It's not Google's 12,000, but Intel plans to prune California headcount by 544 (2023/01/23) $20b investment in Ohio semiconductor fabs is all go, though
Twitter stiffed us on $2m bill, claim consultants in lawsuit (2023/01/23) These are the litigation specialists hired to get Musk to acquire the platform
Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5 (2023/01/23) Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy
Rentokil uses AI rat recognition to plot extermination in real time (2023/01/23) You know where they eat, where they sleep, where they live... then figure out how to whack them
Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice (2023/01/23) It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it
Microsoft took its macros and went home, so miscreants turned to Windows LNK files (2023/01/23) Adapt or die
XenServer, split from Citrix, promises per-socket prices 'unlike certain other hypervisors' (2023/01/23) Yeah, we know: Cost alone won't lead to success. But it may be hiring, unlike certain other tech giants
City council cans ERP project, keeps details of replacement supplier secret (2023/01/23) New system 'commercially sensitive' but set to go live in October
Software devs targeted as British tax authority makes fraud allegations (2023/01/23) Exclusive R&D tax relief campaign snares companies claiming in good faith
Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue (2023/01/23) Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast
Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter (2023/01/23) Who, Me? This is what happens when database field names are changed without proper documentation
Polish for Windows Spotlight and tabs for Notepad in latest Insiders build (2023/01/23) You will soon know more about what your PC lockscreen is showing you
India's Supreme Court finds Google's appeal against monopoly fines unappealing (2023/01/23) Vast and unpleasant – for Google – changes to the Android ecosystem remain a possibility
AWS expands footprint at site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region (2023/01/23) Virginia welcomes $35 billion investment plan with $140 million grant to help things along
US authorities release asylum seekers after leaking their data online (2023/01/23) In brief Also: US terrorist no-fly list found left on unsecured server, Russian dark web drug markets go to war
India floats plan to make big tech pay for news, walks back government censorship (2023/01/23) Asia In Brief PLUS: Taiwan’s new supercomputer; China-linked cybercrims strike; Australian content clampdown; and more
Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe (2023/01/23) In brief Plus: Academics debate citing ChatGPT as research co-author; Getty Images sues Stability AI
Atlassian CEO's bonkers scheme to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore collapses (2023/01/22) Analysis 4,000km extension cords are hard to build
What keeps this FBI director up at night? China’s AI work, for one (2023/01/22) Hacking the world with ML is Uncle Sam's job, buddy
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system (2023/01/22) Feature How did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement?