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Raspberry Pi OS 5.2 is here, with pleasant tweaks to Wayland-based desktop

Fri, 2024-03-15 17:30
Kernel 6.6 and small refinements, plus less visible, but meaningful adjustments

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has updated its Debian 12-based OS for the pocket-sized powerhouse, with the newest LTS kernel.…

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FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved

Fri, 2024-03-15 16:15
Previous goals were 25Mbps download and a paltry 3Mbps for upload ... and some places don't even have that

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.…

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We talk to W3C vice chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System

Fri, 2024-03-15 15:30
The decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming

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.…

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Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

Fri, 2024-03-15 14:49
Don't start planning your long weekend yet – proposal is likely to be a hard sell in work-obsessed America

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. …

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Microsoft says AI alliances are needed to compete with Google

Fri, 2024-03-15 14:11
Only the Chocolate Factory is 'vertically integrated' to win at 'every AI layer from chips to a thriving mobile app store'

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.…

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IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%

Fri, 2024-03-15 13:15
And the party extends to shareholders with an overall $6B payout

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.…

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McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Fri, 2024-03-15 12:30
Global meltdown turns fast food slow

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.…

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Cop shop rapped for 'completely avoidable' web form blunder

Fri, 2024-03-15 11:34
Made public highly sensitive data on complaints about Metropolitan Police Service

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.…

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RISE with SAP plan fails to hit go-live date in West of England council

Fri, 2024-03-15 10:34
Delays raise questions about £0.5 million legacy support bill, plans for new financial year

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.…

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Fresh version of Windows user-friendly Zorin OS arrives to tempt the Linux-wary

Fri, 2024-03-15 09:32
Adding extra shine to Ubuntu Jammy… with the lightweight edition to follow

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.…

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UK minister tells telcos to share telegraph poles if they can't lay cable underground

Fri, 2024-03-15 08:33
The NIMBYs are fed up, and it's an election year

The UK's Data and Digital Infrastructure Minister wants telcos to stop installing new telegraph poles.…

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Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server

Fri, 2024-03-15 07:29
Resulting cycle of rushed repairs and recriminations did wonders for the IT/user relationship

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.…

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Claims emerge that Citrix has doubled price of month-to-month partner licenses

Fri, 2024-03-15 06:25
Reaction from channel was 'stunned silence followed by anger and disbelief'

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."…

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Alibaba pits people against AI in its annual mathematics competition

Fri, 2024-03-15 05:29
Thankfully the prizes for human winners are far higher than those for machines

Alibaba has added a twist to its annual Global Math Competition by opening a separate challenge to AI.…

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Broadcom boss Hock Tan acknowledges 'some unease' among VMware community

Fri, 2024-03-15 03:30
But rates his first 100 days in charge a 'strong start'

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.…

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NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers

Fri, 2024-03-15 01:00
Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs

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.…

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Forget TikTok – Chinese spies want to steal IP by backdooring digital locks

Thu, 2024-03-14 23:35
Uncle Sam can use this snooping tool, too, but that's beside the point

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.…

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Here's another thing AI can do: Spark a boom in edge infrastructure spending

Thu, 2024-03-14 22:32
IDC forecasts spend to grow 15.4% in 2024 to $232B – then add another $100B in three years

Spending on edge computing is growing fast and because it's 2024, analyst firm IDC believes AI is a big reason for the boost.…

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Intel's $699 Core i9-14900KS turbos to 6.2GHz – assuming you can keep it cool

Thu, 2024-03-14 21:37
If you can live with a measely 6GHz the standard i9 is a $110 cheaper

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.…

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FTC goes undercover to probe suspected antivirus scam, scores $26M settlement

Thu, 2024-03-14 20:24
Imagine trying to trick folks into buying $500 of unnecessary repairs – and they turn out to be federal agents

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.…

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