The Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office Meta – which claims without irony to be "building the future of human connection" – is laying off 10,000 more staff and will close open vacancies on 5,000 roles as it hun…
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Lees meerThe Year of Efficiency may also include sending engineers back into the office Meta – which claims without irony to be "building the future of human connection" – is laying off 10,000 more staff and will close open vacancies on 5,000 roles as it hun…
Lees meerSeriously, this tech makes your phone camera look like it's from the stone age To capture fast moving objects — say a cheetah sprinting across the savanna — it's not uncommon for photographers to employ shutter speeds as high as 1/8000th of a second…
Lees meer'Today's ruling certainly isn't going to stop us' says campaigner Local gig workers got some bad news yesterday: a bid to overturn California's Prop 22 failed in the appeals court, a major win for Uber and other companies who sell rides and deliveri…
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Lees meerInvestors nervous in same week that Silicon Valley Bank failed In the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, this week is not the best time to spook jittery stock markets with weaker than expected financial forecasts, yet that's what GitLab has don…
Lees meer7-year availability as kit goes in hardware that hangs around much longer than average PC AMD has lifted the lid on variants of its 4th generation Epyc processors optimized for embedded applications, delivering greater performance and scalability – …
Lees meerRSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign Special report Ten years ago, on March 13, 2013, Google said it was discontinuing Google Reader, a popular application for reading RSS and Atom feeds.…
Lees meerTimes have changed and unwanted software on Windows is a rarity (unless you count Windows itself) Google is bidding adieu to an application that enabled Chrome users on Windows systems to get rid of unwanted software.…
Lees meerThe primary desktop in Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 is getting there GNOME 44 is reaching readiness, just in time for inclusion in the next versions of the two big distro daddies, Ubuntu "Lunar Lobster" and Fedora 38.…
Lees meerIt's simple, unreliable, insecure, and on its way out Microsoft recently outlined several new features it is building into Windows 11, from file recommendations and one-keystroke shortcuts for the XAML context menu in File Explorer to Local Security…
Lees meerBuilding a watertight SoC? You'll have to go through IP-slinger now Updated Rambus, perhaps best known for its patent litigation, has acquired the CryptoCell and CryptoIsland Root of Trust technology from Arm, and will be offering these as part of …
Lees meerHopes to avoid paying up for crushing a rival while helping Huawei and ZTE to prosper Qualcomm on Monday began an attempt to convince the European Union's Court of Justice that it should not pay a €242 million ($258 million) fine imposed on it for a…
Lees meerSomeone's still got some cash jangling about after the Silicon Valley Bank mess Qualtrics, the experience management company briefly owned SAP, will be acquired by Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments).…
Lees meerA threat that needs two orgs to tackle it: the 'Integrated Security Fund' and the 'National Protective Security Agency' Britain's domestic intelligence service MI5 will oversee a new agency tasked with helping local organizations combat Chinese cybe…
Lees meerCommerce secretary says relationship with China is 'benign' and wants to be open to new possibilities The US's moves to secure closer trade ties with India do not indicate a desire to decouple with China's tech industry, US secretary of commerce Gin…
Lees meerAnd also, Ring hit with ransomware, too? No, says Amazon Ransomware gang Lockbit has boasted it broke into Maximum Industries, which makes parts for SpaceX, and stole 3,000 proprietary schematics developed by Elon Musk's rocketeers.…
Lees meerAs Alphabet's Wing wants to fly millions of small packages by 2024 Japan Post is closer to realizing its ambition of delivering letters – like actual, physical letters – by drone. It's futuristic and retro all at once.…
Lees meerA missed migration mitigated the mistake Who, me? Why hello, Monday! You beastly harbinger of another week of work and associated woes, which The Register each week welcomes with an instalment of “Who, Me?”, our reader-contributed tales of techies …
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