Register UK - Business
19 hours ago
Columnists -- Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for -- Your instinctive revulsion is spot on. Follow your nose19 hours ago
Offbeat -- Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs -- Cornell Uni researchers pivot to pluck low-hanging fruit to optimize bandwidth19 hours ago
AI + ML -- Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI -- Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent rely on LLMs for help19 hours ago
AI + ML -- AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs -- Marketing stunt backfires with creators19 hours ago
AI + ML -- Really Simple Licensing spec lets web publishers demand their due from AI scrapers -- Publishers now have more comprehensive tools for managing automated content harvesting19 hours ago
AI + ML -- How BigQuery combines data and AI for business transformation -- AI ingests and prepares data to generate valuable insight, but only with the right data warehousing system.19 hours ago
On-Prem -- The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can't: Change the world -- Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off19 hours ago
AI + ML -- Starbucks brews up AI to support baristas instead of replace them -- Customers weren't sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds -- Caffeine addicts evidently not thrilled to see cafes become walk-in vending machines19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices -- Revealing import taxes would be 'hostile and political' to Dear Leader19 hours ago
CxO -- Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze -- Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank19 hours ago
Channel -- Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024 -- And the government thinks that AI and taking shackles off big tech will help? God help Britain19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall -- Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds19 hours ago
Systems -- Oh, good. Supermicro board probe clears server slinger of misconduct claims -- But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth'19 hours ago
Public Sector -- Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry -- Anything could happen in the next half ... decade19 hours ago
Offbeat -- Top 10 billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge -- 9 out of 10 are techies, but Zuckerberg lost money19 hours ago
Public Sector -- French govt finance panel mulls nationalizing Atos -- Protecting IT projects for military and other bits of the public sector19 hours ago
Software -- 'Open banking' rules will put your financial data back where it belongs -- Well, at least eventually since some companies have until 2030 to comply19 hours ago
Security -- Worker surveillance must comply with credit reporting rules -- US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau demands transparency, accountability from sellers of employee metrics19 hours ago
Software -- Manifest file destiny: Declare your funding needs via JSON -- India-based stockbroker Zerodha pledges $1M a year for open source projects19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances -- Unidentified tech issues now resolved19 hours ago
Applications -- Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead -- Insert coin to continue19 hours ago
AI + ML -- Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse -- Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can't cope with new demands19 hours ago
Legal -- Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS -- That was quick: Supremes' gutting of Chevron deference is already paying dividends19 hours ago
Public Sector -- Brace for new complications in big tech takedowns after Supreme Court upended regulatory rules -- Matters like antitrust cases against AI players, Adobe's subscription mess, and net neutrality could be decided by judges – not experts19 hours ago
Software -- Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls -- Because if there's one thing it really needed more of...19 hours ago
Applications -- Feds sue Adobe and execs for stinging subscribers with 'hidden' cancellation fees -- Graphic design giant slammed for using graphic design to bury T&Cs19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real? -- Advertiser takes super-forum to court after demand for evidence rebuffed19 hours ago
AI + ML -- Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs -- Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape19 hours ago
Legal -- Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams -- Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing19 hours ago
PaaS + IaaS -- Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble -- Paytm's bank has been locked out, edtech darling Byju's faces bankruptcy19 hours ago
Bootnotes -- AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan -- Cheerio to cheeky Chardonnay chancers19 hours ago
On-Prem -- Top-tier IT talent doesn't stick around in 'mid-market' organizations -- Though that might be the least of their worries, according to this report19 hours ago
AI + ML -- Sports Illustrated boss fired – but it's totally nothing to do with AI fake news -- Publisher seeks 'the Uberization of Content'19 hours ago
On-Prem -- 'Return to Office' declared dead -- Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says19 hours ago
SaaS -- Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs -- We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views19 hours ago
On-Prem -- HP sued over use of forfeited 401(k) retirement contributions -- If IT giant loses this lawsuit, it might just upset every plan in America19 hours ago
AI + ML -- UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges -- Post-acute care algorithm allegedly comes up short 90% of the time19 hours ago
On-Prem -- WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy -- Coworking gambit divided office space – and got conquered19 hours ago
AI + ML -- 'AI divide' across the US leaves economists concerned -- AI use up 266% in five years but it's still used by less than a quarter of workers19 hours ago
Software -- Unity CEO 'retires' in the wake of fee fiasco -- Ex-Red Hat CEO James M Whitehurst takes the big chair in the interim19 hours ago
Software -- Unity apologizes, tweaks runtime install fees after gaming world outrage -- Is this the engine maker's final continue?19 hours ago
On-Prem -- Bit barn biz Cyxtera files for Chapter 11, hopes to bounce back after reboot -- Overseas subsidiaries unaffected, sale still on the table19 hours ago
Bootnotes -- CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses -- Put the $26 million in the bag19 hours ago
AI + ML -- Predict stocks, foresee public opinion, all kinda possible with ChatGPT-like models -- Boffins foretell LLMs infiltrating finance and politics with confidently held views19 hours ago
Databases -- MariaDB cuts jobs, repeats 'going concern' warning to stock market -- New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company19 hours ago
Bootnotes -- Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think -- The party could be over soon19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Publishers land killer punch on Internet Archive in book copyright court battle -- Dot-org vows to appeal after judge decides digitizing printed titles and lending them out isn't fair use19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers -- Digital lending is only fine when we do it19 hours ago
Bootnotes -- Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West -- This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket case19 hours ago
Devops -- Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week -- The irony, it burns19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Uber, Lyft stock decimated as US aims to classify gig workers as staff -- About to get a lot trickier to justify contractor status for app-hired folks19 hours ago
On-Prem -- Inflation, recession, pah! IT budgets set to rise in 2023 -- Turns out all it took was a business-disrupting global pandemic19 hours ago
Offbeat -- Soaring costs, inflation nurturing generation of 'quiet quitters' among under-30s -- My friends say I should act my wage. What's my wage again?19 hours ago
Bootnotes -- Billionaire CEO tells Googlers 'we shouldn't always equate fun with money' -- A day in the G is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet. Every code checkout a parade. I love the G19 hours ago
Former Digital Realty datacenter reborn as urban farmstead -- No, the devil's lettuce isn't on the menu19 hours ago
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs memorialized with online archive of emails, guff -- Top tip: Skip the memos with cancer advice19 hours ago
DeFi venture OptiFi permanently locks up $661,000 of assets in code snafu -- Look who misunderstood the consequences a Solana close command19 hours ago
Micro Focus bought by Canada's OpenText for $6b -- Resting place of Novell – and one-time home to SUSE – finds new life in the Great White North19 hours ago
AI + ML -- UK hospitals lose millions after AI startup valuation collapses -- Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM19 hours ago
Legal -- Ninefold increase in startup layoffs in Q2 follows economic uncertainty -- Industry set to readjust to new realities of raising cash19 hours ago
Offbeat -- Obscure Asian fintech AMTD Digital becomes the new GameStop -- Social media suspected as shares surge 20,000 percent and company admits there's no good explanation19 hours ago
Software -- VC wells drying up: Y Combinator's latest class shrinks 40% -- Time to take another gander at that pitch deck19 hours ago
Intel experiences another kind of meltdown -- 'We must and will do better' CEO pledges amid big losses, Optane axed, expectations slashed19 hours ago
Martin Shkreli, out of prison for running a Ponzi scheme, now pushes Web3 thing -- His latest project, Druglike, most definitely isn't in the pharmaceutical business, from which he's been banned19 hours ago
IQE files against Tower Semiconductor claiming theft of trade secrets -- Wafer company says it has 'significant reason' to believe Israeli chipmaker misappropriated IP19 hours ago
UK government extends review of BT stake owned by French tycoon Patrick Drahi -- Altice bigwig now telco's largest shareholder but denies it's a takeover attempt19 hours ago
Software -- Vendors are hiking prices up to 30 percent and claiming 'it's inflation' -- No it's not, says Gartner – it's a hardcore sales tactic you can easily counter19 hours ago
SaaS -- End of the road for biz living off free G Suite legacy edition -- Firms accustomed to freebies miffed that web giant's largess doesn't last19 hours ago
Edge + IoT -- IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb -- CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile19 hours ago
Systems -- HSBC taps IBM to explore quantum for financial applications -- Interesting blue sky research aims to put the quant in quantum, although progress in sector isn't rapid19 hours ago
Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London -- Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage19 hours ago
When criminals go corporate: Ransomware-as-a-service, bulk discounts and more -- Pen-testers, rogue developers, dodgy hosters, etc. etc.19 hours ago
'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim -- Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud19 hours ago
Microsoft, flush with cash, raises cloud office suite prices for businesses -- Microsoft 365, Office 365 to cost a little bit more from next March19 hours ago
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither) -- Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource19 hours ago
Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff -- Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp19 hours ago
JavaScript developers left in the dark after DroidScript software shut down by Google over ad fraud allegations -- Creator suspects his ID was copied, web giant keeps quiet19 hours ago
Founders of medical science upstart uBiome once likened to Theranos now indicted for, you guessed it, fraud -- Failed firm was full of it, Feds say19 hours ago
Security -- Bad: US govt says Chinese duo hacked, stole blueprints from just about everyone. Also bad: They extorted cash -- Including COVID-19 research, it is claimed. And they'll almost certainly never face an American court19 hours ago
Science -- WeWork sues SoftBank over 'AWOL' $3bn shares purchase – which included millions lined up for ousted CEO Neumann -- Japanese giant defends decision, says trendy office rental biz didn't meet its terms19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Talk about ill-gotten gains: Coronavirus KOs Xerox's $30bn months-long hostile takeover bid of HP Inc -- Turmoil in the financial markets fells ambitious acquisition plan19 hours ago
Edge + IoT -- Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons -- Planned obsolescence strikes again19 hours ago
Security -- Yeah, you better, you... you better tell us how you're misusing people's data, privacy, watchdog suggests to US telcos -- Cellular networks asked nicely to 'fess up or something might, maybe, happen some day19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Another way to look at Amazon's counterfeit-busting Project Zero: Making merchants cough up protection money -- It's up to you to stop fake stuff going on sale in our cyber-bazaar, says multibillion-dollar biz19 hours ago
Networks -- Sick of bandwidth gouging? Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, IBM have some good news -- Bandwidth Alliance decides to throw us a bone19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Facebook tells users to report crappy customer service from advertisers -- Threatens to ban ads from businesses with low marks19 hours ago
Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich -- Procedural snafu delays vote until Wednesday – but here's basically what's in it19 hours ago
Tech VCs sue Uncle Sam over President Trump's immigration chill -- We can't throw money at nerds if they can't get here, wail Silicon Valley's sugar daddies19 hours ago
Bespoke vending machine biz Bodega AI trips cultural landmine -- Plan to dehumanize shopping taken as threat to beloved mom-and-pop stores19 hours ago
Give staff privacy at work, Euro human rights court tells bosses -- Management must consider employees' rights in workplace policy19 hours ago
Brexit, schmexit: Christmas sales up 4 per cent at Dixons Carphone19 hours ago
Jeremy Hunt pockets £14m through sale of course search website19 hours ago
Building a DevOps business case19 hours ago
Korean cargo line bailout saves Christmas for tech companies19 hours ago
Insure against a cyberwhat now? How the heck do we crunch those numbers?19 hours ago
Wait... who broke that? Things you need to do to make your world diagnosable19 hours ago
New data porting rules mustn't overburden businesses with costs, says UK minister19 hours ago
E.ON fined £7m for smart meter fail19 hours ago
Virgin Media boss urges UK watchdogs not to pick wrong BT battle19 hours ago
Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under19 hours ago
Slashdot, SourceForge looking for new owners after parent dumps them on the web's doorstep19 hours ago
Daddy Dyson keeps it in the family and hoovers up son's energy biz19 hours ago
Channel -- IBM sued for talking up semiconductor business it couldn't give away19 hours ago
Networks -- Mighty Blighty broadbanders beg: Let us lay cable in BT's, er, ducts19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- Can you really run your business on a smartphone?19 hours ago
Channel -- 'Careful management of headcount' for Juniper after tepid quarter19 hours ago
Symantec's already virtually split, says letter to suppliers19 hours ago
Intel prods PC market's corpse, corpse shouts 'I'M NOT DEAD!'19 hours ago
Chin up, tech world. Gartner says it'll be OK19 hours ago
Telecom New Zealand exits Australia with AAPT sale19 hours ago
Personal Tech -- PEAK iPAD: Slab looking a bit peaky, needs big biz to take more tablets19 hours ago
Security -- Child porn hidden in legit hacked websites: 100s redirected to sick images19 hours ago
On-Prem -- 'The Apprentice' is a load of old codswallop, says biz prof19 hours ago
Networks -- Biz email slinger Mimecast tumbles over19 hours ago
Carl Icahn may be planning to block Dell buyout19 hours ago
The business mullet: Cool or tool?19 hours ago
When your squash partner 'endorses' your coding skills on LinkedIn...19 hours ago
Vodafone phone and mobe biz service goes titsup19 hours ago
Experts: Firms need to come clean about cyber attacks19 hours ago
HP pops out all-in-one biz boxes19 hours ago
AMD's new CEO bobs, weaves, says 'big' and 'fast' are good19 hours ago
UK.gov opens Red Tape Challenge regulation-slash website19 hours ago
Site News -- Video in the workplace19 hours ago
Applications -- Five essential BlackBerry apps for business19 hours ago
Channel -- Small biz calls for end date on enhanced 17.5% VAT19 hours ago
Channel -- UK.gov relaxes patent application process19 hours ago
Mobile phones: Where does the money go?19 hours ago
Does business really care about security?19 hours ago
Making sense of the new business of IT19 hours ago
Recession forces software escrow releases to jump by 150%19 hours ago
Live Now : Reg Business Productivity Webcast19 hours ago
Alternative perspectives on business productivity19 hours ago
If I wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here!19 hours ago
Former AMD kingpin gives Intel hell19 hours ago
Intel execs shift seats as Gelsinger departs19 hours ago
The Reg takes on storage platforms19 hours ago
Prof: Fat ladies don't get to be CEOs, lardy blokes do19 hours ago
Arms biz glovepuppets Parliamentary kit probe19 hours ago
Send old Shuttles to Mars, says Scotty ashes prang man19 hours ago
Brits decline to 'think outside the box'19 hours ago
Are you making the most of your IT?19 hours ago
Italy, Poland threaten veto on EU green package19 hours ago
Supersonic bizjets could have windowless flight decks19 hours ago
Green biz now 'bigger than software and biotech'19 hours ago
Mobile tech: Crystal ball gazing19 hours ago
