Musk's DOGE muzzled on X over tape storage baloney 70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot Comment  There is something about Elon Musk's career trajectory that compels onlookers to hang around for the seemingly inevitable crash landing. Tesla, SpaceX, and X – formerly known as Twitter – have all become hosts to the man's galactic ego.… #theregister #IT

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Comment: 70 years old, yes. Obsolete? Not by a long shot

Windows Server Update Services live to patch another day Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft Microsoft is extending support for a product scheduled for deprecation. Sadly for some, it's not Windows 10.… #theregister #IT

Windows Server Update Services live to patch another day

: Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft

Tariff-ied Framework pulls laptops, Keyboardio warns of keystroke sticker shock Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great World War Fee  Modular laptop maker Framework is pausing sales of models it would make a loss on, while a small US keyboard biz is facing hundreds of dollars slapped on its products that American consumers will have to pay.… #theregister #IT

Framework pauses sales on laptops it will make a loss on

World War Fee: Small IT hardware firms feel the heat from Trump making prices great

Microsoft celebrates 50 years by adding familiar AI features Windows maker marks milestone with Copilot additions that resemble tools from OpenAI and Google Microsoft used its 50th birthday to announce a slew of new Copilot features, many of which will be eerily familiar to anyone who's used rival AI platforms.… #theregister #IT

'Copilot will remember key details about you' • The Register

: And Vision will 'read' your screen and interact with the content, says Microsoft

Scattered Spider stops the Rickrolls, starts the RAT race Despite arrests, eight-legged menace targeted more victims this year Despite several arrests last year, Scattered Spider's social engineering attacks are continuing into 2025 as the cybercrime collective targets high-profile organizations and adds another phishing kit to its arsenal along with a new version of Spectre RAT malware.… #theregister #IT

Scattered Spider adds new phishing kit, malware to its web

: Despite arrests, eight-legged menace targeted more victims this year

UALink debuts its first AI interconnect spec – usable in just 18 short months No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has delivered its first GPU interconnect specification: UALink 200G 1.0.… #theregister #IT

The No-Nvidia networking club delivers first spec

: No-Nvidia networking club is banking on you running different GPUs on one network

Procter Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal Procter & Gamble says organizations should rethink how they're run to take better advantage of innovation enabled by generative AI.… #theregister #IT

P&G study finds AI can improve office collaboration

: Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal

Boffins turn Moon dirt into glass for solar panels, eye future lunar base power Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth You've perhaps heard of using Moon dirt for building roads and other structures for future lunar explorers. But a group of German scientists reckon they've found another use for the grey stuff: Turn it into glass and use it to… #theregister #IT

German scientists make solar panel glass out of Moon dirt

: Lugging a solar furnace to melt it could slash the need to launch bulky power gear from Earth

IBM's z17 mainframe – now with 7.5x more AI performance Who wouldn't want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can't solve for Trump tariffs) IBM's latest mainframe builds on the platform's traditional attributes of security and reliability for mission-critical workloads, adding AI to support large language models (LLMs), assistants, and agents.… #theregister #IT

IBM z17 brings multi-model AI to transaction processing

: Who wouldn't want predictive business insights in a week like this? (We jest, it can't solve for Trump tariffs)

Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit Despite ambitions to position itself as a science and tech superpower, the UK has cut the budget for the government body responsible for university research funding.… #theregister #IT

UK slashes funding to university research quango

: Government boasts of £14B in R&D spending, but grant body takes £300M hit