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Pokémon bakeoff reveals best JavaScript frameworks for AI

Most JavaScript programmers default to their ride-or-die frameworks, but such loyalties can hinder them when they task AI agents with doing their dirty work. Human-friendly tools aren't necessarily the most effective ones for the model-powered minio...

NHS counts Palantir benefits at trusts that say they're not using it

Twenty-nine NHS trusts listed as benefiting from Palantir's Federated Data Platform (FDP) said in Freedom of Information responses that they were not using it, according to health worker campaign group Medact.That represents about 21 percent of the...

Drax wants to feed Britain's AI habit with £20B datacenter at biomass power station

Britain's AI infrastructure boom could soon have an unlikely new home: Drax Power Station, where the operator of the country's largest biomass power plant has unveiled plans for a £20 billion datacenter development capable of consuming more than a g...

Virgin Media O2 outlines plans to lay off thousands as revenue falls

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) wants to chop a third of its labor costs and is expected to lay off thousands of workers, giving staff more to think about than Christmas presents during the run up to year-end. Shrinking the workforce is one of a number of co...

Britain on notice: AI-powered ransomware attacks to arrive by 2028

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) says AI-powered malware is "highly likely" to be a part of a future ransomware attack on Britain's critical national infrastructure between now and 2028.The warning accompanies its annual review and a s...

Apple's Mac business is booming, but the memory market has other plans

Apple says it sold more Macs in fiscal 2026 than in any previous year, but soaring memory prices are threatening to spoil the Cupertino-based gadget maker's record-breaking run.The warning came during Apple's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call on M...

Broadcom denied names of cloud providers backing VMware merger challenge

Euro cloud trade association CISPE can keep the identities of members backing its VMware merger challenge confidential from Broadcom following a ruling by the EU General Court.Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe filed an action last ye...

UK.gov lacks understanding of climate impact, says watchdog

Public bodies in the UK expect higher operating costs and energy charges as a result of climate changes and the transition to lower carbon energy, but few have a good picture of the risks, according to government auditors. A new report from the Nati...

The Elder Scrolls VI officially has a name: Sentinel

Bethesda is officially confirming today that the next Elder Scrolls game will be called The Elder Scrolls VI Sentinel. The confirmation came in a less than 10-minute video celebrating 40 years of Bethesda game studios.It's been more than eight...

OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’

The Stargate AI data center ’compute campus’ in Abilene, Texas. | Bloomberg via Getty Images People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in...

Raspberry Pi hikes prices again, barely a month after the last round

Raspberry Pi has announced yet another round of price hikes, this time adding $80 to the cost of its 16GB Pi 5, which now sells for more than three times its original launch price.The latest bump, announced by Raspberry Pi boss Eben Upton, takes the...

A truck-sized NASA space telescope is about to crash to Earth

Almost 22 years after it was launched, NASA's Swift Observatory is now about to fall back to Earth on Wednesday after attempts to push it back into a higher orbit failed. NASA announced that the aging space telescope is anticipated to re-enter...

Everyone has the file. Nobody has the right version

Distributed teams need to collaborate on shared information, but duplicated files, delays, and competing versions keep getting in the way.Picture a video production team with editors in different cities. One person updates a project file, another ke...

Bambu’s nine-nozzle H3C foretells the future of 3D printing

The Bambu H3C. | Image: Bambu Lab Three years ago, I told you how home 3D printers had evolved for speed, producing parts in minutes that used to take hours or days. Now, the next evolution is here: printers that can swap between materials on...

Peak Design expands its collection of wireless charging accessories

Peak Design, best known for its backpacks and travel bags packed full of useful features, announced it's expanding its collection of chargers and charging accessories with new devices that focus on pairing premium materials with innovative func...

Adobe’s Premiere mobile app is adding licensed music from ‘leading artists’

Adobe is teaming up with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to add a library of licensed music clips to the Premiere mobile video editing app. No specific musicians have been announced with this partnership, but Adobe said it will inc...

The 2026 iPad Mini is a terrific tiny tablet — for a big price

The iPad Mini sometimes feels like a trap. It is, in some ways and for some people, the perfect iPad: meaningfully larger than my phone's screen but still small and light enough to use for reading in bed or gaming on the subway. As most of the...

Final_FINAL_v7.docx is not a version control strategy

The Register and LucidLink are hosting a dinner for senior technology, infrastructure and data leaders at the Covent Garden Hotel on Tuesday 24 November. Joe Fay of The Register is in the chair. The subject is one most of them will know from their o...

Apple is restricting dating apps and romanceable chatbots to over 18s

Apple will soon start asking developers to provide more details about their apps to enforce new App Store age rating requirements for dating and location-sharing features. The upcoming content descriptors announced on Monday will require develo...

Forget retraining - AI can now tweak another AI's weights

The outputs of AI models are the result of a complex interplay between neurons, weights, training, and inference, and are therefore difficult to follow.But in some ways they're starting to look more like open books. Recent work by Anthropic safety f...