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  • American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient

    September 20, 2026 · 29 min

    Just when you thought concerns over datacenter power generation in the US couldn't get any worse, the Trump administration goes ahead and gets rid of emissions restrictions on power plants.  If that wasn't bad enough, the EPA is also…

  • AI is going to kill everyone, and apparently we're just going to let it

    September 13, 2026 · 25 min

    Hey, did you hear? AI is going to kill us all and no one is trying to do anything to stop it.  That's what industry insiders are saying now, anyways. Whether you believe we just have to sit back and let Skynet end civilization is another…

  • Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

    September 6, 2026 · 21 min

    AI repository Hugging Face will soon be an Nvidia property, and while everyone's promising things will remain the same we at The Register's Kettle desk aren't so sure the status quo is going to stay the status quo at the AI industry's…

  • High tech, high schmeck: What's old is new again

    August 30, 2026 · 40 min

    Windows XP is turning 25, and with AI still causing a memory crunch we're really missing the days of low-overhead OSes from Microsoft that just worked.  This week on The Kettle, host Brandon Vigliarolo is joined by FOSS reporter Liam…

  • AI vendors are turning to custom hardware as Microsoft turns back the clock on Windows

    August 23, 2026 · 36 min

    This week, we learned a lot more about what’s going on inside the datacenter. GPUs may still be king but their exclusive reign on the rack is over. The taskbar's reign at the bottom of the desktop may be coming to an end too. Register…

  • Black Hat and DEF CON are AI conferences now, too

    August 16, 2026 · 26 min

    Our cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons spent a week in Las Vegas for Black Hat and DEF CON last week, and there was only one thing on everyone's mind: AI agents and their growing threat to cybersecurity defenders. As Jess wrote this week…

  • Everything is crazy and, yes, you can blame AI

    August 9, 2026 · 31 min

    OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins,  and AI crawlers are getting their own LLM-poisoning ads. Were there anything…

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About the show

What's a kettle, you ask? Why a group of vultures in flight, of course. News, insights, analysis, and overall chatter around what's happening in the broader world of IT from the reporters at The Register and guests. Hosted by Brandon Vigliarolo, with regular guests EIC Matt Rosoff, US editor Avram Piltch, UK editor Paul Kunert, and reporters Tom Claburn, Jessica Lyons, Tobias Mann, and more!