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Heavily hyped tech bound for some sort of milestone by decade end Research conducted by Fujitsu suggests there is no need to panic about quantum computers being able to decode encrypted data – this is unlikely to happen in the near future, it claims.…

Brian Birmingham claims he walked after refusing to give team member a 'low' rating Former Blizzard World of Warcraft co-lead dev Brian Birmingham took to Twitter this morning to confirm that when given a choice between stack ranking his employees – obeying a mandate to give a poor "developing" rank to an employee – or leaving the company, he decided to walk.…

Out of the valley of death and into operational use, ideally Interview An agreement between US Cyber Command and DAPRA aims to move innovative technologies out of the "valley of death" and into the hands of warfighters.…

Bundeskartellamt already had a bite at FAANG firms, now former Musk co is starting to look appetizing German antitrust enforcers known for leveling charges against high-profile tech companies have a new target for accusations of dominant market position abuse: PayPal.…

We unpack a few and look at which nations have it together with IDC research boss Interview It's Government Tech Week on The Register and to get a handle on the challenges facing the public sector we sat down with Massimiliano "Max" Claps, research director of the European IDC Government Insights team.…

One appears to not have been remunerated, Crown Estate tells High Court More landlords are piling on Elon Musk's Twitter alleging unpaid rent – including, funnily enough, the British monarchy.…

Staff in Q&A session yesterday to discuss 12,000 job cuts Google's top brass told employees at a town hall meeting that executive bonuses will be cut this year as upper management addressed wide-ranging questions from staff following confirmation of extensive job cuts.…

Web developer is the most likely role to be offered the arrangement A web developer is the tech role most likely to be offered to work from home and also gets 39 percent more pay for the arrangement than other jobs, according to research.…

6,000 netizens can't be wrong One-third of IT and security professionals globally say they are either indifferent or unconcerned about the impact of cyberwarfare on their organizations as a whole, according to a survey of more than 6,000 across 14 countries.…

Attempts to fix glitch ditched – but never give up, never surrender NASA's Lucy spacecraft will have to soldier on to reach eight asteroids within Jupiter's orbit – a journey expected to last 12 years – with a glitch in one of its solar arrays for now.…

Atos-led group to protect European infrastructure from impact of future pandemics – using Horizon cash Atos is leading the Sunrise project that aims to develop measures to protect vital European infrastructure against the impact of incidents with catastrophic consequences, including future pandemics, climate change or resource scarcity.…

Attack was three times the size of anything company had seen – they couldn't shake it off Live Nation Entertainment's CFO is expected to testify that the breakdown of its Ticketmaster website at the release of Taylor Swift concert tickets last November was caused by a deluge of bots.…

Unclear where IonQ’s funding for its $1 billion investment plans will come from IonQ plans to open a quantum computer manufacturing plant - the first on US soil it claims - as part of broader plans to invest $1 billion into an expansion in the Pacific Northwest region over the next decade.…

'Now Russia will have to play defense' Ukraine has taken another step toward deepening its ties to NATO by signing an agreement to formalize its participation in the security alliance's Joint Center for Advanced Technologies in Cyber Defense (CCDCOE). …

Is a critical account of PM's past actions a real emergency, a political emergency, or a free speech emergency? India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting appears to have filed takedown requests to prevent access to a BBC documentary series titled India: The Modi Question that investigates prime minister Narendra Modi's policies and actions toward India's Muslim minority.…

My god, it's full of TVs If you thought 8K was high res, then this supercomputer lab's newly revamped Stallion tiled display system invites you to think bigger — much bigger.…

Take that, China India is responsible for five to seven percent of Apple's manufacturing, and the iPhone maker aims to grow that number to 25 percent, according to India's minister of commerce and industry, Piyush Goyal.…

Modest, low-volume chips will pay off over time, apparently Chinese supply chain analyst outfit Jiwei has suggested local smartphone makers are having limited success with their attempts to create homegrown silicon.…

Microsoft pulls the plug as of January 31, alternatives are easy to find Microsoft has named the day on which it will end paid downloads of Windows 10 Home and Pro from its website: January 31, 2023.…

This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display OpenAI's chat software ChatGPT, if let loose on the world, would score between a B and a B- on Wharton business school's Operations Management exam, and would approach or exceed the score needed to pass the US Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE).…

Federal depts ignore almost 60% of IT defense recommendations Since coming into office two years ago, the Biden Administration has made the cyber defenses of US government agencies – as well as the private sector – a key focus.…

Just so, so much enthusiasm for Second Life 2.0 right now Microsoft in March will shut down its AltspaceVR outfit as it shifts its virtual reality efforts from catering to ordinary folks to businesses.…

Dr Dev Palmer talks us through a JUMP in materials, algorithms, tools Interview Uncle Sam's research nerve center DARPA is known for championing all kinds of breakthrough technologies. Might semiconductors be part of that? You might be right.…

Someone's got no chill A $700 million research and development facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, is the latest project on Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's chopping block.…

Embrace, extend ... extinguish, but whom or what this time? Microsoft announced its latest "multi-year, multi-billion dollar" investment into OpenAI on Monday, cementing its position as the startup's exclusive cloud provider.…

CEO Ek admits he never stopped to consider whether pandemic boom was temporary Stop us if you've heard this one before: the CEO at a well-known technology company writes a letter to staff, laying off hundreds. Said CEO accepts responsibility for assuming a pandemic boom year would mean higher sustained growth rates, but it didn't, so sacrifices must be made.…

Teachers hopefully get their hands on the tool within months Feature Turnitin, best known for its anti-plagiarism software used by tens of thousands of universities and schools around the world, is building a tool to detect text generated by AI.…

$20b investment in Ohio semiconductor fabs is all go, though Intel looks set to shed over 500 jobs in California following last year's warnings that layoffs were in the pipeline.…

These are the litigation specialists hired to get Musk to acquire the platform Global consultancy Charles River Associates (CRA) has joined the queue of companies claiming Twitter walked away without paying its tab.…

Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy The boss of European database-as-a-service upstart Aiven is the latest tech exec to apologize to his workforce for making one in five redundant after recruiting too ambitiously in the past 12 months.…

You know where they eat, where they sleep, where they live... then figure out how to whack them One of the applications science fiction has found for AI is pest control – sometimes cute, sometimes extremely violent – and the direction of travel suggests we are moving into the realms of science fact.…

It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it Activist investor Elliott Management has taken a multi-billion dollar stake in Salesforce, which has disappointed markets with its recent growth, in a move that could signal further cost-cutting or divisional selloffs at the CRM giant.…

Adapt or die Microsoft's move last year to block macros by default in Office applications is forcing miscreants to find other tools with which to launch cyberattacks, including the software vendor's LNK files – the shortcuts Windows uses to point to other files.…

Yeah, we know: cost alone won't lead to success. But it may be hiring, unlike certain other tech giants The server virtualization market has a new/old player that wants to make waves with keen pricing and a plan to improve its tech: XenServer.…

New system 'commercially sensitive' but set to go live in October Leeds City Council is keeping the replacement of its Oracle finance system secret after deciding to abandon plans for a £44 million ($54 million) ERP system to support finance, HR and payroll.…

R&D tax relief campaign snares companies claiming in good faith Exclusive Software firms and other companies developing innovative code have been accused of fraud and had tax relief payments stopped as a result of a broad-based campaign executed by the UK tax collector.…

To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast Opinion Simple sums can pack a punch. When the CTO of 37Signals got his $3 million cloud bill for 2022, and after the red mist had cleared, he sharpened his pencil to see if that was kosher.…

This is what happens when database field names are changed without proper documentation Who, Me? Ah, gentle readerfolk, welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Reg readers much like yourselves regale us weekly with tales of technical disasters of their own making narrowly averted – and sometimes not averted at all.…

You will soon know more about what your PC lockscreen is showing you Microsoft is working on new looks for the Windows Spotlight feature and redesigns for the graphics settings page as part of its latest Windows 11 Preview build.…

Vast and unpleasant – for Google – changes to the Android ecosystem remain a possibility Google has lost a court bid to avoid payment of fines levied on it by India's Competition Commission, and massive changes to the way it does business in India.…

Virginia welcomes $35 billion investment plan with $140 million grant to help things along Amazon Web Services will invest $35 billion in Virginia by the year 2040, expanding its presence in the state that houses its infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region.…

Also: US terrorist no-fly list found left on unsecured server, Russian dark web drug markets go to war In brief Nearly 3,000 immigrants seeking asylum in the United States have been released from custody after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials inadvertently published their personal information online.…

PLUS: Taiwan’s new supercomputer; China-linked cybercrims strike; Australian content clampdown; and more Asia In Brief India's IT minister has signaled he is willing to revisit a proposal to use government fact checkers to decide what is fake news that should be removed from social media.…

Plus: Academics debate citing ChatGPT as research co-author; Getty Images sues Stability AI In brief Consumer tech publisher CNET will pause publishing stories written with the help of AI software, after it was criticized for failing to catch errors in copy generated by machines.…

4,000km extension cords are hard to build Analysis A plan backed by Atlassian co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes – aimed at providing 15 percent of Singapore's electricity needs using solar energy generated in Australia – has collapsed.…

Hacking the world with ML is Uncle Sam's job, buddy China's AI development program poses a serious threat to America and other countries' national security, or so says FBI Director Christopher Wray.…

How did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement? Feature In 1793, French scientist Joseph Dombey sailed for the newly formed United States at the request of Thomas Jefferson carrying two objects that could have changed America. He never made it, and now the US is stuck with a retro version of measurement that is unique in the modern world.…

Please, sir. I don't want a 365 subscription Microsoft wants to know how many out-of-support copies of Office are installed on Windows PCs, and it intends to find out by pushing a patch through Microsoft Update that it swears is safe, not that you asked.…

26 megabytes of history are yours for the downloading Retro Tech Week Apple has given its blessing to the release of source code for its first mouse-powered marvel – the Lisa – to mark its 40th birthday.…

Light-powered droids are coming, one fraction of a millimetre at a time What do you get when you stretch mouse muscle tissue over a polymer skeleton and attach electronics capable of converting radio-frequency energy into light?…