The Register Kettle

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!

The Register Kettle is a technology podcast hosted by El Reg, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

El Reg hosts The Register Kettle, a technology show with 29 episodes published.

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  A new challenger appears: Jev fights LLMs for enterprise supremacy

  Sep 27, 202622 min

  As AI has reshaped the tech world, so it in turn waits for something greater to come along and reshape it, and that unstoppable force might just be TypeSafe AI's new model, Jev. Jev's not chatty , it doesn't want to tell you a story, and it won't really do much besides answering multiple choice, ranking, and binary yes/no questions to a degree of probability, but in lots of cases that's probably all you need from an AI. Jev is also dirt cheap to run and ultra fast, and has proven to have a lot of use cases in just a week on the scene. This week on The Kettle, join host Brandon Vigliarolo , senior reporter Tom Claburn , and contributor Joab Jackson to chat about how Jev is reshaping the AI landscape and what it might do to the future of the AI industry.

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

  Sep 20, 202629 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 considering getting rid of reporting requirements on small-scale polluters (e.g., datacenters with on-site power generation), meaning all those unrestricted emissions at new bit barns might not even be mentioned to the public. But hey, at least Nvidia is riding to the rescue with some datacenter energy efficiency improvements , as self-serving as they may be for the company's bottom line. Join host Brandon Vigliarolo , Systems Editor Tobias Mann , and Reporter Dan Robinson to talk all about these developments, and why we're not so sure coal will come roaring back as a datacenter energy choice any time soon.

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

  Sep 13, 202625 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 matter altogether. We at The Register's Kettle desk don't think so , and that's what we're talking over this week. Join host Brandon Vigliarolo , systems editor Tobias Mann , and senior reporter Tom Claburn to hear our thoughts on how we could stop the impending AI meteor hurtling toward us by, for starters, arresting the tech bros who keep letting it do bad stuff. Someone had better do something - all those industry insiders sounding the alarm are going to be exhibit A if and when we take action after it's already too late.

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

  Sep 6, 202621 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 leading open model host. Joining host Brandon Vigliarolo this week is reporter Dan Robinson , who broke the news of Nvidia's $12.9 billion acquisition for El Reg yesterday, weighs in on what he heard on the announcement call , while senior reporter Tom Claburn opines on what he sees coming.

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

  Aug 30, 202640 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 Proven and Microsoft reporter Richard Speed to talk about why XP might have been peak Windows, but that's not the only retro thing we're chatting about in this episode. Along with reminiscing about Windows of days gone by , we're also looking at Casio's remake of its classic digital watch to add some basic smart capabilities without losing a two-year battery life, and we're reexamining the long-held belief that putting passwords on paper is a bad idea. After all, you can't hack a paper notebook.

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