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IBM seeks $3.5B in cost savings for 2025, discretionary spend to be clipped

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Workforce rebalancing? Yes, but on the plus side, the next 12 months are all about AI, AI, and more AI IBM is again forecasting cost savings in the coming calendar year, which likely means one thing for its legions of workers – pedal fast and keep y…

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Microsoft talks up 'significant capital investments' in AI as sector reacts to DeepSeek

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Windows vendor posts more bumper financials, but markets shrug Microsoft's latest earnings results exceeded expectations, yet comments from CEO Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood signaled turbulence in AI and execution, alongside signs of waning cloud d…

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Canvassing apps used by UK political parties riddled with privacy, security issues

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Neither Labour, Conservatives, nor the Lib Dems offered a retort to rights org's report The Open Rights Group (ORG) has raised concerns about a number of security issues it found in all three of the canvassing apps developed on behalf of the UK's th…

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Vodafone aims to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity starting later this year

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Space 5G should reach regular smartphones in rural area notspots Vodafone claims it has made the first mobile video call using a satellite connection and standard 4G/5G smartphones, and said it aims to offer a commercial direct-to-cell satellite ser…

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WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their remote workers' productivity.…

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A good kind of disorder: Boffins boost capacitor tech by disturbing dipoles

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing A new approach to materials engineering promises to overcome the limitation of capacitors commonly used in smartphones, displays and electric vehicles, according to a study pub…

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WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Employers remain blissfully unaware/wilfully ignorant of the impact of surveillance on staff More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their remote workers' productivity.…

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Startup plugs AI datacenters into biogas-powered energy

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Sidestepping the grid led to 44% cheaper electricity and 70% fewer emissions, CEO says A UK datacenter startup realized it could have to wait until the late 2030s for power grid connection dates, and has instead turned to modular facilities located …

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Amazon sued for allegedly slurping sensitive data via advertising SDK

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Harvesting of location data and other personal info without user consent, lawsuit claims Amazon and its advertising subsidiary have been sued for allegedly collecting personal and location data from third-party mobile apps without obtaining users' i…

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And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It's a 65-million-year-old space rock stuffed with amino acids, DNA bases, and more, boffins report Scientists analyzing samples from asteroid Bennu have found something remarkable: Despite being a cold, lifeless rubble pile that formed around 65 mi…

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DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba?

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Qwen 2.5 Max tops both DS V3 and GPT-4o, cloud giant claims Analysis  The speed and efficiency at which DeepSeek claims to be training large language models (LLMs) competitive with America's best has been a reality check for Silicon Valley. However,…

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Trump eyes up to 100% tariffs on foreign semiconductors, TSMC in crosshairs

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

No wonder OpenAI needs $500B for Stargate Americans could soon see the price of electronics skyrocket in response to a 25-100 percent import tariff on computer chips promised by US President Donald Trump on Monday.…

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Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Oh someone's in DeepShi... China-based AI biz DeepSeek may have developed competitive, cost-efficient generative models, but its cybersecurity chops are another story.…

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Wacom says crooks probably swiped customer credit cards from its online checkout

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Digital canvas slinger indicates dot-com was skimmed for over a month Graphics tablet maker Wacom has warned customers their credit card details may well have been stolen by miscreants while they were buying stuff from its website.…

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Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

donderdag 30 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Oh someone's in DeepShi... China-based AI biz DeepSeek may have developed competitive, cost-efficient generative models, but its cybersecurity chops are another story.…

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North Koreans clone open source projects to plant backdoors, steal credentials

woensdag 29 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Stealing crypto is so 2024. Supply-chain attacks leading to data exfil pays off better? North Korea's Lazarus Group compromised hundreds of victims across the globe in a massive secret-stealing supply chain attack that was ongoing as of earlier this…

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Trump tells Musk to 'go get' Starliner astronauts

woensdag 29 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

SpaceX was already planning to return 'virtually abandoned' astros. Did Elon forget? An early morning post by US President Donald Trump caused some furrowed brows in the space community after he instructed Elon Musk to "go get" the crew of Boeing's …

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White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off

woensdag 29 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Unions fear federal staff purge and RTO will spark chaos for Americans More than two million US federal civilian employees have been invited to resign as of September 30, 2025, with incentives promised for those who agree to quit by February 6, 2025…

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Helion bags $425M in fresh funding despite fusion power still being a distant dream

woensdag 29 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Microsoft-backed startup now valued at $5.4B Fusion energy startup Helion has yet to prove it can generate electricity, but that hasn't stopped investors from dumping another $425 million into the venture.…

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US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

woensdag 29 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says Updated  US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen nearly all foreign aid cash for a full-on government review, including funds to defend America's allies from cyberattacks as wel…

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DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI'

woensdag 29 januari 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues Updated  DeepSeek's open source reasoning-capable R1 LLM family boasts impressive benchmark scores – but its erratic responses raise more questions about how …

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