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To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator - (pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 12:10:09 GMT)It'll even help you develop technical skillsSystems Approach From 2014 to 2020 I had a title of CTO at VMware, first for the networking business and then for the Asia Pacific region as a Field CTO.… |
Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025 - (pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 08:59:06 GMT)It matters for everyone, because we'll all be disabled one dayGlobal Accessibility Awareness Day Accessibility matters to everyone. If you think it doesn't: it will. Apple builds in some pretty good tools, and they're getting better. Here's why it's important.… |
Boffins devise technique that lets users prove location without giving it away - (pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 15:31:08 GMT)ZKLP system allows apps to confirm user presence in a region without exposing exactly whereComputer scientists from universities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom have proposed a way to provide verifiable claims about location data without surrendering privacy.… |
No-boom supersonic flights could slide through US skies soon - (pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 11:02:09 GMT)As long as you're quiet about itFeature This week, a bipartisan bill was introduced that would allow supersonic flight over the continental US for the first time in 52 years, as long as they're quiet.… |
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app - (pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 08:35:11 GMT)Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcryIn a turn of events to warm our withered hearts, Google has offered to restore the permission that was revoked from Nextcloud's Files app for Android.… |
Fired US govt workers, Uncle Xi wants you! – to apply for this fake consulting gig - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 23:32:10 GMT)Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? GroundbreakingChinese government snoops - hiding behind the guise of fake consulting companies - are actively trying to recruit the thousands upon thousands of US federal employees who have been fired since President Trump took office.… |
America’s consumer watchdog drops leash on proposed data broker crackdown - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 22:47:42 GMT)Crooks must be licking their lips at the possibilitiesUncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans' sensitive data.… |
Whodunit? 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide' - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 21:32:37 GMT)Agitprop? Protest? An attempt to suck up to the boss?Elon Musk's xAI has apologized after its Grok generative chat-bot started spouting baseless conspiracy theories about White genocide in response to unrelated questions.… |
Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 20:48:08 GMT)Python, TypeScript, Azure SDK devs among those let goMicrosoft's recent round of layoffs appears to have fallen largely on software developers, including several prominent Python developers and a veteran TypeScript developer.… |
CoreWeave may have built a house of (graphics) cards - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 20:16:43 GMT)An overdependence on hyperscalers and a mountain of debt could pull the rug outComment CoreWeave this week said it would plow between $20 and $23 billion into GPU bit barns by year's end in order to meet growing demand from model builders and hyperscalers.… |
Dems are upset about DOGE's IRS hackathon, but the IRS says it never happened - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 18:05:16 GMT)Tax bods characterize it more as a brainstorming session, says Elon's unit wasn't involvedCongressional Democrats are again demanding answers from a federal agency over whether DOGE's latest tech makeover could put taxpayer data at risk.… |
Apple slams door on Fortnite's stateside iOS comeback - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 16:38:15 GMT)Epic's latest submission blocked right after CEO offered truce with CupertinoApple has blocked Epic Games' submission of Fortnite, just as it was set to return to iOS in the US. Now it cannot be found in the US App Store nor via the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union.… |
Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 16:32:07 GMT)Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh awayMicrosoft is pulling the free MS365 Business Premium licenses granted to non-profits and replacing them with Business Basic and discounts for its other services.… |
Defamation case against DEF CON terminated with prejudice - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 15:27:11 GMT)'We hope it makes attendees feel safe reporting violations'A Seattle court this week dismissed with prejudice the defamation case brought against DEF CON and its organizer Jeff Moss by former conference stalwart Christopher Hadnagy.… |
Annual electronic waste footprint per person is 11.2 kg - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 14:27:45 GMT)Extending all the dumped devices' lives by 12 months? Like taking 2M cars off the road each yearTech buyers should purchase refurbished devices to push vendors to make hardware more repairable and help the shift to a more circular economy, according to a senior analyst at IDC.… |
Broadcom employee data stolen by ransomware crooks following hit on payroll provider - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 13:32:05 GMT)Tech giant was in process of dropping payroll biz as it learned of breachExclusive A ransomware attack at a Middle Eastern business partner of payroll company ADP has led to customer data theft at Broadcom, The Register has learned.… |
Microsoft proposes sweeping global concessions to Teams for up to a decade - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 12:59:12 GMT)Beast of Redmond runs scared from EC antitrust cops half decade after rivals complainedMicrosoft is offering to make a series of concessions for up to ten years to pacify European Commission antitrust regulators. This follows protests from users that tying Teams with its biz productivity applications hinders competition.… |
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 12:29:18 GMT)CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacityThe UK needs more nuclear energy generation just to power all the AI datacenters that are going to be built, according to the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS).… |
Good luck to Atos' 7th CEO and its latest biz transformation - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 11:17:09 GMT)We suspect Philippe Salle will need it, not to mention staff and customersIf at first you don't succeed, transform, transform, and transform again is the corporate motto at Atos these days. The lumbering French-based megacorp has created another blueprint to return to its glory days, and it includes job cuts, offshoring and... AI.… |
How sticky notes saved 'the single biggest digital program in the world' - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 10:24:14 GMT)Success of UK's Universal Credit has lessons for government IT projects, former minister claimsFormer UK government minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith has told a committee of MPs that the digitization of Universal Credit is a success story other government departments can learn from.… |
UK government overrules local council’s datacenter refusal on Green Belt land - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 09:33:07 GMT)DPM signs off 96MW bit barn, citing national policy shiftThe British government has stepped in to overturn a local council's refusal of a proposed datacenter on green belt land, citing updated national planning policy that urges councils to find space for bit barns, labs, gigafactories, and other strategic infrastructure.… |
Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it' - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 08:28:08 GMT)After UK spends hundreds of millions, several say existing systems are betterEnglish hospitals are voicing their concern about the functionality provided by Palantir, the US spy-tech firm that won a £330 million ($437 million) deal to run the Federated Data Platform for NHS England, as around a third of trusts go live on the system.… |
Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 07:30:15 GMT)Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do thatOn Call Bosses often ask IT pros to clean up messes made by amateurs, and in this week's On Call – The Register's reader-contributed tech support column – we have just such a tale to tell.… |
Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 06:33:10 GMT)Gives both platforms the ‘generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud’ treatmentIn 2017 Amazon Web Services and VMware were best buddies as they launched a combined cloud service. In 2025 AWS is dismissing Virtzilla as a legacy outfit that needs to be re-platformed to the cloud ASAP before it sinks your business.… |
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 05:33:14 GMT)Fears surrendering to GenAI makes humans less competitiveScience fiction author Neal Stephenson has suggested AIs should be allowed to fight other AIs, because evolution brings balance to ecosystems, but also thinks humans should stop using AI before it dumbs down our species.… |
Microsoft blows deadline for special Azure for EU hosters - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 05:00:09 GMT)Lawyers prepare to get suited and booted if 'Plan B' to address unfair competition claims is a no showMicrosoft has failed to deliver a special version of Azure for EU cloud providers on time, raising the specter of legal action if it is unable to devise a "commercially equivalent solution" in less than two months' time.… |
Trump says he has a problem if Apple builds iThings in India - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 02:34:47 GMT)Cupertino's plan to spend $500bn stateside wasn’t enough to placate the tycoon of tariffsUS president Donald Trump has told Apple CEO Tim Cook he has a problem with his plan to manufacture iThings in India.… |
Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI - (pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 00:16:10 GMT)They're smishing, they're vishingThe FBI has warned that fraudsters are impersonating "senior US officials" using deepfakes as part of a major fraud campaign.… |
DoorDash scam used fake drivers, phantom deliveries to bilk $2.59M - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 23:14:35 GMT)Entire process took less than five minutes, prosecutors sayA former DoorDash driver has pleaded guilty to participating in a $2.59 million scheme that used fake accounts, insider access to reassign orders, and bogus delivery reports to trigger payouts for food that was never delivered.… |
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 22:13:41 GMT)Failure could've triggered a small explosionNASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago. … |
Anthropic’s law firm throws Claude under the bus over citation errors in court filing - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 20:58:00 GMT)AI footnote fail triggers legal palmface in music copyright spatAn attorney defending AI firm Anthropic in a copyright case brought by music publishers apologized to the court on Thursday for citation errors that slipped into a filing after using the biz's own AI tool, Claude, to format references.… |
Plan to keep advanced chips from China with tracking tech gains support in Congress - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 19:41:26 GMT)Every shipment you make, every FLOP you generate, Uncle Sam will be watching youProposed legislation gaining steam in Congress this week would require high-end GPUs and AI chips to include location-tracking safeguards to ensure US-designed components don't end up in nations against Uncle Sam's wishes, with exporters on the hook for compliance.… |
Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25% - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 19:13:48 GMT)Surely Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has nothing to do with itUS immigration officials say they are winning the war on H-1B fraud – and say they've got the numbers to prove it.… |
Cyber fiends battering UK retailers now turn to US stores - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 17:27:36 GMT)DragonForce-riding ransomware ring also has 'shiny object syndrome' so will likely move on to another sector soonInterview The same miscreants behind recent cyberattacks on British retailers are now trying to dig their claws into major American retailers' IT environments – and in some cases even deploying ransomware, according to Google.… |
Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a SNAFU - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 16:31:15 GMT)Expert tells us: 'It is the most unique breach disclosure I've ever seen'Coinbase says some of its overseas support staff were paid off to steal information on behalf of cybercriminals, and the company is now being extorted for $20 million.… |
Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 15:31:11 GMT)Sometimes, less information is moreIn its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that tells users which vulnerabilities they can safely ignore.… |
Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 14:27:15 GMT)Devs told to swap raw results for LLM-generated summaries as August shutdown loomsMicrosoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative.… |
Snowflake CISO on the power of 'shared destiny' and 'yes and' - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 13:32:06 GMT)Lessons learned from last year's security snafuinterview Being the chief information security officer at Snowflake is never an easy job, but last spring it was especially challenging.… |
Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 12:44:55 GMT)Aiming for the stars, but sometimes hitting the CaribbeanSpaceX supremo Elon Musk says the next Starship will launch next week, however, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hasn't yet given it the green light.… |
70-knot winds so far blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 11:42:21 GMT)Probe indicates it was all over for Bayesian in just 9 minutesAn interim report by the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has indicated that extreme wind was to blame for the sinking of the yacht Bayesian, claiming the lives of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter, and five others.… |
Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 10:28:08 GMT)MEWSIC to Brit crews' ears will see off anti-ship missiles, among other thingsBritain's Royal Navy is to get updated electromagnetic warfare (EW) capabilities including launchable decoys to help defend its vessels against threats such as modern anti-ship missiles.… |
The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 09:26:10 GMT)Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-wasteThe "End of 10" website is a cooperative effort to let people know that they have other options besides buying a new computer.… |
A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 08:30:09 GMT)Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changesInterview Version 8.1 of Valkey was recently released, marking a year since the creation of the Redis fork. Valkey's co-maintainer, Madelyn Olson, is looking ahead to version 9 as the project settles down.… |
Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 07:31:09 GMT)AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, tooGoogle's AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its "evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize algorithms.… |
Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 06:32:12 GMT)Would you believe it, this RaaS cartel says Russia is off limitsDragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about — unless they’re in Russia, which is off limits to the would-be extortionists.… |
Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they're ready to rock - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 05:29:08 GMT)IT department keeps the infrastructure. Then this new persona takes over and handles the AI stuffSome organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator – aka the “ML admin”.… |
Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training - (pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 02:15:10 GMT)Partly because America does AI wrong and it can get more done with lessChinese web giant Tencent says it has enough high-end GPUs to train new AI models for years, in part because it’s found more efficient ways to do so.… |
AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 23:58:14 GMT)Bit barn operator to wedge 8,192 liquid-cooled MI325Xs into AI training clusterInterview After some teething pains, TensorWave CEO Darrick Horton is confident that AMD's Instinct accelerators are ready to take on large-scale AI training.… |
GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 23:15:47 GMT)More than $100M in costs could be cut by gutting duplicative IT alone, making DOGE itself look a bit redundantComment Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now – and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by doing nothing but eliminating redundant and unnecessary IT investments. … |
Metal maker meltdown: Nucor stops production after cyber-intrusion - (pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 20:40:54 GMT)Ransomware or critical infra hit? Top US manufacturer maintains steely silenceNucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated.… |
