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NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now

Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last

Science14 May 2025 | 8

Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start own biz

All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now

CxO12 May 2025 | 46

US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties

DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom

Science09 May 2025 | 81

After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI

CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate'

CSO07 May 2025 | 14

From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear

Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz

Software06 May 2025 | 10

Liz Warren, Trump admin agree on something: Army should have right to repair

As military memo makes it official policy

Public Sector02 May 2025 | 27

AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals

Keep plugging those LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine

AI + ML01 May 2025 | 39

TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech

Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do'

Personal Tech29 Apr 2025 | 51

DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI

Now that's a sum of all fears

AI + ML27 Apr 2025 | 44

Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims

WORLD WAR FEE One eight-person publisher says it'll be forced to pay $1.5M

Bootnotes26 Apr 2025 | 129

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

Updated Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less

On-Prem24 Apr 2025 | 79

IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette

Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting

Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 23

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

Going to spend more time with his Sieg Heils, maybe

Public Sector22 Apr 2025 | 110

RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox

Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals

Applications22 Apr 2025 | 24

Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks

In effect: 'Ha ha – the government is borked and so are you'

Security22 Apr 2025 | 14

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices

Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

On-Prem18 Apr 2025 | 34

Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law

After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won

Personal Tech17 Apr 2025 | 4

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

AI Software Development Week12 Apr 2025 | 98

Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts

$5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled

Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47

AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast

Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 28

Trump tariffs to make prices great – a gain

World War Fee As costs for US shoppers set to rise, markets slump, orange is new red, we speak to economic experts

Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 78

Governments cling to private cloud despite inexorable public cloud adoption

The need to scale still battling security worries ... on both sides

PaaS + IaaS04 Apr 2025 | 35

For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat

Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security

CSO03 Apr 2025 | 5

Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling

Double-oh-sh...

CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10

Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work

But his emails! Sharing them with Google!

Public Sector02 Apr 2025 | 124

Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms

DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software

Software28 Mar 2025 | 22

IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India

Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America

On-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 86

Revenge of the nerds: Teachers, professors sue to undo Trump science funding cuts

Who needs studies into diseases, virus infections, US mortality rates ... right?

Science25 Mar 2025 | 112

OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts

Updated Kari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari?

Networks25 Mar 2025 | 106

Ex-NSA boss: Election security focus helped dissuade increase in Russian meddling with US

Interview Plus AI in the infosec world, why CISA should know its place, and more

CSO23 Mar 2025 | 41

Judge orders Feds rehire workers falsely fired for lousy performance

Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' arguments

Public Sector14 Mar 2025 | 109

AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that

Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings

AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 51

Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards

Study finds 4 out of 6 providers don't do enough to stop impersonation

AI + ML10 Mar 2025 | 8

China's Silk Typhoon, tied to US Treasury break-in, now hammers IT and govt targets

Updated They're good at zero-day exploits, too

Public Sector05 Mar 2025 | 17

Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'

And the FAA's modernization efforts are going so badly they won't exit turbulence any time soon

Public Sector05 Mar 2025 | 124

Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons

FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever

Software04 Mar 2025 | 25

C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'

Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door

Software02 Mar 2025 | 213

Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight

Interview Technologist Bert Hubert tells The Reg Microsoft Outlook is a huge source of geopolitical risk

Off-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 124

LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing

Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet

AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 33

We meet the protesters who want to ban Artificial General Intelligence before it even exists

Feature STOP AI warns of doomsday scenario, demands governments pull the plug on advanced models

AI + ML19 Feb 2025 | 31

Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed

Interview 'In 50 years, I think we'll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today'

Security15 Feb 2025 | 73

Why AI benchmarks suck

Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh...

AI + ML15 Feb 2025 | 29

Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study

From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check

AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 69

A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap

You gotta fight ... for your Reuters ... to party

AI + ML12 Feb 2025 | 34

Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM

Updated And US government adverts at that, say senators

Personal Tech08 Feb 2025 | 42

DOGE geek with Treasury payment system access now quits amid racist tweet claims

Final update We did Nazi see that coming

Public Sector07 Feb 2025 | 217

DOGE latest: Citrix supremo has 'read-only' access to US Treasury payment system

CEO of Cloud Software a 'special government employee' probing for Team Elon

Public Sector05 Feb 2025 | 26

Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites

Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – again

Public Sector03 Feb 2025 | 124

Trump admin's purge of US cyber advisory boards was 'foolish,' says ex-Navy admiral

interview ‘No one was kicked off the NTSB in the middle of investigating a crash’

Security30 Jan 2025 | 116

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

Unions fear federal staff purge and RTO will spark chaos for Americans

Public Sector29 Jan 2025 | 106

AI revoir, Lucie: France's answer to ChatGPT paused after faux pas overdrive

Slew of embarrassing answers sends open source chatterbox back for more schooling

AI + ML29 Jan 2025 | 69

The curious story of Uncle Sam's HR dept, a hastily set up email server, and fears of another cyber disaster

Lawsuit challenges effort to create federal-wide centralized inbox expected to be used for mass firings

CSO29 Jan 2025 | 57

AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe

updated Cops relied on unreliable tech for search warrant, omitted details ... so judge bins off evidence

AI + ML28 Jan 2025 | 36

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

Updated Uncle Sam will 'no longer blindly dole out money,' State Dept says

Public Sector27 Jan 2025 | 86

OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals

Updated SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year

AI + ML22 Jan 2025 | 16

GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums

We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC

Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 40