Big Red declines comment as reports point to layoffs in the thousands Oracle laid off thousands of employees on Tuesday as it ramps spending on AI infrastructure projects internally and with major technology partners.…
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https://www.theregister.comOopsy-doodle: Did someone forget to check their build pipeline? Would you like a closer look at Claude? Someone at Anthropic has some explaining to do, as the official npm package for Claude Code shipped with a map file exposing what appears to be the popular AI coding tool's entire source code.…
Sounds like an excellent time to start honing your Debian skills Exclusive An internal memo dispatched by senior execs at Red Hat suggests the software biz is starting to push AI tooling within its Global Engineering department. RHEL may be about to get some Windows 11-style "improvements."…
CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms The UK's competition watchdog will investigate Microsoft's business software ecosystem over concerns that its licensing policies reduce competition in the cloud market.…
No risk to ISS or Artemis, but not ideal for operator peace of mind Starlink satellite 34343 has suffered an "anomaly on-orbit," spraying debris at an altitude of approximately 560 km above Earth.…
Perseverance found the minerals in an ancient river channel, but researchers say geology may still beat biology A team of scientists in the US have discovered nickel compounds in Martian rocks, in an arrangement similar to organic carbon compounds understood to be formed by living organisms on Ea...
The 13-year sales vet closed two deals worth $27 million, but ServiceNow has “nullified” his compensation saying he “overachieved” his quota. ServiceNow is refusing to pay a salesman commissions on more than $27 million in sales, telling the 13-year veteran of the company that he "overperformed" ...
Weren't these supposed to be 'atypical'? Microsoft is preparing another out-of-band update to address its latest problematic update following reports of installation errors.…
Chip shipments overtake boards and modules as industrial demand grows, raising questions about hobbyist roots Raspberry Pi has reported impressive revenue and profit growth, but its hobbyist origins risk taking a backseat amid soaring semiconductor shipments.…
Cores it's got what agents crave Interview In recent weeks, the likes of Nvidia and Arm have revealed CPUs designed expressly to run AI agents like OpenClaw.…
Yep, you read that right. And there's no official Linux client from Google Canonical has just released the beta of the next Ubuntu LTS – but what's grabbed the attention of many is that it features GNOME 50 as its default desktop environment. And GNOME 50 no longer supports Google Drive.…
Unexpected quota drain prompts complaints, breaks automated workflows Users of Claude Code, Anthropic's AI-powered coding assistant, are experiencing high token usage and early quota exhaustion, disrupting their work.…
'Converting AI capability into sustainable, auditable revenue remains a challenge' says PwC survey Software companies are leaving money on the table because their core financial systems haven't kept pace with the way they sell pay-per-use services, which often now incorporate AI capabilities.…
Hijacked maintainer account let attackers slip cross-platform trojan into 100M-downloads-a-week Axios One of npm's most widely used HTTP client libraries briefly became a malware delivery vehicle after attackers hijacked a maintainer's account and slipped a remote-access trojan (RAT) into two see...
Aimed at blind tablet users, although it's winning sighted fans too TapType is a new Android keyboard that's invisible. You can't see it – but that's OK, neither can its developer nor some of its target users.…
Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup argues feature is neither minimal nor viable The ISO C++ committee (WG21) has approved the C++26 standard, described by committee member Herb Sutter as the most compelling release since C++11, and including Contracts, despite opposition to the feature from C++ inventor ...
Chocolate Factory boffins have found a way to reduce AI’s memory use, but don’t assume that means less demand for DRAM The high cost of memory has sideswiped the technology industry, causing server vendors to admit their quotes are guesstimates and depressing sales of PCs and smartphones. Nobody ...
Regulator ‘moving into an enforcement stance’ and investigating Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat as millions continue to doomscroll Australia’s eSafety Commission is “moving into an enforcement stance” after finding that Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat haven’t done enough to comply with the ...
Letting Copilot alter others' PRs was the wrong judgment call, says product manager Microsoft has done a 180. Following backlash from developers, GitHub has removed Copilot's ability to stick ads - what it calls "tips" - into any pull request that invokes its name. …
Check Point says outbound controls blocked web traffic but overlooked DNS OpenAI talks up data security for its AI services, yet Check Point says that ChatGPT allowed data to leak through a DNS side channel before the flaw was fixed.…