Google is reportedly negotiating with the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy Gemini in classified settings, with the talks covering the addition of GPU racks to Google Distributed Cloud.
The Spectral:ON CF 8 is a do-it-all, full-carbon electric mountain bike with an 800-Wh battery and under $4,500. Yes, please!
Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out.
Get an RTX 5070 for MSRP at Woot, now just $549.
Users 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.…
The retro community seems sharply divided over a decision by Commodore regarding locking down firmware access in its C64 Ultimate computer.
From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels.
AMD is rumored to launch the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition in the second quarter of this year.
University student says he plans to move to Android, but concedes iOS engineers acting fast Apple is finally working on a fix for a bug that has locked some users out of their iPhones for months, The Register understands.…
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba. The real ambition for many of these researchers was the r...
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described him as a mainstay of both c...
Another victim of Amazon's return policy shares their story on Reddit, how they bought a Ryzen 9 9950X3D for just €163 only to get a 3D-printed IHS of a 9950X3D attached to nothing.
Gamer and maker builds a hotdog-based game controller.
Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.
It's no Pixel 10a, but the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro is a close second if you're after a midrange phone in the US.
By now, TSMC has become a much bigger chipmaker than Intel has ever been, but the world's top foundry still calls its American peer a 'formidable' competitor.
CISA warned that attackers are now exploiting a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability, which was patched earlier this month after going undetected for 13 years. [...]
Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative.
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Jack might be on Track, but the order screen certainly isn't Bork!Bork!Bork! It was not so much Jack in the Box as Bork on the Screen at a US drive-through fast food outlet the other day. Luckily, a Reg reader was there to take it all in.…