90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork Ministers are moving to turn England's patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill in a Monday vote.…
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Lees meerDud contracts, proprietary designs, and zero-experience supplier make for quite the mess The NASA Office of Inspector General, the aerospace agency’s auditor, fears that work on next-generation spacesuits won’t finish in time to use them for the pla…
Lees meerThe struggles continue for Fermi America's 17 GW bit barn ambitions It’s been a weekend filled with dizzying changes in the boardroom at datacenter wannabe Fermi America as it hopes eventually to expand its West Texas campus to about 17 gigawatts of…
Lees meerTim Cook is handing the reins to John Ternus at Apple Have you heard? Apple's Tim Cook is stepping down after 15 years leading the iMaker's business. He'll become executive chairman and hand the reins over to John Ternus, a senior VP of hardware eng…
Lees meerOfficial involved in deal tells El Reg number doesn't paint entire picture of datacenter's economic benefit When Rockland County, New York, approved nearly $77 million in tax breaks for JPMorgan Chase's datacenter expansion in 2024, no one showed up…
Lees meerCompanies get to keep IP developed for government projects The UK government is opening £80 million in AI procurement talks with tech firms, drawing on its £500 million sovereign capability fund.…
Lees meerBit barns need to worry more about space, access to grid – overstuffed center no longer a must, say experts UK AI datacenter capacity could migrate away from London as power shortages, planning constraints and reduced reliance on low-latency connect…
Lees meerWorkstations that made distant desktops feel local is headed for a slow shutdown HP is quietly pulling the plug on its Teradici-derived remote desktop business, shelving HP Anyware and its zero client hardware barely a few years after betting big on…
Lees meerCommittee launches inquiry into emerging chip designs to curb datacenter energy use MPs are probing whether radically different, low-energy chip designs can stop AI from turning the UK's power grid into a bottleneck.…
Lees meerPLUS: India bins ID app pre-install plan; Robot wins Beijing half-marathon; AI writing Manga speech bubbles; and more! Asia In Brief Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has suspended the nation’s game rating system (IGRS) afte…
Lees meerStripped-down Ultra for laptops and low-power edge boxes Intel brought a few more chips home from Taiwan this week, with a new round of budget-oriented Core Series 3 processors fabbed right in the US-of-A.…
Lees meerUrges operators to shift focus from traditional network metrics to managing user experience and customer behavior Partner Content ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a globally leading provider of integrated information and communication technol…
Lees meerUsers who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck.…
Lees meerUrges operators to shift focus from traditional network metrics to managing user experience and customer behavior Partner Content ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a globally leading provider of integrated information and communication technol…
Lees meerUsers who stream their own media files ticked off as Plex warns Alexa skill will die on June 15 Plex is pulling the plug on its Alexa integration, leaving anyone who relied on voice commands to wrangle their media library out of luck.…
Lees meerTop civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money The UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout later leaving…
Lees meerTop civil servant tells MPs bid was strong on quality and value for money The UK government awarded Capita a £239 million contract to run the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) after assessing its past performance, despite the rollout later leaving…
Lees meerAll that kit, and the fix was simply stepping aside On Call Life is filled with random events, but The Register tries to make readers’ lives just a little more predictable by always using Friday morning to bring you a new instalment of On Call – th…
Lees meerFast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups The IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade.…
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