How apt Physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this week for performing breakthrough quantum entanglement experiments.…
Lees meerIndustry insists it needs new blood, yet offers are being rescinded, pay rises delayed, and workers are furious Indian IT Service giant Wipro has confirmed to The Register that it expects employees will return to its office for at least three days a…
Lees meerNo 'corruption' alleged, rumours of a big win selling to Apple make shunting a little odd The CEO of Chinese RAM and SSD maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Company (YTMC) appears to have stepped down from his position, a move that follows the departu…
Lees meer‘This is not what justice looks like’ says US attorney of sanction for leak of 100 million records Convicted wire fraud perpetrator Paige Thompson (aka "erratic") has been sentenced to time served and five years of probation with location and comput…
Lees meerLocal activists help pen letter to government requesting - in very stern language - reasons why it's been targeted Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have challenged India’s government to explain why the project’s web site has been …
Lees meerIn Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree Hotel chain Shangri-La Group has admitted to its systems being attacked, and personal data describing guests accessed by unknown parties, over a timeframe that includes the dates on which a hig…
Lees meerSomebody missed the memo – this internet giant always gets its own way Amazon has sued Washington state's Department of Labor & Industries, claiming an order by government officials requiring the internet mega-giant to reduce hazards at a warehouse …
Lees meerWhile accused of already breaking terms of an earlier deal IBM is preparing to settle yet more age discrimination and wage theft complaints against the IT giant, though in one instance where it has already done so, Big Blue is accused of failing to …
Lees meerGood time to be selling automation tools The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal civilian agencies to scan for and report software vulnerabilities in their IT systems more frequently under a di…
Lees meerPhrasing, Arizona... AG claims deal is 'historic' Google will pay $85 million to settle a privacy lawsuit that accused the internet behemoth of deceiving netizens regarding its harvesting of people's location data and using this personal info to rak…
Lees meerIt's officially official: Mobile devices will be required to use USB-C from 2024, with laptops following in 2026 After an initial agreement in June, the European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly to approve a USB-C charging standard that will fo…
Lees meerRemaining employees can continue work in different countries, though they'll struggle to get a flight out GPU maker Nvidia is shutting down its operations in Russia following its earlier decision to stop selling products there. The company is said t…
Lees meerThe world's richest man may be ready to close deal to save himself more text message embarrassment Trading in shares of Twitter was halted today on news that Elon Musk and the social media biz had reached a deal for him to buy the company at the ori…
Lees meerExchange Online users should have authentication policies in place Microsoft is warning Exchange Online users about a rise in password spray attacks, urging those that have yet to disable Basic Authentication to at least set up authentication polici…
Lees meerPro: Gboard Bar can 'double development time' for pair programmers. Con: No one wants this Google's Japan business appears to have ignored its semi-official "Don't be Evil" motto by publishing blueprints for the Gboard Bar, a 1.65m (5.4 feet) QWERTY…
Lees meerSouvenirs, novelties, party tricks. Your chance to snag a piece of the largest passenger jet in the world Aviation enthusiasts without the budget to bag one of the discontinued Airbus A380s are in luck, as the jetmaker plans to auction off pieces fr…
Lees meerAttempts to dismiss suit denied as former staffer alleges she was expressly told to swerve over-50s A US judge has rejected IT outsourcer Infosys's motions to dismiss claims of a former recruiter that the company discriminated and retaliated against…
Lees meerMass production, too – but if it happens, timing will be crucial as semiconductor market recovers Samsung expects to have 2nm chips in mass production by 2025 and plans to deliver mass production using a 1.4nm process by 2027, aiming to expand the c…
Lees meerVatican City sovereign still not keen on seeing cellphones in the basilica It was only a matter of time before the maker of divine products met the maker's representative on Earth. And so it came to pass yesterday that the Pope granted a special aud…
Lees meerTotally not for data collection Analysis Meta's Facebook has been testing its own custom-browser engine within its Android app and plans to distribute the code more widely, ostensibly for the sake of better security and an improved user experience.…
Lees meerDepartment of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy yet to rule on sale of Brit biz to Chinese-owned Nexperia The fate of Newport Wafer Fab remains undecided as yet another deadline for the final UK government decision on its sale to China-owned Ne…
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