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New Intel boss is all about ‘de-laborating’ the x86 giant – aka job cuts
Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less
On-Prem24 Apr 2025 | 79
Trump blinks: 'Substantially' lower China tariffs promised
World War Fee Detail? Rationale? Timeline? Nope! It's the art of the squeal
Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 181
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production
Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much
AI Software Development Week22 Apr 2025 | 10
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to
int main(enter the void)...
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers
'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 119
Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators
Analysis Bit barns in Dublin doubled as battery farms, the rest of the world isn’t buying it
CxO17 Apr 2025 | 33
California sues President Tariff
World War Fee Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work
Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 51
White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo
World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President
Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 78
Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze
World War Fee Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank
CxO14 Apr 2025 | 121
CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle
Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion
On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 15
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager
Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights
CxO10 Apr 2025 | 3
Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette
Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal
AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 43
Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud
And it can be yours for a rather steep $349
OSes03 Apr 2025 | 126
Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block
Vision Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder
CxO01 Apr 2025 | 8
Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake
Comment Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table
AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 22
Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better'
Vision AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ...
On-Prem01 Apr 2025 | 18
Samsung co-CEO Han Jong-hee dies of heart attack at 63
The man who helped make Sammy the biggest name in modern tellies
CxO25 Mar 2025 | 6
4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer
Microsoft and Dell keeping quiet on their work-life-balance trials
CxO25 Mar 2025 | 35
Popular
Samsung admits Galaxy devices can leak passwords through clipboard wormhole
Infosec in brief PLUS: Microsoft fixes messes China used to attack it; Mitre adds ESXi advice; Employee-tracking screenshots leak; and more!
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI
Now that's a sum of all fears
Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction
Opinion Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there's a problem
Microsoft pitches pay-to-patch reboot reduction subscription for Windows Server 2025
Redmond reckons $1.50/core/month hotpatch service is worth it to avoid eight Patch Tuesday scrambles each year
What the **** did you put in that code? The client thinks it's a cyberattack
Who, Me? When your customers work in super-sensitive situations, bad jokes make for bad business
Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions
And just-about bricks some of its older models everywhere
Toyota picks Huawei’s Android-killer HarmonyOS for its Chinese electric sedan
Asia In Brief PLUS: Korea's SK Telecom replacing SIMs after attack; India automates satellite docking; China greens its datacenters; and more
Back online after 'catastrophic' attack, 4chan says it's too broke for good IT
Image board hints that rumors of a poorly maintained back end may be true
New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users
Interview Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again
Nationwide power outages knock Spain, Portugal offline
Cyberattack? Bad software update? International oopsie? The cause is unclear, but Iberia is dark
STORIES
2 in 5 techies quit over inflexible workplace policies
Return to office, hours and intensity of work cited as reasons to walk
CxO24 Mar 2025 | 122
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman
'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks
Off-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 39
Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training
One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out
AI + ML19 Mar 2025 | 33
Trump fires Democrat FTC commissioners, presaging big tech policy shifts
Analysis Remaining Republicans don't like the right to repair, non-compete clause ban, or some social media moderation
Public Sector19 Mar 2025 | 99
Dell discloses monster 20-petaFLOPS desktop built on Nvidia's GB300 Superchip
GTC HPE and Lenovo also have plans to put Jensen's latest hardware to work
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 49
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs
GTC Or a 96 GB RTX PRO in your desktop or server
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 5
Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point
Web souk hits back at critical study into union drive at package depot
Applications18 Mar 2025 | 28
Cybereason CEO leaves after months of boardroom blowups
Updated Complaint alleges 13 funding proposals foundered amid battle for control
Security06 Mar 2025 | 2
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off
Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 42
It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake
Says the biz trying to sell us stuff to catch that, admittedly
AI + ML04 Mar 2025 | 18
So … Russia no longer a cyber threat to America?
Comment Mixed messages from Pentagon, CISA as Trump gets pally with Putin and Kremlin strikes US critical networks
Public Sector04 Mar 2025 | 218
US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs
Updated With friends like these...
Public Sector03 Mar 2025 | 110
Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy
Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant
AI + ML03 Mar 2025 | 12
Cybersecurity not the hiring-'em-like-hotcakes role it once was
Analysis Ghost positions, HR AI no help – biz should talk to infosec staff and create 'realistic' job outline, say experts
CSO03 Mar 2025 | 15
Yes, Slack isn't working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day
Final update Chat app chaps slapped, rapped for leaving yakkity-yakkers in a flap
SaaS26 Feb 2025 | 9
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
Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel
Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence
AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 72
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs
Uncle Sam's number-crunchers warn lawyers, customer service reps to brace for change, say techies will be fine
Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11
How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit
Analysis Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process
AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 30
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
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be
Global tech corps wrestle with policy disparity on either side of the Atlantic
CxO13 Feb 2025 | 291
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
IBM return-to-office order hits finance, ops teams amid push to dump staff for AI
Demand described as a 'soft layoff'
On-Prem12 Feb 2025 | 35
I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake job applicant …Twice
Remote position, webcam not working, then glitchy AI face ... Red alert!
CSO11 Feb 2025 | 82
Democrats demand to know WTF is up with that DOGE server on OPM's network
Updated Are you trying to make this easy for China and Russia?
Public Sector06 Feb 2025 | 153
Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees
Fall in line with executive policy or you're gone, acting OPM chief insists
CxO05 Feb 2025 | 48
Alphabet achieves first $100B annual profit ... and sees its shares sink
Whaddya gotta do to impress investors these days? Maybe convince them you're not overspending on AI?
Off-Prem05 Feb 2025 | 6
Another banner year for ransomware gangs despite takedowns by the cops
And it doesn't take a crystal ball to predict the future
Cyber-crime31 Jan 2025 | 6
You probably have more CIO experience than the incoming White House CIO
From AI startup CISO to running federal IT - sure, why not?
Public Sector28 Jan 2025 | 30
DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI'
Updated Despite impressive benchmarks, the Chinese-made LLM is not without some interesting issues
AI + ML27 Jan 2025 | 32
Mental toll: Scale AI, Outlier sued by humans paid to steer AI away from our darkest depths
Who guards the guardrail makers? Not the bosses who hire them, it's alleged
AI + ML24 Jan 2025 | 15
OpenAI's Operator agent wants to tackle your online chores – just don’t expect it to nail every task
Hello Operator? Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime?
AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 14
Former Amazon exec appointed as boss of UK's competition watchdog
Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth'
CxO22 Jan 2025 | 11
Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom
The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner
CxO22 Jan 2025 | 13
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
Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior
'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs
AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 23
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling
Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
Nvidia GTC17 Jan 2025 | 11
IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year
Half the number of roles axed, and yes – you can keep blaming AI
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 36
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR
Interview She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message as she turns you down
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 83
Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible
This'll be good for you, don't you worry, CFO tells venture fund while pulling back the sling
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 8
Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal
What could be the motivation for continuing to fight the case?
CxO09 Jan 2025 | 75
Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems
Special report Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling
CxO08 Dec 2024 | 22
The workplace has become a surveillance state
Cracked Labs report explores the use of motion sensors and wireless networking kit to monitor offices
CxO27 Nov 2024 | 72
AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews
Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots
AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 140
Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry
Kettle Anything could happen in the next half ... decade
Public Sector13 Nov 2024 | 123
TSMC's US operations threatened with employee discrimination class action
Updated Allegedly it's hard to get ahead at the chipmaker unless you speak Mandarin
CxO13 Nov 2024 | 7
AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers
LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all?
AI + ML13 Nov 2024 | 7
Air National Guardsman gets 15 years after splashing classified docs on Discord
22-year-old talked of 'culling the weak minded' – hmm!
Cyber-crime13 Nov 2024 | 93
Flanked by Palantir and AWS, Anthropic's Claude marches into US defense intelligence
An emotionally manipulable AI in the hands of the Pentagon and CIA? Cool
AI + ML07 Nov 2024 | 4
Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off
Firefox overlord to 'revisit' advocacy mission
Applications06 Nov 2024 | 89
Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick
Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to
Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2024 | 12
Hands up who hasn't made an offer to buy some part of Intel
Comment Now Arm reportedly approached, rebuffed by Chipzilla. Who's next? MOS Technology?
Systems27 Sep 2024 | 21
Now Dell salespeople must be onsite five days a week
Return-to-office mandate reaches inevitable conclusion
CxO26 Sep 2024 | 119
There’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is
Comment Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia?
Personal Tech21 Sep 2024 | 22
LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in
Updated Opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others, including now the UK, excepted
AI + ML19 Sep 2024 | 86
Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, going gray
AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot's work
Software18 Sep 2024 | 42
The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint
You pipsqueaks want memory safety? We'll show you memory safety! We'll borrow that borrow checker
Applications16 Sep 2024 | 113
I stole 20 GB of data from Capgemini – and now I'm leaking it, says cybercrook
Updated Allegedly pilfered database has source code, private keys, staff info, T-Mobile VM logs, more
Cyber-crime12 Sep 2024 | 20
Medical cannabis CTO says vendors would hang up when he called looking for a deal
Alternaleaf now has an outsized tech team, a build-not-buy mentality, and a love of FOSS
CxO11 Sep 2024 | 15
Defense AI models 'a risk to life' alleges spurned tech firm
In-depth Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail
AI + ML06 Sep 2024 | 8
Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy
Comment Foundry faces a reckoning
CxO06 Sep 2024 | 66
Nvidia and chums inject $160M into Applied Digital to keep GPU sales rolling
Datacenters are the lifeline for its $30B ML-fueled boom
PaaS + IaaS06 Sep 2024 | 5
Cognizant alleges Infosys swiped its trade secrets
Sueball suggests outsourcer went out of bounds by developing competing product
CxO26 Aug 2024 | 9
Delta: CrowdStrike's offer to help in Falcon meltdown was too little, too late
Airline unimpressed with 'unhelpful and untimely' phone call from CEO, Falcon maker says claims untrue
CxO08 Aug 2024 | 32
Microsoft punches back at Delta Air Lines and its legal threats
SatNad himself offered CrowdStrike recovery help, Redmond says, before suggesting airline's IT is in a mess
CxO07 Aug 2024 | 39
More than 83K certs from nearly 7K DigiCert customers must be swapped out now
Small stay of execution in 'exceptional circumstances' promised – amid legal action to pause digital bonfire
CSO31 Jul 2024 | 18
How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business
Feature Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated
CxO30 Jul 2024 | 69
Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job
Comment Are your security and ops teams fighting to pass the buck?
Malware Month25 Jul 2024 | 29
How a cheap barcode scanner helped fix CrowdStrike'd Windows PCs in a flash
This one weird trick saved countless hours and stress – no, really
OSes25 Jul 2024 | 89
The months and days before and after CrowdStrike's fatal Friday
Analysis 'In the short term, they're going to have to do a lot of groveling'
CSO25 Jul 2024 | 46
EU's renewable hydrogen plan needs a 'reality check'
Member nations aren't on the same page, investors are confused, and nobody understands the real costs
CxO19 Jul 2024 | 78
Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack
15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit
Malware Month12 Jul 2024 | 16
Coders' Copilot code-copying copyright claims crumble against GitHub, Microsoft
A few devs versus the powerful forces of Redmond – who did you think was going to win?
Software08 Jul 2024 | 40
Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals
Exclusive Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier
Malware Month05 Jul 2024 | 73
EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law
And hit AI operators 'with all the fines', says Cory Doctorow
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 13
Affirm fears customer info pilfered during ransomware raid at Evolve Bank
Number of partners acknowledging data theft continues to rise
Malware Month02 Jul 2024 | 2
Indian govt probes claims Foxconn won't hire married women
Updated Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 20
Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit
Steve Teixeira, said to be CEO-in-waiting, now sues Firefox maker for discrimination, retaliation
Applications24 Jun 2024 | 91
Change Healthcare finally spills the tea on what medical data was stolen by cyber-crew
'Substantial proportion' of America to get a little note from next month
Cyber-crime21 Jun 2024 | 9
IBM, Kyndryl again once sued for age discrimination – this time by its own VPs
More big blues at Big Blue ... And of course El Reg is cited in lawsuit
CxO20 Jun 2024 | 5
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