7+ hour, 19+ min ago   (582+ words) Ingenious coders coaxed multichannel chiptunes from the humblest of sound hardware Even for 1982, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum had poor sound: a piezoelectric speaker that could beep. But you can do a lot with a single bit if you turn it…...

1+ day, 21+ 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, 2+ 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, 3+ 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, 4+ day ago   (505+ words) Microsoft is switching off text predictions by default in Word and Outlook after acknowledging that unwanted suggestions can interrupt rather than assist some users. The change is coming to Word for Windows, the web, iOS, and Android, as well as…...

1+ week, 4+ 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, 5+ 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, 5+ day ago   (844+ words) OpenClaw has unveiled what its makers call its largest ever update – large enough to earn a 2.0 moniker – with usability taking center stage, along with some security updates that critics are suggesting will be insufficient. The OpenClaw foundation announced the release of…...