Surely there are quicker and more effective ways to end your co-workers Every office has one – the inexplicably cheerful, kind and generous co-worker who brings in cake and/or biscuits and leaves them somewhere for their weight-sensitive colleagues …
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Lees meerReed Hastings steps down as joint boss to become board chair The co-founder of vid-streamer Netflix, Reed Hastings, has announced he will step down as co-CEO.…
Lees meerNo principles or virtues, people accepting everything it says – this bot is perfect for political life OpenAI's conversational language model ChatGPT has a lot to say, but is likely to lead you astray if you ask it for moral guidance.…
Lees meerThanks for putting all your data in one basket As enterprises around the world continue to move to the cloud, cybercriminals are following right behind them.…
Lees meerCensors are on the lookout for showering under a waterfall of money, overeating, and more conventional sins The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has preempted celebrations for Lunar New Year – the Year of the Rabbit* commences on January 22 …
Lees meerGoogle says don't worry, EFF warns of 'potentially horrific outcome' At least nine online pharmacies that sell abortion pills share information with Google and other third parties, such as search history and geolocation, that can be used to identify…
Lees meerSixth snafu in five years? Crooks have this useless carrier on speed dial T-Mobile US today said someone abused an API to download the personal information of 37 million subscribers.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, layoffs continue at Twitter, Meta, WeWork, many others Amazon on Wednesday emailed staff to explain what's said to be the largest layoff in the mega-corp's history.…
Lees meerThat passwordless option is looking really good right about now The personal information of 35,000 PayPal users was exposed in December, according to a notification letter sent to the online payment company's customers this week.…
Lees meerNear 50% drop in extorted dosh ... or so it says here The amount of money paid to ransomware attackers dropped significantly in 2022, and not because the number of attacks fell.…
Lees meerInvestors failed to meet their own chosen burden of proof despite two attempts at a redo, says judge A California judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by Activision Blizzard shareholders against the company's leadership accusing them of breaching fi…
Lees meerThat'll definitely teach them to look out for their workers Amazon has been hit with a trio of citations from US safety inspectors who say their investigations found "serious violations" of the Occupational Safety and Health Act at warehouses in New…
Lees meerLewis Rosenthal talks about why some companies still need to run OS/2 today – including on UEFI and GPT hardware Retro Tech Week Although the creator of OS/2 now owns Red Hat and has other fish to try, OS/2 lives on. The Reg spoke with Arca Noae's …
Lees meerHit up Cumulus Data if you want your racks running on low-cost, zero-carbon energy US-based Cumulus Data says it is constructing a datacenter campus adjacent to a nuclear power station in order to directly obtain low-cost, zero-carbon energy for pro…
Lees meerBunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimper HPE and Oracle have settled their long-running legal case over alleged copyright infringement regarding Solaris software updates for HPE customers, but it l…
Lees meerGreat, now staff and students can stop scrolling and get back to work Faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) this week became the latest members of a public US university to lose access to Chinese video app TikTok via campus …
Lees meerControversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out Adobe chief product officer Scott Belsky has responded to criticism of the company's content analysis policies by saying it has never used customers' creations to train generative…
Lees meerSocial engineering helped intruders break into customers' inboxes again Email marketing service Mailchimp has confirmed intruders have gained access to more than 100 customer accounts after successfully deploying a social engineering attack.…
Lees meerHey Siri, did you know know that swatting is a bug, not a feature? An Australian personal trainer's Apple Watch inadvertently summoned 15 police to a suspected shooting that was nothing of the sort.…
Lees meerBit factory giants see growth slimming in economically challenged times, but party still far from over Research from tech services membership and standards body The Uptime Institute is showing slowing growth in the major cloud providers, suggesting …
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