One dumb downtime-inducing panic is survivable. The second is a career-killer Who, Me? Once again, gentle readerfolk, it is time for the Reg's weekly confessional – Who, Me? in which we recount readers' technical anti-triumphs. This one follows on …
Lees meerHundreds of millions of cases expected to bring new waves of disruption One of COVID-19's many side effects was to disrupt the technology industry's supply chains – especially when they linked to China.…
Lees meerPlus: Suomi security warnings and artists rebel against AI on Artstation In Brief The squishy brains behind OpenAI's artificial ones are predicting developments like the ChatGPT system will see money flooding in – with a forecast of earning around …
Lees meerIs Zuck's org doomed, or is this a case of a techie struggling with management? Legendary developer John Carmack has quit his role as a consultant to Meta, where he worked as an executive consultant on its Oculus virtual reality hardware.…
Lees meerPLUS: FTX up for sale in Japan and Singapore; Binance busted in Australia; India won’t limit gaming time Japanese tech conglomerate Toshiba has broken its silence on rumors of its impending sale, issuing an open letter [PDF] in which management told…
Lees meerOne research firm thinks YMTC may have to exit 3D NAND altogether Analysis The US has ramped up trade restrictions against YMTC, China's biggest domestic flash memory supplier, triggering concerns that the chipmaker will face significant production…
Lees meerAlso, TLC gets schooled by Karakurt, and Cloudflare is offering free zero trust stuff to some small companies In brief Business email compromise (BEC) continues to be a multibillion-dollar threat, but it's evolving, with the FBI and other federal a…
Lees meerCloud souk reportedly ready to play a little more fairly with its own merchants Amazon will reportedly make changes to its business practices to resolve two European antitrust investigations next week.…
Lees meerYou're holding your staff meetings the wrong way Apple has been accused of creating its own labor organization to prevent workers from forming an employee-run union, according to a complaint filed on Friday.…
Lees meerAnd the corporations making the tools for stalking and harassment in the first place? Anyone? A bipartisan trio of US lawmakers has proposed a law that pledges as much as $22 million of public funding to help victims of tech-enabled domestic abuse.…
Lees meerHelps if you're teetering on the edge Analysis Some AI chip startups are managing to raise capital from investors despite operating in a crowded market of competitors where venture capital funding has plummeted in the past year.…
Lees meerTweeter, tailor, soldier, bye A Twitter employee who spied for the Saudi government and royal family has been sentenced to three and half years behind bars in America.…
Lees meerIn the grim darkness of the far future there is only Bezos. Oh, and Henry Cavill Amazon has reached into the Warp and pulled out an "agreement in principle" with Warhammer maker Games Workshop (GW) that would give it film, television and merchandisi…
Lees meerTumbleweed hits some turbulence, but there's no reason to be alarmed… 'By the way, does anyone know how to fly a plane?' Tumbleweed is changing course once again, but it's due to popular demand, and it means broader compatibility for more people. Sa…
Lees meerStudy finds fruit and veg also help improve health and performance, even during space hops Space dietitians have discovered that increasing fruits, vegetables, and fish in the diets of astronauts — compared to their standard rations — can provide mu…
Lees meerNiklaus Wirth's lesser known programming language still kicking around Incoming support for Modula-2 in GCC, and a new Gitlab repository for its descendant Oberon, shows that the Wirthian family of programming languages remains livelier than you mig…
Lees meerOptions? Customers have heard of them. Software giant reports record $17b+ revs, with biggest growth in ... PDFs? Adobe's planned $20b buy of Figma - one of the largest takeovers of a private software dev on record - is being probed globally, "inclu…
Lees meerA day after Openreach engineers overwhelmingly accept new compensation, telco says it will merge Enterprise and Global businesses Just as one source of tension at BT ends, with unionized workers voting to accept the latest pay offer rather than to e…
Lees meerIt brought you Monty Python and Jimi Hendrix, but Auntie Beeb must compete with digital monsters like Netflix UK public broadcaster the BBC has failed to plan for switching to internet-based media and move away from traditional broadcasting at a “mo…
Lees meerSing it in the key of C-suite, because operations truly doesn't care Whether it's because they have vast real estate investments they can't shift without hemorrhaging cash, or genuinely think their workers perform better in that space, C-suite execs…
Lees meerCancelled bit barns the latest casualties following mass layoffs last month Meta has canned two datacenters under development in Denmark as part of a broader plan to deepen investments in artificial intelligence.…
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