1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (408+ words) There's no place like the Home directory, but the Documents folder is sometimes nicer ON CALL Friday morning is The Register's home for tech support stories, which we showcase in On Call – the weekly column made possible by readers generously…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (869+ words) Anthropic has blueprints for building e-commerce bots that shop on behalf of clients. That's not something many consumers want at the moment, but the AI biz this week published a set of templates for Claude-based shopping agents and merchant agents…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (537+ words) Microsoft is retiring Word's Similarity Checker on October 3 and stripping the feature from Microsoft Editor. Other writing and editing tools, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, won't be affected. But if an organization uses Similarity Checker as part of its workflow, it's time…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (531+ words) PostgreSQL 19 is set to add standardized SQL syntax for querying property graphs. The open source database has steadily grown in popularity over the last five years, becoming the most popular among developers for the first time in 2023. Speaking to The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1508+ words) A decade or two ago, board executives asked "why should I care about cybersecurity?" Five years ago, they were asking "Are you patching our software vulnerabilities?" Now, they're starting to ask: "Are we actually secure?" They might want a simple…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (286+ words) Migrating comes with costs too. It isn’t just a compute-level move; networking, storage, management tools, and security all come along for the ride. Gartner found projects taking 18 to 48 months, at $300 to $3,000 per VM. If migrating your infrastructure and readying it…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (612+ words) Good news if you want to keep your NAS boxes on FreeBSD – two new contenders just stepped up, with updated forks of the cancelled TrueNAS Core. FreeBSD has a strong reputation as a stable server OS, and integrates highly reliable…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (772+ words) 30 years on, it's still alpha, but 0.4.16 brings plenty of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements - just in time for Windows XP's 25th anniversary If you're pining away for the days when Windows ran well on 64 MB of RAM, there's a new version…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (694+ words) Oracle is betting that AI coding will deliver "Star Wars" levels of software engineering productivity, CEO Mike Sicilia told investors last week. With its shares sharply down over the past year, Big Red claims its engineers' productivity will skyrocket as…...