The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too The Brian-Eno-composed sound played by Windows 95 when booted has been added to the US Library of Congress’s list of nationally significant recordings.… #theregister #IT
Windows 95 boot sound added to Library of Congress
: Along with Celine Dion and Elton John - plus some good music too
Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam In February, Elon's Musketeers at President Trump's cost-trimming DOGE operation turned up at the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which regulates the kinds of self-driving cars the billionaire wants to build.… #theregister #IT
Tesla tycoon Musk
: Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam
Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck's biz dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan Facebook's former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into China - including, she alleged, offering up A… #theregister #IT
Senate hears Meta dangled US data in bid to enter China
: Former policy boss claims Facebook cared little about national security as it chased the mighty Yuan
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why devs won't lose jobs to AI Big G reckons this agentic AI speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure Cloud Next  Google on Wednesday announced Firebase Studio, a product pitched as "a cloud-based agentic development environment" – in other words, a browser-based coding workspace that i… #theregister #IT
Firebase Studio promises app prototypes from AI prompts
Cloud Next: Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure
Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type LLM query caching also lands soon The return of Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo has borne fruit in the form of a new data type - vector sets - for the widely used cache-turned-multi-model database.… #theregister #IT
Redis creator
: LLM query caching also lands soon
OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit Billionaire 'tried every tool available to harm' us, says super lab, and it wants a judge to end 'harassment' OpenAI has countersued co-founder Elon Musk, accusing him of unlawful and unfair tactics to derail its restructuring plans and demanding a judge hold him liable for damage allegedly inflicted on the … #theregister #IT
OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk with countersuit
: Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment'
US sensor giant Sensata admits ransomware disrupts operations Props for the transparency though US sensor maker Sensata has told regulators that a ransomware attack caused operational disruption, and that it's still working to fully restore affected systems.… #theregister #IT
US sensor giant Sensata says ransomware borked operations
: Props for the transparency though
Satellite phone tech coming to your phone this year – but who pays for it? Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance This year will be Ground Zero for the commercialization of satellite phone services, but a key question is whether operators will charge extra for this capability or include it as part of customer subscript… #theregister #IT
Who pays for satellite phone tech that
: Operators mulling whether to price tech into subs, says report, which notes Musk's Starlink satellite dominance
Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing' Atlassian has decided to make its Rovo AI suite free but will in future introduce fees for use beyond a yet-to-be-determined threshold.… #theregister #IT
Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now
: Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'
AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice Belgian software house Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2, the version of the classic operating system it launched in 2021. The update targets Amigas with 680x0 processors, including systems enhanced with PiStorm accelerator boards.… #theregister #IT
New update to AmigaOS released
: Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice