Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in bid data of the past decade Interview Jordan Tigani made his name as an engineer leading the team behind BigQuery, Google’s data warehouse, which was among a group of systems to transform the ma…
Lees meerStaff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike Vendors working on an Edinburgh University ERP project have been awarded around £8 million ($9.81 million) in additional fees following a troubled implementation w…
Lees meerA modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC Lenovo's Thinkpad X13s is a lovely, if odd, little laptop. It's a modern Arm machine that is trying as hard as it can to resemble a vanilla x86 laptop… and it carries it off.…
Lees meerA modern computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC Lenovo's Thinkpad X13s is a lovely, if odd, little laptop. It's a modern Arm machine that is trying as hard as it can to resemble a vanilla x86 laptop… and it carries it off.…
Lees meerBeware of Greeks bearing GIFs Meta's former security policy manager, who split her time between the US and Greece, is reportedly suing the Hellenic national intelligence service for hacking her phone.…
Lees meerUtility that began as a personal project found its way into billions of devices Daniel Stenberg has observed the 25th anniversary of the curl open source project with the publication of curl 8.0.0, the 215th release of the command line tool, and a m…
Lees meerBot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway Fresh from the launch of its large language model-based chatbot, ERNIE, Chinese web giant Baidu is rolling out of a cloud service integrated with the AI tool.…
Lees meerApril Fools should use Russian or Chinese tech instead Kermlin advises Advisors and staff to Russia's maximum leader have been told to ditch their iPhones by the end of the month. Or, for those who don't want to throw their Apple devices in the bin,…
Lees meerAlleges it’s infected with malware – but not the version in its own digital tat bazaar Google has suspended Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo from its Play store because versions of the software found elsewhere have included malware.…
Lees meerLatitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble Latitude Financial has blamed a supplier for leaking creds that caused vast PII leak Australian outfit Latitude Financial has taken itself…
Lees meerSpeeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom Italian automaker Ferrari has warned its well-heeled customers that their personal data may be at risk.…
Lees meerMeta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text The web demo of Alpaca, a small AI language model based on Meta's LLaMA system, has been taken down offline by researchers at Stanford University due to safety and cost concerns.…
Lees meerA 'new deal for the night' needed Increasing levels of light pollution means Earth's surface has almost no practical locations for astronomical observatories, a group of astronomers said on Monday.…
Lees meerDigital lending is only fine when we do it On Monday four of the largest book publishers asked a New York court to grant summary judgment in a copyright lawsuit seeking to shut down the Internet Archive's online library and hold the non-profit organ…
Lees meerBadly configured routers ended up costing a bundle Who, Me? Gentle reader, once again it is time to cushion your landing into the working week with Who, Me? – The Register's weekly chronicle of people having a worse day than you. Hopefully.…
Lees meerDigital lending is only fine when we do it On Monday four of the largest book publishers asked a New York court to grant summary judgment in a copyright lawsuit seeking to shut down the Internet Archive's online library and hold the non-profit organ…
Lees meeraCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device If you've owned a Google Pixel smartphone since the 3 series came out in 2018, bad news: any screenshot that you've cropped or redacted on your Pixel can be potentially restored without much fuss.…
Lees meerAt the very least, with other costs on top A Florida healthcare group has settled a class-action lawsuit after thieves stole more than 447,000 patients' names, Social Security numbers, and sensitive medical information, from its servers.…
Lees meerAdd another zero or so and soon we're talking real numbers Amazon kicked off this week by cutting another 9,000 jobs, bringing its total layoffs to some 27,000 since late last year.…
Lees meerDon't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need Opinion On-prem or not on-prem, that is the question. Hamlet, musing on something similar, decried the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, dramatically foreshadowing th…
Lees meerFour flaws open mobiles, cars to remote-control at baseband level with just a phone number Google security analysts have warned Android device users that several zero-day vulnerabilities in some Samsung chipsets could allow an attacker to completely…
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