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There can be only one … annoying management technique Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has penned a blog that gives further insight into the inner workings of the software titan under Bill Gates's leadership.…
The Epic Games Store gives iPhone users in the EU an alternative to Apple’s App Store for the first time.
The forthcoming game’s inclusion of a Black samurai named Yasuke has caused a controversy in the gaming world, one that has a familiar ring to it.
A US judge is set to force Google to more widely open up Android phones to competing app stores. But as I found, app stores vying for supremacy could leave Android users confused and worried about security.
SSDs are now the most common type of hard drive in both laptops and desktop PCs. They’re compact, they’re quite, and they outperform traditional hard drives by a mile — but they also tend to slow down over time (and eventually stop working altogether). But it’s not...
Laptops are used for all sorts of things in college. In addition to completing assignments and researching topics, they’re also used for general web browsing as well as streaming the hottest shows and playing games. That said, graphic design majors (depending on what their ...
Future of low carbon sustainable tech? Not so fast, this is still a trial and only for backup power Equinix is moving forward with trials of fuel cell technology as an alternative backup power source, revealing it has a demonstration unit at one of its facilities in Dublin,...
A 43-year-old Jordanian national, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, was arrested in Orlando, Florida, and charged with threatening to use explosives and destroying a solar power facility. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the charges could result in up to 60 years in...
Some electric car brands are hemorrhaging value, with the worst losing as much as $600 a day. In this investigation, WIRED outlines the models to watch, why this is happening, and how you could game the market to your advantage.
One of my favorite Windows features, Windows Sandbox, is finally testing some new features that I’d characterize as something like an improved airlock. I think of Windows Sandbox in the same vein that I do a VPN: While a VPN encrypts and hides your connection from prying...
Controversial payment systems set for another lease of life The UK's government department for farming and the environment is offering up to £27 million to keep its controversial legacy farm payments systems running for another three years as it develops a replacement.…
BVLOS operations to modernize airspace The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved six new trials to test the use of drones in deliveries, inspections and emergency services, including one from e-commerce megabiz Amazon.…
A long and strange tech support story that starts in Africa and ends in a Presidential Suite On Call Welcome yet again to On Call, the reader-contributed column in which The Register immortalizes readers' stories of escaping tech support traumas.…
AT&T and Verizon are urging the FCC to reject SpaceX's plan to offer cellular service with T-Mobile, arguing that it would cause harmful interference to terrestrial mobile networks. Ars Technica reports: Filings urging the Federal Communications Commission to deny SpaceX's...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Melted capsules. Cloudy insulin. Pills that may no longer work. Doctors and pharmacists say the scorching temperatures enveloping the country could be endangering people's health in an unexpected way: by...
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far. The DNA of Lepidosiren paradoxa comprises a staggering 91 billion chemical letters or 'bases,' 30...
According to Kaspersky, hackers linked to Chinese threat actors have targeted Russian state agencies and tech companies in a campaign named EastWind. The Record reports: [T]he attackers used the GrewApacha remote access trojan (RAT), an unknown PlugY backdoor and an updated...
The IRS should reopen its Technology Retirement Office to effectively manage the retirement and replacement of legacy systems, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) audit. The Register reports: The report (PDF), from the Treasury Inspector...
Microsoft says it will temporarily cease its contentious Windows 11 upgrade campaign following user backlash. The tech giant had been bombarding Windows 10 users with full-screen popups urging them to switch operating systems. Starting with April's security update, these...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Intel is partnering with Karma Automotive to develop an all-new computing platform for vehicles. The new software-defined vehicle architecture should first appear in a high-end electric coupe from Karma in 2026. But the...
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