Nintendo is raising the price of its Switch 2 console globally, “in light of changes in market conditions,” and is now forecasting a drop in sales over the next year. Starting September 1st, the Switch 2 will cost $499.99 in the US, up from its current $449.99 price. At the same time, prices will also…
On Call It’s amazing what happens when you plug everything in No week at The Register is complete without a new installment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you share tales of the peaks and troughs of the tech support experience. So let’s get going and meet this week’s contributor, who we shall…
Off-Prem Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email Cloudflare has revealed it will farewell 1,100 staff, due to its current and future use of AI. In a blog post that oozes Orwellian “doublespeak,” CEO Matthew Prince and President/COO Michelle Zatlyn used the headline “Building for…
networks NetAdmins can stay in the loop while they learn to trust AI to tackle some scutwork HPE has delivered the first fruits of its Juniper acquisition: Wi-Fi access points that users can manage with either Aruba Central or the Mist platform, and “self-driving” tools that use AI to allow some autonomous operations. …
Off-Prem Things are heating up in a single datacenter, but not in a good way Amazon Web Services is working to address a power outage that has created “impairments” to services served from the notorious US-EAST-1 region. A May 7 incident report time-stamped 5:25 PM PDT (00:25 UTC Friday) states that AWS spotted problems in…
security Yet it remains unclear if Anthropic’s uber model was effective, or if better model middleware is what makes the difference Mozilla fixed 423 Firefox security bugs in April, a repair rate more than five times higher than the 76 fixes issued in March and almost 20 times higher than its 21.5 monthly average last…
Improving AI infrastructure AlphaEvolve has graduated from pilot testing to becoming a core component of our infrastructure. AlphaEvolve has been used as a regular tool to optimize the design of the next generation of TPUs. It also helped discover more efficient cache replacement policies, achieving in two days what previously required a concerted, human-intensive effort…
Storage Final specs due for release in 2028, so don’t hold your breath for the hardware An official draft of the PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification is out, targeting a blistering 1 terabyte per second when the kit finally hits the streets. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has released draft 0.5 of the version…
Add section name here Internet-facing PAN-OS firewalls are once again doing impressions of initial access brokers State-backed hackers have been quietly exploiting a fresh zero-day in Palo Alto Networks firewalls to gain root access with no login required. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-0300 and carrying a CVSS severity rating of 9.3, affects the Captive Portal…
Devops Language’s popularity continues to grow despite commonly cited frustrations The Standard C++ Foundation’s annual developer survey shows AI use among C++ programmers is rising fast, though mistrust and resistance remain stubbornly high. The poll, billed as a “10-minute survey to help inform C++ standardization and C++ tool vendors,” drew 1,434 respondents, 38 percent more…