Don't blame the kids! Ex-city employee charged with $17k power theft Pics A Massachusetts man accused of using his job as a city's assistant facilities director to hide a cryptocurrency mining operation in the crawlspace of a school has surrendered…
Lees meerrm -rf'ing staff chat logs can't go unpunished, says Uncle Sam The US Department of Justice (DoJ) asked the judge hearing its antitrust case against Google to sanction the search advertising giant for destruction of evidence.…
Lees meerUncle Sam still wants lawyer to vet EV tycoon's meme emissions Having been found not liable for securities fraud stemming from a 2018 tweet saying he had funding to take Tesla private, Elon Musk is trying yet again to get out of his "Twitter sitter"…
Lees meerIt's all about being 'aware' of effect power consumption has on energy networks Microsoft looks set to expand a battery energy storage project piloted at its Dublin datacenter to other bit barns operated by the company.…
Lees meerPromises 6,000km without regeneration – cutting down on transponders MWC Fujitsu is preparing to ship an optical transport platform designed for terabit networking over long distance, claimed to be capable of lowering power consumption and reducing…
Lees meerNASA is used to dealing with extra guests: just sleep on the ceiling With SpaceX's Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station set to lift off Monday, and three astronauts trapped up there by a malfunctioning Soyuz capsule, it's about to get p…
Lees meerReverses Trump era decision upholding ability to stop ex-staffers talking smack about you A US federal agency has made an employee-friendly ruling that affects laid-off staffers: if your company has given you severance pay, it can't insist you keep …
Lees meerPlus Bluetooth gadget that gives your Android or iPhone the same ability MWC Ruggedized handset maker Bullitt Group has lifted the lid on its first smartphone with satellite messaging ahead of MWC next week, as well as a Bluetooth dongle from Motor…
Lees meerSystem caused issues in fitting electronic tags to dozens of criminals after new tech rolled out The UK courts service failed to see the benefits of a £1.3 billion ($1.56 billion) case management platform after a rethink led to a £22.5 million ($27 …
Lees meerTwin cities? There’s an app for that Sponsored Feature Technologists have been attempting to create digital worlds since the dawn of computing. The industry has been entranced then left feeling deflated by digital environments ranging from The Sims…
Lees meerSome investors and creative pros may cheer, but Adobe's not done yet Some investors felt Adobe’s purchase of Figma was overvalued, creative types that used the web-first design collaboration startup's wares were nervous about its takeover, and it se…
Lees meerRepresentative even given opportunity to pitch tech to government during science committee hearing Microsoft chose a UK parliamentary hearing as the venue to slam the EU's efforts to regulate the development and introduction of AI.…
Lees meerDevelopers and, more to the point, the companies that employ them Opinion Even now, I run into those who think Linux and open source software is made by people living in their parents' basement and writing the code out of the goodness of their hear…
Lees meerCustomer with a magnetic personality also had a significantly magnetic wristband On Call Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register's weekly column in which we retell readers' stories of being asked to fix contraptions that display confounding, con…
Lees meerCyber Europe cyber worried about cyber threats, doesn't cyber use the other C word (China) The European Commission on Thursday banned the use of the TikTok short video app on corporate devices and on the personal devices of employees enrolled in the…
Lees meerLabelling scheme offers developers easy loopholes to play down personal info spreading The Mozilla Foundation has accused Google of incorrectly labelling apps as "Data Safe" as much as 80 percent of the time in its Play digital bazaar – with TikTok,…
Lees meerThere’s no HumOR in cyberattacks At last year's Ignite show, Microsoft talked up a capability in its 365 Defender that automatically detects and disrupts a cyberattack while still in progress, hopefully stopping or reducing any resulting damage. Now…
Lees meerStudy: Old pacts ditched the moment Moscow moved in The so-called "brotherhood" or Russian-speaking cybercriminals is yet another casualty of the war in Ukraine, albeit one that few outside of Moscow are mourning.…
Lees meerContinental bloc also greases the skids to usher in the gigabit age in two or three years The European Union yesterday decided it's time to start "laying the ground for the transformation of the connectivity sector" in the region with three initiati…
Lees meerWi-Fi not? It boosts Aruba's portfolio, single wireless nets are a way off, and everything-as-a-service is hot right now HPE announced on Friday it has acquired an Italian outfit called Athonet that specializes in private 4G and 5G cellular networks…
Lees meerComic sans Midjourney images would be eligible for IP protections Images generated by Midjourney and other AI text-to-image tools are not protected by US copyright law since they "are not the product of human authorship", according to the nation's C…
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