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I Needed Antihistamine Tablets Every Time I Opened The Computers

Readers share more filthy tales of cruddy computers, including a potentially explosive airport issue ON CALL: DIRT FILE... Read more

Israel To Plow $3.2B Into $25B Intel Fab Project

Foundry site due to open in 2028 ... assuming it's not, y'know, delayed or cancelled The government of Israel has agree... Read more

Microsoft Nixed Mixed Reality: This Windows VR Didn't Even Make It To The ER

Stick WMR next to 3D TVs, Segways, and maybe soon generative AI Microsoft has admitted what the rest of the tech world ... Read more

Apple's Timepiece Turmoil Taken To Appeals Court

Leftover Christmas dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches vanish from shelves Updated  Th... Read more

How Thermal Management Is Changing In The Age Of The Kilowatt Chip

Air cooling holdouts take notice, the fun stuff is all liquid Analysis  As Moore's Law slowed to a crawl, chips, parti... Read more

How The Tech Toy Century Has Troubled Santa's Sack

Bell Labs made it bulge then Gordon Moore made it deflate Opinion  It is, as the more observant may have noticed, Chri... Read more

Bricking It: Do You Actually Own Anything Digital?

From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no Opinion  What do Amazon, Sony, and Broadcom all hav... Read more

Superuser Mostly Helped IT, Until A BSOD Saw Him Invent A Farcical Fix

It was only a matter of time until enthusiasm alone wasn't enough On Call  As Christmas approaches, The Register wants... Read more

Cisco Goes Christmas Shopping, Buys Cilium Project Originator Isovalent

Switchzilla likes what eBPF does for multicloud networking and security Cisco has bought itself a Christmas present: Is... Read more

FTC Wants To Crack Down On Big Biz Profiting From Kids' Data

COPPA changes on the horizon. Meta, Amazon and friends must be thrilled It will soon be more difficult for corporations... Read more

Intel Trims A Few Hundred Workers In Cali Just In Time For Christmas

Merry Xmas! Now get out For 311 workers in Santa Clara and Folsom, California, it wasn't the Grinch who stole Christmas... Read more

Why Nvidia And AMD Are Roasting Each Other Over AI Performance Claims

My card could beat up your card Analysis  Any time we write about vendor supplied benchmarks and performance claims th... Read more

'The Computer Was Sitting In A Puddle Of Mud, With Water Up To The Motherboard'

We asked you to share the dirtiest places you've been asked to work. Here are some of your filthy answers On Call: Dirt... Read more

Data Loss Prevention Isn't Rocket Science, But NASA Hasn't Made It Work In Microsoft 365

Privacy review finds breach response plan is a mess, training could be better, but protection regime mostly holds up NA... Read more

Calculating Pi In The Sky: Axiom Space Plans To Launch 'orbital Datacenter'

Small rack to lift off in 2027 – we reckon it might be 10U or 12U, which can pack a lot of power Axiom Space says it ... Read more