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It woz The Reg wot won it... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management HP today abruptly ditched the mandatory 15-minute wait time that it imposed on customers dialling up its telephone-based support team due to "initial feedback."…

If you don't need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions?…

Who knew a script could make RAM re-appear?…

License To Kill -9 ... For Your iPhone Only ... AI Another Day ... The name's Bezos, Jeff Bezos As part of its quest for world domination, Amazon has bought the creative rights to fictional British spy James Bond.…

PoC exploit code shows why this is a patch priority…

Enterprise hardware biz produced record revenue, just $1M of profit, but execs think losses are behind it…

It comes amid a major crackdown on the abusive industry that started during COVID…

An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more…

Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em…

Said bugs 'can have significant implications' – glad to hear that from Redmond…

Don't think this is SaaS and you can relax: Redmond wants a few of you to check your websites…

Bosses bragged about Duo Chat bot, buyers weren’t buying it – claim For the third time in five months, GitLab or its execs have been sued over allegedly misleading investors about AI capabilities and demand.…

Apple, Dell made some progress, but MacBooks are still the worst to crack open, says PIRG The right to repair movement has gained momentum, yet laptop makers have largely stalled on improving repairability.…

Hot air or a 50% energy saving? Exoscale datacenter runs proof-of-concept to test veracity of Digger's claims…

A painful loss for young company that's yet to generate revenue A NASDAQ-listed US minerals company says cybercriminals broke into its systems on Valentine's Day and paid themselves around $500,000 – money earmarked for a vendor.…

Locals see red as public cloud's service health dashboard shows green Norwegians fell victim to a prolonged Microsoft Azure outage today, which impacted businesses and took down multiple government websites delivering online services to citizens.…

Lucky there isn't an asteroid headed for Earth for which a demoralized space agency might need to mount a redirect mission…

Bugs fixed, updating to the latest version is advisable Security sleuths found two critical vulnerabilities in a third-party library that MongoDB relies on, which means bad guys can potentially steal data and run code.…

Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table…

IT giant doing whatever it takes to reach $300 a share…

Stalling tactics designed to push print or PC users to online support, sorry, 'self-solve'…

Cost of post-Brexit arrangements revealed as HMRC looks at options following Fujitsu contract…

The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year Two men are in police custody after being arrested in connection with a July cryptocurrency fraud involving a man in his seventies.…

Most people crank up the brightness, making energy savings moot Using apps and websites in dark mode can actually use more energy than standard mode, according to researchers, as it causes people to crank up the brightness.…

Systems integrator secured 'variation' just before mega SAP migration put on hold…

FBI and CISA issue reminder - deep sigh - about the importance of patching and backups…

2.3 TB held to ransom as biz formerly known as Virgin Care tells us it's probing IT 'security incident'…

Arista trumpeted its role in this project for a year. Good thing business is otherwise solid…

Nice number, but also not much more than a nice advance…

That's the way the cookie melts A US Army soldier suspected of hacking AT&T and Verizon has admitted leaking online people's private call records.…