No good deed escapes scripting SNAFUs who, me? Welcome once again to Who Me?, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which IT pros share stories of times their work spun off into eccentric orbits and they (mostly) brought them back for …
Lees meerChinese developers are cashing in as the region buys in to TikTok and games Asian nations have been revealed as the primary drivers of the mobile ecosystem, according to data.ai – a mobile analytics firm previously known as App Annie – in its 2023 S…
Lees meerReckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of 37Signals – which operates project management platform Basecamp and other products – has detailed the colossal cloud bills that saw the outfit quit the cloud …
Lees meerOptimistically suggests international collaboration – including on standards – will help it get there China's government has declared the nation's information security industry needs to grow – fast.…
Lees meerPLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more Asia In Brief Singapore-based superapp Grab has a client for its maps-as-a-service venture, GrabMaps: Amazon Web Services.…
Lees meerAlso: That Pokemon is actually a RAT, Uncle Sam fails a password audit In brief A US intelligence boss has asked Congress to reauthorize a controversial set of powers that give snoops warrantless authorization to surveil electronic communications i…
Lees meerAnd Windows updates from Microsoft, too People in Russia can reportedly once again download drivers and some other software from Intel and Microsoft, which both withdrew from the nation after its invasion of Ukraine.…
Lees meerSorry, when exactly are you going to sod off to Mars, mate? Numerous third-party Twitter clients stopped working on Thursday evening, Pacific Time, and as of Friday morning, they remained non-functional.…
Lees meerHow ever will he get by on that $50m? Apple CEO Tim Cook's 2023 compensation package has been slashed by 40 percent, Apple said, after the iBoss okayed the move in response to shareholder criticism of executive pay. …
Lees meerThe hope? To grease the security skids for internet-connected devices – and they need all the help they can get Developers can now use the Rust programming language when creating applications on Azure Sphere platform for internet-connected devices.…
Lees meerSoftware able to 'automatically' differentiate between work and leisure time on device, tribunal finds A woman in Canada failed in her claim for wrongful dismissal due to evidence from laptop software designed to track working time activity.…
Lees meerOh, great – another source of carbon fumes we forgot to factor in If widely adopted, self-driving cars are going to introduce another source of unaccounted-for carbon emissions that could surpass those of the world's current complement of datacenter…
Lees meerWe know it's an influential film but that doesn't mean it's an instruction manual Theft charges brought against a Washington state software engineer claim he took inspiration from the cult movie Office Space when he allegedly diddled his former empl…
Lees meerAgrees measures to prevent streaks of light across the night sky in time-lapse observations SpaceX has entered into a coordination agreement with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to attempt to mitigate some of the negative effects its Starli…
Lees meerDraft paper calls out businesses for vagueness Around half of environmental claims made about advertised products are "vague, misleading or unfounded information about products' environmental characteristics," says research from the European Commiss…
Lees meerHappy Friday 13th sysadmins! Techies find workarounds but Redmond still 'investigating' Techies are reporting that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint attack surface reduction (ASR) rules have gone haywire and are removing icons and applications shortcu…
Lees meerHow to conduct a UK redundancy process: Not the way the US social media company is doing it, say sacked employees UK Twitter employees included among the thousands fired when Elon Musk took control of the company have challenged their dismissal, cla…
Lees meerAs Meta reels from €390 million EU fine, the 'personalized ads' case might not be over, Max Schrem’s legal group says Lengthy privacy notices included in a social media platform's terms of service can do little to help it comply with transparency re…
Lees meerFailed to persuade a judge to ditch legal spat this week HPE looks set to face a lawsuit claiming it misled investors about employee layoffs relating to the spin-off of its enterprise services business, after a judge declined to dismiss the case.…
Lees meerDragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy UpNext, Airbus's future technology-focused subsidiary, reported on Thursday that it has entered the final three months of testing tech it hopes will automate the proce…
Lees meerSecurity was nonetheless very, very, interested in hearing this comms engineer tell his tale On-Call Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register's weekly compendium of tales from readers who were asked to deal with IT oddities and mostly emerged un…
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