AI + ML -- Tokenmaxxing isn't an AI strategy -- Before checking AI's price tag, see whether it fits

4 days ago

Columnists -- Calling out corporate BS? There's a steaming pile to aim for -- Your instinctive revulsion is spot on. Follow your nose

4 days 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 bandwidth

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Supposedly big-brained execs are outsourcing decisionmaking to AI -- Survey of UK bosses find 62 percent rely on LLMs for help

4 days ago

AI + ML -- AI video company arouses fury by boasting about replacing creative jobs -- Marketing stunt backfires with creators

4 days 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 harvesting

4 days 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.

4 days 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 off

4 days 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 continues

4 days 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 machines

4 days 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 Leader

4 days ago

CxO -- Trump's tariff turmoil leaves IT projects in deep freeze -- Investment delays are inevitable as uncertainty clouds US trade policy, warns investment bank

4 days 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 Britain

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall -- Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds

4 days 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'

4 days ago

Public Sector -- Here's how a Trump presidency could change the tech industry -- Anything could happen in the next half ... decade

4 days ago

Offbeat -- Top 10 billionaires make nearly $64B in post-Trump election stock surge -- 9 out of 10 are techies, but Zuckerberg lost money

4 days ago

Public Sector -- French govt finance panel mulls nationalizing Atos -- Protecting IT projects for military and other bits of the public sector

4 days 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 comply

4 days ago

Security -- Worker surveillance must comply with credit reporting rules -- US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau demands transparency, accountability from sellers of employee metrics

4 days ago

Software -- Manifest file destiny: Declare your funding needs via JSON -- India-based stockbroker Zerodha pledges $1M a year for open source projects

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances -- Unidentified tech issues now resolved

4 days ago

Applications -- Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead -- Insert coin to continue

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse -- Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can't cope with new demands

4 days ago

Legal -- Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS -- That was quick: Supremes' gutting of Chevron deference is already paying dividends

4 days 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 experts

4 days ago

Software -- Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls -- Because if there's one thing it really needed more of...

4 days 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&Cs

4 days 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 rebuffed

4 days 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 tape

4 days ago

Legal -- Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams -- Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing

4 days 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 bankruptcy

4 days ago

Bootnotes -- AI-driven booze bouncers can ID you with face scan -- Cheerio to cheeky Chardonnay chancers

4 days 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 report

4 days ago

AI + ML -- Sports Illustrated boss fired – but it's totally nothing to do with AI fake news -- Publisher seeks 'the Uberization of Content'

4 days ago

On-Prem -- 'Return to Office' declared dead -- Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says

4 days ago

SaaS -- Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs -- We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views

4 days 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 America

4 days ago

AI + ML -- UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges -- Post-acute care algorithm allegedly comes up short 90% of the time

4 days ago

On-Prem -- WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy -- Coworking gambit divided office space – and got conquered

4 days 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 workers

4 days ago

Software -- Unity CEO 'retires' in the wake of fee fiasco -- Ex-Red Hat CEO James M Whitehurst takes the big chair in the interim

4 days ago

Software -- Unity apologizes, tweaks runtime install fees after gaming world outrage -- Is this the engine maker's final continue?

4 days ago

On-Prem -- Bit barn biz Cyxtera files for Chapter 11, hopes to bounce back after reboot -- Overseas subsidiaries unaffected, sale still on the table

4 days ago

Bootnotes -- CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses -- Put the $26 million in the bag

4 days 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 views

4 days 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 company

4 days ago

Bootnotes -- Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think -- The party could be over soon

4 days 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 use

4 days 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 it

4 days 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 case

4 days ago

Devops -- Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week -- The irony, it burns

4 days 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 folks

4 days ago

On-Prem -- Inflation, recession, pah! IT budgets set to rise in 2023 -- Turns out all it took was a business-disrupting global pandemic

4 days 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?

4 days 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 G

4 days ago

Former Digital Realty datacenter reborn as urban farmstead -- No, the devil's lettuce isn't on the menu

4 days ago

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs memorialized with online archive of emails, guff -- Top tip: Skip the memos with cancer advice

4 days ago

DeFi venture OptiFi permanently locks up $661,000 of assets in code snafu -- Look who misunderstood the consequences a Solana close command

4 days 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 North

4 days 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 AIM

4 days ago

Legal -- Ninefold increase in startup layoffs in Q2 follows economic uncertainty -- Industry set to readjust to new realities of raising cash

4 days 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 explanation

4 days ago

Software -- VC wells drying up: Y Combinator's latest class shrinks 40% -- Time to take another gander at that pitch deck

4 days ago

Intel experiences another kind of meltdown -- 'We must and will do better' CEO pledges amid big losses, Optane axed, expectations slashed

4 days 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 banned

4 days ago

IQE files against Tower Semiconductor claiming theft of trade secrets -- Wafer company says it has 'significant reason' to believe Israeli chipmaker misappropriated IP

4 days 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 attempt

4 days 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 counter

4 days 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 last

4 days ago

Edge + IoT -- IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb -- CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile

4 days 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 rapid

4 days ago

Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London -- Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage

4 days ago

When criminals go corporate: Ransomware-as-a-service, bulk discounts and more -- Pen-testers, rogue developers, dodgy hosters, etc. etc.

4 days ago

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim -- Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud

4 days ago

Microsoft, flush with cash, raises cloud office suite prices for businesses -- Microsoft 365, Office 365 to cost a little bit more from next March

4 days ago

Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither) -- Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource

4 days 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 Basecamp

4 days 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 quiet

4 days 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 say

4 days 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 court

4 days 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 terms

4 days 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 plan

4 days 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 again

4 days 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 day

4 days 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 biz

4 days ago

Networks -- Sick of bandwidth gouging? Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, IBM have some good news -- Bandwidth Alliance decides to throw us a bone

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- Facebook tells users to report crappy customer service from advertisers -- Threatens to ban ads from businesses with low marks

4 days 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 it

4 days 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 daddies

4 days ago

Bespoke vending machine biz Bodega AI trips cultural landmine -- Plan to dehumanize shopping taken as threat to beloved mom-and-pop stores

4 days ago

Give staff privacy at work, Euro human rights court tells bosses -- Management must consider employees' rights in workplace policy

4 days ago

Brexit, schmexit: Christmas sales up 4 per cent at Dixons Carphone

4 days ago

Jeremy Hunt pockets £14m through sale of course search website

4 days ago

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4 days ago

Korean cargo line bailout saves Christmas for tech companies

4 days ago

Insure against a cyberwhat now? How the heck do we crunch those numbers?

4 days ago

Wait... who broke that? Things you need to do to make your world diagnosable

4 days ago

New data porting rules mustn't overburden businesses with costs, says UK minister

4 days ago

E.ON fined £7m for smart meter fail

4 days ago

Virgin Media boss urges UK watchdogs not to pick wrong BT battle

4 days ago

Junk your IT. Now. Before it drags you under

4 days ago

Slashdot, SourceForge looking for new owners after parent dumps them on the web's doorstep

4 days ago

Daddy Dyson keeps it in the family and hoovers up son's energy biz

4 days ago

Channel -- IBM sued for talking up semiconductor business it couldn't give away

4 days ago

Networks -- Mighty Blighty broadbanders beg: Let us lay cable in BT's, er, ducts

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- Can you really run your business on a smartphone?

4 days ago

Channel -- 'Careful management of headcount' for Juniper after tepid quarter

4 days ago

Symantec's already virtually split, says letter to suppliers

4 days ago

Intel prods PC market's corpse, corpse shouts 'I'M NOT DEAD!'

4 days ago

Chin up, tech world. Gartner says it'll be OK

4 days ago

Telecom New Zealand exits Australia with AAPT sale

4 days ago

Personal Tech -- PEAK iPAD: Slab looking a bit peaky, needs big biz to take more tablets

4 days ago

Security -- Child porn hidden in legit hacked websites: 100s redirected to sick images

4 days ago

On-Prem -- 'The Apprentice' is a load of old codswallop, says biz prof

4 days ago

Networks -- Biz email slinger Mimecast tumbles over

4 days ago

Carl Icahn may be planning to block Dell buyout

4 days ago

The business mullet: Cool or tool?

4 days ago

When your squash partner 'endorses' your coding skills on LinkedIn...

4 days ago

Vodafone phone and mobe biz service goes titsup

4 days ago

Experts: Firms need to come clean about cyber attacks

4 days ago

HP pops out all-in-one biz boxes

4 days ago

AMD's new CEO bobs, weaves, says 'big' and 'fast' are good

4 days ago

UK.gov opens Red Tape Challenge regulation-slash website

4 days ago

Site News -- Video in the workplace

4 days ago

Applications -- Five essential BlackBerry apps for business

4 days ago

Channel -- Small biz calls for end date on enhanced 17.5% VAT

4 days ago

Channel -- UK.gov relaxes patent application process

4 days ago

Mobile phones: Where does the money go?

4 days ago

Does business really care about security?

4 days ago

Making sense of the new business of IT

4 days ago

Recession forces software escrow releases to jump by 150%

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4 days ago

Alternative perspectives on business productivity

4 days ago

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4 days ago

Former AMD kingpin gives Intel hell

4 days ago

Intel execs shift seats as Gelsinger departs

4 days ago

The Reg takes on storage platforms

4 days ago

Prof: Fat ladies don't get to be CEOs, lardy blokes do

4 days ago

Arms biz glovepuppets Parliamentary kit probe

4 days ago

Send old Shuttles to Mars, says Scotty ashes prang man

4 days ago

Brits decline to 'think outside the box'

4 days ago

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4 days ago

Italy, Poland threaten veto on EU green package

4 days ago

Supersonic bizjets could have windowless flight decks

4 days ago

Green biz now 'bigger than software and biotech'

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Mobile tech: Crystal ball gazing

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