Intel’s deal with Trump includes a penalty clause against selling off its fabs The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says Intel's agreement with the US government incudes a clause that would allow the feds to take an additional five percent stake in the chipmaker if it ceases to have a controlling share in its foundry business.… #theregister #IT
Intel’s deal with Trump includes penalty for selling fabs
: The $5.7B check has cleared, CFO says
FTC chair accuses Google of treating GOP's emails as spam Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED The Trump administration has accused Google of discriminating against Republicans' emails and warned that the tech giant could be in line for a crackdown.… #theregister #IT
FTC chair claims Google shunting GOP emails into spam folder
: Chocolate Factory says people keep marking them as such, so QED
RefreshOS 2.5: The Debian remix that borrows from every desk in the house A remarkable mixture of different components, but it works RefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.… #theregister #IT
RefreshOS 2.5 mixes desktops but keeps Debian underneath
: A remarkable mixture of different components, but it works
30 years later, Doom returns to SNES with Raspberry Pi RP2350 muscle Limited Run Games swaps in silicon to emulate Super FX chip and hit 20 fps Forget Windows 95, it's 30 years since Doom was released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. And thanks to the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, the game is back in cartridge form.… #theregister #IT
30 years later, Doom is back on the Super Nintendo
: Limited Run Games swaps in silicon to emulate Super FX chip and hit 20 fps
Enterprise password management outfit Passwordstate patches Emergency Access bug Up to 29,000 organizations and potentially 370,000 security and IT pros affected Australian development house Click Studios has warned users of its Passwordstate enterprise password management platform to update immediately if not sooner, following the discovery of an authentication … #theregister #IT
Enterprise password crew Passwordstate patches auth vuln
: Up to 29,000 organizations and potentially 370,000 security and IT pros affected
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms after Afghan leak fallout Senior officials summoned to science and tech committee to explain further Senior officials are being summoned to the UK's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee to explain why the government has not fully implemented the security recommendations made in a secret review following the 2021 Afghan data b… #theregister #IT
UK government dragged for incomplete security reforms
: Senior officials summoned to science and tech committee to explain further
Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026 Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web Microsoft is to permanently hang up on its Mobile Plans app, directing users to the web and the Windows Settings app in the future.… #theregister #IT
Windows Mobile Plans app to be disconnected in 2026
: Microsoft shifts cellular management to Settings and the web
UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds Hang on, what happened to gov.UK's bitbarn-favoring Industrial Strategy? Datacenter developers in the UK are turning to gas for power generation amid lengthy wait times for a connection to the electricity grid.… #theregister #IT
UK bit barn builds turn to gas rather than wait for grid pow
: Hang on, what happened to gov.UK's bitbarn-favoring Industrial Strategy?
How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think Opinion  Say what you like about its role in the destruction of civilization, the net is still good for a few party games. Take bets on when the "Wintel Empire" was first reported as under attack, and by what. Then go and find out.… #theregister #IT
Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away
Opinion: The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think
Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again Feature  In IT, terms and categories come and go. Distinctions disappear as computing evolves and as something that was shiny and new simply becomes the way that we do things.… #theregister #IT
Cloud computing: So normal, it
Feature: Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again