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With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator

Of course when outage strikes this service will also be down ...

( due to circumstances _absolutely nobody_ could foresee )

China blames US for cyber break-in, claims America is world's biggest bit burglar

A bloke has stolen a purse and runs away with it shouting "catch the thief, catch the thief!"

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

At least El Reg works so we are good

Re: allyoureggsinonebasket.com

To be fair, even if only *half* eggs were in this "basket" , you would possibly hosed anyway ....

That's modern tech for you

Re: Who knew that putting all your eggs...

>>Does nobody do DR trials and simulations any more?

No.

Carmakers fear chip crunch as Dutch sanctions hit Nexperia

Truly, these communists will hang us on the rope we sold them

Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

Was promoted to management. To dangerous in field work

Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need

+1 for ability to move taskbar to the left

Is it so hard ? Ask copilot how to implement it /s

Ubuntu 24.04.3: Noble Numbat point release slips out quietly

Re: What's in a name

.. and I dreamed of Demented Donkey

Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved

Re: So

Sure , it will both work and not work , at the same time

Intel abandons chip plants in Germany and Poland, confirms more layoffs

I feel Intel will be for sale soon. Please don't sell it to Broadcom

Fedora 43 won't drop 32-bit app support – or adopt Xlibre

Re: 2038

yeah, but the fuss is mostly about old 32-bit binaries, from before that change, i would guess. Nobody will recompile them for new time_t

Tiling terminal multiplexers for the console connoisseur

If someone had mercy on us and simply added something like tmux to Midnight Commander. It already has nice Scp client, cool file manager, comfy editor ..

Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development

After reading the article I understand one of them is KiCad .

Not worth antbody's time to make CAD tools run under GUI ?

Srsly?

Techie traveled 4 hours to fix software that worked perfectly until a new hire used it

Re: PICNIC

Hm, sounds nicer than PEBCAK !

As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths

Re: RHEL 10 "Documentation"

Yeah, probably will be best to stick to v9 for a foreseaable future, and I write it without even a hint of sarcasm

Please tell us Reg: Why are AI PC sales slower than expected?

I recently dabbled with ollama on CPU only 64gb old cheap server loading for example Gemma3 37GB model for cpu infrrencing. It _is_ slow but say 10 minutes for complete answer is not eternity either.

From what I understand ollama can work hybrid, load as much to gpu vram as possible, and the rest to system RAM.

This way you could still use gpu, and models bigger than its VRAM

I am still noob, mind you

Tested on Ubuntu 22.04

Workday promises to grow workforce slowly and differently after shedding 1,750 jobs

wish you luck now!

Europe plots escape hatch from enshittification of search

Infoseek ftw!

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Re: September!

High time to rename the day as Wensday! Streamlined and modern...

30 percent of some Microsoft code now written by AI - especially the new stuff

God ...

.. help us all

Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees

Re: What about Outlook (less shitty)?

Outlook 2003 was quite ok, likable even

Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip

Re: Oh Lord...

you forgot Copilot

Re: FP4??!!

According to wikipedia , it can hold twelve values between -3 and 3 with step of 0.5 ( 11 really as it has both 0 and -0)

plus +/- infinity , +/- NaN

sounds ok for neural nets, inferencing

Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year

Annnd before long Asda will be acquired , and wheel of fate will have another turn . Surely. This time a consolidation , and so on and so forth , till the termal death of the Universe

How Google tracks Android device users before they've even opened an app

Re: Can be uninstalled on Samsung S23

My Motorola also allowed me to get rid of it

Re: Banking apps, Use a browser

Time to change bank ?

( time for me as well, i guess!)

Windows 11 adoption picking up speed, but older sibling still ahead

It's bl*dy important topic , if you ask me

Microsoft blames Outlook's wobbly weekend on 'problematic code change'

Oh, and my old trusty classic Outlook 2016 worked all this time without a hitch ! What gives ?? ;-)

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

I have two laptops from 2008, use them both semi-frequently and they simply refuse to die

Re: What is dead may never die

Thanks for that!

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

Re: Memories...

Give it a try! I dabbled with it recently and loved it !

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

Re: Where is this site hosted?

runs fine for me every time

China's DeepSeek just emitted a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC

Re: Very nice coverage, thanks

thank you!

Re: Very nice coverage, thanks

which version? (how many billions)

tia

Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade

I have a 2016 Lenovo laptop that I upgraded from Ubuntu Mate 20.04 to 22.04 only few weeks back . 24.04 will have to wait few more years and possibly another machine.

Yes , I got kernel panic after upgrade but it was easily resolvable, thank goodness :-) /my machine has Radeon/intel combo/

After all I only needed to replace ugly new icon set with beautiful classic set, maintained in some obscure github site, and now I am happy bunny !

Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery

Re: Pick one, Google.

Now it is: Do know evil

HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair

Re: Cyber security survey bug

Sorry, you can't do that Dave! ( you're Dave, right?)

Edgio bankruptcy results in endpoint change for Microsoft

Perhaps some resourceful chaps from , say, China , grabbed the domains when they lapsed and soon, soon, soon they will start to serve tasty malware ?

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

Re: So much forgotten

Try Midnight Commander and never look back!

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

Re: Really?

I always thought birds recharge sitting on power lines ...

Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess

It is enough when ..

they mandate the new platform for all party cadres, public servants, teachers etc.etc. It means tens of millions of new customers

But ..

..you have older version, not the new version (Next), which apparently has no Android compat ?

Fujitsu claims 634-gram 14-inch Core i7 laptop is world's lightest

You could have two: main laptop and "field" laptop.

I have such "field" laptop , always in a car in a bag under booth cover.

In theory it lasts 8 hours on one charge, which for me means ~2 months ;-)

It is _very_ handy, when I need it to do some off-hand remote work

Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop

no way

where is money in this ?

/ this processor is likely purely for Chinese market /

Internet Archive user info stolen in cyberattack, succumbs to DDoS

"That's tough" , one exec at some powerful publishing company, was heard, while sipping his Dom Perignon.

Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration

Re: Just slap fines on store managers ..

It worked, didn't it.. :-(

Just slap fines on store managers ..

.. amounting to 21 million pound in total, and all will be well !

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund throws cash at FreeBSD and Samba

Kudos to German government then

Thank you!

/ I never thought I would write it, but here it is!/

Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview is a glitchy disaster

Agile !!!!!!1!!111!