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Lenovo To Offer Certified Refurbished PCs And Servers

Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models Lenovo's chief operating officer has told The Reg it is formaliz... Read more

UK Tax Agency's Digital Services Not Good Enough To Take Strain Off Phone Lines

Watchdog says taxpayer assistance is getting worse Phone services for the UK tax authority continue to deteriorate, and... Read more

They Call Me 'Growler'. I Don't Like You. Let's Discuss Your Pay Cut

Tough guy act was flimsy: our readers fleeced him, then dropped him in it On Call  Welcome once more, dear reader, to ... Read more

AI To Fix UK Civil Service's Bureaucratic Bungling, Deputy PM Bets

'Computer-says-no' to be replaced by summaries written by LLMs trained on government data The UK government will trial ... Read more

HPE Blames GPU Shortage For Contributing To Unexpected Sales Slide

Even when Nvidia delivers, customers struggle to get datacenters ready to handle the heat HPE has blamed disappointing ... Read more

Vietnam May Ban Virtual Assets To Fix Its Bad Rep For Money Laundering

Hopes to get itself off an international naughty list – as you would when you want foreign investment in your chip se... Read more

Meta Kills Facebook News In The US And Australia

So much for the 'commitment to support news organizations' made in just 2020 Meta has killed its Facebook news service ... Read more

India Approves Its First Full Wafer Fab – A 28nm Affair From Tata And Powerchip

Everybody’s so happy they’re not mentioning start dates, subsidy levels, or other useful details India's government... Read more

Canada Poutine More Pressure On Google By Expanding Ad Biz Antitrust Probe

Court order means ad giant will have to cough evidence of possible market manipulation It has not been a great week for... Read more

Elon And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Legal Week

Workers allege discrimination, missing payments To say Elon Musk's business empire is having a week of legal woe may be... Read more

Turns Out Cops Are Super Interested In Subpoenaing Suspects' Push Notifications

Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more More than 130 petitions seeking access to... Read more

White House Goes To Court, Not Congress, To Renew Warrantless Spy Powers

Choose your own FISA Section 702 adventure: End-run around lawmakers or business as usual? The Biden Administration has... Read more

Electronic Arts Frags Hundreds Of Workers 'to Grow Fandom'

Dating app Bumble also finds breaking up is easy to do for a third of its crew It's been a bad week to work in the vide... Read more

Sandra Riveras Next Mission: Do For FPGAs What She Did For Intel's Xeon

Chipzilla resurrects Altera brand as former datacenter chief takes the helm Sandra Rivera, a longtime Intel veteran and... Read more

Water Worries Flood In As Chip Industry And AI Models Grow Thirstier

Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they'll drink us dry Water supply is seen as a growing ... Read more