Support newbie figured out how to avoid all-nighters, and his colleagues hated him for it
Published: July 24, 2026 06:30
Sleep doesn't pay
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OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will
Published: July 23, 2026 20:48
ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap
IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them
Published: July 23, 2026 11:34
Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets
Firefox 153 contains itself while Thunderbird 153 fixes almost everything
Published: July 23, 2026 11:14
Mozilla walls off your online identities as MZLA unleashes a bumper repair job
GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions
Published: July 22, 2026 10:50
New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
Redmond's reaper cometh: October 2026 set to bury a graveyard of Microsoft products
Published: July 22, 2026 10:00
Office LTSC 2021, Windows Server 2022, Publisher, and Entra ID risk policies all facing the chop within weeks of each other
Some Mullvad VPN customers tunnel for exit after co-founder donates millions to populist party
Published: July 21, 2026 09:15
SEK 5M gift supplied 72 percent of Örebropartiet's annual income, but company insists it was strictly personal
Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
Published: July 20, 2026 06:30
Developer was hired to write VB, used C# instead, and thought he mostly made it work
Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly
Published: July 17, 2026 17:40
And what to expect in Firefox 153 as the next ESR release gets close
EU forces Google to share its toys with the other AI and search kids
Published: July 16, 2026 16:48
The Chocolate Factory is not amused
AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You
Published: July 16, 2026 16:21
Forrester warns price hikes and usage charges will pump up software budgets next year
Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility
Published: July 16, 2026 15:46
Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.
How to teach an old Intel Mac new tricks with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Published: July 16, 2026 08:30
Why to do it, and what to watch out for
EU competition decision hands SAP customers more leverage in contract talks
Published: July 15, 2026 10:00
Truce over maintenance fees is a bargaining chip for ECC holdouts – just don't expect a stampede to third-party support
RISC-V firmware project wants every board booting from the same hymn sheet
Published: July 14, 2026 15:01
HFI proposes a familiar PC-style route from power-on to operating system
Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly
Published: July 14, 2026 10:37
Joins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan
Sticker shock has execs rethinking this whole AI thing
Published: July 13, 2026 14:16
This week on The Reg's Kettle podcast, we wonder whether tokenminning is going to bring the industry back down to Earth