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Country boss now second in command, general manager vows to take 'Made in China' overseas... like everything else? While Tesla continues to take some knocks in stock price and other matters, its China-based factories and execs are poised to spread their influence globally within the company.…

Last one out turn off the lights A pair of leadership departures at Twitter this week have left the company with few, if any, remaining executives that predate Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform.…

Meanwhile, US 'ratcheting up' restrictions, expanding definition of what counts as 'cutting edge tech' says analyst Dell looks set to stop using chips from China in its products by 2024, according to reports. The move appears to be part of a wider effort to shift its supply chains away from the country in response to the ongoing tensions between China and the US.…

It's little wonder Samsung expects the consumer tech slump to continue CES As we lumber into the new year, corpulent and distended with wallets emptied from the excesses of the festive period, we now have CES 2023 to deal with – the tech tat bazaar once known as the Consumer Electronics Show.…

Accensure and L'Oreal among biz users, yet general adoption still well behind predecessor Large corporations are starting to run Windows 11 pilot programs in anger, potentially helping to boost adoption of Microsoft’s latest operating system – whose popularity remains way behind its predecessor.…

UK study pours cold water on claims after government already spent money trying to build an app Machine learning algorithms cannot accurately predict whether someone has COVID-19 by analyzing the sound of their coughs, according to a study led by the UK's Alan Turing Institute. …

A long way from password crackers for Windows NT for former L0pht legend Updated Former Twitter security chief and whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko has landed his first official role since he left the company, a part-time job as "executive in residence" with cybersecurity firm Rapid7.…

Look forward to being 'simplified,' staff told in CEO missive Amazon is set to make around 18,000 job cuts, with tech teams among those bearing the brunt of the losses.…

Where you want to be for the latest and greatest, but not for the faint of heart The latest release of siduction – a Debian "sid" based meta-distro – sneaked in before the end of the year, but while it dropped some features, it gained some important new ones too.…

Makes the repetitive strain injury you got from hours of pipetting all worth it, hey lab scientists? Far from an era of accelerating innovation and disruption, our current times manifest evidence of a slowing of discoveries and developments that change our thinking.…

iBiz's MagSafe charging tech forms the foundation of the Qi2 movement CES The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) on Tuesday announced a new wireless charging standard called Qi2, claiming that the spec will "unify the industry under one global standard."…

Consumers around the world want to go electric, says Deloitte, but sticker shock is keeping them at bay US car shoppers are more interested in electric vehicles than ever before, but the majority agree that there's one major thing holding them back: the sticker price. …

And one Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC to bind them Qualcomm is introducing a single chip platform that will handle the myriad digital workloads that are necessary in increasingly computerized automobiles.…

Perhaps make sure your own products are working properly before razzing your rival's AMD may have spoken too soon when it roasted Nvidia a couple months ago over the melting cable issue of the rival GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards.…

$32 billion cryptocurrency failure on the dock Former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, pleaded not guilty to eight criminal charges on Tuesday and is expected to stand trial on 2 October.…

Beijing isn't the only one spying on work computers, right GE? An ex-General Electric engineer has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of stealing the US giant's turbine technology for China.…

Send lawyers, IP and money - get me out of this Analysis When Arm made the bold move to sue Qualcomm last year it set itself on a collision course between the British chip designer and one of its largest partners that risks dealing significant damage to both companies — unless they decide to reach a settlement before things get too ugly.…

Software behemoth infusing search engine with AI machines that go Bing! Microsoft reportedly is integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT technology into Bing as it looks to boost its search engine's capabilities to challenge Google.…

UK data watchdog would like a word over failure to systems Long-standing British broadsheet The Guardian has told staff to continue working from home and notified the UK's data privacy watchdog about the security breach following a suspected ransomware attack before Christmas.…

No staff and no equipment ready after over a decade of nuclear denial Japan's decision to reignite its nuclear power industry is facing serious setbacks: 11 years of prohibition has led to a shortage of engineers, a lack of students training to fill vacant positions and a dearth of domestic nuclear manufacturing capability.…

Russian distro transforms source-based rolling release into stable, versioned product… theoretically Linux distros come and go all the time, which tends to imply that anything that continues for years has something going for it. Calculate Linux isn't well known in the West but this is the 13th major release.…

Beijing's dreams of producing advanced semiconductors could take much longer than hoped China may be rethinking its approach to the ongoing semiconductor wars with the US and looking to other ways to boost its chipmaking industry than simply trying to match Washington's costly investments and subsidies.…

And the largest such group in the gaming industry, says Communications Workers of America Quality assurance testers at ZeniMax Studios – home of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Doom gaming franchises – have voted in a "supermajority" to form Microsoft's first labor union in the US.…

Facebook, Insta told to pay up, make changes to data slurping process within 3 months A legal saga between Meta, Ireland and the European Union has reached a conclusion – at least for now – that forces the social media giant to remove data consent requirements from its terms of service in favor of explicit consent, and subjects it to a few hundred million more euros in fines for the trouble. …

At least it was Ctrl C, Ctrl V and not ChatGPT Google is challenging a $161 million antitrust fine issued by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) based on accusations that 50 instances within the ruling were lifted from a European ruling for similar charges.…

Consumer motherboard tech will reside in unit that's left behind Taiwanese OEM Gigabyte has split itself in two, spinning off its enterprise solutions business as an independent but wholly owned subsidiary that will focus on the development and sale of servers and server motherboards, while Gigabyte will continue to manufacture consumer motherboards and other technology.…

System data was exfiltrated during attack, but an anonymous person says it was a research project gone wrong An unknown attacker used the PyPI code repository to get developers to download a compromised PyTorch dependency that included malicious code designed to steal system data.…

CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry Salesforce has announced drastic restructuring plan to cut 10 percent of its workforce at a cost of around $1.4 billion to $2.1 billion.…

Foxconn targets EV portfolio growth and brings Nvidia along for the ride Hon Hai Technology Group, the electronics manufacturer and iPhone part maker better known as Foxconn, will use Nvidia chips in its autonomous vehicle platforms, it announced Tuesday ahead of CES 2023.…

US spy-tech firm's controversial work with patient data pushed out 6 months due to delayed data platform procurement NHS England has extended its contract with US spy-tech biz Palantir for the system built at the height of the pandemic to give it time to resolve the twice-delayed procurement of a data platform to support health service reorganization and tackle the massive care backlog.…

Happy New year mum... no I'm calling from the landline An issue with payments and credits for Skype subscribers remains ongoing, days after The Register was first informed by readers that it was broken.…

San Francisco is highest salaried city for tech pros (if you can afford to live there) If a new year means a new job, it might be worth taking a peek at the 2022 Levels.fyi salary survey, which reveals that principal engineers are getting up to $1 million, and even entry-level engineers can expect more than $250,000 in the highest paying tech firms.…

Freeze, Muskhole! A Tesla driver was fast asleep at the wheel with Autopilot engaged during a 15-minute pursuit by police, the cops claim.…

All right, C/2022 E3, we know what you're thinking – and we can explain everything, kinda Get a look while you can: a comet that last graced Earth's sky tens of thousands of years ago is back, and may now be visible to the naked eye – or at least those with binoculars – later this month and into February.…

House always wins India's Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has released draft rules for public consultation on its gaming industry that include a proposed self-regulating system for select registered online gaming companies.…

Beijing could dent Yank efforts to colonize Moon if it gets there first NASA Administrator Bill Nelson believes China could control territory and resources on the Moon if it lands astronauts and builds critical infrastructure before the US.…

Blame it on the affiliate Notorious ransomware gang LockBit "formally apologized" for an extortion attack against Canada's largest children's hospital that the criminals blamed on a now-blocked affiliate group, and said it published a free decryptor for the victim to recover the files.…

Suspected purse snatcher snatched 'in error' A US man was arrested and thrown in jail for nearly a week due to an alleged false facial-recognition match.…

Look folks, we need the business - there's a recession on Intel is cutting billions in costs amid a downturn in sales, but the show must go on, so the x86 giant is hoping it can rekindle interest in the PC market with the first 24-core chips for laptops and more affordable desktop CPUs.…

Prices blowing up makes a change from, well, you know If your phone, iPad, or MacBook is in need of a new battery, you might want to make your way to the Apple Store before the end of February. Apple plans to increase the cost of battery replacements for most out-of-warranty devices by $20-$50. …

10-7, there buddy, sorry An anti-government protest by truckers in Canada has been called off following "multiple security breaches," according to organizers, who also cited "personal character attacks," as a reason for the withdrawal.…

We wish you a very merry chemo and a happy new year Askern Medical Practice, a general practitioner surgery based in Doncaster, UK, managed to muddle its Christmas holiday message to patients by texting them they'd been diagnosed with "aggressive lung cancer with metastases."…

How many more straws can you fit on an electric car company's back? Tesla has finished 2022 with a dismal fourth quarter that saw it fail to meet analyst vehicle delivery predictions, fall short of its 50 percent growth objective and watch its stock rappel downward, shaving billions from the electric car maker's market value.…

Despite its name and looks, this is quite the radical departure for a Linux distro The first release of Vanilla OS is based on Ubuntu 22.10, but a slightly different desktop conceals much more dramatic changes under the hood.…

Nothing to do with Washington and Beijing butting heads, says US giant HPE intends to sell its remaining interest in China-based joint venture H3C, despite professing itself pleased by growth in the Chinese market just a few months ago.…

Wildly popular Call of Duty game at the center of the antitrust tussle The battle over Microsoft's controversial $69 billion bid for game-maker Activision Blizzard is due to shift to the courtroom Tuesday for the first pre-trial hearing in the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit to block the deal.…

$29.5 million and we don't have to admit wrongdoing? Where do we sign? Google has settled two more of the many location tracking lawsuits it had been facing over the past year, and this time the search giant is getting an even better deal: just $29.5 million to resolve complaints filed in Indiana and Washington DC with no admission of wrongdoing.…

Large chip manufacturers may be offered tax credits of up to 15% to invest in the country South Korea is prepared to offer big tax breaks to semiconductor manufacturers and other technology companies in a bid to boost its cutting-edge industries and the broader economy.…

Aircraft maker Airbus linked with IT services provider's security, digital and big data unit Atos is holding "exploratory talks" with potential investors - believed to include Airbus - over taking a minority shareholding in the IT services group's breakaway security, digital and big data businesses.…

Owner of our SF digs sues for $140,000 While we all enjoyed a brief holiday season of not having to think about Twitter or its new owner, one landlord has alleged that Elon Musk's cost-cutting campaign at the company has extended to not paying rent.…