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Tok is Tiking for app to bring processing into compliance within 3 months The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined TikTok 345 million ($367 million) for breaking European law over how it processed children's data....

Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says Salesforce supremo Marc Benioff has said the company plans to hire 3,300 new staff as it focuses on growth and margins - a little more than six months after the SaaS biz confirmed a 10 percent cull of its workforce....

Tech buffet of updates dished out ahead of IFTD event Intel has expanded its FPGA line-up with cost-optimized offerings, open sourced the official release of its software stack, and added a free RISC-V processor design, among other updates....

Backlash has spilled offline and into potential violence The backlash against Unity runtime fees has been so extreme that the game engine company felt the need to cancel a town hall meeting and close two offices after receiving a "threat," reportedly from an employee....

40-50% reduction in power needs isn't an efficiency to be sniffed at BT is to trial liquid cooling solutions in a bid to improve energy consumption and efficiency across its networks and IT infrastructure....

Are you the weakest link? The UK's Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that crooks have got their mitts on some of its data after a third-party supplier responsible for ID badges was attacked....

Choosing the right one for you means understanding the trade-off, says MySQL expert Peter Zaitsev Feature It has been a decade since Amazon RDS launched support for PostgreSQL. Since then, the relational system authored by Turing Award winner Michael Stonebraker in the 1980s has gone on to become the most popular database among professional developers, used by nearly half of them, according to Stack Overflow's 2023 Developer Survey....

For once, the boss rescued IT from a revolting customer On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that recounts readers' stories from the frontlines of tech support....

The Motocompacto is a successor to the '81 Motocompo, but with greater ability to deprive its rider of dignity With a growing market for electric scooters, we were expecting manufacturers to all eventually pile in, but Honda arriving on the scene with a rideable suitcase isn't quite what we had in mind....

There's a weird one-and-a-half screen laptop mode, too New PC form factors are few and far between, but HP Inc. has tried to shake things up with a foldable device called the Spectre Foldable PC that can be a 12.3-inch laptop, or a bigger laptop, or a 17-inch desktop, or a 17-inch tablet....

Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs The same Oracle Cloud hardware that Big Red uses to run databases in its own hyperscale cloud will be placed in Microsoft's Azure datacenters, under an expanded collaboration between the two software giants....

Mobile-first service aims to bring e-learning to the masses, covering tech and plenty more India on Wednesday launched a government-supported e-learning and job posting service, Skill India Digital (SID), that includes free courses from the likes of Microsoft, Cisco, and Google....

British chip design biz plans to satisfy investors by seeking new customers, while RISC-V and China are already challenges Comment The Arm that listed on the Nasdaq Thursday is a very different operation to the one Softbank took private in 2016, because the British chip designer has evolved from licensing its architecture and core designs to developing pre-validated almost-complete processor blueprints that offer a swift and cheap route to developing custom silicon....

NoEscape promises 'colossal wave of problems' if IJC doesn't pay up The International Joint Commission, a body that manages water rights along the US-Canada border, has confirmed its IT security was targeted, after a ransomware gang claimed it stole 80GB of data from the organization....

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, laptops on fire off the shoulder of Orion... Google said Thursday it will provide a decade of service updates for recent model Chromebooks, a policy change that reflects the growing political clout of right-to-repair campaigners....

Is there nothing crowdsourcing and open source phone apps can't solve? NASA on Thursday released its final report on how to best study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and the US space agency wants to hear more from the hoi polloi, or common folk....

Zero-days are so 2022. Why not just social engineer the help desk? Updated Casino giant Caesars Entertainment has confirmed miscreants stole a database containing customer info, including driver license and social security numbers for a "significant number" of its loyalty program members, in a social engineering attack earlier this month....

Terrible IT practices at the DoD? You don't say Pointing out IT failures at the US Department of Defense is like shooting fish in a barrel, but here we are with another in the cross-hairs: this time it's the DoD that has failed to account for the costs associated with restrictive cloud licensing agreements....

At least artists are being paid to train its models Adobe has sprinkled its products with AI while also hiking prices to pay for all that generative goodness....

Will Elon actually pay this bill? Lawyers for thousands of ex-Twitter employees who sued for unpaid severance have somehow managed to bring Elon Musk and company back to the negotiating table....

Who needs an IPO when you have Series I? Databricks has inhaled $500 million in funding - giving the data platform provider a nominal $43 billion valuation....

Company noticed data warehouse break-in via compromised account a month later Cloud-based bug tracking and monitoring platform Rollbar has warned users that attackers have rifled through their data....

Starboard Blue LLC says management failed to create shareholder goodness, 'change needed' GoDaddy needs to cut more jobs, reduce the tech budget, and address why it is falling short of financial targets outlined at its shareholder day in 2022, or the board should consider exploring a sale of the business....

British chip designer to trade on Nasdaq only The long anticipated Arm flotation is set to kick off today with shares being offered to the public at $51 apiece, putting a value on the company of $54.5 billion....

You can't puff puff pass on the Securities Act This week just got worse for married actor couple Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis - the US Securities and Exchange Commission has set fire to an NFT project they were involved in, Stoner Cats....

Europe worried about French safety findings Apple's woes over the iPhone 12's electromagnetic waves do not seem to be going away, with more EU countries intending to take another look at the device following France's decision to halt sales earlier this week....

How about the ministers go next? UK citizens wondering if Whitehall civil servants really "get" technology may be heartened to learn that the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology have signed up for the STEM Futures scheme....

And they cost less than a box of donuts Stolen cloud credentials cost about the same as a dozen donuts, according to IBM X-Force, whose threat intel team says logins make up almost 90 percent of goods and services for sale on dark web marketplaces....

Well, when it's finished, anyway Google has begun breaking out its Outline proxy client-server code into an SDK so developers can eventually bake the censorship-evading tech into their apps....

Build a new XT with HDMI graphics or run Windows ME at 4K - because why not? The retro computing hobby is always throwing up innovative ideas and methods... such as a CGA card with HDMI output, new 8088 PC systems, or drivers to enable full hardware-accelerated 3D for Windows 98 in a VM....

Black hole stun: They're more than 1,400 light years closer than the previous record holder Not to alarm anyone, but the nearest black holes to Earth are closer than we previously thought....

When you're shopping from 'TBMPOY' or 'CARWORNIC' will you even notice the difference? Amazon.com has unleashed a generative AI service for sellers in its supersized souk....

TikTok-esque Mini Worlds, part of the Tencent empire, shamed, fined, warned to do better China's cyberspace regulator on Wednesday ordered Tencent's QQ messaging platform to shut down its short video creation and sharing service for 30 days after it found it had exposed minors to graphic sexual material....

Those of you happy to spend ten hours in a single-aisle A321, take note Airbus has commenced functional and reliability testing of its A321XLR, a passenger plane expected to open up new routes by allowing the aviation workhorse that is the A320 family to easily handle transatlantic trips and journeys of ten hours or more....

Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry China's Foreign Ministry has denied reports that government agencies have restricted the use of Apple's iPhone....

To Nutanix go the spoils, to VMware users comes a compatibility nightmare Cisco has discontinued its HyperFlex hyperconverged infrastructure products....

Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now Google has confirmed it is this week laying off a few hundred staff from its global recruitment team....

Decision to combine user-curated feed with algorithmic stuff leaves coders fuming A week ago, GitHub fused its home page feed with algorithmic recommendations, infuriating more than a few users of the Microsoft-owned code-hosting giant....

Homeland Security told to mind costs, fix up privacy controls Twice delayed and over budget, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been told by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that it needs to correct shortcomings in its biometric identification program....

Another load of automakers teams up to lean into the inevitable If you want to gauge the automotive industry's temperature on electric vehicles, just take a look at the volume of collaborative projects they're all working on, including most recently an initiative from Ford, BMW and Honda's American arm to develop a standard for bidirectional vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging....

No, your CEO is not on Teams asking you to transfer money Deepfakes are coming for your brand, bank accounts, and corporate IP, according to a warning from US law enforcement and cyber agencies....

Ransomware group nicked info from employee of airline, say researchers Aerospace giant Airbus has fallen victim to a data breach, thanks in part to the inattention of a third party....

We're just better, says Big G Google is facing charges from the US Department of Justice that it maintains a dominant position in internet search through payments to device makers and browser developers that keep it as the default search option....

Who's that poking around in your infrastructure? Roles, permissions, policies, and more Sure, cloud infrastructure is complex. But keeping track of identities (human and machine) and permissions across multiple cloud environments, and making sure all of these entitlements aren't abused to break into cloud environments - well, that's truly a Herculean task....

This would make the Golden State the third to enact a similar law The Apple-backed California right-to-repair bill has made its way effortlessly through the state Assembly, and is now just one procedural vote away from heading to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk for signature....

Think Debian 12 plus Mint's polish and a friendlier UX for non-techies The next version of Linux Mint's alternative flavor, its Debian 12-based edition, is looming, and it's reassuringly unexciting....

It's not as if space is hard, is it? The three companies tapped by Amazon to launch its Project Kuiper constellation have confirmed that they're definitely going to get the satellites into orbit despite repeated delays....

Watchdog worries over electromagnetic waves, Apple disagrees Apple's launch party for its latest iPhone was marred slightly yesterday as the French National Frequency Agency (ANFR) told the company that its iPhone 12 breached electromagnetic wave limits....

No, miscreants won't be able to use it to read secret printed docs Researchers in California have found that Wi-Fi signals can be used to image objects on the far side of a wall, and claim to have demonstrated that such a system can even pick out complex shapes such as letters of the alphabet....

Cut and shut is so last century, now it's copy and clone Researchers have found almost 15,000 automotive accounts for sale online and pointed at a credential-stuffing attack that targeted car makers....