Sci-Tech news

• Are tablets falling out of favour?

  27-02-2015 01:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Are tablets losing their appeal?
  
  Read more

• Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007

  14-10-2026 17:45 via theregister.com
  
  A browser-based emulator for the original iPhone is the latest project to tap into the rich vein of nostalgia running through the tech industry. While far from a complete implementation, the emulation does enough to evoke happier times, before Apple burdened its mobile operating system with frills and complexities, and spent years (and multiple operating system updates) making the Podcasts app steadily more broken. The browser-based emulation (and we use the term carefully; anyone expecting all
  
  Read more

• New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs

  14-10-2026 17:00 via theregister.com
  
  Gigabyte recently announced new motherboards that use DDR4 RAM, a standard that launched in 2014, and other vendors support even older standards in brand-new kit. Earlier this year, AMD released a Ryzen 7 5800X3D anniversary edition to mark ten years of AM4. For AM4 processors, Gigabyte offers the new B450M H ARGB, with two DDR4 slots, and the B550 X-Eagle with four slots. Those who prefer Intel chippery can now buy a B760M Aorus Elite. This is notable because of the age of the DDR4 spec. In cas
  
  Read more

• Tiny11 puts Windows 11 on a diet without the PowerShell workout

  14-10-2026 16:15 via theregister.com
  
  Tiny11 Builder, a tool for creating less-bloated Windows 11 installation images, now has a desktop app preview that makes the process less reliant on PowerShell know-how. As the author explains: "Tiny11 Builder aims to be the de facto standard for creating lightweight, safe and efficient Windows images." The tool creates an ISO image for Windows installation, stripping out bundled apps and selected system components. It accepts Windows 11 installation media from 22H2 onward, including 26H2, and
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable

  14-10-2026 15:30 via theregister.com
  
  AI datacenters are a rats nest of fiber optic cables stitching together thousands of AI accelerators, NICs, switches, and everything else required to train and run the latest and greatest modes. Cisco hopes to untangle this mess with a new pluggable optic developed in collaboration with Nvidia that will pack between four and eight times the bandwidth of existing pluggables into a single port. Announced at the Open Compute Project (OCP) global summit this week, the ultra-dense small form factor p
  
  Read more

• Astonishing proof the Bible is true etched into a gold coin and an ancient wall in Rome

  14-10-2026 15:15 via dailymail.com
  
  For some, the Bible is a collection of parables: a series of deeply resonant stories, designed to guide you throughout your life. Yet for others it is a historical document.
  
  Read more

• US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B

  14-10-2026 14:45 via theregister.com
  
  Some of America's biggest tech companies have a warning for Europe: curb your reliance on US cloud providers, and it could cost you €115 billion. That's the finding of a new study commissioned by CCIA Europe, a lobbying group whose members include Amazon, Google, and Meta, companies that have plenty of reasons to want European governments to keep buying American cloud services. The research, conducted by the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), claims the European Co
  
  Read more

• Britain's single hotspots, revealed: Interactive map shows where you're most likely to be partnered up…or still looking for love

  14-10-2026 14:39 via dailymail.com
  
  Whether you're happily coupled up or endlessly swiping through dating apps, your postcode could have more influence on your love life than you think.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• 'A time capsule at the bottom of the sea': World's oldest shipwreck that sank 4,700 YEARS ago discovered off the coast of Turkey

  14-10-2026 14:37 via dailymail.com
  
  Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be the world's oldest known shipwreck off the coast of Turkey, dating back 4,700 years.
  
  Read more

• Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

  14-10-2026 14:00 via theregister.com
  
  After a week’s delay, the new version of Python, v3.15, has been released. With it comes a proper profiler, an experimental just-in-time compiler, and a tightening of dictionary structures. It also offers a time-saving Lazy Import option for programs to not load modules until needed, the implementation of which ironically halted this release until a few last-minute regressions were sorted. But of all these new delicacies spread before the Pythonistas, the data wranglers of the bunch may mo
  
  Read more

• Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno

  14-10-2026 13:15 via theregister.com
  
  There ain't no party like a tap-in party, as nobody ever said. And so it is that one of Luxembourg's mostly redundant tap-in / tap-out terminals is amusing itself by putting on a light show for passing passengers. The terminal is an INIT unit, rolled out on the country's public transport network and now mostly idle since fares were zeroed out in 2020. First Class and cross-border trips still attract a charge, but for everything else (trains, trams, and buses) there is no fee. Eagle-eyed Register
  
  Read more

• KPMG tech and data boss tells staff facing the boot he's getting promoted

  14-10-2026 12:30 via theregister.com
  
  Redundancies might have dented morale at KPMG in the UK, but that didn't stop Paul Henninger, head of technology and data, from sharing some positive personal news with the troops: he's being promoted. Late last week, as staff awaited confirmation of redundancies, Henninger emailed his staff to share the update before KPMG announced it to the wider business. He confirmed he had been asked to take on the new role of group head of consulting. "In this role, I will lead our Consulting practice and,
  
  Read more

• OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper

  14-10-2026 11:55 via theregister.com
  
  The Department of Justice has charged an OpenAI engineer with attempting to intercept oral communications after allegedly planting a recording device in an exec conference room. Investigators claim company security staff found a second device in his bag. Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, is described in court documents as an engineer at OpenAI who had worked there since July 2025, and has held permanent residency in the US since September 2020. He was arrested on October 9 and made his ini
  
  Read more

• The AI math isn't mathing as infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue

  14-10-2026 11:00 via theregister.com
  
  AI services are unlikely to deliver enough revenue to cover the expected capital expenditure going into IT infrastructure between now and 2030, and it looks like neocloud operators will largely bow out or be bought out. This is the conclusion from Gartner, which has added up the anticipated investments in AI datacenters over the next several years, estimated the revenue that can be expected from AI-driven applications over the same period, and found the numbers come up short. Gartner's data come
  
  Read more

• AI math isn't mathing: infrastructure spending forecast to outstrip expected revenue

  14-10-2026 11:00 via theregister.com
  
  AI services are unlikely to deliver enough revenue to cover the expected capital expenditure going into IT infrastructure between now and 2030, and it looks like neocloud operators will largely bow out or be bought out. This is the conclusion from Gartner, which has added up the anticipated investments in AI datacenters over the next several years, estimated the revenue that can be expected from AI-driven applications over the same period, and found the numbers come up short. Gartner's data come
  
  Read more

• Hidden for 3,000 years: Giant statues of Ramses II emerge from Egyptian village after farmer spots mysterious stone block in his field

  14-10-2026 10:52 via dailymail.com
  
  Hidden beneath a quiet Egyptian village for 3,000 years, two colossal statues of one of history's most famous pharaohs have been unearthed.
  
  Read more

• UK government chases AI while aging IT leaves it exposed, PAC chair warns

  14-10-2026 10:15 via theregister.com
  
  The UK government is pushing ahead with its AI ambitions yet is dragging its feet on replacing aging IT systems that leave departments vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a damning assessment from Parliament's spending watchdog. Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), warns in his second annual report that Whitehall is failing to tackle its longstanding technology problems, even as AI gives criminals and hostile states new ways to attack go
  
  Read more

• It won't kill you, or humanity, to get off the AI upgrade treadmill

  14-10-2026 09:30 via theregister.com
  
  Why are we in such a hurry? Are we in a race? Where's the finish line? Are we in the lead? Far behind? I increasingly hear these questions about AI from people who feel a gritty sense of being unpleasantly overstimulated – like a three-year-old allowed to stay awake too long and now unable to sleep. That feeling has become worse since last November when AI tools suddenly became "good enough" to be broadly useful. A whole cohort of engineers – myself included – found themselves
  
  Read more

• Energy company was warned data centers risked power crisis that now threatens blackouts in 13 states

  14-10-2026 09:06 via dailymail.com
  
  Newly erected data centers have strained the capacity for PJM Interconnection, America's largest power grid, which serves 13 states.
  
  Read more

• Ransomware gets personal: 'We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff'

  14-10-2026 07:00 via theregister.com
  
  Tim Beasley, a senior incident response consultant at Semperis, was investigating a cyberattack involving Russia’s Midnight Blizzard when a package containing nesting dolls and other regional gifts showed up on his doorstep. At the time, Beasley served as the lead investigator for Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART). He assumed it was from the group, which has been linked to the Kremlin’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), although the sender didn’t leave a no
  
  Read more

• Staggering modern breakthroughs that prove the Bible is true: From Noah's Ark's resting place to bloody clues on the Shroud of Turin, experts reveal evidence that convinced them

  14-10-2026 02:19 via dailymail.com
  
  For some, the Bible is a collection of parables: a series of deeply resonant stories, designed to guide you throughout your life. Yet for others it is a historical document.
  
  Read more

• Terrifying Jurassic predator with 7-inch claws prowled the Isle of Wight 120 million years ago, study reveals

  14-10-2026 01:05 via dailymail.com
  
  A terrifying new dinosaur armed with claws as long as kitchen knives once stalked the Isle of Wight, archaeologists have revealed.
  
  Read more

• Sorry, Sir Paul! Scientists say you CAN'T remember being born - and explain what's really behind those 'first day of life' memories

  14-10-2026 01:05 via dailymail.com
  
  Sir Paul McCartney's claim that he can remember being born may be extraordinary, but scientists say it is almost certainly impossible.
  
  Read more

• Apple HomeView hands-on: SHIVALI BEST is one of the first people to test the £299 home device - so, should you buy one for your family?

  14-10-2026 00:45 via dailymail.com
  
  Unveiled at an event in New York, the gadget won't go on sale until November 13. However, the Daily Mail's Science & Technology Editor, Shivali Best, was among the first to get her hands on it.
  
  Read more

• Anthropic reinvents source control as Claude floods the world with code

  14-10-2026 00:37 via theregister.com
  
  Anthropic's Claude models have been emitting so much code that the company's coding infrastructure hasn't been able to keep up. It's a symptom of the AI coding imperative and all-you-can-eat inference. Microsoft's GitHub in April published a blog post attributing recent availability problems to the exponential growth in pull requests and commits. The code flood has been noted by academic researchers, among others. For Anthropic, writing code is no longer a productivity bottleneck. Instead, the p
  
  Read more

• CISA director touts private partnerships after agency killed many

  13-10-2026 22:57 via theregister.com
  
  The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has killed many of the industry partnerships it used to enhance security, but don't tell the organization's acting director. Speaking on Tuesday at a virtual public sector cyber resilience summit hosted by infosec firm Rubrik, Nick Andersen claimed that CISA’s public-private partnerships are the most critical aspect of his agency’s mission. “We don’t see everything. We’re not a law enforcement agency, in
  
  Read more

• Power grid emergency declared across 13 US states in urgent bid to prevent blackouts

  13-10-2026 22:32 via dailymail.com
  
  An emergency order has been issued to keep widespread blackouts from impacting over 60 million people in the US.
  
  Read more

• OpenAI's dot assistant burned 300K+ tokens in a day without a single prompt

  13-10-2026 22:20 via theregister.com
  
  If you use OpenAI's dot, don't be surprised if it consumes a lot of tokens on its own. According to AI agent security and governance outfit Geordie, one dot agent produced 155 separate activity sequences and consumed more than 300,000 tokens - all without further human interaction, and all in the course of a day. Geordie has been testing the “always on” agentic assistant, dot, since OpenAI announced it in September, following in the footsteps of Meta Muse and Grok Bot. Compared to ot
  
  Read more

• Winter blast puts four states on alert as up to 14 inches of snow threaten travel: 'Proceed with caution'

  13-10-2026 22:19 via dailymail.com
  
  A winter blast is bringing up to 14 inches of snow to some parts of the US, threatening slick roads, disrupted commutes and dangerous conditions.
  
  Read more

• Apple unleashes a swarm of Mac Minions to share GPU resources for large AI tasks

  13-10-2026 21:16 via theregister.com
  
  In an effort to give its employees better access to GPU resources for inference tasks, Apple has rounded up its Minions, not the animated yellow creatures, but a distributed system that puts idle GPUs across its Macs to work on AI workloads. Apple researchers describe it as "a dynamic and distributed virtual GPU cloud that aggregates idle Apple Silicon GPUs across macOS devices to execute large-scale machine learning inference workloads." Apple's researchers said the company has used Minions to
  
  Read more

Follow @scitech_UK on Twitter!