How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think Opinion  Say what you like about its role in the destruction of civilization, the net is still good for a few party games. Take bets on when the "Wintel Empire" was first reported as under attack, and by what. Then go and find out.… #theregister #IT
Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again Feature  In IT, terms and categories come and go. Distinctions disappear as computing evolves and as something that was shiny and new simply becomes the way that we do things.… #theregister #IT
Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops On Call  Why, look at the time! 7:30 AM on Friday morning, the moment at which The Register regularly runs a fresh instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column that shares your finest tech support stories.… #theregister #IT
China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6 Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI inside China’s KylinSoft has delivered a major update to its flagship Linux, which Beijing hailed as a great leap forward for the nation’s ambition to develop operating systems that match and exceed the capabilities of western products.… #theregister #IT
FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American' Plus millions of other people across 80+ countries China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies hoovered up information belonging to millions of people in the United States over the course of the years-long intrusion into telecommunications networks, according to a top FBI cyber official.… #theregister #IT
Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe They use AI more but also check it more For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than twice as likely to do it.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft unveils home-made ML models amid OpenAI negotiations Microsoft AI honcho insists partnership with Sam Altman's brainbox behemoth is alive and well Microsoft has introduced two home-grown machine learning models, potentially complicating negotiations with its current favored model supplier, OpenAI.… #theregister #IT
Five years – that's how long Anthropic will store Claude chats unless you opt out My brain hurts a lot Claude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro, and Max plans one month to prevent the engine from storing their chats for five years by default and using them for training.… #theregister #IT
DOGE delayed deals, says Nutanix But private cloud contender sees upside in its modernization mission Donald Trump's DOGE cost-cutting unit has made it harder to do business with the US federal government, according to private cloud contender Nutanix.… #theregister #IT
vSphere upgrades are not near the top of VMware's to-do list Nor is its Arm port When VMware delivered its Cloud Foundation 9 suite in June, it marked the end of a two-year push to integrate its compute, storage, and networking products. What’s next for the Broadcom business unit? At the VMware Explore conference this week, The Register sniffed out a few other items on its to-do list.… #theregister #IT