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Lees meerDecent upgrade from older versions, essential if you're still on OpenOffice The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 7.5 with a host of improvements. Windows and Mac users can just download it, and for Linux types the new version is already …
Lees meerWhen you say it's gonna happen now... when exactly do you mean? The UK government has come under further fire for dragging its feet on a national semiconductor strategy while other industrialized nations push ahead with investment in their own high-…
Lees meerAs tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services Cloud giants Google and Amazon Web Services' latest financial results indicate the cloud computing adoption is finally slowing as customers press p…
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Lees meerStop us if you've heard this one Qualcomm reported a 12 percent year-on-year slide in revenue for the first quarter of its fiscal 2023 amid weakening global demand in the smartphone market.…
Lees meerOnce is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Surely there won't a third incident for roadside assistance company A former employee of RAC, one of Britain's major roadside recovery service operators, has pleaded guilty to data theft after he stored tra…
Lees meerWish you could IP Freely? What's the wording holding you back in your current job? As PayPal and NetApp join the latest tech multinationals shedding a portion of their staffers, the US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a local ban on non-compete…
Lees meerAlong with DXVK 2.1, more and better compatibility comes to Linux – we'll drink to that The WINE Project has reached version 8.0 and DXVK version 2.1 of its Vulkan-based DirectX translation layer. If you'd give Linux a go except for one or two pesky…
Lees meerRack full of kit predictably became a network disruption center On Call With a whole month of 2023 already consigned to history, The Register brings you another instalment of On-Call, our weekly column in which readers share their stories of past d…
Lees meerCrims put a February 4 deadline for software provider to pay up UK regulators are investigating a cyberattack against financial technology firm ION, while the LockBit ransomware gang has threatened to publish the stolen data on February 4 if the sof…
Lees meerTwo months to reach 100 million active monthly users, but how many will stay? Last November, OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a free web interface and took the internet by storm. Data compiled in a study by UBS reported the chatbot had managed to reach 10…
Lees meerFloats over missile silos, shooting it down ruled more dangerous than whatever it's up to A Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon, spotted drifting over the US, has caused concern about national security – but the Department of Defense says it …
Lees meerTelecoms authority has 'degraded' access and threatened total ban while it waits for 'blasphemous' content to be removed Pakistan's Telecommunications Authority has "degraded" Wikipedia service in the country on the grounds that the crowdsourced enc…
Lees meer1,000 servers capable of 240 million transactions a second, because Beijing wants to watch everything China's ambition to record government and commercial activity on a blockchain has a new engine: a 1,000-server cluster in Beijing capable of handli…
Lees meerThird party widgets are on the march in latest Windows Preview, which fixes some Arm64 FAILs too Microsoft's latest Windows 11 preview build has added a Spotify widget, more evidence of the software giant's increasing openness to third-party presenc…
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