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Virtualisation modernisation reshapes hybrid workload management beyond hypervisor replacement
This sponsored explainer from The Register, produced with HPE, argues that organisations facing rising virtualisation costs and licensing pressures should resist the urge to simply swap hypervisors and instead rethink how virtual workloads are placed, managed, secured and governed across their entire hybrid IT estate. It contends that a straight platform swap or lift-and-shift migration…
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Rescue pilot pleads guilty, museum heists turn violent, US clean energy set for record growth
TalkFuse’s briefing covers a South Sudanese teenager admitting endangering lives at sea after piloting a Channel super-dinghy, warnings over increasingly violent European museum robberies, Italy’s new phone-crossing fines, US clean energy’s record growth, OpenAI’s push into autonomous agents, and a teenager’s decisi…
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IBM announces chip that natively executes Arm and Z instructions concurrently
IBM has announced it is developing a new mainframe chip whose cores can natively execute Arm instructions alongside its own IBM Z or LinuxONE instructions concurrently, in a bid to broaden the software available to mainframe customers. The move is effectively an acknowledgement that independent software vendors are increasingly building for Arm-based cloud platforms rather…
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Lenovo confirms Legion Go issues after gamers report bricked devices
Lenovo has issued its first official statement addressing weeks of reports that a faulty BIOS update bricked Legion Go handheld gaming PCs, after users described blank screens and repair bills approaching $300. The company confirmed that BIOS version V42 could cause devices to go blank during installation and said it has removed the update from…
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Data centers become “killer application” for new power transformer tech
Solid-state power transformers, a modern alternative to the hand-wound transformer technology that has changed little since the 1880s, are attracting a surge of investment as AI data centres emerge as their “killer application”. Conventional transformers are custom-built by hand for individual substations and can take years to deliver, a bottleneck that hampers both grid expansion…
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How does converting a video to 4K actually work?
Converting older video footage to 4K is increasingly tempting as 4K OLED displays become standard, but the process involves significant technical limitations that anyone attempting it should understand. Upscaling software cannot recover detail that was never captured in the original recording; instead, it uses interpolation to estimate and generate the additional pixels needed, which can…
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Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks
A developer has released Glassbox, a free tool that runs entirely in a user’s browser to reveal how easily companies can fingerprint and track individuals online, without sending any data to external servers. Built by security engineer David Dale with assistance from Claude Code, the tool matters because it exposes the many subtle techniques, from…
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Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they’re coming for monitors.
Ars Technica warns that computer monitors, long recommended as a smart-TV alternative for privacy-conscious consumers, are increasingly adopting the same ad-serving and tracking practices that have plagued smart TVs. The concern was triggered by reports that some LG monitors quietly installed an app called LG Monitor App Installer onto connected PCs via disguised Windows Update…