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Over-50s to get early retirement offer Toshiba says it will cut up to 4,000 jobs within Japan, a number that accounts for six percent of the company's national workforce, by offering early retirement packages....

How to handle sales pressure and licensing 'negotiations' to make sure it plays to your advantage Feature You might be able to tell what time of year it is by the blossom on the trees or bluebells in the woods. But for Oracle customers stuck in an office somewhere, there is another way of knowing that it's May without consulting a calendar....

The machine was so dead, hospital staff treated it like a corpse On Call The Register knows that tech support people are heroes. That's why each Friday we offer a new installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column featuring your stories of dutifully and selflessly taking on the endless and thankless challenge that is tech support....

Office could be decimated with around 800 offers reportedly made Microsoft is said to have offered up to 800 China-based employees the chance to relocate to the US, Australia, New Zealand, or Ireland....

Yet another technological self-sufficiency target for China The Chinese government says the country's car manufacturers should aim for a quarter of their chips to be sourced from China-based foundries by 2025....

Expansion set for Wuhan. Chances this will go smoothly? Chinese tech giant Baidu expects its robotaxi unit, Apollo Go, to be profitable next year....

Spoiler alert: it's not really IT support controlling your device A cybercrime gang has been abusing Microsoft's Quick Assist application in social engineering attacks that ultimately allow the crew to infect victims with Black Basta ransomware....

AST still only has a single test satellite in orbit, so don't hold your breath Not to be outdone by Starlink and T-Mobile, AT&T and AST SpaceMobile have finalized a deal to eventually bring a space-based connectivity option to AT&T, too....

Bitcoin cowboys now have guaranteed freedoms Oklahoma's governor has signed a bill into law defining legal rights for one of the most marginalized groups in the US - cryptocurrency holders....

Bit barns might end up adding to the grid's capacity Even before the AI revolution (or bubble) took off in 2023, datacenters already used a decent amount of electricity. And the industry's increasing appetite for machine learning will require even more power....

'Disappointed' by court's decision, video platform owner is complying, considering appeal Google has complied with a May 8th order from a Hong Kong court to ban the pro-democracy protest song often mistaken for a national anthem, "Glory to Hong Kong," by blocking 32 videos on YouTube....

Judge gives green light to lawsuit over autonomous ambitions Tesla is facing a lawsuit over claims made about its self-driving technology after a US judge rejected the company's motion to dismiss the case....

Browser ditches x64 blues for a snappier tune Opera has become the latest Chromium browser for Windows on Arm, fueling industry talk about Microsoft's plans for the neglected operating system....

Now that traders are drinking the Kool-AI-d, companies can either fuel the hype or face the consequences Comment Dell's share price surged sharply on Wednesday as market analysts telegraphed their confidence in the OEM's ability to capitalize on the AI market....

Fake science challenges academic publishing US publishing house Wiley this week discontinued 19 scientific journals overseen by its Hindawi subsidiary, the center of a long-running scholarly publishing scandal....

Sustained workloads need not apply Updated Amazon Web Services added another set of cost-optimized instances to its EC2 lineup on Tuesday, aimed at customers whose workloads aren't pegging the CPU 100 percent of the time....

Has social media biz done enough to comply with Digital Services Act? Maybe not The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether Meta, the provider of Facebook and Instagram, may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to the protection of minors....

Bug or feature? Users looking for Windows repair tips via the Microsoft PC Manager app may be recommended to switch Edge's default search engine back to Bing....

Annual conference of cyber intel unit shows UK's alarm over China blaring louder than ever Regular attendees of CYBERUK, the annual conference hosted by British intelligence unit the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will know that in addition to the expected conference panels, there is usually an interwoven theme to proceedings....

Meanwhile, the creator of Open Source Definition argues the real problem is unauthorized copying The Open Source Initiative - the non-profit overseeing the Open Source Definition, which lays out the requirements for software licenses - is taking its effort to define Open Source AI to the wisdom of the crowds....

After a smashing fiscal '24, we're surprised he didn't get more Nvidia's chief Jenson Huang received a 60 percent pay bump in the corporation's fiscal 2024 on the back of a massive rally in the share price based on demand for AI, and triple digit growth percentages for revenue and operating profit....

Also demonstrates success accelerating molecular dynamics Even as world leaders raise alarm bells about the impact of AI in war, waferscale startup Cerebras is joining forces with Aleph Alpha to develop sovereign models for the German armed forces....

Company will require certain suppliers to run on 100% carbon-free electricity ... by 2030 Microsoft has increased carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 30 percent since 2020, making its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030 even more difficult, and it looks like AI is to blame....

'We would never crush creativity,' says South Korea megacorp If Apple thought it could forget about last week's marketing disaster - which saw the tech giant roundly slated for appearing to crush human creativity in the name of computing progress - it was wrong....

ESA/JAXA mission running on reduced thrust as engineers work to resolve the issue Thruster problems with BepiColombo, the joint ESA and JAXA mission to Mercury, could cause headaches for managers plotting the spacecraft's trajectory and insertion into Mercury's orbit....

Sort of a FOSS Norton Ghost, now updated to Ubuntu 24.04 base A fresh release of Rescuezilla, a free Ubuntu-based rescue disk for imaging the drives of a sickly computer, is available....

HMRC forgot to tell Brits about its digital support channels Appalling service levels at Britain's tax collector meant customers phoning in with inquiries were collectively left on hold for 798 years in fiscal 2023....

Testing wind turbine blades the size of three rusty angel wingspans Reg Standards Bureau The UK has announced new units of measurement as part of pronouncements on wind turbines by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)....

It may take ten years but vendors must be held accountable for the vulnerabilities they introduce CYBERUK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CTO Ollie Whitehouse kicked off day two of Britain's cyber watchdog's annual shindig, CYBERUK, with a tirade about the tech market, pulling it apart to demonstrate why he believes it's at fault for many of the security problems the industry is facing today....

So why not drop the policy? Productivity bias or productivity paranoia perhaps Evidence is mounting that tech companies' policies demanding staff return to the office are only serving to drive out the talent that became accustomed to remote work....

IT minister boasts of tech titan building network of local vendors Apple is expected to have a quarter of all iPhones made in India by 2028, according to the country's IT minister....

No more illicit gains, for a while at least The FBI, in combination with police around the world, have taken control of the website and Telegram channel of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums....

More government data allegedly stolen by prolific criminals An extortionist claims to have stolen files from the US Army Aviation and Missile Command in August 2023, and now claims they are selling access to a $75 billion aerospace and defense company....

Fundamentals are for losers: It's a good time to head the worst performing stock in the S&P Owners of Tesla stock will vote on June 13 to determine whether the company's CEO Elon Musk deserves a $46 billion payday....

'Reads like it was written by Sam Altman and Big Tech lobbyists,' say critics A quartet of US senators have released an AI legislation roadmap that calls for billions of dollars in research funding, but largely kicks the can down the road on determining federal AI legislation....

Musk venture allegedly decided imperfect design was usable Elon Musk's neurotech startup's revelation that the tiny wires on its chip implants came loose from its first human patient's brain might not have been a first....

Apple might be hanging on to nuked iPhone snaps for a while Some iPhone users are reportedly seeing photos they had previously deleted resurface on their devices ever since updating to the latest version of iOS....

Smaller bills mean more fine-grained control over vastly different AI products interview The AI legislation roadmap published this week by a bipartisan group of US senators hasn't pleased everyone, but the Federal Trade Commission's former chief technologist believes it takes the perfect approach....

The cars might be zero emission, but accusers claim the paint shops aren't Tesla is facing a lawsuit brought under the US Clean Air Act by the Environmental Democracy Project (EDP) claiming pollution from its Fremont facility....

Aviation firm has violated 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, claims DoJ, so criminal charges could come back Boeing avoided prosecution for a pair of 737 Max crashes thanks to a 2021 agreement with the Department of Justice, but the DoJ says the jetmaker has since violated the order and can be prosecuted....

One eye on Windows, the other winking at penguins Qualcomm may be leading the push for Windows on Arm systems, but the corporation also has an eye on Linux support with a roadmap for updates to enable the OS to boot on its Arm-based PC hardware....

It's not just EVs - semiconductors, batteries, and solar cells all hiked The Biden administration's Chinese tariff hikes were formally announced on Tuesday including, among other items, a doubling on semiconductors and solar cells and a more than tripling on batteries....

Distro formerly known as Zinc cuts the fat, rather than just replacing it The latest version of Teejeetech's take on Ubuntu offers what many users wish Canonical did - natively packaged Firefox and the choice of whether to use Snap, Flatpak, or neither....

Webcam art installation quickly descended into public Chatroulette Doomed internet cesspits Omegle and Chatroulette should have been warning enough of what happens when a webcam is placed between random strangers, yet the Portal art project linking New York City to Dublin didn't last a week before being shut down....

LLMs running on a dedicated card: The final frontier as hacker makes it so Consider your wish for an AI digital assistant that runs locally and offline officially granted. Not by a major industry player, naturally - your personal data is too enticing - but by a guy on GitHub who built one to run on a Raspberry Pi....

Another push for backup buyers uneasy about Broadcom buy Data protection outfit Veeam has confirmed it is to add support for the open source virtualization platform Proxmox, bringing more backing behind the VMware alternative....

Sutskever leaves behind mysterious message on next venture Co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, has announced he is leaving the company and posted a mysterious message about what might be next....

While Tokyo pours billions into revitalizing chipmaking sector, it might want to check out the grid Japan reckons it may need to generate 50 percent more electricity by 2050 because of growing local demand from chipmaking and datacenters running AI. The move follows a warning by DigitalBridge that it may run out of power within two years....

Saturday's power failures toppled border-check system offline A power outage affecting one of the IT systems used to process imports to the UK has caused delays to perishable goods crossing the border, which businesses have described as a "disaster."...

Multimodal models promise machines can do more - if you let them In the future, "Google will do the Googling for you" - or so suggests Liz Reid, VP of search....