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Specialty in cognitive non-routine tasks means high-skilled city workers affected Jobs in geographical areas and scope once thought to be at low risk of automation are soon to be the most affected by generative AI, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)....

Burst water pipe blots out the Sun - or at least the data about it collected from two probes Servers that store data collected by two NASA solar observation satellites are down - and the space agency doesn't know when they'll resume operations - after a four-inch chilled water pipe burst at the facility that houses them....

Yet another result of the MOVEit mess Hundreds of thousands of employees from major corporations including Xerox, Nokia, Koch, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and others appear to be the latest victims in a massive data breach linked to last year's attacks on file transfer tool MOVEit....

Tap into the infinite scalability... of pricing Re:Invent Amazon Web Services has a new incident response service that combines automation and people to protect customers' AWS accounts - at a hefty price....

140 Middle Kingdom firms added to US trade blacklist The Biden administration has announced restrictions limiting the export of memory critical to the production of AI accelerators and banning sales to more than a hundred entities....

Cupertino's walled garden 'is a prison yard' claims plaintiff Suing your employer while remaining employed is a risky play, but one Apple ad tech manager is trying it - claiming that the iGiant is forcing staff to expose their personal data and threatening them with pay clawbacks over non-compliance....

At least he'll have company as he joins 15K colleagues headed for the door Comment Pat Gelsinger is out as Intel CEO, cutting short his nearly four-year crusade to revitalize the beleaguered chipmaker....

But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth' Supermicro said an independent special committee formed earlier this year at the request of the server maker's board found no evidence of corporate misconduct or fraud....

Impersonators, harmful content and AI scraping are up, too It's undoubtedly a good time to be upstart social media network Bluesky given its rapid growth in the wake of the US presidential election, but questions of moderation and compliance matters are growing along with the influx of humans seeking bluer pastures....

Chief financial officer admits 'we're open to exploring other revenue streams in the future' OpenAI has ruled out running adverts on its platforms, for now at least, Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar has told The Register....

It's true - the Mac LC III really did have it installed the wrong way round Did Apple really fit a capacitor backward on the Mac LC III? A multimeter-wielding retro fan has confirmed that, yes - somebody made a mistake decades ago, and a capacitor ended up installed the wrong way....

Politics, electric cars, rockets, and social media not enough to keep some individuals busy Elon Musk has filed for an injunction against OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, broadly designed to prevent the GenAI poster child from shifting towards an entirely for-profit business....

80486 processor lead architect leaves x86 giant after largest quarterly loss in its history Intel has confirmed the sudden departure of chief executive Pat Gelsinger, in a move intended to restore investor confidence in the ailing Silicon Valley giant following a year of turmoil....

Only 10 months left until Windows 10 end of support and people still seem to prefer it Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter....

The latest in an unusual change of fortune for group once protected by the Kremlin An alleged former affiliate of the LockBit and Babuk ransomware operations, who also just happens to be one of the most wanted cybercriminals in the US, is now reportedly in handcuffs....

Users could save 50% with open source alternatives, says expert Avoiding steep price hikes in Oracle Java licensing has become an issue for CIOs, according to a software asset management expert....

What's that coming over the hill, is it an AI? Competition Do you need a bit of Bliss in your life? Come up with a suggestion for where Microsoft might stick Copilot next, and an XP-themed Windows Ugly Sweater could be yours....

The politics of cybersecurity are too important to be left to the politicians Opinion Here's a front-page headline you won't see these days: CHINA'S SPIES ARE TAPPING OUR PHONES. Not that they're not - they are - but, like the environment, there's so much cybersecurity horror in the media that, yes, of course they are. And?...

A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient Broadcom has lost another significant customer after UK-based cloud operator Beeks Group decided to adopt the open source OpenNebula stack....

Burglary skills are surprisingly important when building networks Who, Me? Welcome once more, valued readers, to another Monday and another instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers like your good selves share tales of tech misadventure....

'When policy is being shaped, definitions matter' Rhetoric around "open" AI concentrates power in the AI sector rather than making it more open to competition and scrutiny, according to a research paper published in Nature....

ITU thinks time is now for more talk about how to keep data moving beneath the waves On the same day that a submarine cable suspected of having been cut by a Chinese ship was repaired, two major telco bodies convened a submarine telecommunication cable resilience advisory board....

'Forever unbrickable' Wi-Fi 6 box from Banana Pi comes packaged or in kit form Open source Wi-Fi router project OpenWrt and the Software Freedom Conservancy have delivered their first jointly developed hardware platform - the OpenWrt One - and are trumpeting it as a triumph of the right to repair movement....

Won't scare SpaceX as it's not reusable, but will help Beijing do things like launch broadband sats China launched a new class of rocket on Saturday, and for the first time used a commercial spaceport for the mission....

Plus: 95 percent of Chinese broadband tops 100 megabits; Yahoo Japan photo album privacy breach; and more Asia in Brief Police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have reportedly charged a Google employee after the deaths of three men who followed a route set by Google Maps that led their car off an unfinished bridge....

Also, script kiddies still a threat, Tornado Cash is back, UK firms lose billions to avoidable attacks, and more Infosec in brief Interpol and its financial supporters in the South Korean government are back with another round of anti-cybercrime arrests via the fifth iteration of Operation HAECHI, this time nabbing more than 5,500 people suspected of scamming and seizing hundreds of millions in digital and fiat currencies....

Despite hype, most UK workers see more discussions than implementations Just under a third of UK employees reckon any impact from AI in the workplace is "minor," according to a survey from services biz WSP....

Pro-crypto lawmakers are in, but will that translate to action? Doubt it Analysis The 2024 presidential election tipped the United States into a new era of uncertainty, but one thing's for sure: The crypto industry was triumphant....

Pilot James 'Clue' Less is ready to take to the skies Feature Sitting in the hangar of Lockheed Martin's famous Palmdale, California Skunk Works facility is one of the oddest aircraft ever to take shape: the X-59 that's looking to revive supersonic travel over land....

Crooks say they have stolen sensitive files on managers and players Italian professional football club Bologna FC is allegedly a recent victim of the RansomHub cybercrime gang, according to the group's dark web postings....

Yet another batch of Starlink satellites mark the milestone SpaceX has unlocked an impressive achievement - 400 launches of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket....

Leading Linux desktops boldly address the "not enough distros" non-problem KDE and GNOME have decided that because they're not big and complicated enough already, they might work better if they have their own custom distributions underneath. What's the worst that could happen?...

US agencies blasted 'unforgivable' SQLi flaws earlier this year Open-source enterprise network and application monitoring provider Zabbix is warning customers of a new critical vulnerability that could lead to full system compromise....

'BTW I use Arch' runway greased, plus clarification around package licensing Version 3 of the Arch Linux installer is out, with usability improvements and clarifications to its licensing....

Public cloud expenses have businesses scrambling for alternatives that won't melt the budget Canalys Forums EMEA 2024 Organizations are being forced to rethink where they host workloads in response to ballooning AI demands combined with rising energy bills, and shoving them into the public cloud may not be the answer....

Ambition meets reality as geopolitical, technical, and logistical challenges loom analysis Over the last couple of weeks, TSMC's ambitious roadmap for its 2nm manufacturing process has sparked significant attention. The chipmaker is set to begin the mass production of its 2nm process node in 2025....

Second alleged intrusion on English NHS org systems this week Yet another of the UK's National Health Service (NHS) systems appears to be under attack, with a ransomware gang threatening to leak stolen data it says is from one of England's top children's hospitals....

Ofcom's Online Nation report drills into the UK's internet habits for 2024 Usage of Elon Musk's X social media platform is declining in the UK, and adult Brits aren't particularly interested in generative AI tools....

IT admins be warned: 13,000 tech suppliers coming for your employer's checkbook Canalys Forums EMEA 2024 When Microsoft needs to make a market, it turns to the channel - a nebulous term used for resellers, distributors and an assortment of other independent third party suppliers that sell wares and services. And by goodness Microsoft needs more feet on the street than ever if it's going to appease investors desperate to see returns on the billions of dollars it's betting on Generative Artificial Intelligence....

Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too Researchers at China's University of Science and Technology published research this week in which they detail how they achieved record-breaking storage density of 1.85 terabytes per cubic centimeter by encoding information in diamonds....

Every time he needed help, he'd use a loudspeaker to ask for it On Call Welcome once more to On Call, the weekly reader-contributed column in which The Register tells your tales of tech support....

Digital clone of Knosuke Matsushita to dispense management advice to new generation Japanese multinational electronics mainstay Panasonic - founded in 1918 as Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works -has created an AI version of its long deceased founder, Knosuke Matsushita....

That will limit Chipzilla's ability to cash in and bail itself out Intel has quietly revealed that the $7.86 billion of cash coming its way thanks to the US CHIPS Act came with conditions that include Chipzilla retaining control of its foundries - an asset the struggling silicon giant may have intended to offload....

India unhappy about treatment of some games, Canada upset by adware monopoly Google on Thursday found itself facing competition probes from two of the world's biggest nations....

Also intros surveillance tweaks to protect very successful AN0M fake messaging app sting Australia's Senate on Friday passed a law that will require some social media platforms to "take reasonable steps" to ensure that people under 16 can't use their services, and another that aims to safeguard a very successful sting that caught criminals with a fake messaging app....

If at first you don't succeed, you might be on the Microsoft Exchange team Microsoft has resumed the rollout of an Exchange Security update that was paused following reports of broken transport rules and disrupted email flow....

Ten rules for maximizing your grindset! #1: Let a bot do your work for you If you've spent much time on LinkedIn, you've probably run into self-congratulatory posts, tips on how to maximize your "grindset," and other business lessons from alleged thought leaders. It's tiring, but a study of such posts has pulled the curtain off the wizard: More than half of such posts are written by AI....

El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive Exclusive Google Cloud dangled hundreds of million of euros worth of financial incentives to ally itself with an association of European cloud providers that had lodged a complaint against Microsoft, according to confidential documents seen by The Register....

Ayar Labs contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat SC24 Datacenters have been trending toward denser, more power-hungry systems for years. In case you missed it, 19-inch racks are now pushing power demands beyond 120 kilowatts in high-density configurations, with many making the switch to direct liquid cooling to tame the heat....

Systems are isolated and pulled offline, while scheduled procedures are canceled The ongoing cyber security incident affecting a North West England NHS group has forced sites to fall back on pen-and-paper operations....