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Friday July 4, 2025. 11:26 AM
'JFC, again?' Microsoft's latest round of layoffs has triggered an outpouring of emotion from inside and outside the company, with at least one former staffer asking: 'How many billions must be burned in the AI furnace before this stops?'…
As summer travel plans ramp up, so do concerns around identity theft, fraud, and safety – especially as travelers engage with everything from airlines to Airbnbs, ride shares to public Wi-Fi. We spoke to Bala Kumar, chief technology and product officer at Jumio, to discuss ...
There is a phenomenon in low-code and 4GL systems called the inner platform effect. Essentially, you take a tool and build an abstraction on top designed to make it simpler and end up creating a less powerful version of the same underlying system. Artificial intelligence is...
I was excited to speak at a regional cloud computing summit hosted by one of the major cloud providers. My presentation focused on the many opportunities of public cloud and the essential need for risk management. Just before the event, I received an email stating that three ...
With support for Windows 10 winding down, many users are weighing up their next move. Traditionally, upgrading to the newest version of Windows was a no-brainer, but Windows 11 has complicated that decision. Its strict hardware requirements, growing insistence on a Microsoft ...
There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia Comment Multiple other projects also use the vast linked data store that underpins ubiquitous internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and some of them are helping the fight for democracy.…
Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not On Call Friday dawns with the promise of precious freedom, yet the world of tech support is seldom free from trouble. The Register always finds a way to celebrate anyway, by bringing you a fresh instalment of On...
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: The world's first commercial hybrid of silicon circuitry and human brain cells will soon be available for rent. Marketed for its vast potential in medical research, the biological machine, grown inside a British...
Mistral fears continental companies may not get time to escape 'distant, behemoth corporations' French AI business Mistral on Thursday announced an initiative called “AI for Citizens,” which it says offers a way to work with governments and public institutions to...
Zuck backs a ‘digital majority age’ and Google open sources tech that might enforce it Google and Meta have independently taken actions to support a safer internet for kids – and given blockchain boosters a moment to celebrate.…
Beeftopia shares a report from CBS News: The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the government's...
If you come out of a coma in 2026, this is the machine you might see staring down at you Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn and Japan’s Kawasaki Heavy Industries have revealed a jointly developed robotic nursing assistant they hope to start selling in 2026.…
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: A new academic study has found that the 2016 Wells Fargo scandal pushed many consumers toward fintech lenders instead of traditional banks. The research, published in the Journal of Financial Economics, suggests that it was a lack ...
Electric vehicles claimed a dominant 96.9% market share in Norway in June 2025, with the Tesla Model Y alone accounting for over 27% of all new car registrations. Mobility Portal Europe reports: According to the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (OFV), 17,799 new...
Ripple Labs is applying for a U.S. national bank charter and a Federal Reserve master account, 'following a similar move by stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group as crypto firms look to be regulated to deepen ties with traditional finance,' reports CoinTelegraph. From the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: Samsung is reportedly delaying the launch of its Taylor, Texas, fab, citing difficulties in securing customers for its output. Sources told Nikkei Asia that even if the South Korean chipmaker brings in the necessary...
Just because the Big Beautiful Bill passed does not mean it's big, nor beautiful. Just ask the Republican lawmakers who hated it, said they would not support it, and then, after a call from their boss, snapped into submission with a panic-stricken 'aye!' — Read the rest The...
Job cuts aren’t big, symbolism of quitting the world’s fifth-most-populous nation might be Exclusive Microsoft has decided to close its presence in Pakistan.…
Robert Caruso once again pitted an AI chatbot against Atari 2600 Video Chess -- this time using Microsoft's Copilot instead of ChatGPT. Despite confident claims of chess mastery, Copilot fell just as hard. The Register reports: By now, anybody with experience of today's...
A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool Scientists at Johns Hopkins and Samsung have developed a nano-engineered thermoelectric material that is twice as efficient at material-level cooling as existing alternatives, paving the way for broader adoption of...
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