Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more $940m agreement with one of world's largest employers is value for money, we are assured Sysadmin Month30 Jun 2023 | 41
This Windows update is snarling up some endpoint security tools Malwarebytes and Trellix upgrades to the rescue Sysadmin Month29 Jun 2023 | 8
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 33
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 87
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 2
Microsoft Fabric promises to tear into the enterprise analytics patchwork Meanwhile, users are left to figure out how to cut their cloth Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 7
JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt