A beefy 10GB one-time download that arrives in March Next month Microsoft will start offering on-prem Unified Update Platform (UUP), which promises to deliver smaller and faster uploads of Windows updates.…
Lees meerAlready decimated staff in September Twilio on Monday said it plans to cut 17 percent of its workforce and close additional office locations, having previously shed office staff in 2022.…
Lees meerOr their parts, at least, which look decidedly skeletal for satellite struts When NASA's balloon-borne exoplanet-observing telescope EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE) takes to the skies this fall it'll be doing so with a scaffold and sup…
Lees meerOfficials are using government-issued devices much like a teenager would – and that has security implications The US Department of Defense has been rapped by the Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General for what amounts to pretty pisspoor manageme…
Lees meerAppoints new CFO, CTO, chops 1 in 4 staffers Quantum startup Rigetti is to shed about 28 percent of the workforce as part of an updated business plan that includes revising its technology roadmap and focusing on nearer-term strategic priorities. The…
Lees meerKickstarter backers left empty-handed Mycroft AI, creator of a Linux-based virtual assistant, announced on Friday it would not be able to fulfill rewards for its Mark II Kickstarter campaign.…
Lees meerDouble counting share units led to mistake, 'we have corrected' the error, says ad search titan Google staff already reeling from the shock of mass layoffs now have another bitter pill to swallow: the shares due as part of their severance terms will…
Lees meerBlames 'third-party provider' as phishers drain Ethereum wallets Domain registrar Namecheap blamed a "third-party provider" that sends its newsletters after customers complained of receiving phishing emails from Namecheap's system.…
Lees meerYou wait years for unidentified aerial phenomena then three turn up at once It was a busy weekend in the skies over North America, with the US Air Force shooting unidentified aircraft out of the air on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.…
Lees meerR&D engineers given marching orders in 14% headcount reduction Arm may be doing well, but its China-based joint venture has reportedly laid off a significant number of staff in the face of a challenging business outlook.…
Lees meerStill no deal as new Science and Tech dept head claims Britain has 'global-facing alternative' in the wings Among her public first acts since becoming UK science minister, Michelle Donelan has said Britain is prepared to go it alone on scientific re…
Lees meerAlso: Russian wiper malware authors turn to data theft, plus this week's critical vulns in brief The notorious LockBit ransomware gang has taken credit for an attack on the Royal Mail – but a deadline it gave for payment has come and gone with noth…
Lees meerIt's not yet reached alpha, but it's already breaking new ground FOSDEM Chimera Linux is a new distro under construction that is not only systemd-free, it's GNU-free as well. Its creator hopes to reach alpha testing this spring.…
Lees meerBad AI is bad, bad search is worse Opinion "The pleasure is fleeting, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable." Famously about sex but more probably about golf, this quote is now most accurately ascribable to AI-enhanced search engines. …
Lees meerUnnamed platform boasts three times the application performance of its predecessor, Cobra Atos is building a new supercomputer for the Max Planck Society, an organization conducting research into the natural sciences, life sciences, and humanities, …
Lees meerSmart-alec worker found a way to avoid nasty, boring jobs – by doing what he was told Who, Me? Ah, gentle reader, welcome back once again to the comfortable backwater of The Register we call Who, Me? in which readers' tales of not-quite-rightness a…
Lees meerEuropean Commission satisfied joint venture won't create competitive problems for locals In a world saturated with digital ads, four of Europe's mightiest telcos will soon ask citizens if they're willing to volunteer their phone numbers to a startup…
Lees meerUS Commerce Department can't just let red balloons go by The US Department of Commerce added six more entities to its blacklist on Friday on grounds of national security after an errant Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down over the US last wee…
Lees meerAtlassian wants it used more widely … but probably not for reporting misinformation to social networks Atlassian's Jira tool last Friday received significant upgrades aimed at encouraging its use beyond development teams, a day after it was cast in …
Lees meerEmperor Penguin promised a relaxed seasonal development cycle and has delivered Work on version 6.2 of the Linux kernel will stretch into an eighth release candidate, despite emperor penguin Linus Torvalds now saying it isn't really necessary.…
Lees meerPlus: Publisher using AI tools generated false health advice for men; how ChatGPT widens economic inequalities In brief Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been waiting for the chance to challenge Google's dominance of internet search, and just might h…
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