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Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 is here, with pleasant tweaks to Wayland-based desktop
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has updated its Debian 12-based OS for the pocket-sized powerhouse, with the newest LTS kernel.…
FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is finally updating its standard for broadband speeds to 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload, after talking about the issue for years.…
We talk to W3C vice chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System
Interview The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) debuted nine years ago with the hope of changing the way people interact with content online. It remains an ongoing project.…
Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech
AI, automation, and other new technologies have made the American worker far more productive than ever before, says US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), which is why he introduced a bill this week to shorten the US workweek to 32 hours without a commensurate drop in worker pay. …
Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google
Microsoft has told the European Commission's competition authorities that it only entered into agreements with generative AI developers because it had no other option, unlike archrival Google which can do it all alone.…
IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%
IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna bagged a double digit pay bump in 2023 as he met the major financial objectives outlined by the board. The average compensation of employees that helped Big Blue achieve those targets? Up by single digits.…
McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles
Technology certainly helped McDonald's process orders faster, but as soon as a computer fault hit, the burger behemoth was shuttled right back to the 90s.…
Cop shop rapped for 'completely avoidable' web form blunder
The London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime is being rapped by regulators for untidy tech practices that made public the personal data of hundreds of people who filed complaints against the Metropolitan Police Service.…
RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council
Gloucestershire County Council has missed the go live date for its RISE with SAP move to the cloud, potentially incurring an additional £500k ($639,000) costs to keep its legacy application up and running.…
Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary
One of the more widely used Ubuntu spinoffs, non-techie friendly Zorin has put out three editions of its latest version – Zorin OS 17.1 – and there are still more to come.…
UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground
The UK's Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister wants telcos to stop installing new telegraph poles.…
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
On Call Thirsty folk will tell you it's always twelve o'clock somewhere, but Friday comes but once a week and The Register marks it by offering another instalment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of the weird and woeful world of work.…
Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses
Citrix has allegedly made major changes to its partner program, and one of the consultancies briefed on the new arrangements told The Register that the when the news was delivered to a gathering of the Citrix faithful the result was "stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief."…
Alibaba pits people against AI in its annual mathematics competition
Alibaba has added a twist to its annual Global Math Competition by opening a separate challenge to AI.…
Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has rated his enterprise's first hundred days as the owner of VMware "a strong start," but also acknowledged the rapid changes at the virtualization giant have been hard for some to digest.…
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers
NASA's supercomputing capabilities are not keeping pace with the latest technology developments, and are "oversubscribed and overburdened," causing delays to missions that are sometimes addressed by teams acquiring their own infrastructure.…
Forget TikTok – Chinese spies want to steal IP by backdooring digital locks
There's another Chinese-manufactured product – joining the likes of TikTok, cars and semiconductors – that poses a national security risk to Americans: electronic locks, such as those used in safes.…
Here's another thing AI can do: Spark a boom in edge infrastructure spending
Spending on edge computing is growing fast and because it's 2024, analyst firm IDC believes AI is a big reason for the boost.…
Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool
If Intel's 6GHz Core i9-14900K was too pedestrian for your tastes, the x86 giant now has a special-edition processor up for grabs that it says will do 6.2GHz right out of the box.…
FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement
A pair of tech support businesses accused of swindling marks out of their hard-earned cash have agreed to cough up a $26 million settlement following an undercover probe by the FTC.…