department of Justice has announced a major disruption of multiple North Korean fake IT worker scams.… #theregister #IT

US shuts down a string of North Korean IT worker scams

: Resulting in two indictments, one arrest, and 137 laptops seized

Want a job? Just put 'AI skills' on your resume It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word' ai-pocalypse  For job seekers wondering which AI skills to bone up on, the answer appears to be simple based on a look at the past year of employment data: Just learn to use it. … #theregister #IT

AI jobs are skyrocketing, but you don

ai-pocalypse: It could just be the new 'proficient with MS Word'

AIs have a favorite number, and it's not 42 Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27 Asked to guess a number between 1 and 50, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Meta's Llama 4 all provided the same answer: 27.… #theregister #IT

AIs have a favorite number, and it

: Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27

Google to buy power from fusion energy startup Commonwealth - if they can ever make it work Someday, my prince will come Google has agreed to purchase 200 megawatts of fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). That's assuming, of course, the Massachusetts-based startup can actually get the miniaturized sun to make more power than it consumes, something even the Chocolate Fact… #theregister #IT

Google hedges bets on fusion future with Commonwealth PPA

: Someday, my prince will come

British IT worker sentenced to seven months after trashing company network Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers A judge has sentenced a disgruntled IT worker to more than seven months in prison after he wreaked havoc on his employer's network following his suspension, according to West Yorkshire Police.… #theregister #IT

Seven months for IT worker who trashed his work network

: Don't leave the door open to disgruntled workers