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The IT job market is cooling in the US, with new postings down 19% and open roles falling 7% month-over-month from July to August. Year-to-date, however, job openings are down just 2%, according to an analysis of a new jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics...
ValueLicensing's David spins the sling for another go at the Windows Goliath Microsoft's tussle with UK-based reseller ValueLicensing over the sale of secondhand licenses returns to the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal this week, with the Windows behemoth now claiming that...
What was Judge Amit Mehta thinking? When he ruled a year ago that Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act by stifling search competition, we thought Google was truly in hot water. Boy, were we wrong! After Mehta’s initial ruling, the Department of Justice (DoJ) demanded...
The chatbot-enabled Friend necklace eavesdrops on your life and provides a running commentary that’s snarky and unhelpful. Worse, it can also make the people around you uneasy.
With slight, useful changes like wireless charging and better processing, these noise-canceling buds remain at the top of the pile.
Four-year framework hands Canon and pals a license to print money The UK government has awarded 12 suppliers places on a framework deal that could see it spend up to £900 million on printers, photocopiers, and other multifunctional devices.…
For all its popularity and success, SQL is a study in paradox. It can be clunky and verbose, yet for developers, it is often the simplest, most direct way to extract the data we want. It can be lightning quick when a query is written correctly, and slow as molasses when the...
Here’s the uncomfortable truth about Python in the enterprise: The language is easy; the ecosystem is not. Most developers can write readable Python by week two. What derails them—and therefore your schedules—is everything around the language: the project scaffolding,...
Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom? Opinion If you're a tech company marketing manager writing white papers, you'll love a juicy pull quote. That's where a client says something so lovely about you, you can pull it out of the main text and reprint...
In a recent episode of the First Person podcast, we met with Greg Finnigan. Greg is a company founder who has navigated a career through hardware distribution, to security software and on to the cloud, working in both large corporates and startups. In a wide-ranging and...
What causes AI pilots to fail in production This week, an exercise in separating truth from hype. I am old enough to remember when generative AI (genAI) was the best thing since sliced bread — destined to solve any and all problems. But CIO.com recently reported...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Fortune: The percentage of young Gen Z employees between the ages of 21 and 25 has been cut in half at technology companies over the past two years, according to recent data from compensation management software business Pave with...
You're out, forever! Who, Me? Monday mornings see the resumption of endless coopetition between IT folks and those they strive to serve but sometimes disappoint. The Register celebrates that eternal struggle with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column...
Expect more ‘slush funds’ of this sort, analyst tells El Reg AI upstart Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund it will use to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without seeking or securing permission.…
Somewhere in Houston, four research volunteers 'will soon participate in NASA's year-long simulation of a Mars mission,' NASA announced this week, saying it will provide 'foundational data to inform human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.' The 378-day simulation...
Analyst firm doesn’t rate OpenAI as an enterprise-ready vendor All work in IT departments will be done with the help of AI by 2030, according to analyst firm Gartner, which thinks massive job losses won’t result.…
Four years ago a small Microsoft Research team started creating an analog optical computer. They used commercially available parts like sensors from smartphone cameras, optical lenses, and micro-LED lights finer than a human hair. 'As the light passes through the sensor at...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Shebang 25.8, LibreELEC 12.2.0, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 News: AerynOS introduces package sets, postmarketOS seeks to encourage patches upstream, Redox imports new COSMIC...
PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish Asia In Brief Microsoft has warned that customers of its Azure cloud may experience heightened latency due to a submarine cable outage in the Red Sea.…
Linus has released 6.17-rc5 for testing. 'Things remain normal - both the diffstat and the commit counts look entirely sane'. The announcement also contains a plea for maintainers to not overuse Link: tags when applying patches.
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