Irish eyes aren't smiling Ireland's data privacy agency today said it fined Meta €265 million ($275 million) for failing to protect users' data after millions of Facebook users' phone numbers and other private info was given away online for free. …
Lees meerThat basically means more H2O returned to the environment than is supplied AWS has joined the ranks of tech companies making commitments to become "water positive" – meaning they aim to return more precious H2O to communities than is consumed in bus…
Lees meerIf we're going to go beyond the Moon, we'll need food, a way to build stuff, and health diagnostic technology SpaceX's 26th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station arrived this weekend, bringing with it a bundle of scientific …
Lees meerTuring Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte Obit Dr Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr, leader of IBM's OS/360 project and the man chiefly responsible for the prevalence of the eight-bit byte, has died at the age of 91.…
Lees meerMicrosoft outlines a workaround while pulling together a fix to LSASS memory leak Updates to Windows Server released as part of this month's Patch Tuesday onslaught might cause some domain controllers to stop working or automatically restart, accord…
Lees meerMeanwhile reports say more ad buyers are staying away Call it blind optimism, deployment of a reality distortion field or pure conviction that Twitter will ultimately flourish, but Elon Musk reckons his social media platform will have 1 billion mont…
Lees meerNine Chinese semiconductor companies have had IPO applications approved The US battle to halt China's growing semiconductor industry is having an effect, but risks hurting Western industries as well. Meanwhile, China is fighting back with new invest…
Lees meerYou gotta fight... for your right... to not be an idiot "Fun" may not be a word many associate with the IT coalface but in the glamorous world of consulting it is mandatory, according to French court papers that absolve an employee of being an alleg…
Lees meerManipulating users' feelings on a social media platform? That's our job! Meta scored a default judgment last week against a Belarusian developer who was alleged to have used a network of bots and Instagram accounts he controlled to deliver millions …
Lees meerDecimeter-level uncertainty, sub-nanosecond time synchronization – but what happens when there's no signal? A recently published research paper proposes a system for terrestrial positioning that could give greater accuracy than the existing satellit…
Lees meerInkjet is the future, claims Japanese printer maker Japanese electronics and printer maker Epson announced this month that it will end the sale and distribution of laser printer hardware by 2026, citing sustainability issues.…
Lees meerQC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing Opinion The UK's national broadcaster, the BBC, its R&D team and its entire 100-year, 15 million item archive are part of a new consortium investigating QNLP, Quantum Natural Language …
Lees meerLiDAR, AI and sensors manage millions of plants, and have greatly reduced accidents Singapore is obsessed with trees. The island nation, population 5.45 million people, is home to around seven million trees – and manages many of them with an enormou…
Lees meerHow to make an IBM engineer hyperventilate, or get a promotion: see above. Who, me? Welcome once again, valued reader, to Who, Me? – The Register's weekly confessional column in which readers recount their tales of derring-do that derring-didn't.…
Lees meer'Geopolitical environment' leads to spin-out of cloud, self-driving and other tech Russia's most prominent tech company, Yandex, has announced steps to move some of its intellectual property out of Putin country and dispose of the rest to local inte…
Lees meerPLUS: Criminal probe of Singapore crypto exchange; Bosch invests in China R&D; $2B APAC datacenter fund formed; and more Asia In brief Japan's space agency has successfully used water to propel a spacecraft and claimed it represents "the world's fi…
Lees meerPredicts version 6.1 will need an eighth release candidate Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has warned contributors that the rhythm of the project's development cycle will clash with Christmas, so developers need to make sure they ready their work b…
Lees meerPart bureaucratic box ticking, part crackdown that makes even Wi-Fi routers and smartphones off limits The United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has barred itself from authorizing the import or sale of Chinese telecoms and video sur…
Lees meerSupplier 'ethics' in the spotlight after Palantir makes multimillion competition a 'must-win' A family doctors' conference has called on the UK's medics union to help scrutinize bidders for the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) contract to ensure th…
Lees meerUsing loan for expansion as political bloc pursues tech autonomy strategy French cloud operator OVHcloud has been granted dedicated funding for its expansion by the European Investment Bank (EIB), comprising a €200 million ($208 million) credit faci…
Lees meerGoggles unhooked from Facebook login, but officials still watching for antitrust abuse Germany's Federal Cartel Office is claiming a win after Meta unhooked the VR glasses formerly known as Oculus from a Facebook login.…
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